Law enforcement officials say they found a staggering $8.5 million worth of psychedelic mushrooms during a bust in Connecticut. Federal, state and local authorities say they received a tip about possible drug-dealing at a rural home in Burlington and found dozens of dog-food-size bags of mushrooms there on Thursday.

Law enforcement officials came across a staggering find after being tipped off about possible drug-dealing: dozens of dog-food-size bags of psychedelic mushrooms worth an estimated $8.5 million at a home in rural Connecticut.

    • @FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world
      3•11 months ago

      I didn’t realise the DEA were the only people who could define things. Outside of the US it can generally refer to illegal drugs

      Are you telling me Merriam Webster and Dictionary.com is wrong? Things can have colloquial definitions

      • Lem Jukes
        3•11 months ago

        You really wanna die on this hill huh? You seem to be missing the point IMO. It doesnt really matter what Merriam Webster or even Funken Wagnells define ‘Narcotic’ as. They aren’t out there arresting people. All you’re doing by sticking to your guns on this is making it look like you’re a bootlicker who thinks it’s perfectly acceptable for cops to misidentify substances so they can make their mushroom grow bust look like they took down a cartel. Insisting that words can mean whatever we want them to mean is fine, in a creative writing class. Not when those definitions can be weaponized to ruin people’s lives.

          • Lem Jukes
            1•11 months ago

            Hey bud, what’s the first definition both those sites/dictionaries have listed?