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...doubt he means it. But to Ab Klink, the Dutch Minister for Health, the ban is about public health and social order. Roughly a hundred tourists a year are driven away in an Amsterdam ambulance after mushroom consumption. The fact that almost all incidents involve foreign tourists led Klink to the conclusion, he says, that "it is absolutely undesirable that citizens of neighboring countries run these health risks." But the ban could end up promoting other mind-blowing compounds, some of which pack more punch - and carry more risks - than magic mushrooms...
...only drug set to benefit from a paddo ban. Some experts predict that San Pedro, a cactus of the Andes, could fill some of the hallucinogenic void in the wake of the mushroom ban. And a range of other flora remains off the radar, and thus not prohibited, according to Bos. "There are so many blossoms or cacti that can be tried," he says. "We can't even scientifically say if these products cause a hallucinogenic effect, let alone what the health risks...
...continues to exist between urgency of threat and pace of our response,” Bunn said. Bunn devotes a significant portion of the report to stressing the urgent need to combat nuclear proliferation, warning of the repercussions of a “terrorist mushroom cloud over the cinders of a major city.” He details an action plan for reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism that includes global partnership commitments, comprehensive lists of stockpiles all over the world, and the appointment of a senior official in the U.S. government whose specific purpose would be to keep nuclear...
Foraging wild foods is very much at the heart of Finnishness, where everyone has the right to pick wild berries and mushrooms even on private property. Yet there is a surprisingly big disconnect between the field and the plate. Commercial Spanish strawberries, bred for long shipping, are far easier to find on Helsinki menus than the wild Finnish strawberry exploding with the flavor of 20 hours of sunshine a day. And although Finns have figured out how to safely prepare korvasieni, a poisonous false-morel mushroom, by boiling it three times, porcini were long considered reindeer fodder...
...subgroup of shy individuals who are especially sensitive emotionally. "Someone who is shy is less likely to open up and have a communication flow with other people," she says. "So that increases the likelihood that any turbulence from a traumatic incident is bottled up and can grow like a mushroom." If their shyness prevents them from sharing their pain with others, particularly close family members, then the feelings of humiliation and shame can get exaggerated. "They have nobody to stand up for them and defend them, and develop a sense that no one is there to protect them and buffer...