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Doctoring Shitakes with blue food dye does not Hallucinogenic Mushrooms make...

A Kingston teen is headed to prison after pleading guilty to doctoring up store-bought shiitake mushrooms with blue food coloring and trying to sell them as a drug for $900.
[the defendant] was sentenced to one to three years in state prison Friday for his role in the fake hallucinogenic mushroom scheme that crumbled when he sold them in an undercover police sting and was caught with the food coloring on his fingertips.

D'oh!

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Posted By gwyllm at 2009-07-04 14:11:07 permalink | comments

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Anonymous. : 2009-07-06 10:30:48

"Most people are ignorant of this standard prosecuting practice. Guys all over get busted for selling baking soda as "a
cocaine-like substance" and do "real time". I wonder what the official explanation for this is."

It's right in the Controlled Substances Act:

"(a) Unlawful acts
Except as authorized by this subchapter, it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally -

(1) to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance; or

(2) to create, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to distribute or dispense, a counterfeit substance."

Now, "counterfeit substance" usually means counterfeit in the same way as making knock-off cloths that appear to be a name brand, but it can be -- and is -- interpreted as blue-dyed grocery store mushrooms and baking soda.

Glutamate Weirdo. : 2009-07-05 13:58:32

Most people are ignorant of this standard prosecuting practice. Guys all over get busted for selling baking soda as "a cocaine-like substance" and do "real time". I wonder what the official explanation for this is. Anyone know? Certainly attempting to commit fraud is not it, that would be too noble.

???. : 2009-07-05 01:58:23

they set up a sting, to stop the sale of... mushrooms? seriously?
karma police got this kid, but seriously, the war on drugs never looked so ridiculous.

glad he got caught. : 2009-07-05 01:35:09

He totally deserved it: what an arsehole.

whatever. : 2009-07-04 20:17:59

What kind of reporting is this..sensationalism? So pretending is crime worthy of prison here? Whaaaat??? Is it possible that this person could be the mascot for the War on Drugs?

??. : 2009-07-04 15:05:55

the real crime here is selling a quarter pound of mushrooms for $900!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF????

How could anyone ever get away with that?

harsh sentence.

some of the comments at the end of the article are retarded.

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