As I mentioned a few months back, the guy in charge of Psilocybe Fanaticus got busted by the feds as a result of his involvement in selling spore kits for growing hallucinogenic mushrooms to the the public at large. Well, judgement has been served and he made out pretty alright, considering.
The main charges against him were for possession of a small mushroom cultivation plot that he used as a source for the spore kits, which are entirely legal, or at least were at the time of the bust. I'm not sure if they've been reclassified or not. I've heard that the kits he sold (essentially sterile water filled syringes full of spores that reduce contanimation risks when growing mushrooms) may be reclassified as paraphenalia. There was a good case against him, but he got off with house arrest (a nice spread in the Washington rainforest) and got a bunch of the money back. I guess he got pretty rich off of it. His lawyer sounds like the real deal and if anyone in Washington gets busted, I'd suggest going to him. I wonder what the Pimp would have gotten if he'd had this guy on his side to defend him against the manufacturing charges?
If anyone is interested, cruise over and check out his version of events. Interesting story and I'm glad to hear that he is doing okay. It's too bad that he went down, especially considering that it appears to have been brought about by idiots using the wrong or mispelled return address on their orders (PF always just cut out the return address and used it for the mailing address) which meant that people who had no idea what was up would recieve a box of syringes in the mail. Or the flukeys who weren't smart enough to know what they were getting into and ended up causing problems for others when on mushrooms, instead of causing problems for themselves, which is the whole point.
But it doesn't look like PF is coming back as a spore vendor, but the PF Tek process is well known. And it works like a charm. Hardest thing is getting a sterile source of spores for the inculation, which is where PF served such a great purpose. But all is not lost. Here's wishing everyone well who embarks on such a quest. Just keep your head on about where, why, and who you chow on these with.
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