Don't forget the French guy that felt he had to cut up his dog to release his spirit. In that same year we also had a Brit mutilating himself and trashing his hotel (after consuming a veritable cocktail of alcohol and drugs including mushrooms, an inconvenient detail left out of most reports at the time) and an Icelandic guy that thought he could fly and jumped off a building, breaking his legs and feet.

Notice the trend here? All tourists, all acting alone. Bad set and setting.

Despite multiple researches showing no evidence of any real negative impact on Dutch society, foreign political pressure eventually got them banned. That most of these cases involved people with serious mental issues who shouldn't have taken any drugs in the first place didn't matter.

Truffles don't have the same effect and they taste awful. Fortunately growkits are still perfectly legal. These are a lot cheaper and they have the added benefit of keeping mushies out of the hands of unstable tourists.

Fairly sure there were very regular problems with tourists losing their minds on mushrooms. I remember one story of a guy on mushrooms who eviscerated his dog cause he thought it was the devil.

Holland suffers a lot from what tourists do while profiting from their lax drug laws. Towns like Roosendaal on the border with Belgium were flooded for years with French and Belgians (like me) coming to fill their backpacks with weed and mushrooms. In the 90s you could walk away with however much you could carry from coffee shops like Koyaanisqatsi. Lots of French dealers would go stock up there.

When the shops were closed on Sundays you'd have dealers in the streets.

It was all fun and games at the time but for the average Dutch person living there it wouldn't have been a lot of fun and I understand they cracked down on it for that reason.

Depends on where you get the Psilocybin from. Search "Magic Truffles"