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Innocent Couple Raided by Cops for Facebook Post of Legal Morel Mushrooms

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Darlington, MD — It is a travesty enough when the drug war lays waste to the rights and lives of entirely decent people who’ve harmed no one simply because they choose to ingest a substance deemed illegal by the state. However, because the drug war is such an immoral and barbaric practice, entirely innocent people are also swept up in the dragnet of tyranny and ignorance. Case in point: a couple in Maryland were raided by cops for posting photos of legal morel mushrooms they picked and ate.

On Friday, John Garrison and his girlfriend Hope went foraging the mountains for some morel mushrooms. Morels are known to those in the region as being the safest mushroom to hunt for as they are very easily identified due to their unique look. From mid April to mid May, lovers of nature and good food, like John and Hope will find them growing near trees or where there used to be trees.

Garrison was so excited that they had found a bunch of them, that he posted a photo on Facebook of he and Hope’s bounty along with his plans to “sautee them with brown sugar and cinnamon and see how that turns out.”

A great night of good food was set to follow an awesome day of hiking and foraging. That is, however, until the wheels of the police state drug war caught a whiff of the mushrooms.

Garrison made the post that they were about to saute the mushrooms at 9:09 pm. Only hours later as he and Hope sat back with full bellies, police showed up.

“We had just finished eating the Morels we found today and heard a knock on the door. A police officer and an RA were standing outside. We let them in and as soon as the police officer walked in he asked us why we were eating mushrooms and posting about it online. He thought he was on the biggest bust of his career thinking we were having a magic mushroom party before I explained to him that Morels are a native choice edible mushroom similar to truffles,” explained Garrison.

However, this cop—clearly unaware of the tasty morel and hell bent on busting kids for eating mushrooms—just knew he had caught himself a pair of hardened criminals who’d dare to expand their consciousness in the sanctity of their own home.

“He wasn’t convinced. So I rummaged through the trash to find a peice (sic) of a Morel so that he would have evidence that we weren’t taking psychedelic mushrooms. I showed him and he still wasn’t convinced that they weren’t magic mushrooms, Which was shocking to me because morels look nothing like a psychedelic psilocybin (sic) mushrooms and I figured a police officer would know what illegal drugs looked like. A second police officer showed up and I showed her the Morel and she immediately knew it was a Morel which was a relief. They processed our ID’s and eventually left. What an experience,” Garrison wrote on Facebook.

Indeed, it was a troublesome experience and, had anything made police fear for their lives during this interaction, things could have turned out a lot worse.

Equally as troubling as cops raiding your apartment over Facebook posts for legal mushrooms is how they found out about it in the first place. Were police simply trolling Facebook that night and saw Garrison’s post? Or, did some “good citizen” do their due diligence and “see something and say something”?

Either way, both of those scenarios are undesirable and facilitated by the state’s immoral and violent drug war. Until the dinosaurs in the prison industrial complex—who keep the drug war alive to reap massive profits off of persecuting people for victimless crimes—are exposed, this madness will continue and others will not be as lucky as John and Hope.

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Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on TwitterSteemit, and now on Facebook.

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    • desertspeaks

      1) you’re never under any obligation to answer your door, if the cops have a warrant, they’ll just kick the door in 2) you NEVER have to give ID to any government agent UNLESS they have reasonable articulable suspicion that you have committed, are committing or will commit a crime.. an uneducated twat NEVER has RAS of a crime, a hunch is not a crime, suspicion is not a crime!
      NEVER ANSWER A COPS QUESTIONS, LET THEM HANG THEMSELVES! REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU!
      Officer, on advice of council, i respectfully decline to answer any questions without council present THEN SHUT THE HELL UP! IF YOU CAN, RECORD EVERY ENCOUNTER WITH THE POLICE, BECAUSE POLICE LIE TO SUSPECTS AND THEY LIE ON THEIR REPORTS! THEY’LL LIE TO ARREST YOU! NEVER TRUST A POLICE OFFICER! RECORD THEM DURING ALL ENCOUNTERS AND USE A LIVE UPLOAD OF THE INTERACTION SO THE COPS CAN’T DELETE THEIR CRIMES, BECAUSE IF THEY CAN DELETE EVIDENCE OF THEIR CRIMES AGAINST YOU, THEY WILL DO SO AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY!!

    • Rockledge

      Another wonderful benefit of living in an Orwellian nightmare.

    • Rockledge

      Another wonderful side effect of living in an Orwellian nightmare.

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