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Magic mushrooms would be effectively decriminalised under proposals set to be put to a local referendum. Citizens of Denver in the US state of Colorado will be asked to vote on a measure banning officials from "spending resources to impose criminal penalties" for the use or possession of the psyched

A woman who allegedly trespassed at CIA headquarters four times while asking to speak to "Agent Penis" has been arrested. Jennifer G. Hernandez, 58, first showed up in April claiming that she had applied for a job with the CIA and was told to come directly to the facility.

A shocked motorist protested his innocence after failing a roadside breathalyser test because he ate a durian. The notoriously stinky fruit apparently registered a false positive for alcohol, and the man was cleared after submitting a blood sample.

A man is accused of flushing his grandparents' ashes down the toilet after his mother kicked him out the house. Thomas Wells, 33, was charged with abuse of corpses and criminal mischief.

A wanted man who corrected the spelling of his own name in a police appeal on Facebook has been jailed. Micah Thompson, 31, left a comment on the South Yorkshire Police page after they appealed for information about the whereabouts of "Micha" Thompson.

A prestigious gallery inadvertently launched a protest movement after removing an artwork showing a young woman suggestively eating a banana. The newly-installed head of the National Museum in Warsaw said the 1973 video is obscene and harmful to young people.

A former pub landlord who converted his premises into a home for his family must now return the property to a drinking establishment, the local authority has said. Robert Easton-Park ran the Tally Ho pub for 25 years but gave up the licence two years ago due to increased costs and a significant

A Co Clare farmer has been threatened with prison if he does not immediately remove over a dozen ewes and their lambs from his brother's field. However, the 29 cattle on the same site can stay for now, provided that he can prove ownership of them.

Police have arrested a parrot which was trained to act as a lookout for drug dealers. The parrot had apparently been trained to shout "mum, the police!" on spotting officers and was seized during a drug raid on Monday.

A university professor who taught his students to make ecstasy, amphetamines and synthetic cannabis is facing prosecution. The professor of pharmaceutical science, whose studies focus on dangerous and illegal drugs, took the students' product into his possession afterwards.

Dozens of people who were allegedly involved in breaking bones and staging car accidents as part of a massive insurance fraud have been arrested. Thirty-four suspects are accused of taking part in a major scam whereby they inflicted serious injuries on people in exchange for part of their insurance

An Orthodox priest in Russia has been relocated to a remote village in a bizarre act of punishment after his wife won a beauty pageant. Sergei Zotov was dismissed from his post and sent to a village of just 4,000 people around 65 kilometres away.

A judge was excused from jury duty after pointing out he was the judge presiding over the case in question. Judge Keith Cutler said he would have have enjoyed the opportunity to serve as juror on another case, but in this case it "would be inappropriate seeing I happened to be the judge and knew all

A grown man whose parents allegedly binned his pornography collection, worth tens of thousands of pounds, has launched a court case against them. The 40-year-old had previously reported his parents to the police, but prosecutors in the US state of Indiana declined to press charges.

A fertility doctor illegally used his own sperm to father 49 children, DNA tests have revealed. Dr Jan Karbaat, whose children are known as"Karbaatkinderen", impregnated the women at a clinic near Rotterdam in the Netherlands.