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Netherlands introduces magic mushrooms ban

Posted December 1, 2008 18:21:00

A ban on the sale of the hallucinogenic fungi known as magic mushrooms is coming into force in the Netherlands, a country traditionally tolerant of drug-taking.

The Dutch Government says magic mushrooms can cause life-threatening behaviour.

Last year a French girl who had allegedly eaten them jumped to her death from a bridge in Amsterdam.

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