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In Spain, several tourists die every year trying to jump from their hotel window in the 5th floor to the swimming pool (balconing, look it up) under the influence of their own stupidity. Some people are just looking forward to dying, they just need an excuse.

Do you have info on this? I am Dutch and lived a long time in Adam too; The only incident I remember/can find is the one that got shrooms banned in NL (2008). Which was a kneejerk imho. The cases I read about were almost never shrooms alone; alchohol, weed and very often also xtc, speed and cocaine were involved. People on shrooms alone are mostly not that far gone; people on alcohol are less stable in my experience. The combination is just stupid imho.

A student jumped from the 14th floor of my college dorm while on mushrooms.

While I'm open to trying psychedelics, I've seen too many bad trips to be comfortable with it.