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by JonnieCache 4702 days ago
Due to a loophole, for a year you could legally buy psilocybin mushrooms in the UK, in "head shops," on market stalls, online, anywhere, with zero regulation. It was fine. The government eventually banned them out of embarrassment. The public information posters announcing the upcoming ban had a rainbow coloured fractal background. It was pretty funny.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4692359.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4691899.stm