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Newsgroups: rec.drugs.psychedelic
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Once, somewhere in Southern Germany, my friends and I consumed purple haze
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by smoking it in a water pipe and drank dried psilocybin mushrooms in a
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herbal tea. We then proceeded to have a barbeque outside of our downtown
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dorm in an old rustic courtyard built almost 300 years ago. An old German
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woman cried out haggardly from a neighboring courtyard window something in
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German that it was forbidden to grill in the courtyard because of the
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horrendous smell it would give off (this was amazing because we were
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cooking GERMAN sausages). I responded to this old woman in the usual
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sarcastic, but quiet and collective, tone that she should just go ahead
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and call the police, if she didn't have anything better to do with her
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time than to make young peoples' lives miserable. Well, she did. We lived
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just around the corner from the Polizei station, which also had windows
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facing into the courtyard. The commander of this police branch had heard
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everything from his window, as it turned out, and came out of the police
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station about 10 minutes later.
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As he was pacing across the courtyard to the other side to the car (just
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20m away from our bbq grill), the old woman in the window screamed out to
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him about us grilling in the courtyard to which the commander responded
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that it was not forbidden for us to grill there, IF we had met all the
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regulations for grilling in a courtyard. They exchanged a few rows with
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each other and the commander said that he would deal with the situation
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promptly.
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We, as American exchange students in Germany, had no idea what regulations
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needed to be met, and our German friends there weren't much help either.
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We just wanted to eat our Wurst and drink a beer in peace and enjoy the
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weather and sparse garden in the courtyard. He then came over to us and
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began to question us in a secret service style: "Name? Wo wohnen Sie? Was
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studieren Sie?" To which, we all answered honestly, but with not a little
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fear. He then proceeded to tell us about all the rules and regulations for
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grilling in a small downtown courtyard (water source within 20m or so,
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bucket of sand, and grill 20m or so away from any cars or flammable
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materials; all of which was built into the courtyard as part of the fire
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department regulations, it turned out) and warned us not to be too loud or
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too long with it.
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After some time, we offered him a Wurst on a roll with mustard, to which
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he kindly refused, but he did decide to take us up on our offer of good
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German beer. He drank his beer with us for about 20 minutes and told us
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about his family and his student days, reminisced about his travels to
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California and the Grand Canyon. I knew the whole time that he knew we
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were tripping off of our kites, but also noticed that he didn't give a
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damn. His parting words were these, "Enjoy it now while you're young and
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keep your cool about things, or else you will turn out to be like that old
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bitch in the window up there." He then got into his police car and headed
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out towards somewhere. We ate our Wurst, smiled up at the old woman in the
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window as we were leaving (she continued to watch us the whole time we
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grilled), and then went down into an old cellar which is sound proof,
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turned on the Doors at full volume, smoked some more weed, turned off the
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glaring overhead flourescent light and arranged small candles on the floor
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and acted like we were airplanes landing on a runway. We danced a little,
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talked a lot, and we didn't hurt anyone. Well, I guess not anyone, except
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the pride of the old bitch who didn't get her way.
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I have met him several times walking out of my dorm and always stopped and
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chatted with him a little. To my surprise, I learned that I was actually
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dating his German daughter! We ended up marrying and he showed me the
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ropes on how to get a German license for legally growing marijuana at
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home. Now we are all happy.
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(Warning: many folks say that drinking alcohol with psilocybin mushrooms
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can be dangerous. We knew this, and adjusted our drinking of beer to only
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0.5 liters per person. The rest of the time we drank water and herbal tea
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and basically did the things that healthy young people do. This story is
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full of truth and embellishment, so don't believe everything you read.) |