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British tourist runs amok in Amsterdam after using 'magic mushrooms'

published: Sunday, June 24 2007, 12:38PM

On Saturday afternoon, a British tourist has caused problems in a hotel near the Central Station, after using 'magic mushrooms'.

The 25-year old Brit had been using the mushrooms, that are popular for their hallucinogenic effects.
First, he ate some mushrooms, but when this did not have the desired effect, he ate more, and this caused him to become psychotic in the end.

After ruining his hotel room, the police, assisted by city health workers, managed to arrest him. Because of the aggression by the tourist, traffic in front of the hotel had to be blocked for an hour and a half. Trams were diverted.

The Brit is still in hospital, his situation is serious.

The number of incidents with magic mushrooms has strongly increased in the past few years. Last year, an ambulance was sent 128 times to assist people with medical or psychic problems after using mushrooms (in 2005 this was 44 times).
In most cases the persons seeking help were tourists.

In March of this year a 17-year old girl died after jumping from a building, after using mushrooms. Her parents now hold the Netherlands responsible, because of allowing the sale of the drug.

In Dutch Parliament there now seems to be a majority in favour of declaring fresh magic mushrooms an illegal drug (dried mushrooms are already on that list).

Source: http://www.simplyamsterdam.nl/news/news_frontpage.php

Thats a shame about the girl dying, but you cant blame a country for what its people take.

I ate shrooms back in my younger days, couldnt do it again. I only smoke herb nowadays And hash

The bad trip, possibly the best value for money you'll ever get.

But, if you live by the sword you'll die by it too....especially if you don't know what you're doing.

It'll be interesting to see how long it is before puffin posts the first articles about prostitution being bad for everybodies health...physical, mental or whatever!?!.

Thanks for the very interesting article...

more and more evidence for them to ban the shrooms!!!!

probably would have had the desired effect he wanted but just wasnt coming soon enough so ate more then it all hit him at once!

fuck that shit.. i hate when this shit happens... i have had some of the best trips of my life on shrooms in a-dam.. i hope this doesnt lead toward them being banned...

is this a big issue in netherlands? one thing i noticed when i was there was that i didnt see too many people all fucked up in public... i thought it was pretty well under control from the outside looking in...

i dunno i just hope it all stays the same!! lol

only done shrooms was and only dried out mexicans but had a great time in the hotel room, outside world seemed too much at the time!


readin some of puffins other posts it seems to be a thing at the moment about whether to ban shrooms or not!

With that logic why don't we ban cars,alcohol,swimming,etc.....

Hey DC, I dont make the news, I just bring it here from other sources. I focus on news that I feel might be of interest to others on this board; mainly in keeping with the theme of this forum. Just for the record, I dont think prostitution is bad unless you are not acting safely for the sake of others. It's a helluva a lot better than men who somehow "cant control their urges" and rape women. At least with hookers, men can "get their release" and not actually hurt anyone.
Dont blame me! I'm just the messenger! Peace.

DC wrote:It'll be interesting to see how long it is before puffin posts the first articles about prostitution being bad for everybodies health...physical, mental or whatever!?!.

Puffin13 wrote:Hey DC, I dont make the news, I just bring it here from other sources. I focus on news that I feel might be of interest to others on this board; mainly in keeping with the theme of this forum. Just for the record, I dont think prostitution is bad unless you are not acting safely for the sake of others. It's a helluva a lot better than men who somehow "cant control their urges" and rape women. At least with hookers, men can "get their release" and not actually hurt anyone.
Dont blame me! I'm just the messenger! Peace.

DC wrote:It'll be interesting to see how long it is before puffin posts the first articles about prostitution being bad for everybodies health...physical, mental or whatever!?!.

Relax mate, the rolling eyes was at the potential source of any hooker articles and how long it'll be before we start seeing them....not you for reporting it, yer doin a great job.

Just wanna quickly agree with DC, Puffin you're saving a lot of us a lot of time by bringing all the interesting news here so others don't have to traul through all the Amsterdam news and community sites... thanks!