Man dies after taking Magic Mushrooms

And natural selection works its magic once again.

Personally, I think it would be a good idea for the government to regulate the sale of shrooms but if the people who sell them do so responsibly and self regulate effectively they should be able to keep selling them and keep the cops off their back.

I'm thinking of such things as not selling them to minors and perhaps giving out leaflets with info on the effects of them to people who buy a punnet of shrooms, just so they know what they are letting themselves in for.

slipss wrote:

it was in the evening Herald aswell

which doesn't come out in the evenings.

wrote:

A Halloween partygoer who had taken magic mushrooms leapt to his death convinced he could fly. The 33-year-old mans girlfriend watched in horror as he plunged 40ft from the balcony of a plush apartment. Last night there were calls for a ban on the magic mushrooms - bought LEGALLY at a herbal shop in Dublin. Witnesses at the party in Dun Laoighaire on Sunday night told how the man had started acting strangely. One guest said "He suddenly jumped up ran on to a balcony and flew straight into the air". Cops believe the man started hallucinating after eating the mushrooms. He jumped from the fourth story of a five-storey building. The witness added " These mushrooms are deadly. This young man began acting weirdly."
"The stuff he took has similar effect to LSD-its hallucinogenic. He obviously thought he could fly. He bought the mushrooms in a herbal shop and they ended up killing him." Gardai yesterday cordoned off the area at upmarket Anchorage Apartments in Clarence St. Dun Laoghaire. Detectives from the national drug unit fear Ireland could be swamped with magic mushrooms - which are banned in the UK. A legal loophole means the Dutch produced fungus is legal here. One top cop last night told the Sun "We could have an epidemic on our hands unless this problem is sorted out." Senior officer plan to hold emergency talks with Justice minister McDowell today to discuss closing the loophole.

Wierd, I was possibly 200 meters away from this at the time, out of it on mushrooms also. Didnt do anything like that though. My hand looked and felt a bit funny and the walls kept moving.

OK, there's no doubt that this guy was obviously a bit of an idiot. But the other side of the coin is that if he hadn't taken the mushrooms he would never have attempted to 'fly' off the balcony.

I have seen some people get ****ed up on mushrooms (and other drugs for that matter) and I don't think there is any doubt that if they are not taken in some kind of moderation then they can be dangerous. It's how you set these limits which is important. Most people seem to know when to stop, however there will always be a few who don't recognise the boundaries.

I love the odd dose of shrooms every now and again but i've been predicting that magic mushrooms would be made illegal in ireland ever since these shops in dublin city started selling them. It had to happen. All it takes is for one fool to jump off a building while on mushrooms.

when people had to pick them for themselves or personally buy them over the internet, at least it meant that individual was proabaly quite informed and was prepared for the effects. Once clue-less people were able to walk off the street and munch down as much as they want without research, something like this was inevitable.

Of course we cant actually know that it was the mushrooms that caused this guy (33 years old FFs) to think he could fly. Personally I have never, nor have I ever read or heard of anyone thinking they could fly while on shrooms. with drink takenand/or other hard drugs i have heard of it.

The reactionary nature of irish politics, law system, press and society in general means that there will be a lot of people talking alot of **** on a topic none of them have a clue about.

This will be one more recreational drug that will be made illegal by people who are completely ignorant. Everything fun-enducing that is not Alcohol is squeezed out of this country. makes me sick.

edit: how can mcdowell seriously ban mushrooms when they MAY have contributed to one suicide when Alcohol remains legal and is clearly the DIRECT CAUSE of so many deaths and so much misery? seriously, WHAT THE ****????

rabbitinlights wrote:

Picture this, your in a party in a apartment you have never been in before, you take some shrooms and your sitting on the couch in a room full of people, they come on strong, a bit too strong for your liking, the panic starts to rise and your head is expanding past its normal size and you make a break for the door, except the door is not a door its a small balcony. Game over.

It could have easily happened like that. He may not have been an idiot, It could just have been an accident.

R.I.P

I think he would be too paranoid to go hop off a balcony in that state of mind.

Mushrooms should stay legal but I do think the shop owners need to take more responsibility. They need to be respected and it's not the sort of drug you eat to go raving. I and most friends think mushrooms should be only done occasionally with a bit of mental preperation leading up to it.

I thought those stoner magazine things posters were either a real mag or an ad by Cannabis Ireland Alliance oir that crowd, theyre fcukin hilarious:D Anti stoner messages NEVER hit home to smokers- thats why me and my mate broke our sh1t laughing at a Herald headline reading "Priest Gave Hash to Children" (it was the actual headline made us laugh- the story was the rather unfunny one of how that bastard in Wexford had got kids drunk and stoned before molesting them)

Still, "good thing we didnt live near that ****, we`da got fcuked!" as my mate remarked :eek:

Re the ads, the chat up lines you wont recall when stoned has me laughin, rather reminds me of the time we went to Waterford on a college rag week bus trip. Me and my mate in some nightclub, surrounded by beautiful women.....and too utterly stoned to give a sh1te In the whole night there Id say we bought two drinks, we spent most of the rest of our time runnin down the back every 15 mins to skin up, it was animal

Shrooms do odd things to people. Dont dp them myself (cant stand the taste long enough), but after a long night of drink, coke and a load of shrooms at a house party my mates cousin became convinced a poster of The Notorious BIG, which had a mean look on his face, was threatening him, to the extent we had to take it down to prevent him attacking the wall

And lastly on that magazine, "girls who do hash are losers"? Bollix. Girls who spend a few hundred per night on poxy coke are losing out. Christ I wish Id never spent a penny on the stuff, I take the exact amt as my mates and they think its the dogs nads, but...well.....its sh1te! Its great for what, 20 minutes? And even in that time, its more good than great. Cokes more overrated than Kanye West tbh. Idiots sniff it. Geniuses sell it. Bring back the days when yokes were plentiful, now there is a proper buzz (unfortunately its hard to regularly come across in the last 12 months)

I would say im never touching that ****e again, but tbh its all peer pressure, Ill be drunk and a mate will say "nah seriously, this is animal"
Ill be stupid and believe it, and lose money. Its further proof the Irish will buy any oul sh1te