The
History of King Bong.com
A
story of salvia, magic mushroom kits and legal
highs!!
1999 - The website goes online
and the orders start rolling in.
2000 - King Bong opens it's
doors at 23 The Triangle, Bournemouth in May.
It is Bournemouth's very own dedicated headshop,
selling everything for the discerning toker from
glass pipes, acrylic bongs and clay chillums to
herbal highs, salvia divinorum, cannabis seeds
(or marajuana seeds) and books on how to grow
weed (although it is, of course, illegal to do
so in the UK).
2001 - 2003 - This is what is
known as King Bong's "magic mushrooming"
period. After Jay wrote to the Home Office under
an assumed name King Bong recieved a letter from
a Mr Ian Breadmore which basically gave the green
light to start selling magic mushroom growkits
which were bought from a supplier in Holland.
(The letter would eventually be circulated and
re-issued to any subsequent enquirers to the Home
Office, but King Bong's was the original.)
Editorials for King Bong on how to grow magic
mushrooms appeared in national publications including
Loaded, Ministry, Ice and Weed World magazines.
Soon the whole country was at it and we were inundated
with orders for our mushroom kits and fresh mushrooms
from customers and headshops up and down the UK.
2004 - Jay delivered 60 kilos
of fresh Mexican cubensis to the Glastonbury festival
this year, which was later to be known as the
"third summer of love". Things got pretty
hectic and several shops were eventually busted.
Jay gave evidence at the Gloucester trial later
on that summer and the defendants were eventually
aquitted. This, however, seemed to put the final
nail in the coffin as far as the Home Office were
concerned, as they ended up changing the wording
of the law concerning magic mushrooms in the new
Drugs Bill to be introduced later the next year
(Illegally, of course).A new King Bong franchise
opens in Berwick Street in Soho, London.
2005 - Magic mushrooms and magic
mushroom kits become illegal and the law is technically
enforced on the 18th July. Unfortunately the new
franchise in London has to shut down. The website
gets a new look.
2007 - Jay takes full control
of the King Bong brand in April.
Watch this space for more news on what happens
next in the King Bong saga....
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