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Title: time to make your own sporeprints Post by Pinkfloyd on Feb 20th, 2003, 12:13am It is now illegal in the USA to sell legal items if you also instruct people how to use them. Click on the "magic mushroom story" link on the main page here, after they make you sign up. www.king5.com BobW |
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Title: Re: time to make your own sporeprints Post by Pinkfloyd on Feb 20th, 2003, 12:19am OK, so they moved it off the front page already.... try this.... http://www.king5.com/localnews/investigators/NW_021803INKmagicmushrooms.22cee6ad.html sorry. If that doesn't work by the time you want to check it out, click on the "investigators" section. BobW |
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Title: Re: time to make your own sporeprints Post by pinksharkmark on Feb 20th, 2003, 1:17pm Hmmm.... He was arrested, but we do not yet know what he will be CHARGED with, or if he will be convicted once charged. Some spore vendors had purged their sites of growing instructions many months ago, others are in the process of doing so at this moment. PF always was one to go his own way. As a side note -- if he really WAS making $30,000 a month (and I suspect that is either a misprint or an exaggerated boast) then it is definitely time for the Pink One (me) to start seriously thinking of a career change... pinky |
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Title: Re: time to make your own sporeprints Post by Pinkfloyd on Feb 20th, 2003, 3:08pm on 02/20/03 at 13:17:51, pinksharkmark wrote:
They have been under investigation for a long time. I have a feeling there may be new laws that we don't know about under the homeland protection bills that have passed. I guess the government wants to find out now exactly what kind of new power they have. URL: http://www.thedailyworld.com/daily/2003/Feb-19-Wed-2003/news/news2.html 'Magic' mushroom bust at Quinault By Lisa Curdy -- Daily World writer Federal Drug Enforcement agents arrested two Lake Quinault - area men Tuesday in connection with an international operation that allegedly sold hallucinogenic mushroom spores over the Internet. "It is unusual - a strange situation," Federal prosecutor Doug Whalley said from Seattle this morning. "The spores themselves - their possession is not a crime. It's not a controlled substance. "But it is a crime to conspire to grow a controlled substance." Robert McPherson of Amanda Park, one of the accused, appeared in federal court in Tacoma Tuesday afternoon and said he was making upwards of $30,000 per month selling the spores, according to KING Television. Steve Coggin of Neilton, the second defendant, was arrested at a motel at SeaTac. Both are accused of possessing a controlled substance and conspiring to deliver a controlled substance. Following more than three years of investigation into the worldwide sale of syringes filled with "magic mushroom" spores on fanaticus.com, the DEA and National Park Service investigators served three search warrants in the Lake Quinault area Tuesday afternoon. Grays Harbor Sheriff's deputies and Drug Task Force agents also participated. The Fanaticus company, an Internet - based mail order operation, sold "magic mushroom" spores in a liquid solution inside blunt - tipped syringes, according to its Web site. It advertised in High Times magazine and at its Web site, according to Mike Butler, the lead investigator for the National Park Service. The pair reportedly filled orders for 30 to 50 boxes of the spores per day at about $10 per syringe, he added. A Post Office box listed an Amanda Park address, and the investigation began after a tip by the United States Postal Service, Butler said. McPherson was arrested at his home at 630 North Shore Road around 8 a.m. for investigation of conspiring to deliver a controlled substance and possessing a controlled substance, Butler told The Daily World. The two other search warrants were served at 469 North Shore Road and at Coggin's Neilton home, Butler said. In Amanda Park, several vehicles were seized, along with other evidence, Grays Harbor Undersheriff Rick Scott said. "Plus, we found an active mushroom grow on the property of one of the defendants that they were using to get the spores," Whalley said. Investigators are still seeking additional suspects. McPherson may be indicted as early as Friday, Whalley said. "He's not facing a lengthy sentence" if convicted, the prosecutor said. "It wouldn't be like the 10 - year sentences we usually see." Lake Quinault residents noticed the presence of federal agents earlier this week. "It all started (Monday) night," a Lake Quinault - area business owner said this morning. "I seen helicopters, all of these federal vehicles. "Then they all met up here at the Forest Service (Tuesday) morning at 6." McPherson was a regular at the business owner's shop, the man said. "I knew him for three or four years, and knew he was in the Internet business - but not the mushroom thing." ............ It is so heartwarming to read that they "really" don't want to put him away for 10 years! ;D BobW |
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