from my local paper, the Camden New Journal
Mushrooms back on menu
HALLUCINOGENIC mushrooms are back on sale in Camden with the backing of the law – after police admitted they have no power to act.
Magic mushrooms were thought to have been banished from Camden High Street and the Lock Market in July, when the Drugs Bill 2005 came into force.
But a loophole in the new laws, which banned the most popular varieties of magic mushrooms, means one variety, fly agaric, can still be openly sold.
Traders have rushed to take advantage of the lapse, selling packets of mushrooms for £15 to £20.
One told a New Journal reporter this week: “They have the same effect as the ones we used to sell...if anything, they are better.
“The police have seen us but they know there is nothing they can do; there is a loophole in the law because the government made a mistake.
“But you’d better buy them now; they’ll probably be illegal by November.”
Paul Galbraith of the Camden Mushroom Company, the best known suppliers until July’s law change, said: “It’s what you’d expect from the government, who’ve completely ballsed it up.
“The fly agaric mushrooms have a more depressing effect than the kind we used to sell, which is why we don’t want to get involved – really, they’re much worse than the kind they banned.”
Earlier this year Camden police chief Mark Heath warned that the open sale of legal magic mushrooms was contributing to a “drugs culture” which “sends out the wrong messages” about Camden.
But speaking this week a Camden Police spokesman said: “The mushrooms are legal although we are continuing to check sellers stalls and if we suspect the varieties are the banned kind they will be seized and tested.”
A Home Office spokesman said: “Fly agaric mushrooms are poisonous but they do not contain psilocin, the active drug agent which is banned.”
I was suprised if he was selling them normally again cos now they're class a 
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