Double Blind
In 2022 alone, law enforcement agencies around the US seized 1,861 pounds, of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. That’s an increase of 273 percent from 2017, according to a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the New York Times reports.
And, while the subsequent municipal deprioritization movement of 2019 is a direct effect of the clinical trials (and media hype), it’s important to note this research is pulling data from law enforcement agencies around the US. We know cops inflate the street values and weight of seized drugs. In fact, there’s legal precedent for law enforcement to factor in the weight of drug packaging or an object a drug is carried on, such as a sheet of tabs soaked in LSD. They don’t just count the LSD itself, they also consider the weight of the paper.
“The [seizure] trends are likely to continue,” the study’s authors wrote in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, “as it has been projected that most states will have passed [psychedelic] legalization measures between 2034–2037.”
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Mushroom Seizures in the US Are Up 273 Percent From 2017, New Research Shows
