The Russian government has officially banned Reddit, one of themost popularsites on the internet. 

Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency in charge of media, pulled the plug on the open forum because it contains advice on how to grow "magic mushrooms", a psychedelic drug.

This decision was made after Russia's Federal Drug Control Service decided that Reddit content was promoting talks of these substances -- in communities that were most likely under subredditsr/trees andr/shrooms.

The culprit turned out to be a thread called "Minimal and Reliable Methods for Growing Psilocybe", reported Latvian-based Meduza, the first outlet to break the news. The muckraking publication was formed by aring of 20 journalists after a Vladimir Putin ally famously fired aprominent Russian journalist from Kremlin media, and since then they've beentraining a close eye on the Russian government. 

Earlier, the Russian government deployed its media forces to ask Reddit to remove drug-growing posts, but there was no reply,Vocativ reported. The Russian version of Facebook, Vkontakte, even posted aWanted: Reddit graphic to express discontent with Reddit officials. 

Russia has had an upturned nose towards pot legalization for a while now. The Russian Health Ministry predicted that "everyone [will become] a drug addict" when it was legalized in Washington D.C, according toThe Washington Times. 

China and North Korea are the other countries that have officially banned Reddit. 

We've reached out to Reddit and Roskomnadzor for comment and will update this post when we hear back.

Update: Russian censors have removed Reddit from the registry of banned websites. It's accessible to Russian users,except for the offending page. 

According to Konstantin Benyumov, Editor-in-Chief of Meduza, Russia's Internet Service Provider blacklisted only the URL. However, Russian law mandates that if the owner doesn't take down the illegal content in question, it restricts access to the entire site.

Effectively, the whole site was banned -- but not inaccessible -- countrywide for a short period of time. 

The Russian social networkVKontakte also posted that Reddit has fully complied.