Has anyone heard any stories from Amsterdam of people flipping out and killing people or committing more crime as a result of selling pot and mushrooms legally? Why do you think we can't/don't do that here? It would certainly reduce the whole risk of death factor. I'm not so sure if the psychic climate is even conducive to tripping in this country right now. Be careful with your heads, my fellow psychonauts...

Actually, unless something has changed in the last year, they no longer sell psilocybe mushrooms in Amsterdam:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21269227/

They do, however, experiment with them at Johns Hopkins University:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press_rel…

I love this article...yes, I know it's forever old, but I was surfing "Seattle to Astoria" on google, as I live in Eugene, Or. and have never been to either place (needing a little map help on the single Highway 101 don't you know)and this article came up as the first hit. LOL. Imagine my surprise.

Good Stuff Christopher!

They grow in the "beauty bark" by Lincoln Park Pool.

I found some on the lawn of the motel where we were staying in Forks. Just like the ones we used to find in the cow pastures in the Snoqualmie Valley in the 70's. Forks was fun.

I prefer Peyote.

1. You seem to be a fairly talented writer

2. Your mushroom "expert" was a moron. wrong caps should never make it into ANY bag, period. a day's picking should yield 1-8 oz. dry weight from either of the locations you visited.

3. Thanks for blowing up the spot. there's a reason those locations get more picked over every year: loose lips sink trips.

4. Only idiots get busted at canby, and even the
those idiots are only charged with removing foliage from a state park, and pay a fine. No possession charge for wet mushrooms (dry only.
so your "dangerous" adventure... not so much

5. Use scissors, don't pick; leave the mycelia for next year, dick. while you're at it... stay outta oregon