When you’re running from police because they suspect you are drunk driving (because you are), where’s the best place to run and hide? In your marijuana grow house, of course.

Charles Byrd thought it was a great idea, but that was probably only because he was drunk, and running from the cops and needed somewhere to hide.

Timothy Donahue thought it was a terrible idea. He was also found hiding at the grow house after Byrd led the police there. We’re going to assume the men are no longer friends.

They were both arrested and charged for possession with intent to sell. Cops hauled away 69 pot plants and some processed pot with a total street value of $327,000. Byrd was also charged with DUI, driving with an expired tag and no headlights after dark, making an improper turn, and not having his license with him while driving. Way to play it safe, dude.

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As the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday cracked down on a burgeoning medical-marijuana retail scene that might or might not have inspired a sprawling residential “grow-house” industry, authorities in Lake Los Angeles busted a rare grow house for psychedelic mushrooms.

Deputies were called to the home in the 40500 block of 159th Street East about 1:30 p.m. Monday after neighbors complained of trespassing at what they believed was a vacant home, Lancaster sheriff’s Sgt. Slade Carrizosa said. Authorities said they found a man and a woman growing the psilocybin mushrooms and stealing electricity as part of the operation.

Joseph Scott Jackson, 37, and Angela Coffey, 41, were arrested and were being held in lieu of $50,000 bail. Because of the spores growing in the home, a hazardous-materials team was called in for clean-up.

Authorities said that powerful, electricity-sapping grow lights are not necessary to cultivate mushrooms, and none were found at the three- or four-bedroom home. This could make mushroom cultivation more lucrative, as law enforcers often look at anomalously high power bills to investigate marijuana grow houses.

So are mushrooms the next big thing, or simply a bell-bottom-era fungus among us?

[Get a culinary take on magic mushrooms at Squid Ink].

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