A magic mushroom dispensary is a store that sells mushrooms and related products. Some also offer guided experiences and therapeutic sessions. The fungi can have transformative effects on those who use them, including personal growth and spiritual awakenings. Dispensaries are now popping up around the world, especially in jurisdictions where psilocybin has been made legal. Go here magicmushroomsdispensary.ca

Tucked inside a dark room of a generic office building in Burnaby, B.C., mycologist John Hume is working his magic. He’s dressed in a lab coat and hair net, and at a counter, he inoculates mushroom spores on blue growth medium that will become a medium for cultivating the mushrooms. The spores contain the key psychoactive compound psilocybin, which is considered a Schedule I controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act.

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Hume’s operation is part of a mushroom boom that’s challenging existing rules. Spurred by a growing demand, evolving medical research and small but significant changes to federal drug policy, shops that sell psilocybin mushrooms are sprouting up across the country. Some observers liken the development to the marijuana industry in the early 2010s, when state and local governments embraced cannabis while pushing back against national prohibitions.

The Colorado law that decriminalized psilocybin last year moved the state into uncharted territory and allowed a gray market for entrepreneurs selling everything from advice on microdosing to psychedelic mushrooms. But the laws are still hazy, and as they have with marijuana in the past decade, some people who sell mushrooms are being arrested.