Vic Mensa Busted With Trove of Psilocybin and LSD at DC Airport

Victor Kwesi Mensah, 28, was arrested at Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport on Saturday after U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP) officers found a stash of psychedelic narcotics in his baggage together with psilocybin and LSD. Mensah is healthier recognized by his stage identify as a rapper, Vic Mensa.

In accordance with a CBP press launch, Mensah arrived on board a flight from Ghana early on Saturday morning. For causes unexplained, his baggage was examined a second time. Throughout a secondary baggage examination, CBP officers found about 41 grams of liquid lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), about 124 grams of psilocybin capsules, 178 grams of psilocybin gummies, and 6 grams of psilocybin mushrooms hid inside Mensah’s baggage.

Mensah’s father and prolonged household are from Ghana, and the artist ceaselessly zig-zags between Africa and Chicago, amongst different locations.

Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (MWAA) Law enforcement officials have been alerted and charged Mensah with felony narcotics possession expenses. MWAA officers took custody of Mensah and seized the medication.

CBP leaders urged flyers to throw away their medication earlier than getting into the airport. “Vacationers can save themselves time and potential legal expenses throughout their worldwide arrivals inspection in the event that they took a couple of minutes to make sure that their baggage is drug free,” stated Daniel Escobedo, who serves as Space Port Director for CBP’s Space Port of Washington, D.C. “Narcotics interdiction stays a Customs and Border Safety enforcement precedence and we stay dedicated to working intently with our federal, state, and native legislation enforcement companions to make sure that those that transport unlawful narcotics into the US are investigated and prosecuted.”

Whereas touring with hashish on home flights is one factor—carrying any type of medication on a world flight is a extra severe matter. Let or not it’s recognized, nonetheless, that the Psilo psilocybin mushroom cubes present in Mensah’s stash include solely microdoses of psilocybin with 0.14g of psilocybin per piece—which isn’t precisely sufficient to ship an individual into a visit. At that small of doses, the psilocybin gummies in all probability trigger not more than a temper change. The opposite merchandise he was in possession additionally are available in microdoses.

Provided that he was caught with the medication in microdoses, it’s fairly potential he was utilizing psychedelics for medical causes. In a single examine printed months in the past within the journal Nature, individuals who microdosed psilocybin exhibited decrease ranges of melancholy, nervousness and stress throughout gender. Because it seems, Mensah himself opened up about his battles with melancholy and drug dependancy in his 2018 tune “10K Issues.” 

Mensah just lately branched out from his hip-hop roots to kind  punk rock and rap band named 93Punx, which launched an ICE protest tune in addition to one other single with Travis Barker. The value tag from his current authorized woes may hit his pocket quickly. However just lately, he enlisted Probability the Rapper and Wyclef Jean for the observe “Shelter.”

Don’t take a look at the CBP in terms of medication, particularly if it’s a world flight.

CBP officers processed greater than 650,000 vacationers on common final yr, who arrived at airports, seaports and land border crossings. CBP officers and brokers arrested a median of 25 needed criminals on daily basis at ports of entry situated throughout the U.S. See what else CBP achieved throughout a typical day in 2021.

Go to CBP Ports of Entry to study extra about what sorts of objects have been seized by CBP’s Workplace of Discipline Operations.

Psilocybin is authorized for medical use decriminalized within the state of Oregon—the first state to legalize the psychedelic for medical functions when voters permitted Measure 109 in 2020. Cities in an extra six different states decriminalized psilocybin mushrooms on the metropolis degree.

Decriminalization efforts occurring across the nation would additionally decriminalize LSD and different psychedelics. A number of main cities throughout the U.S. have moved ahead already. California Senate Invoice 519, as an example, would decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms and LSD—in addition to DMT, mescaline and MDMA.