'WAIT PERIOD' FOR DRUG TOURISTS

THE HAGUE (CNS)- A new proposal from the mayor of Amsterdam is sure
to be considered a bummer by certain visitors to the Dutch city: a
three-day waiting period to buy hallucinogenic mushrooms. Mayor Job
Cohen wants to require the wait period to allow mushroom buyers to
fully understand exactly what it is they are purchasing, ANP news
agency reported Tuesday.

The proposal seeks to prevent impulse purchases and follows several
incidents that have occurred in the city involving tourists who have
eaten hallucinogenic mushrooms.

In March, a 17-year-old French girl killed herself by jumping from a
bridge in the city after having eaten mushrooms.