JOHNSON CITY — Some of the materials found in an East Tennessee State University students’ campus apartment and his car this weekend were for making hallucinogenic mushrooms, according to the school police chief.
A lawyer for Rishi Malhotra, 19, of Germantown, said separately Monday his client was using seized items for religious purposes.
Jack Cotrel, ETSU public safety chief, said Rishi gave a statement that he planned to do what Cotrel referred to as a “project” to grow hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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