Word: psilocybin
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Robert C. Schaffer ’05—who police say they found in his dorm with 16 bags of psilocybin mushrooms—will elect whether to face trial by jury or judge in a compliance and election hearing slated...
...defendant was indicted March 18 for possession of psilocybin and marijuana, with intent to distribute both. Because Schaffer’s room in the Mather House tower was less than 1,000 feet from the Martin Luther King Jr. School on Putnam Avenue, he also faces charges of drug violations within a school zone...
Schaffer was arraigned on charges of possession of psilocybin with the intent to distribute—which carries a maximum sentence of five years—and possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, which carries a maximum sentence of two years...
When Karns returned to HUPD headquarters, he consulted a reference source to identify the unknown substances confiscated from Schaffer’s room. “In my opinion, the substance I confiscated from the drawer of Robert’s desk...was psilocybin,” Karns wrote...
...Psilocybin is a Class C drug under Massachusetts’ Controlled Substances Act, allowing police to arrest Schaffer without a summons...