Despite the fact that mushrooms are considered natural and safe, they can still cause side effects like anxiety, paranoia and muscle twitches along with increased heart rate and blood pressure. They also have the potential to lead to “bad trips” which can include hallucinations, loss of boundaries and a distorted sense of self. Therefore, users must use caution and always purchase from a trusted seller with a secure payment method and discreet shipping. This link magicmushroomsdispensary.ca
As the use of psychedelics has surged in recent years, storefront retailers offering magic mushrooms and other psychoactive drugs have cropped up in cities across Canada. Operating in a legal grey area, these businesses are selling products such as psilocybin, MDMA and ketamine. Although Health Canada has approved a handful of clinical trials of psilocybin for depression and addiction treatment, recreational use remains illegal in the country.
Regulation and Responsibility: How Canadian Magic Mushroom Dispensaries Operate
At Vancouver’s Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary at 247 West Broadway, owner Dana Larsen offers a wide variety of psychedelic mushrooms for sale, from caramel-capped Gold Emperors to the phallic-shaped Penis Envy strain and a psilocybin Rice Krispie bar. She says she’s one of 20 mushroom stores openly operating in the city.
A few weeks ago, police raided three Vancouver magic mushroom stores and seized tens of thousands of dollars worth of the drug. At the time, Mayor Ken Sim called on his officers to “continue to aggressively prosecute these illegal operations.” But last week, Vision councillors carried a motion at a business licence hearing directing staff to look into ways to regulate psilocybin retail in a similar fashion to how cannabis was regulated in 2015. The move was supported by Green Coun. Pete Fry and outvoted by the ABC majority, including Vancouver Deputy Mayor Mike Klassen.
