'MAGIC' MUSHROOMS SUSPECTED IN FATALITY

RCMP here have issued a warning against consuming magic mushrooms,
after the death of a B.C. man.

Cpl. Bryson Hill said preliminary results from an autopsy performed on
a 23-year-old man who died while in the Halfway Hot Springs Nov. 8,
indicate his death could be linked to him taking what he thought were
hallucination-causing magic mushrooms or psilocybin mushrooms.

News reports identified the man as Dieter Eggers of Taylor, near Fort
St. John.

Eggers was with a friend at the hot springs when he suddenly stopped
breathing.

It will be a week before police receive toxicology results, but until
then police were "working to prevent any further incidents" by issuing
the warning.

"Although police have not yet been able to determine the origin of the
mushrooms suspected to be linked to this death, police are urging
everyone to avoid consuming anything that is believed to be "magic
mushrooms" or psilocybin mushrooms as there may be poisonous
substances being sold as magic mushrooms," said the news release.