Olympian Skier Bode Miller Pleads Not Guilty To Idaho Misdemeanor Drug Charges

Olympic golden medalist skier Bode Miller has pleaded not blameworthy to a brace of misdemeanor supplier charges aft he was arrested connected a complaint of possessing psilocybin mushrooms.

Miller was arrested June 6 successful eastbound Idaho, according to tribunal records, and pleaded not blameworthy to possession of a controlled constituent and possession of supplier paraphernalia nan pursuing week. Neither his attorney, Jeromy Stafford, nor his longtime representative, Lowell Taub, responded to messages requesting comment. It's chartless if Taub still represents Miller.

The tribunal documents don't see immoderate specifications astir nan circumstances surrounding Miller's arrest. But successful a probable origin statement, Fremont County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Hurt wrote that he recovered Miller pinch a achromatic dispensary container containing 4.1 grams of nan psychedelic mushrooms.

Idaho has immoderate of nan strictest supplier laws successful nan nation. But Colorado and Oregon person some legalized nan usage of psilocybin for therapeutic treatments, and nan constituent has go progressively celebrated pinch immoderate wellness advocates who judge that microdosing it aliases utilizing it successful therapeutic settings tin thief easiness anxiety, slump and post-traumatic accent disorder.

In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive bid directing nan Food and Drug Administration and different national agencies to velocity up investigation and loosen restrictions connected psychedelics, and successful consequence nan FDA said it would connection ultra-fast reappraisal to 3 psychedelic narcotics being developed to dainty intelligence wellness conditions.

The 48-year-old Miller took a gambler’s attack to skis racing. His high-risk, high-reward style resulted successful six Olympic medals, including golden successful nan super-combined astatine nan 2010 Vancouver Games, and galore crashes.

His past awesome title was astatine nan 2015 world championships successful Beaver Creek, Colorado, erstwhile a bad wipeout knocked him retired of nan super-G. He trim a gross excessively adjacent and hooked his near arm, sending him spiraling retired of control. His skis popped disconnected and he began to somersault down nan slope earlier righting himself. He slow sewage up and waited for personification to bring him his skis. Once he clicked backmost into nan skis, he went down nan slope and waved to nan fans. Miller later underwent room to hole a torn correct hamstring tendon caused erstwhile his skis sliced him.

Miller won 33 World Cup races and a brace of World Cup wide titles. He besides captured 4 golden medals astatine world championships.

___ Associated Press journalists Pat Graham and Jake Seiner contributed.