Mom Gave Mushrooms, Marijuana to 14yr Old Daughter, "To Bond"

[Turd Fergusen]

A Pennsylvania mom admitted giving her teen daughter psychedelic mushrooms and marijuana during a “bonding experience,” authorities said.

Brandy Lee Betz, 42, was charged with felony child endangerment after she was reported to cops in June regarding her drug use earlier this year with her 14-year-old daughter, according to an affidavit obtained by the Patriot-News.

The referral indicated Betz gave the teen “shrooms” and marijuana while in her Middletown home. Dauphin County child welfare officials conducted a parallel probe and Betz confessed to smoking pot with the girl, according to the affidavit.

A witness also told cops Betz went to their home and bragged about the “bonding experience” she had with her daughter, saying they had taken mushrooms and smoked pot together, according to the report.

Investigators met with the teen Tuesday and she confirmed that Betz had given her both drugs and that they took them while together, Middleton police Detective Adam Tankersley wrote in the affidavit.
Betz also told investigators she didn’t want custody of her daughter, Tankersley wrote, but then decided she no longer wanted to discuss the matter with cops. She was later charged with felony child endangerment and misdemeanor corruption of minors after consultation with prosecutors, the Patriot-News reported.

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Mom gave mushrooms, marijuana to 14-year-old daughter, cops say

Brandy Lee Betz, a Pennsylvania mom admitted giving her 14-year-old daughter psychedelic mushrooms and marijuana during a “bonding experience,” authorities said.

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[Sevens My Charm]

Oh shroom lemonade My dad would be so fucked.. I wouldn't change anything.. I was in a safe controlled environment where no one could take advantage of me as I experimented and learned my limits.. it was my safety zone..

 

[Metalfan]

Good lord I wouldn't want to get stoned with my mom.But then sure as shit I would ask her to make some chocolate and butterscotch cookies!

 

[Sejanus]

What ever happened to spending time together and quality parenting?

 

[Sevens My Charm]

What ever happened to spending time together and quality parenting?

You can have a mixture.. my dad took me to libraries and art museums.. we did arts and crafts often.. we put in huge gardens.. we camped almost every weekend.. played darts, backgammon, spades an dominos.. watched movies together.. my old man tried his best and always tried to be there when I would let him.. my childhood was 1000 times better than his.. there's some really dark parts of my childhood but he made up for that with the way he loved and treated my littles..

 

[Satanica]

And then there is this tribe.

Margarito Mendoza still remembers the time, when he was just five, that his grandmother first fed him magic mushrooms. In a ritual to celebrate surviving childhood, Margarito underwent an ancient shamanic custom in his Mexican hometown of San Jose del Pacifico.

The boy was fed the hallucinogenic psilocybe mexicana fungus by his family, who then 'guided him on his journey'.

'I was very scared at the visions that appeared to me, because I had no idea why I was seeing them,' he told MailOnline in an exclusive interview from the hostel where he now helps backpacking tourists on their own psychotropic experiences.

Margarito is a member of the Zapotec indigenous tribe in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, who according to local accounts have been using hallucinogenic mushrooms in rituals for thousands of years.

'My family all took them at the same time and we went walking in the forest,' he said. 'I heard the trees speak me and the wind flowed before my eyes like a rainbow river'.

The psilocybe mexicana fungus which induces hallucinations, lack of rational judgement and a sense of wellbeing, grows in the mountains of Oaxaca state from May until September.

The mushrooms are seen as sacred by many in the community and are regularly used in ritual ceremonies conducted by local shamans, one of which involves celebrating the passage of infancy into childhood.
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'We don't see it as dangerous,' said his mother Lilia Gomez, who herself consumes the mushrooms on a regular basis.

'There is a lot of history and culture surrounding these sacred plants, and they link us directly with out ancestors.'

'The mushrooms are good for the soul,' said Eusebia Huajanab, a local witch doctor who conducts the ceremony following intense steam baths in her temazcal – a rudimentary sauna in which herbal tea is poured over red-hot stones for the purification of those inside.

'The steam and local herbs in it help to clear the mind and prepare for the voyage the mushrooms take you on,' she said.

The hallucinogenic fungus, although illegal for recreational use in Mexico, are nevertheless permitted for consumption in indigenous settlements where the prehispanic culture holds them as sacred medicine.

'They are the teacher,' said local woman Adela Ramirez, who sells the mushrooms preserved in honey in her shop to tourists for £40 per jar.

'We use them not only to feel closer to nature but also to ask deep questions and find solutions to life's many problems.'

As well as eaten fresh or preserved in honey, locals also consume the psychotropic drug in a tea after boiling the mushrooms in water or milk.
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Tribe where children as young as four fed mind-bending MAGIC MUSHROOMS — Alasdair Baverstock

Margarito Mendoza still remembers the time, when he was just five, that his grandmother first fed him magic mushrooms. In a ritual to celebrate surviving childhood, Margarito underwent an ancient shamanic custom in his Mexican hometown of San Jose del Pacifico. The boy was fed the hallucinogenic ps

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