Morford: Free the magic mushrooms, arrest Big Pharma
Mark Morford
Destroy the cure, reward the poison. Ah, America. 700 pounds of psilocybin "magic mushrooms" with a street value of $1 million found in house in Berkeley, CA.
Here is what you most definitely do not do, if you’re storing somewhere around 700 pounds of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the living room of your Berkeley house, stacked like manna in large plastic tubs, just waiting to make life better for countless thousands of hippies and hipsters, enlightened seekers and people who like to commune with trees.
You do not start screaming. You do not start yelling at your husband/wife/business partner, right there in your home/mushroom production facility, arguing so loudly that it alarms the neighbors, and they call the police and the police arrive and bang on the door and you finally have to let them in and, whoops, there’s $1 million worth of trippy goodness, sitting right there on the floor, because you really need a garage.
Another lesson? If you are dealer in large quantities of home-grown magic fungus, do not skip the couples counseling. I mean, obviously.
And thus did the Berkeley cops seize all 700 pounds of happy fungus and arrest our bickering young couple, thus yanking a sizable portion of product off the Bay Area hallucinogen market and jacking up the price for, oh, about an hour, given how even that much psilocybin is but a sliver of what Berkeley likely produces every week, and if you could peel back the roof and peer through the walls of every home in the East Bay you will possibly find that magic mushrooms are more populous than smoothies and Birkenstocks and Subarus, combined, because Berkeley.
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