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United States News Title: Couple Raided by Cops for Facebook Post of LEGAL Morel Mushrooms Darlington, MD It is a travesty enough when the drug war lays waste to the rights and lives of entirely decent people whove harmed no one simply because they choose to ingest a substance deemed illegal by the state. However, because the drug war is such an immoral and barbaric practice, entirely innocent people are also swept up in the dragnet of tyranny and ignorance. Case in point: a couple in Maryland were raided by cops for posting photos of legal morel mushrooms they picked and ate. On Friday, John Garrison and his girlfriend Hope went foraging the mountains for some morel mushrooms. Morels are known to those in the region as being the safest mushroom to hunt for as they are very easily identified due to their unique look. From mid April to mid May, lovers of nature and good food, like John and Hope will find them growing near trees or where there used to be trees. Garrison was so excited that they had found a bunch of them, that he posted a photo on Facebook of he and Hopes bounty along with his plans to sautee them with brown sugar and cinnamon and see how that turns out. A great night of good food was set to follow an awesome day of hiking and foraging. That is, however, until the wheels of the police state drug war caught a whiff of the mushrooms. Garrison made the post that they were about to saute the mushrooms at 9:09 pm. Only hours later as he and Hope sat back with full bellies, police showed up. We had just finished eating the Morels we found today and heard a knock on the door. A police officer and an RA were standing outside. We let them in and as soon as the police officer walked in he asked us why we were eating mushrooms and posting about it online. He thought he was on the biggest bust of his career thinking we were having a magic mushroom party before I explained to him that Morels are a native choice edible mushroom similar to truffles, explained Garrison. However, this copclearly unaware of the tasty morel and hell bent on busting kids for eating mushroomsjust knew he had caught himself a pair of hardened criminals whod dare to expand their consciousness in the sanctity of their own home. He wasnt convinced. So I rummaged through the trash to find a peice (sic) of a Morel so that he would have evidence that we werent taking psychedelic mushrooms. I showed him and he still wasnt convinced that they werent magic mushrooms, Which was shocking to me because morels look nothing like a psychedelic psilocybin (sic) mushrooms and I figured a police officer would know what illegal drugs looked like. A second police officer showed up and I showed her the Morel and she immediately knew it was a Morel which was a relief. They processed our IDs and eventually left. What an experience, Garrison wrote on Facebook. Indeed, it was a troublesome experience and, had anything made police fear for their lives during this interaction, things could have turned out a lot worse. Equally as troubling as cops raiding your apartment over Facebook posts for legal mushrooms is how they found out about it in the first place. Were police simply trolling Facebook that night and saw Garrisons post? Or, did some good citizen do their due diligence and see something and say something? Either way, both of those scenarios are undesirable and facilitated by the states immoral and violent drug war. Until the dinosaurs in the prison industrial complexwho keep the drug war alive to reap massive profits off of persecuting people for victimless crimesare exposed, this madness will continue and others will not be as luck as John and Hope.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
What this tells me is taxpayer dollars are being wasted to pay cops to sit on their asses and watch You Tube videos all day.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
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