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Matthew Dresch & Kris Gourlay

Edinburgh mum's fury as son dies after drinking magic mushroom tea with his friend

The mum of a former Edinburgh student who died after taking magic mushrooms is calling for a change in the law to ban the sale of spores needed to grow them.

Antoine Vesterinen-Maury was tragically found in Duddingston loch weeks after disappearing in 2016. He vanished after drinking mushroom tea with a friend and suffered a 'bad trip'.

Antoine's mother, Laura, was horrified after an investigation by our sister title the Mirror found no action could be taken against companies who supply the microscopic cells from which the Class A drug grows.

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