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Georgia cops say hallucinogenic mushrooms made chocolates a bit too loony

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updated 4:29 a.m. ET Nov. 12, 2007

ATLANTA - A 20-year-old man was arrested for allegedly selling hallucinogenic mushrooms hidden inside chocolate bunnies and ducks, as well as other drugs, authorities said.

Rockdale County sheriff's deputies arrested a the man after a deputy spotted him allegedly selling a sheet of LSD and a chocolate duck containing psilocybin mushrooms for $650, Sgt. Jodi Shupe said Saturday.

"It appears they were using the chocolate to cover up they were selling drugs, and they had been doing it for a while," Shupe said.

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Drug officers found 74 chocolate ducks and bunnies containing mushrooms in a cooler bag in the man's truck, along with $1,200 in cash in his pants pockets, Shupe said.

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