Illegal mushrooms traced back to God

"Naturally occurring" can be taken as far as you want to go. People shouldn't use ambiguous words in court defenses.

Arsenic is a naturally occuring substance. I encourage you to go try some.

I wonder if Mr. Ingram realizes that his already porous defense will be shot to hell if a prosecutor humors the argument and proposes that cannabis and mushrooms were put here by the Devil. Checkmate, pothead!

I like to look at words.....illegal.......first thing I notice is leg....which is good...
at least the ones I pictured are........but the main thing that jumps out is ......ill.......
Golden Ruler.....see old in the middle of Golden......Will..........

It 's really funny on how we take the word lllegal & put it on anything thing we don't agree with or what we don't like . instead of understanding it we fear it si i guess that makes it IIIegal , if it grows out of the Earth Its feared so in turn it is lllegal , what if Man was lllegal !
What if what man is doing to the Earth is IIIEGAL WHICH IT IS THEN WHAT HUH ?

Many states recognize the validity of psychedelic religions, or at least choose not to prosecute them. The problem is that VERY VERY VERY few people actually approach such substances in a religious context. This is why it is not more acceptably widespread.

If people actually looked at these experiences and substances as a religious sacrament, and had an even loosely structured 'religious' system, the government would have no choice but to accept their validity as a religion. The Peyote Way Church of God has been offering peyote to whites for over 30 years, and largely uncontested. They're able to do this because they actually have a religious context, specific tenets of faith, etc.

The problem is, people AREN'T using these things as religious sacraments, no matter what some stupid hippie kid tells you. Mind expansion is one thing, but RELIGION is something with a legal definition.

Amen, brother! Freedom of religion!

This entire fucking drug war contradicts the first amendment in every way. The founding fathers would be ashamed. I hate to sound like a skeevy hippy (and I'm definitely NOT) but seriously guys, wtf.

Freedom of choice is kind of the point of a capitalist society. And freedom of "choice of religion" is what this country always says it was founded on, seems to me the second that religion isn't the "government approved" religion it's considered dangerous.

Oh man, I think my purple raincoat is gonna swallow me up; better go up on the roof naked and sing to GOD. Here man, eat some of these mushroooooooooooooooms.

that's the spirit!!

It is all about controlling the "dangerous" people. Freedom of thought is not a valued virtue by the powers that be so utilizing silly laws to keep people afraid of speaking up is what the government relies upon. Drug laws and Tax laws are effective deterrents to the freedom of acting outside of the strictly controlled box.

It fits better the other way.....
God traced back to mushrooms.....
the illegal thing was thrown in by stone age lawyers.......

I doubt he'll win in court, but it sounded like a good idea at the time:))
As for the "War on Drugs"...it has cost the US and other parts of the world billions of dollars and countless ruined lives.
That's another Reagan idea that should have been thrown out with the garbage.

Psilocybin and marijuana are dangerous to those who wish to shrink-wrap ideas and emotions.