Like marijuana, the fungus containing psychoactive psilocybin and psilocin is a controlled substance under international drug conventions and buy magic mushrooms canada Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. As a result, selling, producing, and possessing it remains illegal in Canada. Despite this, mushroom shops are opening across the country. The operators are banking on public indifference and police forces more focused on the deadly opioid crisis.
In Vancouver, longtime pot activist Dana Larsen has launched a virtual storefront where he sells microdoses of psilocybin mushrooms for $2 a piece. He acknowledges that it’s against the law, but says he wants to change the stigma surrounding magic mushrooms and make them more accessible.
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One of the first customers to buy a package from him was Thomas Hartle, who received a federal exemption to treat symptoms of his stage-four colon cancer with mushrooms last year. But while his legal journey has succeeded, many others haven’t been as lucky.
Located in the heart of downtown Windsor, FunGuyz is an unremarkable-looking storefront, with windows covered with psychedelic mushrooms and decals reading “19+.” Despite its illegal status, it doesn’t seem to be getting shut down anytime soon. It’s easy to see why. While the store has been raided before, police tell Postmedia that mushroom shops aren’t high on their enforcement priorities. They’re more worried about organized crime and the opioid epidemic.