Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

hightimes.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 145 posts

Re: California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

#21

Post by [deleted] »

oneshot908 wrote: post #11
jpfed wrote: post #5

I think this is going to lead to a lot of unforeseen problems. Brick structures will be much more vulnerable once literally anyone can take one of these and become twice as large. And once you've had a mushroom, if you get the right kind of flower in your system you'd be an unstoppable fire-throwing menace. Then it doesn't matter what kind of gun control is on the books. I just don't know what they're thinking.

Well how many times must this be explained? One pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small, and the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all...

[deleted]

Re: California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

#22

Post by wallace_f »

jpfed wrote: post #5

I think this is going to lead to a lot of unforeseen problems. Brick structures will be much more vulnerable once literally anyone can take one of these and become twice as large. And once you've had a mushroom, if you get the right kind of flower in your system you'd be an unstoppable fire-throwing menace. Then it doesn't matter what kind of gun control is on the books. I just don't know what they're thinking.

>It is distinctly possible that California voters could be the first in the nation to decide

Your thinking might be more worldly than you realize. This--Nintendo--was banned in China until 2015.

Now take the cultural stigma of psychedelic use and place it on Nintendo. Is it now any less ridiculous that mushrooms are banned here?

'Tyranny over the individual' was never have a legitimate role of government in the first place.

While we're gaining some rights back (LGBT, prohibition), and losing others (privacy, free speech), maybe it's useful to connect these issues.

Re: California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

#23

Post by phil21 »

komali2 wrote: post #14
jrs95 wrote: post #3

I mean I was pretty happy out here in the Midwest but you guys might pull me in with this one

As a Wisconsin transplant, how are you happy when you must shovel, and shovel, and shovel. If I had stayed for one more winter I would have gone on a shovel-armed homicidal spree.

I dunno, I figure paying someone to shovel my driveway $25/pop all winter long is a whole lot cheaper than even a single month's rent increase I'd see moving to the bay area :)

Re: California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

#24

Post by chipperyman573 »

tptacek wrote: post #2

An alternate perspective could be that California is lagging the other western states on legalization exactly because of overreaching campaigns that don't acknowledge the conservatism in the middle and south of the state. A previous cannabis legalization effort in California, IIRC, proposed to make cannabis consumption a protected employment class.

Wouldn't making it a protected class just be a roundabout way of making drug tests illegal? Are there any other side effects of doing this? Other than not being able to fire people for talking about how lit they got the night before, I suppose.

Re: California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

#25

Post by deadmetheny »

komali2 wrote: post #14
jrs95 wrote: post #3

I mean I was pretty happy out here in the Midwest but you guys might pull me in with this one

As a Wisconsin transplant, how are you happy when you must shovel, and shovel, and shovel. If I had stayed for one more winter I would have gone on a shovel-armed homicidal spree.

If you live in the Midwest and have a driveway and paths you are responsible for, a snowblower is absolutely worth the investment.

Re: California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

#26

Post by Viper007Bond »

phil21 wrote: post #23
komali2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Wisconsin transplant, how are you happy when you must shovel, and shovel, and shovel. If I had stayed for one more winter I would have gone on a shovel-armed homicidal spree.

I dunno, I figure paying someone to shovel my driveway $25/pop all winter long is a whole lot cheaper than even a single month's rent increase I'd see moving to the bay area :)

Lots of great places outside of the Bay area. Northern CA for example!

Re: California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

#27

Post by metalliqaz »

tptacek wrote: post #2

An alternate perspective could be that California is lagging the other western states on legalization exactly because of overreaching campaigns that don't acknowledge the conservatism in the middle and south of the state. A previous cannabis legalization effort in California, IIRC, proposed to make cannabis consumption a protected employment class.

I thought California was lagging behind because their first try included a crazy monopolistic corporate giveaway to a handful of established companies.

Re: California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

#28

Post by Alex3917 »

jpfed wrote: post #5

I think this is going to lead to a lot of unforeseen problems. Brick structures will be much more vulnerable once literally anyone can take one of these and become twice as large. And once you've had a mushroom, if you get the right kind of flower in your system you'd be an unstoppable fire-throwing menace. Then it doesn't matter what kind of gun control is on the books. I just don't know what they're thinking.

I get that this is a joke, but the mushrooms that distort your sense of size are Amanita Muscaria, which are already legal in every state except Louisiana.

Re: California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018

#30

Post by whyenot »

throwaway_kea wrote: post #12

While they're at it I really wish they would fix the laws around cacti. Federal law bans Lophophora williamsii specifically for obvious reasons, but California bans the entire genus as well. This is dumb because the other member of the genus (diffusa) won't get you high, and is a very pretty cactus, which is legal to own elsewhere in the US.

Both are vey slow growing. It can take 25+ years for a plant to be large enough to produce flowers. This has led impatient jerks go out and (illegally) field collect them to the point where both species are considered threatened. For that reason, I think their possession should be regulated everywhere.
Post reply on HN