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In May 2019, Denver, Colorado, became the first city in the United States to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms after a ballot initiative narrowly won with 50.6% of the vote. The initiative did not legalize mushrooms but prohibited Denver from spending any resources to prosecute people for their use or possession.
Yet local dispensary owners and employees are frequently busted for selling mushrooms, psilocybin products and other illicit substances. In April 2022, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department ...
Until 2002, magic mushrooms were readily available in Switzerland and, according to a Swiss medical agency, their ban was an attempt to prevent their increasing popularity in the country. However, some local health and legal authorities have criticized magic mushroom's prohibition, since surveys have showed that it had little impact on ...
Psilocybe cubensis, commonly known as the magic mushroom, shroom, golden halo, golden teacher, cube, or gold cap, is a species of psilocybin mushroom of moderate potency whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. It belongs to the fungus family Hymenogastraceae and was previously known as Stropharia cubensis. It is the best ...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department raided an illegal cannabis dispensary in Whittier on May 10, 2024. Among the items seized were a handgun, mushrooms, mushroom edibles and bags of ...
In October 2021, Seattle's city council voted unanimously to decriminalize the cultivation and sharing of psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, ibogaine, and non-peyote-derived mescaline. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] In November 2021, the city of Detroit made "the personal possession and therapeutic use of entheogenic plants by adults the city's lowest law ...
Currently, psychedelic mushrooms are legal to grow in New Mexico but not to process or use, Thorne said. Bringing magic mushrooms into the mainstream wouldn't exactly be a cannabis do-over.
The mushrooms are collected and grown as an entheogen and recreational drug, despite being illegal in many countries. Many psilocybin mushrooms are in the genus Psilocybe, but species across several other genera contain the drugs.