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A Winnipeg business named Magic Mush has opened a storefront in the city’s east end and hopes for the same kind of police response they saw in Ottawa and Toronto. Police say they’re aware of the shop and will work with Health Canada to ensure the mushrooms are being sold safely. But they haven’t issued tickets or seized any product from the shop so far, a spokesperson for the Winnipeg Police Service said.

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Dana Larsen has been selling psilocybin-containing mushrooms at his Vancouver shop for two years and plans to open another location soon. He says there’s enough demand to sustain his business. He’s cashing in on a psychedelic boom spurred by growing legalization, evolving medical research and small but significant changes to federal drug policy.

He said he expects the government to go after mushroom stores in the same way it went after cannabis shops, which it shut down slowly and methodically. But he doesn’t think they’ll be able to stop him. He points to a growing body of scientific evidence that psilocybin, the main ingredient in magic mushrooms, can have therapeutic benefits in certain circumstances.