The gray exterior of Dana Larsen’s Vancouver store — whose walls are covered with psychedelic paintings, Incan gods spewing fire and lightning — masks a shop that sells illegal fungi in broad daylight. It’s the latest in a growing crop of mushroom shops in Canada, where police have turned a blind eye to psilocybin dispensaries while focusing on cracking down on opioid trafficking.
At low doses, magic mushrooms dispensary Canada can alter sense perception, with users seeing things such as auras around light and “breathing” surfaces. They may also see repetitive geometric shapes, afterimages or tracers and hear sounds that seem to meld with their environment. They can also produce subjective emotional effects, such as euphoria and hilarity, and make the user’s eyes dilate. At high doses, psilocybin can cause a mystical or spiritual experience, as well as a distortion of reality, loss of judgment and paranoia.
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For those not interested in purchasing a whole batch of mushrooms, the store also offers psilocybin-infused gummies and drinks. The gummies, which are made by Koi, a company known for its CBD and THC-infused edibles, contain the psychoactive compound muscimol and a blend of synergistic adaptogens, including tryptophan, B vitamins, lion’s mane and hostilis bark. They’re priced at $13 each and are meant to be microdosed for mood enhancement or pain relief.
Carlos Hermida, who owns the Tampa shop called Chillum Mushroom and Hemp, has found a loophole in the law by selling Amanita muscaria mushrooms, which do not contain psilocybin, a Schedule 1 drug akin to heroin and meth. He says he believes drugs are only banned when they become a problem and that psilocybin is safe for medical use.
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