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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute
October 13th, 2007 at 10:43 am

Netherlands Bans ”Magic” Mushrooms

The Netherlands are banning the sale of ‘magic mushrooms’ after a French woman died from jumping off a building after taking them.

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Calls for a re-evaluation of the drug grew after a 17-year-old French girl jumped from a building after eating magic mushrooms during a school trip to Amsterdam in March.

Other incidents involving the drug have included an Icelandic tourist jumping from a balcony and breaking both legs and a Danish tourist driving his car wildly through a camping ground, narrowly missing sleeping campers.

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"It’s a shame, the media really blew this up into a big issue," said Chloe Collette, owner of the FullMoon shop, which sells magic mushrooms in Amsterdam.

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