Shrooms Canada Sells Psilocybin Magic Mushrooms
Psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, is a hallucinogen. It can cause people to see, hear and feel things that aren’t there, or experience anxiety, fear, nausea and muscle twitches. The production, sale and possession of psilocybin is illegal in Canada. But that hasn’t stopped shops with names like Fun Guyz and Shroom City from popping up in major Canadian cities. Those stores are selling “magic mushrooms” in an environment that resembles what happened with cannabis before the drug was legalized. This link shroomscanada.cc
As the demand for psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy increases, some people are looking for a shortcut through Health Canada’s bureaucracy and are buying the drug in the black market. That’s creating a boom in the mushroom industry and opening up new avenues for those interested in experiencing the drug as medicine.
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At a Vancouver shop called Shrooms Canada, the gray exterior of Dana Larsen’s dispensary hides a mosaic of psychedelia: Incan gods spewing fire and lightning on the walls, shelves full of hemp lip balm and stoner-centric comic books. Inside, customers buy a variety of dried mushrooms, from the slender, slender Liberty Caps harvested by local pickers to the more robust, fleshy Psilocybe trivittata, grown by a company that is one of only 69 licensed producers allowed in Canada to grow and sell the drug under a special exemption.
CBC visited the Filament Health production space and watched the whole process unfold, from growing the mushrooms to grinding them into a powder for capsules. We were also shown the lab space where researchers are testing psilocybin in a randomized clinical trial designed to test whether it can treat depression and other mental health conditions.