Fort Bragg Woman Accused of Dealing Psychedelics Maintains the Criminal Case Against Her Is ‘Full of Lies and Inaccuracies’
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Heather Baird [Booking photo at the Mendocino County Correctional Facility]
After law enforcement raided her home, took custody of her son, and put her in solitary confinement for five days, she now faces two felony drug charges and a misdemeanor for child endangerment.
Baird came forward to tell her side of the story. According to Baird, law enforcement’s version of events is “full of lies and inaccuracies” resulting in a waste of “thousands and thousands in taxpayer dollars so far, and they won’t get anything from me.”
But, Baird says the case law enforcement presents is inflated, distorted, and motivated by their preconceived notion that she is some sort of a heavy-hitting hallucinogen dealer. “They tried to make me sound like I’m a high roller and it couldn’t be farther from the truth.”
Baird’s criminal case coincides with California legislators considering Senate Bill 58. If passed, Californians could possess, prepare, transport, and use specified amounts of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline. This means Baird is being charged with possessing a drug that could potentially be decriminalized in the foreseeable future.
Baird argued law enforcement’s view of her as a drug dealer did not comport with the extensive community service she has provided to the Mendocino Coast community. For seven years, she ran a non-profit focused on children of the Mendocino County Coast. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she spearheaded a thrift store for those in need during the trying economic times of lockdown. In 2017, she received a Mayoral Commendation from Fort Bragg Mayor Lindy Peters for volunteering to work in Paradise, California after the tragic fire. Baird provided documentation of her community service in the form of pictures of print periodicals that wrote of her contributions.
She disclosed to us that psychedelics, microdosing, and mental health are passions of hers. Baird would not speak to whether she actually provided these substances to interested parties, but she told us she is an advocate of psychedelic therapy.
She described microdosing psychedelics as “medicine” necessary for a community that “doesn’t take care of mental health.” Hallucinogens are “being decriminalized all around us. All one needs to do is take a drive to Oakland and you can buy all the stuff I had, right on the street or at their weekly psychedelic market.”
Oakland decriminalized multiple psychedelics in 2019 and as recently as August 2022 mushroom laced candy bars could be bought over the counter.
Baird was told by police a tip had prompted the task force’s investigation. She believes that tip came from an ex-employee who had suffered from psychiatric episodes. Baird and the ex-employee split ways in early February.
Court documents say investigators initiated contact with their target on February 20, 2023, when an undercover officer met with Baird and purchased LSD and psilocybin-infused edibles from her.
Baird confirmed she was contacted by someone she did not know but would not disclose the nature of their interaction.
Investigators assert Baird was in possession of “commercial quantities” of narcotics including psychedelic mushrooms, LSD, and cannabis. However, Baird asserts she had relatively small amounts.
Baird told us on February 22, 2023, 10-15 squad cars surrounded her residence around 10:30 a.m. while her son was sleeping peacefully. 15-20 officers raided her apartment. They “ripped my place apart and found almost nothing,” she asserted. She told us the alleged “commercial quantities” of mushrooms were less than a pound.
When law enforcement utilizes language like “commercial quantities” of drugs, some jurisdictions have established agreed-upon amounts that qualify as “commercial.” Other jurisdictions characterize any quantity of drugs being actively sold in an act of commerce as “commercial”.
Baird insists the approximate pound of mushrooms law enforcement discovered does not qualify as “commercial quantities”. Most microdosing protocols encourage users to consume .1 grams. A pound is 458 grams. This means a single pound of psychedelic mushrooms could provide 4,580 microdoses.
Other than the mushrooms, Baird said law enforcement confiscated a small amount of “microcapsules, micro chocolates, and candy bars”–an amount that she claimed did not suggest bulk sales or an extensive operation.
Officers located a stash of mushrooms in a back storage closet, Baird said, which law enforcement and Child Protective Services claimed was “within reach” of her 12-year-old son. This gave the state grounds to take custody of the child. Over two weeks have gone by since the raid and her son remains in a foster home.
During the raid, Baird said she got the distinct impression the police were searching for cash. Instead of a huge haul, officers found $1,600 at her home and seized $8,000 from her bank accounts. Baid said that one of the officers told her that if “I ‘found’ my money, they would leave my son.”
Court documents suggest law enforcement believed Baird had enriched herself by selling hallucinogens. The prosecution demanded any money she put up for bail was put through a “bail source review” to verify the cash was not a product of illegal activity.
An investigator with Major Crimes wrote in the request that Baird was unemployed and lived lavishly paying $5,000 for rent on two properties and recently purchasing a new Toyota Tacoma indicating she was “living well above her financial means.”
According to Baird, this investigator was totally incorrect. She told us she is a taxpayer having worked independently since 2016 running a non-profit and working as an event organizer. Her apartment is $2,000/month. She also manages a Simpson Lane property with four tenants. Regarding the truck, Baird sold a car she owned outright to purchase a new vehicle and now makes monthly payments.
The investigator told the judge that Baird expressed to investigators she would spend “millions of dollars to make bail” leading authorities to conclude that she would use her piles of cash earned from her psychedelic business to make bail.
Baird said her comment about millions of dollars was a “joke” and a reference “to getting my son who I would go to the ends of the earth for. It would be clear to any intelligent human that I didn’t have millions since I’m living in a garage apartment.”
During the raid, the police “leveled” her cannabis grow to confiscate all her plants including the trim. “I was under the limit for a medical grow”, Baird said. “I just didn’t have the medical grow card which can be obtained online.” With her cannabis garden ripped out of the ground, Baird says she has a hard time making sense of how countless grows throughout Mendocino County up to 10,000 square feet in size could avoid the ire of law enforcement yet her small garden was destroyed.
Investigators confiscated all of her electronic devices during the raid. Baird told us officers deleted all of her photographs off her phone. Baird claims that at one point, an officer told Baird if she gave him her phone’s passcode, he would personally call some of her friends to pick up her son. She says she obliged and was shocked when he instead allegedly called CPS.
According to Baird, law enforcement sought large sums of cash typical of drug sales. But, she says, they didn’t find large amounts. Baird said authorities took the only thing important to her, “my son.”
Since her arrest, Baird has only seen her 12-year-old boy three times. She said CPS has him living in a foster home. Separated from his mother, Baird said her son is suffering, sad, and scared.
Assertions by the prosecution that her boy was in danger are untrue, Baird said. “He was not in danger or living in a trap house. He is 12, plays Minecraft, and builds rockets. He’s a boy who needs to be with his mother.”
After the raid, Baird was booked into the Mendocino County jail. For five nights, she was in solitary confinement due to COVID-19 quarantine protocols. She says she was given a single blanket and shivered constantly. She makes the following claims which have not been substantiated. She says that the facility’s heater is centered in the common area, which she said was too far away from her quarantine cell to heat it. In addition, she says that no one brought her toiletries and she could not make purchases at the commissary. She reports that she lost ten pounds in five days.
Despite the prosecution’s insistence a bail review be conducted, she was finally released without paying any bail.
As a result of her arrest, Baird must leave the apartment she shared with her son, a hound dog, three cats, fish tanks, and a bearded dragon. Baird has been evicted from her apartment and is looking for a new place to call home.
Despite law enforcement’s belief she was selling psychedelics, Baird spoke confidently that the community knows her good works and is making efforts to help. “I have gone above and beyond hundreds of times at all hours of the day and night for people for over a decade. I have to say I knew that I’d have support from the community, and I hope this is a catalyst for change.”
Community members have initiated a letter-writing campaign to Mendocino County District Attorney Dave Eyster imploring him to drop the charges. On April 6, 2023, several local bands are playing a concert to raise funds for her legal fees. The community’s support gives Baird hope that “cops are the minority here in this county where people believe in plant medicine.”
Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. Heather Baird will return to Fort Bragg’s Ten Mile Court presided by Judge Clay Brennan. Prosecutors will negotiate with her defense attorney, a common process before the preliminary hearing.
Talking to her, she gives off an air that these negotiations are inconsequential. Instead, she is cautiously optimistic after being told that there is a chance her son could be coming home tomorrow.
Relevant stories:
- City of Arcata Gives Information on Their Decision to Decriminalize Entheogenic Plants and Fungi
- Psychedelics as Medicine – Beyond Tripping in Arcata
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Al Capone was a murderer, sold illegal/untaxed alcohol, ran houses of prostitution, and so on; but he was popular in Chicago because he ran soup kitchens, too.
As I recall, there was a famous guy in Germany who ate vegan, dabbled at painting, and loved animals; but had a few minor bad habits like invading Poland and killing millions of people.
We can find, if we look, all criminals do some good. And there is some bad in each of us, too…
There was that cop, who just wanted to rape his wife’s friend a little bit…getting arrested made him SAD, forcing him to shoplift a little bit…
As Mike Morgan said- all criminals do some good… what’s your point? That cops can never be bad? Certainly it can’t be that criminals are excused from being bad because some cop was bad? Oh wait… that last is probably it.
She was being Bad?? Cops ‘can never be bad’ !!!????- so what world do you live in?-It isnt in this county, or country, from the sound of it! But IF cops ARE ‘allowed to be bad’, and profit off our community members, then why cant ‘criminals’ ,who are also people living in our communities, and getting/making their money by NOT stealing it, well why cant they practice medicine??
More than anything she was preyed up on by law enforcement because of her views on psychedelics, her unwillingness to “hand over her money” after they already stole her savings from her bank accounts. Since she was uncooperative they used the ruse that she had mushrooms in reach if her child, putting her in a old isolation cell and kidnapping her child was used as a tactic to break her down, I am sure they were also offering her better conditions if she handed over the money, if the 8k had been cash that money would have been stolen by the task force, but since it was in bank accounts it had to be accounted for. Leaving her cold in a cell after kidnapping her child and stealing her money and tearing up her house was used as a psychological torture to make her talk and give them information which she obviously refused. Let’s not forget task force is made up of entirely men with macho male testosterone gym jock attitudes. They care not about women, elderly or children. Their goal was to “find the money”… We all know why the money was the goal, cash is harder to come by this year for officers considering growers are broke and all they get is pounds now days which they have trouble selling on the black market with price so low.
Don’t expect to win many arguments with sexist rants.
Yeah well Mendocino County Narcotics Task Force has been well-known as a pack of armed thieves by anybody living in the county for any amount of time knowing underground operators. It’s a given. Nobody with half a brain should ever be shocked by the way they operate. I find it hard to even sympathize w/ anybody who is shocked and yet has thrown themselves into an illicit situation that could expose themselves to this squad of goons. Sorry not sorry. You want to play the game you need to learn some rules. And the behavior of this squad is on page one of the learner’s book. Common knowledge. No- not saying it’s right, far from it. But it is…reality. And they will F*#k You Up!
It’s only a given to you.
Sorry they didn’t put her and her son up at the Hilton . Do the crime , you might do the time. Don’t do the crime, there’s a good chance you’ll just be left alone.
Yeah…Baretta and his bird had that right- and you can take that to da bank!
why not?????- left vagrants and transients alone (as in it didnt run them off the streets 4eva [#as if UKan]) for 6 mo.,puting them up at Motel6!- COVID or not, that’s not fair, and thats NOT RIGHT!!
Why not just admit you’re biased and bigoted against law enforcement officers, in your screed. It’s almost humorous.
Give me a break with your false equivalence bullshit
The fact that everyone is a sinner got you down? Or the fact that she’s a criminal? Can you do more than offer profanity?
Oh boy, I suppose I should take a long breath before responding to this but – wow – this one just feels like a travesty on so many levels. It feels like psychedelics are the last vestige of the old culture/drug wars. Fortunately science and common sense and a new generation are finally beginning to wake to the incredible therapeutic value they have and beginning to not only decriminalize, but incorporate into a new strategy for dealing with very real and serious mental health challenges. And yes, substances of all kinds can be used in unhealthy ways – sugar, fried foods, beer and Cheese-its, are my particular weaknesses. And I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but somehow I would think the legal apparatus had finally come around to recognizing this as well. But – sigh – apparently not. And if what I just read really is all the prosecutor has to offer as evidence of a so-called major drug dealer to justify taking their child and then putting her in solitary confinement….I mean, really?! It’s kind of incomprehensible. Pretty archaic. And scary. But such is the system, I suppose.
The stoned ape theory is a controversial theory first proposed by American ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna in his 1992 book Food of the Gods. The theory claims that that the transition from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens and the cognitive revolution was caused by the addition of psilocybin mushrooms, specifically the mushroom Psilocybe cubensis, into the human diet around 100,000 years ago. Using evidence largely based on studies from Roland L. Fischer et. al from the 1960s and 1970s, he attributed much of the mental strides made by humans during the cognitive revolution to the effects of psilocybin intake found by Fischer.
In his book, McKenna argued that due to desertification in Africa, humans retreated to the shrinking tropical forests, following cattle herds whose dung attracted the insects that he states were certainly a part of the human diet at the time. According to his hypothesis, humans would have detected Psilocybe cubensis from this due to it often growing in cowpats.
According to McKenna, access to and ingestion of mushrooms was an evolutionary advantage to humans’ omnivorous hunter-gatherer ancestors, also providing humanity’s first religious impulse. He believed that psilocybin mushrooms were the “evolutionary catalyst” from which language, projective imagination, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, and all of human culture sprang.
Learn More : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J6tVfNzOB94
And aliens built the pyramids…
Yea but the aliens were humans from the future
That’s funny.
I’m an ethnobotanist and this is news to me. I’m not going to say it’s impossible, but I do think our increased protein intake (owing to usage of tools to take down high caloric prey) helped us develope larger cranial capacities…not psilocybin fungi. lol
Agree with you on that Dave. I wish they would stop outlawing natural solutions mother nature provides us! A plant, fungi… if it’s not human-made we shouldn’t be outlawing it.
Sell drugs to make money?
Don’t advertise on the internet!
It’s never a good idea to break too many laws at once.
Even Elizabeth Holmes said she never intended to defraud anyone…
Nobody’s guilty here, but selling LSD is likely to land you in jail…
Not to nitpick but Elizabeth Holmes said that in court when she was trying to talk her way out of a jain sentence. I know people who worked for her and they have told me she KNEW what she was doing was fraud. She is a greedy, dishonest woman who made the mistake of ripping off rich people. If she had ripped off poor people she would spend a couple of weekends picking up garbage along 101.
LSD destroyed the brilliant musician Peter Green, he was never the same.
You have to be very, very careful with LSD.
I dropped acid once, it was amazing, very intense.
Interesting that there are studies that show microdosing LSD can be beneficial.
I agree. It’s not safe and neither are mushrooms for people with mental health issues. We will see bad things happen with this drug.
False equivalence
“False equivalence” is not the magic word to dismiss others that you think it is.
who said LSD! thought they got her with mushrooms, then pot!!
On the other hand:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/03/prison-abolition-even-for-elizabeth-holmes
Seems like the typical good mendo resident, and typical police greed, but why did she throw Oakland under the bus like that? And yea the lsd trade is not a casual business . . Good luck
“she was in solitary confinement due to COVID-19 quarantine protocols”
when will the covid insanity stop?
The COVID protocols are used in jails to further traumatize those folks the police do not like, just an excuse for torturing humans under the guise of “safety.” I know of another woman who was falsely arrested, put in solitary for almost 2 days, denied basic rights like a call, food, water for that time. Four policemen drug this small woman down the hall by all four limbs to solitary. That’s not supposed to be lawful. Then she was forced to bail out at 50k for bogus charges that were entirely dropped.
BUT There are loopholes for slavery and state violence, and anymore those in charge of enforcing laws, are some of the biggest abusers of the law. Mendocino is the best example of this, with Humboldt coming in with a close second.
Heather seems to be saying because she does good works in the community she can’t also be the person accused of possessing and selling commercial quantities of controlled substances. But Truth is not necessarily mutually exclusive – both can be true and in this case probably are.
She can also be a good mom but when the cops show up for controlled substances CPS is usually right on their heels as many cannabis farmers found out over the years. Probably no home could pass their inspection but if you don’t want them keeping you from your kid don’t store controlled substances where the kid has access to them. It’s also true, at least in Mendocino County, that CPS is a broken and cruel system but that’s just another reason to keep your drugs locked up if you have kids.
Psychedelics may also be a gift of the Goddess. And they might soon be legal but that hadn’t happened yet, at least in Fort Bragg and Mendo.
This may be Heather’s first brush with the law but when the cops bust you for drugs they toss your house upside down. You’re lucky if they don’t sh#t in your bed, or at least that’s how it used to be. And some or all cops may lie but in this case Heather doesn’t seem to be disputing she had a pile of shrooms.
Finally, random people writing to the DA is likely a waste of time. A good lawyer may be able to negotiate a reasonable plea bargain but failing that save your letters for the judge. And in this case that’s Clay Brennan who has a mutual dislike for the DA.
Seriously though, not everyone can handle psychedelics, especially if they already have mental problems. They should not be given out like candy. You need to respect them and they can be very enlightening but they will fuck you up if you don’t . Pretty sure that’s what happened to Vern.
And what kind of screening or controlled environment is going on when you’re selling over the internet or to random strangers like the undercover agent?
The officer did not want to discuss taking mushrooms for better health, he was copping those pizza toppings to arrest her. Probably one half of those I know and work with micro dose. Its a real thing and helpful…
Yet “The students were told that a dosing session at a licensed center should include a couch or mats for clients to sit or lie on, an eye mask, comfort items like a blanket and stuffed animals, a sketch pad, pencils and a bucket for vomiting. A session typically lasts at least six hours, often with music. Trainers emphasized that the facilitators’ clients should be given the freedom to explore whatever emotions emerge during their inner journeys.” Yup sounds real safe… https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/oregon-closer-magic-mushroom-therapy-setback-97781343
Or “What Makes People on Shrooms Jump Off Buildings and Die?”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/oregon-closer-magic-mushroom-therapy-setback-97781343
The second link is https://www.vice.com/en/article/evgj3k/what-makes-people-on-shrooms-jump-off-buildings-and-die. Sorry ..
There’s also the guy in DelNorte who carved his friends heart out while his friend was alive.
How about let people decide for themselves if they can handle it?
Because some people take these drugs and hurt themselves or others. They need the same constraints as other prescription medicine.
That’s the same argument that was used against pot for decades. It was, and still is, utter BS. Unless it’s harming others, keep the government out of our personal business.
It wasn’t utter BS. Pot grows are connected to murders, thefts, horrible labor abuse, land issues and just increasing the stupid behavior of already borderline individuals. But all pot lover keep repeating is “Reefer Madness” as they blithely blame everyone else for the fall out surrounding them. The fact that there is this disconnect turns out to be real liability of pot use.
There’s a difference between users of a substance and the issues related to a substance being illegal.
Pot and hallucinogens are largely harmless to the users. When substances are made illegal, other problems arise.
Disconnect was the exact right word.
Good luck with CPS. A bunch of super conservatives drinking the cool aid hard. You will not find a sympathetic ear there. Mendo sits in a 30+ ish% range of reunification with parents. State average around 48% Nation around 50%. Anything you say will be used to stab you in the back later. The word “significant” in legal definition is mearly a 10% risk. Lies and inaccuracies in a Mendocino County generated report…surprise surprise.
CPS hides behind “confidentiality” which is supposed to protect the child but instead protects a corrupt system run by incompetents at best and deceitful scammers at worst. Some seem to take delight in snatching kids from their parent(s) and adopting them out to pre-selected friends and insiders. There are far too many credible stories for there not to be real problems.
And if they don’t “snatch” kids from parents and something happens, CPS will also be blamed. It’s a no win for any government agency. But your allegation is untenable. Who profits from adopting out children, especially ones like this twelve year old? Babies maybe but not older children.
Actually CPS gets funding for every child in its system. They apply for funding on the parent’s behalf without asking after a case is opened. I think that’s why cases are left open so long as well even if an investigation doesn’t lead to any sort of action.
Maybe because, if you look at the chart in the previous article on this case, you’d see Mendocino County is at the top of drug overdose deaths? By a sizable margin. The elephant in the room is that there can be the freedom, or actual encouragement, to use drugs for recreation or there can be a safe, productive place but not both. Yet the “conservative” are to blame? No self examination required apparently.
You comment loses credibility when you use a generic term like “drugs” to refer to a broad spectrum of substances. By far most overdose deaths come from Fentanyl. Speed and heroin are also damaging and deadly. I believe the aforementioned should be illegal. This arcticle, however, is about hallucinogens which are generally quite safe and should, in my opinion, be allowed to be used recreationally and/or theraputically.
Conflating issues muddies the conversation and makes it harder to reach reasonable solutions.
Only for apologists. The reasonable solution people fond of drugs want is free access to what they want and they dismiss the harm to themselves and others as overblown authoritarianism. Then, when a certain percentage of the population is damaged by this free choice, they demand the authorities take care of them. Sounds just like the anti vaxxers who create misinformation to persuade others that disease isn’t really serious then dismiss those who fall to it as unfit. When they get sick themselves, they demand unlimited access to care that they mostly wouldn’t have needed if they had just been less adamant about their ideas. There is no reasoning with some people. There is only wants.
If you want to take the risks without interference, then accept the result. And the result is a few people will kill themselves, some others will be damaged, some will damage others and believing in the primacy of drugs to soothe itself creates a population that can’t see any other solutions. Heck, aspirin can kill and create damage with long term or overuse yet you are willing to blithely add other more dangerous things with a greater chance of injury just because heroin or fentanyl can kill faster. The same rationale applies to tobacco smoking. That is a pretty good display of irrationality.
Unless she requested it, WHY ON EARTH WAS SHE PUT IN SOLITARY FOR FIVE DAYS!?!?!?
Covid protocol.
County jail intakeIn an abundance of caution, and in collaboration with counties, the medical clearance process prior to transfer includes COVID-19 testing and symptom screening prior to transfer, use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during transfer, and a quarantine period upon arrival. All movement is being directed by the Patient Movement Matrix. CDCR will continuously evaluate this process and will increase, decrease, or suspend intake in accordance with health care and public health guidance.
Prison Covid protocols have meant that many languish.
Don’t think cops or feds are your friends.
Of course the thieves and home invaders at the Major Crimes task force “wanted her money”; let’s not forget that the Task force is made up of some of the worst Officers from every Department in Mendo County. One of them was just fired and put on blast for sleeping with norteno gang members girls… They were after the money as it’s very easy to slip that money into their deep pockets as they have done for years. Trumped up charges and lies to our local judges are used routinely by the task force to get warrants, they have to spread the truth thin to get judges to support their tyrannical home invasions and ripping young children from their parents arms. Of course they want the kids too, there is a pedophile network of cps and foster parents in this county which has gone on for decades. The Task Force could should be focusing on the cocaine, speed, heroine, pills and fentanyl… The dangerous drugs that destroy lives… Those psilocybe mushrooms can easily be picked around Mendocino County, there are thousands of pounds growing each year at the Samoa Dunes in Humboldt free for the picking. They come straight from mother nature. Nobody even needs to cultivate them as mother nature provides these medicines for our benefit and use. Has anybody heard of the “stoned ape theory” by Terence McKenna?
Or the Connection between Amanita Muscaria and Christmas traditions?
e Siberian and Arctic regions, where shamans dropped into locals’ homes with a bag full of magic mushrooms as presents in late December.
Santa Claus’ archetypal image can be dated to hundreds if not thousands of years, even found in the most unpredictable places and times.
Since pre-Christian times, this time of year has always been a time of festivities and celebration, with music, dancing, banquets, and gatherings.
Germanic peoples, for example, had the Midwinter festival, Yule, which occurred around the Winter Solstice (21st December). Also, the Romans had the festival of Saturnalia, an ancient festival in honor of the god Saturn, held on the 17th of December through to the 23rd of December.
“Santa is a modern counterpart of a shaman, who consumed mind-altering plants and fungi to commune with the spirit world”, he says, “as the story goes, up until a few hundred years ago these practicing shamans or priests connected to the older traditions would collect Amanita muscaria (the Holy Mushroom), dry them, and then give them as gifts on the winter solstice,” according to John Rush, an anthropologist, and instructor at Sierra College.
Amanita muscaria is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere under conifers and birch trees, just like presents found under the Christmas tree by excited and happy children. This explains the tradition of the Christmas tree and the gifts, wrapped in red and white, placed under the tree just like the magic mushrooms.
Amanita muscaria is classified as poisonous, this might be a reason the shamans of that time initially hang the fresh Amanita muscaria to dry on tree branches, just like the colorful ornaments on a Christmas tree
Photo of amanita Muscaria growing in state park in Mendocino County
Check out this Joe Rogan video about the origins of Christmas and it’s ties to the Siberian Shamans, also look up the Buddhist traditions and SOMA. THE ROOTS OF THESE HALLUCINOGENS GO WAY BACK IN OUR ANCESTRAL HISTORY…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mz6Z3wMFAX8
You can either a) responsibly and wisely dispense medicine to members of your community in need, which I imagine would involve at least knowing the person and their abilities to experience the medicine, or b) sell drugs; but you can’t really do both at the same time, as the subject here seems to be claiming. Selling LSD to strangers you have barely met online lands squarely into the latter camp. “Commercial amounts” refer to sentencing guidlines, and guess what, a pound of mushrooms is not a personal amount. As she points out herself, a lot of people like to microdose. She has enough microdoses to last her for four to five years, depending on her regimen (most do not dose every day, there are days off in between.) As someone who has run a few tubs for personal use, I have a couple of observations here: fist, it is nice to cultivate your own fungus because that way you have access to fresh fungus. This is a medicine that loses potency rapidly with time. Secondly, it would take a personal grower many many many tub runs to get together almost a pound of mushrooms.
But they didn’t seize any cultivation equipment, and aren’t charging her for producing any drugs, just possessing for sale and running a drug house. Which leads me to believe that she is buying pounds of mushrooms at this Oakland marketplace she has now completely dry snitched, and driving them up to FB for distro… in which case I feel bad for her but this is the game you’re playing. What did you think was going to happen?
Nowhere in California is talking about legalizing laypeople selling other laypeople any acid for any profit. Possession, noncommercial sharing, etc. Nowhere in Oakland or Portland or anywhere else is it legal to walk into a shop and buy a jar of cubes.
These things are sacraments and I hope that status somehow survives the incoming tidal wave of regulation and commercialization and assorted bullshit.
Well-said.
It’s one thing to use psychedelics for medicine🍄 and an entirely other to sell them to an undercover cop. She broke the code of why many people use mushrooms 🍄 for healing. They aren’t for profit or capitalism. Never sell or give away any medicine to someone you don’t know. That is just common sense. Pychedelics are NOT for profit. They are for healing…..Psychedelics need to be decriminalized, but not legalized. We don’t want healing medicine turned into capitalist profit machines the way cannabis has been exploited.
Yes this, this, a thousand times this!!!
Exploited, indeed.
We’ll said
Right on! Exactly why “legalization” is not good. I hope this woman gets her kid back and does not roll on somebody else.
The Mendo narc squad has a sordid history of dirty tricks, thievery and persecution going back to at least the 1970’s. Not to mention dealing drugs themselves.
Upending this person’s life and stealing her child is beyond cruel. Yes she broke the law, but let the penalty fit the crime. This is like hanging someone for jaywalking. Eyster has no sense of shame or morality.
No better way to squeeze a woman than taking her children. Hope she has enough sense to not roll on anybody
Umm mailing any kind of narcotics is a sure way to get caught and now she has to deal with the consequences
The life style was all bluster? She didn’t have the millions she claimed? And she just didn’t bother with the online form filling? And the awful policeman did not evaluate the health benefits of mushrooms and other hallucinogens when she was obviously asking nicely? Oh my… well it certainly should be inconsequential to straighten it all out.
I don’t know who this woman’s lawyer is but they really need to tell her to STFU!!! Winning sympathy in the media does nothing. She has now called out the corrupt system as full of liars and cheaters. Yes- of course they are, always were. But now they will feel a desire to double down on her. Yes- because they suck. But now they rule your world. STFU! She has now admitted in this article to deeper involvement and breaking more laws. STFU!!!
Heather- yeah it sucks. Yeah they suck. But it’s a game that you cannot win by blasting away in an article on the internet. Get your kid back. Get a decent lawyer (Hint- not a Ft Bragg lawyer). If you get a local lawyer their job will be to soft-talk the prosecutor and judge and deliver some side cash for a reduced sentence.(Yeah- it’s Mendocino County, like most corrupt counties). DO NOT ROLL ON ANYBODY. Hopefully the people above you will help kick down legal fees- out of moral responsibility. Believe it or not you have allies in county offices who will do what they can in their secret mission. But right now you are driving away all of your help!! STFU!!! And yeah- you screwed up royal. Accept that. You’re no genius and you’re no golden angel. But you can still…..STFU! And get a lawyer to get your son back. Best of luck to you!
That was exactly my 1st thought. This woman should be protecting herself by keeping her mouth shut and using her Miranda right to silence
Exactly like I said before anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You bother to put it into type it’s out there forever. You have to forward think a little bit before you open your mouth because the results may not be exactly what you hoped for. Don’t throw yourself under the bus, no need to they have plenty of ammunition to do the job. Your job is to prove all of the “evidence” inaccurate, invalid, immaterial. With CPS involved also it will be a doubly challenging. Closed confidential court twisted up with criminal court. Its certainly going to be a convoluted cluster F.
Words to live by Farce, 100% spot on. Its too bad the news journalist, after “Baird came forward to tell her side of the story”, shoulda coulda told her to STFU, I mean where’s the story in that right? And who contacted who first, the reporter or the accused? A reporter can be your BFF or third rail, if you know what I mean. She’s 51 years old, she should have known better…
Yeah, for sure the saddest part of the article to me was where she gave the cop the passcode to her phone because he was going to “call some of her friends” to get her kid to them…this feels like a fish swimming with sharks and not realizing the danger.
The only thing you should ever say to a cop is “where’s my lawyer”
So I’m sure by now most of us are familiar with the term California Sober. Where you stay completely sober except for smoking weed
I recently learned about
Colorado Sober. Where you abstain from all drugs, with exception of weed & psychedelics
I’m taking it up a notch, to
Mendo Sober. All drugs are on the table, with the exception of meth & fentanyl…
Which of course is the exact opposite of Humboldt Sober. Where you do nothing but meth & fentanyl
Never heard this! I guess it’s Colorado sober then ha ha ha I do love shows at Red Rocks!
Just say no to drugs kids .
She needs to hire disgraced seargeant Kevin Murray’s lawyer. He works miracles..
She must’ve known the law might apply to her?
And I seriously doubt people are buying shrooms and lsd just to microdose. They might be paying for lots of microdoses but not microdosing. Maybe some of them.
What happens now to the names of all her clientele? Do they go in a special file? Or get investigated?
And if all these drugs are almost legal then what about the poppy? It should be legal as well. Not fair, right?!!
Give your heart to Jesus Christ and you won’t desire any of these drugs. That’s real freedom
all honesty, since she believes mushrooms and LSD are so “harmless”, could her son be partaking as well? With her blessings?
Drugs open us up to demonic spirits. That’s why, in theses last days, before the return of Jesus Christ, satan and his followers, are pushing the “spiritual “ value of these hallucigenic plants.
The Bible says to be ye sober!
Hold on there. The truth can get you looked down upon around here. Drugs good. Trump bad. Fetterman and biden are mentally sound. Gas has always been 6.00 a gallon. Inflation isnt real. There are hundreds of genders. Kamala harris has the border handled Unemployment is non existent . Giving the taliban billions of dollars worth of military equipment was a good move. Getting the drift ??
the 5 universal truths
1 )Fire is hot!
2)food is good
3)sex …. is better
4)women are evil
5)men are assholes
and turns out thats why women don’t fart b4 marriage (no asshole yet !)
Only universally true to you…
🧪Drugs are pharmakeia. Used in sorcery, Witchcraft.
🧙Who’s spell are YOU under?
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The medicine available to people suffering from mental health issues leaves much to be desired. Most of the meds leave a person tired, groggy, headaches, digestion issues, weight gain and dizzy. The scientific world still has much to learn in this field. They do know, however, that long term negative side effects; especially in children is quite concerning.
Medical Science has been studying micro dosing for some time now and has been statistically learning of the plethora advantages in this form of treatment in patients that are actually recovering and not needing to be life long consumers of psychotropics. The numbers show with out a doubt this natural medicine will be the accepted form of treatment.
The State is wanting cash and like the other 51 States willing to use people as a source of income thru the criminalization, jail and forced fines system set in place. Big money is pouring in without a thought as to long term social effects of the separation of children from their parents. The foster care system leaves hundreds of.thousands of children in more abusive living situations than if left with their parents. The statistics speak loudly to this truth.
With so many violent actions occurring on the daily, it seems the focus should be on protection and prevention. Not on stepping into realms of personal choice of medication.
Mushrooms were more important than her child. And now she gets to learn a lesson. Psychedelics and kids don’t mix. I’m sure every hippie and arcadeo with a child named Cosmo River or star would like to argue with me otherwise. Drugs don’t belong in a house with children. Ever.
storage unit, keep up! and she didnt live there. some people can handle their drugs w/o their children knowing a thing, and they are just as responsible, and loving, and awesome as the foster family the child gets ripped out of their home to, when there was no abuse or neglect! Fucking dumb!!- way to go, boys in blue.
#1: Shrooms Can Cause SeizuresShrooms and seizures aren’t a common combination when you take them on their own… but seizures can happen in some cases.
A typical shrooms trip looks like you’re in a stupor or unconscious. This can look like an absence seizure—you may be lethargic or unable to respond.
Yet, that’s not usually what is actually happening. Shrooms trips can be completely internal in some cases, so you might withdraw from the people and things around you.
However, it’s more common for shrooms to cause seizures when mixed with stimulants.
These can include coke, molly, amphetamines, and more. Don’t mix shrooms with other drugs to be safe.
Shrooms can also cause seizures if you have a seizure disorder such as epilepsy. Don’t use shrooms if you have seizures.
#2: Shrooms Increase Your Heart RateMany people do report that shrooms increase their heart rate—even if they don’t have a heart problem.
In fact, shrooms can increase your heart rate to the 150-160 range at a normal dose.
Shrooms can increase your heart rate to even higher thresholds if you mix them with other drugs. That’s yet another reason to avoid mixing shrooms with other drugs.
Your heart rate should return to normal once you’re no longer tripping. If it doesn’t, consider seeking medical help. You should also seek help if you feel like your heart rate is causing you distress.
#3: Magic Mushrooms Raise Your Blood PressureAny drug that increases your heart rate is likely to increase your blood pressure too. Shrooms are no different.
The effect that shrooms have on your blood pressure depends on:
Larger doses are more likely to affect your blood pressure. You’re also more likely to have side effects if you’ve had blood pressure issues in the past. If you have a history of high blood pressure or stroke, you shouldn’t use shrooms.
Any effect on your blood pressure is usually temporary and goes away after the trip ends.
Again, you shouldn’t mix shrooms with molly, Ritalin, or other psychostimulant drugs. This is especially true if you have a history of heart disease or blood pressure problems!
Other Effects of Shrooms on the BodyMushrooms are a relatively safe drug compared to many—even though no drug is fully safe. The negative side effects mostly end on their own after the trip is over.
However, you can still experience a serotonin crash after your trip ends.
The effects include: