It's good news for new age hippies but bad news for festival-goers fed up with the phrase "look at the groovy colours". After weeks of prevarication, the Home Office has said that a law reclassifying magic mushrooms as class A drugs will not be implemented before the end of July, meaning that psychedelic fungi can be legally consumed during the summer festival season which opens at Glastonbury next weekend. The delay follows the threat of a legal challenge to clause 21 of the Drugs Act 2005, which bans the importation and sale of magic mushrooms and confusion in the Home Office over how best to draft regulations so as to exempt landowners, many of whom may be unaware they have a banned drug growing on their property, from prosecution.
