Vancouver to reinstate business licence of illegal magic mushroom dispensary – Vancouver Sun

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The decision effectively makes The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary on West Broadway the first store licensed to sell magic mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs in Canada.

The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary at 247 West Broadway. Photo by Nick Procaylo /PNGArticle content

Vancouver city councillors have voted to reissue the business licence of a dispensary that has been selling mushrooms illegally but openly since February 2023 — a decision store operator Dana Larsen described as “cracking the door open” for regulation of psilocybins in the city.

The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary at 247 W. Broadway had its licence suspended last May for “gross misconduct” for selling prohibited and controlled substances in defiance of federal laws and for misrepresenting itself on its licence application as a business selling party supplies and novelties.

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