British court refuses to prosecute because of confusing law

The Guardian quotes Crown Court recorder Claire Miskin as saying that the law was so ambiguous that to put the pair on trial amounted to an ‘abuse of process’. She recommended that Parliament consider new legislation to clarify the legal position. Although the courts had previously ruled that it was legal to possess magic mushrooms except where they had been ‘altered by the hand of man’, the Home Office also advised that merely chilling the mushrooms might constitute alteration. Full report in The Guardian