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A few years ago the Dutch government decided it wanted to make psylocibin mushroom illegal again. Only when they wrote the law they forgot one specific latin name of a mushroom containing psylocibin. Thus, the shops kept selling that specific mushroom and calling them truffles.

I don't know why the shops started calling them truffles. Perhaps it was yet another way to get around the laws of selling mushrooms.



That’s not quite accurate. It’s not a particular mushroom which they forgot to ban. They are sclerotia, and there are lots of varieties.

I don’t know where the name truffle came about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerotium




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