Two Vancouver city councillors are tabling a motion to regulate medicinal mushroom stores in the city.
In their motion, Green councillors Pete Fry and Adrian Carr state, “Vancouver has seen the number of unlicensed and unregulated retail shops selling ‘magic’ mushrooms (psylocibin) and other entheogens rapidly increase in recent years.”
Fry told CTV News if passed, the motion would direct staff to create a plan that would address when and where stores operate and prohibit sales to minors.
“As a city, we don’t have any role to sort of designate the legal status of a controlled substance, but what we do have the powers to do is put in a framework around how a business operates – so that’s the idea of the mushroom dispensaries,” he said.
‘We’re here to stay’
Dana Larsen, the director of a non-profit that oversees three mushroom dispensaries in Vancouver, said he thinks regulation could be a great first step.
“Whether you support or oppose these kinds of shops being there, the reality is we’re here and we’re here to stay,” he said.
According to the motion, the plan would be to model the licensing after what the
