The Aztecs dubbed them "the flesh of the gods", Siberian shamans used them to enlighten their path to the spirit world, and they were the preserve of hippies and the pioneers of the psychedelic movement in the 1960s. But now magic mushrooms are at the centre of a new - and legal - retail boom.

I had originally posted this with a flippant remark about there unfortunately not being simmilar loophole in US law.

But on a more serious note, halucinogens, pot, and even ecstasy present only limited threats to public health, while the US govrnment has been slow to respond to the recent wave of prescription drug abuse that has come with the rise of oxycontin.

High times in magic mushroom business - and it's perfectly legal