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Written by jesse
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 00:00 |
 The past few weeks a couple of misleading headlines were published allover the Dutch media. "Psychedelic truffles, which are being sold in smartshops since the ban on shrooms in 2008, are just as addictive and dangerous as magic mushrooms." That's what psychiater and drug-expert Don Linszen , from the Academic Medical Centrum of the University Amsterdam, said. He made his claim in a christian broadcasting show (Dit is de Dag - 'this is the day') on Radio1. The Dutch media copied the message and wrote that the truffles are just as dangerous as the magic shrooms which were made illegal last year. Actually mr Linszen is right: magic mushrooms are just as addictive as truffles, which is because they both have a 0% dependency. With this message, however, the suggestion was made that shrooms and truffles are indeed very addictive. As we all know, except for this so called drug expert, mushrooms (and truffles) are not addictive at all. Even the government’s own research in 2008 concluded they are not.
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It is two months since the Dutch went to the polls. Immediately following the election, the leader of the party winning the largest number of seats, Mark Rutte of the economic Liberals (VVD), was confident that he would form a coalition by the beginning of July. The beginning of July has come and gone. So has the beginning of August and still the Netherlands is without a new government — and it looks as if it is going to be at least the beginning of September before an announcement. To be fair to Rutte, the arithmetic simply is not there.
We just came back from the Magic Mushroom appeal courtcase in Den Haag, this morning!
The urgent appeal courtcase of the National Smartshop Association (www.vlos.nl) against the government to stop the ban on shrooms will take place at 10:15 AM on the 5th of March 2009. The location will be the Palace of Justice in The Hague (Den Haag). Saveourshrooms translated the 33 page appeal document for you to know what's going on (see included .pdf):
