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self_made_human  amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi  11mo ago (open.substack.com)   1814 thread views

A Depressed Shrink Tries Shrooms

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This is a first-person account from a psychiatry resident (me) enrolling in a clinical trial of psilocybin. Somewhere between a trip report, an overview of the pharmacology of psilocybin, and a review of the clinical evidence suggesting pronounced benefits for depression.

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No, more like putting the fruit in some sort of carboy, adding yeast, monitoring fermentation, etc -- do you really think it would not have been possible to charge somebody for doing this during prohibition based on the "I just like to store my fruit that way" defense?

Yes? If nothing else, a reasonable suspicion that someone bought the seeds of an illegal plant make it much easier to get a search warrant, compared to "we saw him buying some fruit the other day". Is it yeast you want to control? The stuff is literally floating in the air. Is it jars and buckets you're planning to criminalize, or are you planning to catch them red-handed in the middle of the onerous task of "monitoring fermentation", also known as "not doing anything, and checking if the thing is still making bubbles after a couple days"?

If nothing else, a reasonable suspicion that someone bought the seeds of an illegal plant make it much easier to get a search warrant

Not sure how you get from "Bill got a letter in the mail" to reasonable suspicion?

The only way you are getting busted either way is the cops gaining entry to your house somehow (tipped off or there for other reasons probably), in which case "I just like to keep my fruit in a carboy" isn't going to do you any more good than "I thought those were tomato seeds".

Not sure how you get from "Bill got a letter in the mail" to reasonable suspicion?

How about "Getting the contact info for Bill's supplier the same way Bill did, ordering some seeds, using that as evidence to raid the supplier, and getting the addresses of his clients"?

in which case "I just like to keep my fruit in a carboy" isn't going to do you any more good than "I thought those were tomato seeds".

the "left some fruit in a cabinet" line was not an example of the legal defense you'd use once busted, it was pointing out how easy it is to make alcohol out of completely legal ingredients.

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