Mandatory shroom diploma for Dutch mushroom vendors

Shroom vendors in Amsterdam must pass for a mandatory exam which will test their knowledge of shrooms as well as their social skills. Only shopkeepers with a shroom diploma will be allowed to sell the tripfungus. This is proposed by the Dutch smartshop organization, called the VLOS, which wants to develop this exam. The shroom exam is one of the proposals aimed at regulating the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms. That regulation should turn the tide of the possible ban on shrooms which might go into effect later this year.

The organization suggests Amsterdam brings down the number of vendors to half. Currently there are approximately 50 shops selling shrooms [most of them not members of the VLOS, and not at all informed about entheogens, CM]. This approach should be applied to Amsterdam, because it's only in this city where there are problems with tripping tourists.

Amsterdam should be allowed to try out this approach for one year to prove that regulating the sale of mushrooms works. A ban isn't necessary, the certified smartshops say.

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Comments

gaboss - 2008-06-11 14:35:24

err...?

why not do this in the first place?

i never wanted to buy shrooms from some idiots who don't know about entheogens and are only looking for an euro to gain...

okay, time to restructure the "business"...
stop selling shrooms to idiots, because you're an idiot yourself, who does not understand entheogens.

(well, you're selling them. there is something terribly wrong anyhow, but nevermind)

let the shrooms be sold by people who know about what shrooms are, in the first place.

then, there will be less moronic idiots eating stuff they don't get. and the ones really appreciating shrooms will not have to be parias, only because of the less-brainers...

Amsterdamski - 2008-06-11 16:07:35

Amongst those 50 shops there are many tourist boutiques who should limit themselves to selling t-shirts, tulips, wooden shoes and porcelain windmills.

marcodoom - 2008-06-11 23:47:26

i think mr klink, from the height of his christian values, is not going to pay much attention to this kind of proposal..however let-s still hope for the best..

Dubchaser - 2008-06-13 08:28:01

Well, to start with set and setting ... you should not as young and/or unexperienced, take shrooms in the city area in the first place. What I've recognised, it's some of the tourists that have freaked out, and jumped a bit too high.

Guy who has take one - 2008-06-13 12:17:02

-1

the stupid lady i bought my shrooms off told me to eat some then eat more and thats it, so i ate almost a whole box of hawiian shrooms and wanted to die,its was way too much for me and dont get me wrong i have done my share of shrooms and i blacked out in the shower and couldnt breathe the next morning which still haunts me because it was the worse feeling ever...like i was going to die... stupid chick, but anyway i dont get why they werent already doing this i think rediculous when somebody thinks shrooms are like "cool" and "look fun" which is not what mind altering drugs have ever been for, its suppose to be for spirtual and mental expansion and understanding yourself i think...

Don Jia - 2008-06-14 12:01:52

Too little too late, I'm afraid. The ban is already pretty much settled on, it's just a matter of weeks before the smart shops have to throw out the 'shrooms. What can I say, modern society, of which America is ever at the vanguard, can't accept that sometimes shit just happens. I'm sorry for those dead tourists, but as a proud citizen of Amsterdam, I have to note that an awful lot of these kids coming into town to get high and cruise the red light district are complete fucking imbiciles who probably shouldn't even be given beer unattended. The powers that be are bent on making the Netherlands, modelled along the lines of the US, a maximum control "terror-proof" security state, in which nothing is left to chance but all developments, political and social, are preempted. Mind you, these powers that be are also your crypto-fascist neighbors down the hall sympathizing with Verdonk or Wilders. The ban on mushrooms reflects the turn Dutch society has taken these last years, from a decidedly "open" one, to an increasingly grumbling, resentful and spiteful one. There is a spectre going around today in the Netherlands, where the prevailing mood is to want to ban everything we don't like/understand or can't control. The vibe is way fucked up right now. In some quarters you're supsiscious if you read books, which makes you a leftist '60's intellectual, the worst thing to be right now in the Netherlands. There is a culture war going on today, a war between the regressivist slackjawed baboons with murder in their eyes and the rest of us. We need to take up arms (figuratively, that is) and actively confront this tyranny of infantile pettiness, which is what modern democracy has boiled down to. Fuck, we should do what Tim Leary just joked about, and produce an apocalyptic amount of LSD to spike the national water supplies with. We'd be doing everyone, including future generations a service.

gaboss - 2008-06-17 00:31:56

when do we start?

Matt Phelps - 2008-06-30 22:57:04

Gosh. Will it really be only 'a matter of weeks' before the ban takes effect? I am planning a (quite responsible and well-informed) trip to Amsterdam in late September. How can I know more precisely when the ban will take effect?

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