h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's possibly the most ridiculous thing this government has done. Don't they realise that:

a) They're lovely
b) They're mostly harmless
c) You can go to a field and pick the bloody things!

That is all I have to say on the matter.

For now.

Sorry, that title should be 'The banning of 'shrooms', not 'The banning of shrroms'. There's no such thing as a shrrom.

Shrooms banned? Why?

You mean magical, mystery shrooms?

Far as I recall, you could go pick them, but weren't allowed to remove them from the place picked...something daft like that, and I *think* if you ate them, that was also considered naughty enough to be arrestable for. I say I think, memory isn't what it once was

They used to be legal if they weren't 'prepared' but in 2005 they were reclassified as a Class A drug.

Yep, that's CLASS A!

Ridiculous.

It's summer for bob's sake! Summer and mushies were made for eachother!

Bah, humbug! Never heard of anyone actually getting done for them & i am an old hippie, who has seen most of my mates doing just about every concievable mind altering thing available.

I can imagine the uproar if such a law was introduced here in frogland; everybody gathers 'shrooms of every type, if you aren't quite sure what's what, you take them to the pharmacy, who will helpfully sort them into "edible, non trippy/edible, trippy/non edible ie flavourless but slightly trippy/delicious: can i have some?/poisonous, leave the thing alone" etc. A sensible approach.

zdt

blows rassberry!

Useless fact: There *is such a thing as a shrom - it's an irish slang term for the yellow gungy stuff you get in the corner of your eyes after a hard night out, when its dry as opposed to wet. Wet shroms were known as boo-hahs.

It wouldn't surprise me if our government tried to ban those once they become aware of this piece of information

Interesting factoids!

I just call them eye bogies

In France they call them "dream remnants", which is really quite sweet!

zdt

I call them Simon (left) and Ermentrude (eright ) waht are those strange mushrooms that grow inside old trainers called?

Eric

No, no, All Spider Plants are called Eric! There is a cult attached to Erics, the rules are very strict.

The grot inside your shoes is called "Deg", short for "deguelas".

zdt

Dagnabbit, I could really do with some mushies. Thee's something wonderful about trying to have a conversation with someone but falling into fits of laughter every time you look at them.

Mushie, dear mushie,
You know how I love thee,
You make my world funny,
And sparkly and stuff,
And your comedown is easy,
It's gone in a jiffy,
Though that's helped by a spliffy,
Mellowing the rough.

I've always called the yellow gungy stuff sleep.

I wonder if the BBC knew of the wet shroms connection whe they named that (crap) kids tv show "The BooBahs"!?