As I mentioned a few months back, the guy in charge of Psilocybe Fanaticus got busted by the feds as a result of his involvement in selling spore kits for growing hallucinogenic mushrooms to the the public at large. Well, judgement has been served and he made out pretty alright, considering.
The main charges against him were for possession of a small mushroom cultivation plot that he used as a source for the spore kits, which are entirely legal, or at least were at the time of the bust. I'm not sure if they've been reclassified or not. I've heard that the kits he sold (essentially sterile water filled syringes full of spores that reduce contanimation risks when growing mushrooms) may be reclassified as paraphenalia. There was a good case against him, but he got off with house arrest (a nice spread in the Washington rainforest) and got a bunch of the money back. I guess he got pretty rich off of it. His lawyer sounds like the real deal and if anyone in Washington gets busted, I'd suggest going to him. I wonder what the Pimp would have gotten if he'd had this guy on his side to defend him against the manufacturing charges?
If anyone is interested, cruise over and check out his version of events. Interesting story and I'm glad to hear that he is doing okay. It's too bad that he went down, especially considering that it appears to have been brought about by idiots using the wrong or mispelled return address on their orders (PF always just cut out the return address and used it for the mailing address) which meant that people who had no idea what was up would recieve a box of syringes in the mail. Or the flukeys who weren't smart enough to know what they were getting into and ended up causing problems for others when on mushrooms, instead of causing problems for themselves, which is the whole point.
But it doesn't look like PF is coming back as a spore vendor, but the PF Tek process is well known. And it works like a charm. Hardest thing is getting a sterile source of spores for the inculation, which is where PF served such a great purpose. But all is not lost. Here's wishing everyone well who embarks on such a quest. Just keep your head on about where, why, and who you chow on these with.
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Through fits and starts of genius and ignorance, this page draws near its one year anniversary. Originally I had hoped for more of a community effort at this, as I believed (and still do) that it would be more interesting and enjoyable with thoughts, insights, arguments, and commentary from across the spectrum of Idahoan friends who's desire to keep in touch lead to the creation of this site. Alas, my drivel drove them away and the occasional visitor is stuck with me. Such is the vagary of life, I suppose.
Throughout the last year, I have tried hard to update the site, but I have to say that blogging can be hard. Maybe I'm just not good at it, maybe I'm taking it too seriously, maybe I try to hard, or maybe I'm not trying hard enough. I'm always thinking about stuff in life, be it politics, philosophy, current affairs, science, society, whatever, and since I don't have much opportunity to talk about such things with people in person, I thought it would be fun. And it is fun, for the most part. But I do take it seriously, and I wanted to create a blog that was interesting and worth bookmarking for other people. I think I've generally achieved that for a majority of my posts (slight majority, but majority nonetheless), but I've failed to keep it current with regular updates.
Initially I assumed I'd post once a day. Content isn't hard to come up with, but taking the time to formulate the topic and write it down does. I'd probably benefit from learning to be more concise. I've tried to not care so much about how refined it is and just get something up, but I think that the weaker posts came from there too. But what am I whining about?
I don't really know where I'm going with this, as if I ever do. It's been a good time, and even if I'm not posting as much as I'd like, blogging has led me to write a lot more notes and think about things more. And I've met Jody, a great reader who truly honors me with his continued return to the site and his comments. I hope that I can continue to build this up and post more regularly over the next year. I think this page is RSS-ready as well, so if you syndicate me, your reader will tell you when new posts hit the page.
So thanks for riding along. I've got a whole backlog of notes and ideas that will be hitting this space soon, once I get a better handle on fatherhood. Oh yeah, my dissertation was successfully defended last week, so assuming that the departmental vote on my degree goes my way (which it should, but there is always a chance some rogue dissenter will be an ass), my student life is over.
Go on and tell me how much you loved and hated this space over the last year.