{ "name": "US mushroom dispensary register, 2019 to 2026", "description": "Dated, sourced public-record events about storefront psilocybin mushroom dispensaries in the United States: local decriminalization measures, reported storefront counts, raids, charges, closures, warning letters, lawsuits and government actions. No addresses, no individuals named.", "publisher": "Psychedelic Mushroom Dispensary", "url": "https://psychedelicmushroomdispensary.org/mushroom-dispensary-register", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "updated": "2026-11-02", "record_count": 139, "records": [ { "id": "ct-2024-01", "state": "CT", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2024-04-19", "summary": "HB 5297, to decriminalize possession of small amounts of psilocybin, cleared the Judiciary Committee 24-13 on March 26, 2024, was referred to the Transportation Committee on April 16, 2024, and was not advanced there.", "agency": "Connecticut General Assembly", "outcome": "Died.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Rep. Marra applauds defeat of bill to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms", "publisher": "Connecticut House Republicans", "url": "https://www.cthousegop.com/marra/blog/rep-marra-applauds-defeat-of-bill-to-decriminalize-psychedelic-mushrooms", "date": "2024-04-19", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "CT HB05297, 2024 General Assembly", "publisher": "LegiScan", "url": "https://legiscan.com/CT/bill/HB05297/2024", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ct-2025-01", "state": "CT", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-05-19", "summary": "The Connecticut House passed HB 7065 74-65 to decriminalize possession of small amounts of psilocybin after a 29-12 Judiciary Committee vote; the Senate did not take it up.", "agency": "Connecticut General Assembly", "outcome": "Died on the Senate calendar at session end.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "CT HB07065, 2025 General Assembly", "publisher": "LegiScan", "url": "https://legiscan.com/CT/bill/HB7065/2025", "date": "", "type": "news" }, { "title": "2025 HB 7065 Joint Favorable Report, Judiciary Committee", "publisher": "Connecticut General Assembly", "url": "https://prdext3.cga.ct.gov/2025/JFR/H/PDF/2025HB-07065-R00JUD-JFR.PDF", "date": "2025-04-04", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2020-01", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2020-11-03", "summary": "Voters approved Initiative 81, the Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act of 2020, by about 76% in unofficial results. It asks police to make non-commercial possession, cultivation and sharing of natural psychedelics among the lowest enforcement priorities; it does not legalize sales.", "agency": "D.C. Board of Elections (ballot measure)", "outcome": "Became D.C. Law 23-268, effective March 16, 2021.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "It Sure Looks Like DC Has Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms", "publisher": "Washingtonian", "url": "https://washingtonian.com/2020/11/04/it-sure-looks-like-dc-has-decriminalized-magic-mushrooms/", "date": "2020-11-04", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Washington D.C. Initiative 81: Entheogenic Plants and Fungus Measure", "publisher": "Reason Foundation", "url": "https://reason.org/voters-guide/washington-d-c-ballot-initiative-analysis-initiative-81-2020", "date": "2020-10-01", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "dc-2021-01", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-03-16", "summary": "Initiative 81 took effect as D.C. Law 23-268 (D.C. Code 48-921.51 to 48-921.53). MPD is to treat 'non-commercial planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with, and/or possessing' entheogenic plants and fungi by adults 18+ as among its lowest priorities; commercial activity is outside the measure, and psilocybin stays Schedule I.", "agency": "Council of the District of Columbia", "outcome": "Later cited by shops as a defense; the ABC Board ruled in 2025 that it is nonbinding and does not cover commercial sales.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "D.C. Law 23-268, Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act of 2020", "publisher": "Council of the District of Columbia", "url": "https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/laws/23-268", "date": "2021-03-16", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "D.C. Code Title 48, Chapter 9C, Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy (ยงยง 48-921.51 to 48-921.53)", "publisher": "Council of the District of Columbia", "url": "https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/titles/48/chapters/9C", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2024-01", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Supreme Terpene", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "warning-letter", "date": "2024-04-25", "summary": "ABCA inspected an unlicensed cannabis shop on April 25, 2024 and issued a warning letter about illegal cannabis sales. A July 23, 2024 follow-up inspection found it had stopped selling THC products and was selling psilocybin mushroom products; its website called it 'one of the best mushroom and cannabis dispensaries in DC'.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "outcome": "Cease-and-desist order followed on July 31, 2024.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Order to Cease and Desist, Case No. 24-ULC-000012, Order No. 2024-546 (Supreme Terpene)", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/abra/publication/attachments/SupremeTerpene-7312024.pdf", "date": "2024-07-31", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2024-03", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "council-or-city-action", "date": "2024-07-15", "summary": "The Medical Cannabis Conditional License and Unlicensed Establishment Closure Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2024 (Bill 25-872) took effect, giving ABCA civil power to close and padlock unlicensed establishments. ABCA and MPD have used it against both cannabis gifting shops and mushroom shops.", "agency": "Council of the District of Columbia; D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "outcome": "ABCA reported 114 unlicensed businesses padlocked under these powers by Oct 30, 2026. A temporary version of the law, D.C. Law 25-216, took effect Sept 18, 2024.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ABCA, MPD Padlock Trippy Wizard", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-mpd-padlock-trippy-wizard-1", "date": "2024-11-15", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "ABCA, MPD Padlock Wellshroomness", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-mpd-padlock-wellshroomness", "date": "2025-05-29", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "D.C. Law 25-216, Medical Cannabis Conditional License and Unlicensed Establishment Closure Clarification Temporary Amendment Act of 2024", "publisher": "Council of the District of Columbia", "url": "https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/laws/25-216", "date": "2024-09-18", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "ABCA and MPD Shut Down Illegal Cannabis Retailer in Northwest DC", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-and-mpd-shut-down-illegal-cannabis-retailer-northwest-dc", "date": "2026-10-30", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2024-02", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Supreme Terpene", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "warning-letter", "date": "2024-07-31", "summary": "The ABC Board issued a summary Order to Cease and Desist (Order No. 2024-546) requiring the shop, its owner and landlord to stop all commercial activity involving cannabis, psilocybin and psilocyn, citing D.C. Code 48-902.04 (psilocybin is Schedule I) and treating the shop as a public nuisance.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board", "outcome": "The shop did not comply; ABCA and MPD closed it on Sept 5, 2024.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Order to Cease and Desist, Case No. 24-ULC-000012, Order No. 2024-546 (Supreme Terpene)", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/abra/publication/attachments/SupremeTerpene-7312024.pdf", "date": "2024-07-31", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "MPD Assists ABCA to Shut Down Illegal Cannabis Retailer", "publisher": "Metropolitan Police Department", "url": "https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-assists-abca-shut-down-illegal-cannabis-retailer", "date": "2024-09-06", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2024-04", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Supreme Terpene", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2024-09-05", "summary": "MPD assisted ABCA in closing an unlicensed shop that had ignored warnings and a cease-and-desist order. Officers saw entheogenic mushrooms in plain view, executed a search warrant and seized nearly 39 lbs. of psychedelic mushrooms plus cannabis products. Two people were arrested for possession with intent to distribute marijuana and a controlled substance.", "agency": "Metropolitan Police Department; D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "outcome": "Shop closed; two arrested and charged. Court outcome not found.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "MPD Assists ABCA to Shut Down Illegal Cannabis Retailer", "publisher": "Metropolitan Police Department", "url": "https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-assists-abca-shut-down-illegal-cannabis-retailer", "date": "2024-09-06", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "DC lawmakers once again take aim at illegal weed businesses", "publisher": "FOX 5 DC", "url": "https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-lawmakers-once-again-take-aim-illegal-weed-businesses", "date": "2024-09-18", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2024-05", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "gifting", "event": "storefronts-reported", "date": "2024-09-18", "summary": "Axios reported an estimated 100-plus unlicensed cannabis 'I-71' gifting shops in D.C. This is a cannabis shop count, not a mushroom shop count; some of these shops also sold mushrooms. ABCA had issued 23 cease-and-desist orders and, per FOX 5 DC, 79 warning letters.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "outcome": null, "count": 100, "sources": [ { "title": "D.C. leaders were hands-off toward I-71 weed shops, until now", "publisher": "Axios D.C.", "url": "https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2024/09/18/marijuana-dispensary-gifting-shops-crackdown", "date": "2024-09-18", "type": "news" }, { "title": "DC lawmakers once again take aim at illegal weed businesses", "publisher": "FOX 5 DC", "url": "https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-lawmakers-once-again-take-aim-illegal-weed-businesses", "date": "2024-09-18", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "dc-2024-06", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Trippy Wizard", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2024-11-14", "summary": "ABCA and MPD served closure orders on an unlicensed cannabis retailer operating in violation of a cease-and-desist order and padlocked it. A search warrant recovered over 7 lbs. of 'entheogenic mushrooms' and 456 g of mushroom edibles.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration; Metropolitan Police Department", "outcome": "Padlocked; no arrests reported. ABCA counted it as the 13th padlock since July 15, 2024.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ABCA, MPD Padlock Trippy Wizard", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-mpd-padlock-trippy-wizard-1", "date": "2024-11-15", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2025-01", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Forest Floor", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2025-02-10", "summary": "ABCA and MPD padlocked an unlicensed cannabis retailer and seized marijuana, THC products, 5.3 lbs. of mushrooms and 2.3 lbs. of mushroom edibles. The release does not say whether the mushrooms contained psilocybin.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration; Metropolitan Police Department", "outcome": "Padlocked; no arrests reported at this shop. ABCA counted 27 padlocks since July 2024.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ABCA, MPD Padlock Creep Smoke Shop, Forest Floor", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-mpd-padlock-creep-smoke-shop-forest-floor", "date": "2025-02-12", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2025-02", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "council-or-city-action", "date": "2025-03-04", "summary": "The D.C. Council unanimously approved the Unlicensed Establishment Enforcement Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 (D.C. Act 26-38). It brings businesses that sell Schedule I substances, such as psychedelic mushrooms and DMT, within the definition of unlicensed establishments, so regulators can summarily close shops that stopped selling cannabis but still sell them. Reporters said vendors had claimed products were 'I-81 compliant'.", "agency": "Council of the District of Columbia", "outcome": "In effect March 21, 2025 as an emergency act. ABCA padlocked three shops whose seizures were mostly mushroom products between May and July 2025 (dc-2025-03, dc-2025-04, dc-2025-05).", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Request to agendize Unlicensed Establishment Enforcement Clarification Emergency measures for March 4, 2025", "publisher": "Council of the District of Columbia", "url": "https://dccouncil.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Request-to-Agendize-2.27.25-eme.pdf", "date": "2025-02-27", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Wilson Building Bulletin: D.C.'s busted budget", "publisher": "The 51st", "url": "https://51st.news/wilson-building-bulletin-budget-and-shrooms/", "date": "2025-03-06", "type": "news" }, { "title": "D.C. Act 26-38, Unlicensed Establishment Enforcement Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2025", "publisher": "Council of the District of Columbia", "url": "https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/acts/26-38", "date": "2025-03-21", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2025-03", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Wellshroomness", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "closure", "date": "2025-05-28", "summary": "The ABC Board issued a closure order and ABCA padlocked a mushroom shop as an imminent risk to public health and safety. MPD executed a search warrant and seized 5.8 lbs. of mushrooms and 411 g of mushroom edibles.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board; D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration; Metropolitan Police Department", "outcome": "Padlocked; no arrests listed. ABCA counted 56 padlocks since July 2024.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ABCA, MPD Padlock Wellshroomness", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-mpd-padlock-wellshroomness", "date": "2025-05-29", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "D.C. shuts down second magic mushroom shop in ongoing crackdown", "publisher": "The Outlaw Report", "url": "https://outlawreport.com/d-c-shuts-down-second-magic-mushroom-shop-in-ongoing-crackdown/", "date": "2025-07-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2025-04", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Cap & Stem", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2025-07-03", "summary": "ABCA and MPD served closure orders on a mushroom shop; a search warrant seized 378 g of mushrooms, more than 1,000 g of mushroom capsules, 1,500 g of mushroom concentrate and mushroom edibles. One person was arrested and charged with distribution of a controlled substance.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration; Metropolitan Police Department", "outcome": "Padlocked; one arrest. ABCA counted 59 padlocks since July 2024.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ABCA, MPD Padlock Cap & Stem", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-mpd-padlock-cap-stem", "date": "2025-07-09", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "D.C. shuts down second magic mushroom shop in ongoing crackdown", "publisher": "The Outlaw Report", "url": "https://outlawreport.com/d-c-shuts-down-second-magic-mushroom-shop-in-ongoing-crackdown/", "date": "2025-07-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2025-05", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Temple of the Golden Teacher (GTDC Church, Inc.)", "named_in": "official", "model": "religious", "event": "raid", "date": "2025-07-17", "summary": "A business presenting as a church sold psilocybin to an undercover MPD buyer on June 24 and July 17, 2025; the ABC Board issued a summary closure order on June 30. On July 17 police executed a search warrant and seized about 584 g of psilocybin mushrooms and about 5.3 kg of psilocybin edibles and pills, and the premises were padlocked.", "agency": "Metropolitan Police Department; D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "outcome": "One person arrested and charged with distribution of a controlled substance; the business challenged the closure.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ABCA, MPD Padlock Temple of the Golden Teacher", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-mpd-padlock-temple-golden-teacher", "date": "2025-07-18", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Order, Case No. 25-ULC-00042, Order No. 2025-906 (GTDC Church, Inc., t/a Temple of Golden Teacher)", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/abra/publication/attachments/TempleofGoldenTeacher-9172025.pdf", "date": "2025-09-17", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2025-06", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Temple of the Golden Teacher (GTDC Church, Inc.)", "named_in": "official", "model": "religious", "event": "closure", "date": "2025-09-17", "summary": "After an Aug 13 hearing, the ABC Board denied the business's motion to dismiss and affirmed the summary closure. It found the business had not shown a sincerely held religious belief under RFRA, had no DEA or court exemption to distribute a Schedule I substance, and could not rely on Initiative 81, which the Board called nonbinding and limited to non-commercial conduct.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board", "outcome": "Summary closure affirmed; the Board ordered the premises to remain closed and padlocked.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Order, Case No. 25-ULC-00042, Order No. 2025-906 (GTDC Church, Inc., t/a Temple of Golden Teacher)", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/abra/publication/attachments/TempleofGoldenTeacher-9172025.pdf", "date": "2025-09-17", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "D.C. board affirms closure of Temple of Golden Teacher over psilocybin sales", "publisher": "The Outlaw Report", "url": "https://outlawreport.com/d-c-board-affirms-closure-of-temple-of-golden-teacher-over-psilocybin-sales/", "date": "2025-09-21", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2026-01", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Green Magic", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2026-05-26", "summary": "ABCA and MPD closed an unlicensed cannabis retailer on May 26, 2026, the first of three shops closed in a sweep that ran into June; officers seized 21.7 g of mushrooms and 863.8 g of mushroom edibles along with cannabis.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration; Metropolitan Police Department", "outcome": "Padlocked; one arrest at this shop (six across the sweep). ABCA counted 113 padlocks since July 2024.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ABCA, MPD Shut Down Illegal Cannabis Operations Across the District", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-mpd-shut-down-illegal-cannabis-operations-across-district", "date": "2026-06-15", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Washington D.C.'s Crackdown on Unlicensed Cannabis Shops is a Warning for Underground Networks", "publisher": "Psychedelic State(s) of America / TalkingDrugs", "url": "https://psychedelicamericas.org/news/washington-d-c-s-crackdown-on-unlicensed-cannabis-shops-is-a-warning-for-undergr", "date": "2026-08-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2026-02", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "council-or-city-action", "date": "2026-07-30", "summary": "The Mayor signed the Medical Cannabis Licensing and Unlicensed Establishment Enforcement Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2026, in effect on an emergency basis until Oct 28, 2026. ABCA's summary covers conditional medical cannabis licenses and does not mention mushrooms; a secondary outlet says the Council passed emergency legislation on July 22 expanding summary padlock and seizure powers.", "agency": "Council of the District of Columbia; Mayor of the District of Columbia", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Mayor Signs Medical Cannabis Licensing and Unlicensed Establishment Enforcement Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2026", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/mayor-signs-medical-cannabis-licensing-and-unlicensed-establishment-enforcement", "date": "2026-08-31", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Washington D.C.'s Crackdown on Unlicensed Cannabis Shops is a Warning for Underground Networks", "publisher": "Psychedelic State(s) of America / TalkingDrugs", "url": "https://psychedelicamericas.org/news/washington-d-c-s-crackdown-on-unlicensed-cannabis-shops-is-a-warning-for-undergr", "date": "2026-08-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "dc-2026-03", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "DC Tobacco and Gifts Palace", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2026-10-28", "summary": "ABCA and MPD closed and padlocked an unlicensed cannabis retailer; seizures included 2,275 g of mushroom edibles (psilocybin content not stated) and large amounts of cannabis products. One person was arrested for distribution and possession with intent to distribute.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration; Metropolitan Police Department", "outcome": "Padlocked; one arrest.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ABCA and MPD Shut Down Illegal Cannabis Retailer in Northwest DC", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-and-mpd-shut-down-illegal-cannabis-retailer-northwest-dc", "date": "2026-10-30", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2026-04", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "closure", "date": "2026-10-30", "summary": "ABCA reported that joint ABCA and MPD enforcement had padlocked 114 illegal cannabis businesses since July 15, 2024. Several of them sold mushrooms; ABCA does not publish a mushroom-only count.", "agency": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "outcome": null, "count": 114, "sources": [ { "title": "ABCA and MPD Shut Down Illegal Cannabis Retailer in Northwest DC", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-and-mpd-shut-down-illegal-cannabis-retailer-northwest-dc", "date": "2026-10-30", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "ABCA, MPD Shut Down Illegal Cannabis Operations Across the District", "publisher": "D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration", "url": "https://abca.dc.gov/release/abca-mpd-shut-down-illegal-cannabis-operations-across-district", "date": "2026-06-15", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "dc-2026-05", "state": "DC", "city": "Washington", "business": "Forest Floor DC", "named_in": "official", "model": "delivery", "event": "charges", "date": "2026-09-10", "summary": "Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against the operator of an online business that took orders for marijuana, mushrooms and DMT through a website and delivered them in person. Agents seized about 74 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms plus marijuana, THC products, cash, jewelry and a handgun.", "agency": "ATF Washington Field Division HIDTA task force; Homeland Security Investigations; Metro Transit Police; U.S. Postal Inspection Service", "outcome": "Indicted; the counts listed name DMT and MDMA, not psilocybin, and the release does not mention Initiative 81. No plea or trial reported as of Nov 2, 2026. A shop ABCA padlocked in Feb 2025 (dc-2025-01) had a similar name; the records do not say whether they are linked.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ATF-led HIDTA investigation results in trafficking charges for owner of illicit drug website", "publisher": "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives", "url": "https://www.atf.gov/news/press-releases/atf-led-hidta-investigation-results-trafficking-charges-owner-illicit-drug-website", "date": "2026-09-10", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "fl-2022-01", "state": "FL", "city": "Tampa", "business": "Chillum", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "amanita-or-legal-mushrooms", "event": "state-action", "date": "2022-12", "summary": "A Tampa hemp dispensary that billed itself as the first mushroom dispensary in the US sold Amanita muscaria products, which it said contained no psilocybin, and marketed them as 'magic mushrooms'. State agriculture regulators investigated in December 2022 and ordered it to stop selling the edibles under Florida's adulterated-food law.", "agency": "Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services", "outcome": "Sales halted and product returned to the supplier; the department later lifted the restriction, and by mid-2023 the shop was again selling the products labeled not for human consumption.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Magic mushroom dispensary in Ybor City halts sales months after start", "publisher": "WFLA News Channel 8", "url": "https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/magic-mushroom-dispensary-in-ybor-city-halts-sales-months-after-start/amp", "date": "2023-01-13", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Amid Gaps in Oversight, Mood-Altering Mushroom Sales Bloom", "publisher": "Tampa Bay Times / KFF Health News (republished by Undark)", "url": "https://undark.org/2023/06/05/amid-gaps-in-oversight-mood-altering-mushroom-sales-bloom/", "date": "2023-06-05", "type": "news" }, { "title": "First legal mushroom dispensary in U.S. opens in Ybor City", "publisher": "FOX 13 Tampa Bay", "url": "https://www.fox13news.com/news/first-legal-mushroom-dispensary-in-u-s-opens-in-ybor-city", "date": "2022-09-21", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "fl-2023-01", "state": "FL", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "amanita-or-legal-mushrooms", "event": "state-action", "date": "2023-05", "summary": "Since early February 2023, Florida regulators had cited five businesses in Daytona Beach, Largo, Plant City, Tallahassee and Tamarac for selling products containing Amanita muscaria, which the reporting describes as legal to possess and eat in every state except Louisiana.", "agency": "Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services", "outcome": null, "count": 5, "sources": [ { "title": "Amid Gaps in Oversight, Mood-Altering Mushroom Sales Bloom", "publisher": "Tampa Bay Times / KFF Health News (republished by Undark)", "url": "https://undark.org/2023/06/05/amid-gaps-in-oversight-mood-altering-mushroom-sales-bloom/", "date": "2023-06-05", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "fl-2026-01", "state": "FL", "city": "Miami", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2026-03-12", "summary": "After an undercover purchase of 72.7 g of psilocybin mushrooms at a smoke shop, Miami police SWAT executed a search warrant and found more psilocybin and about 20.8 kg of suspected psilocybin-infused edibles.", "agency": "Miami Police Department", "outcome": "One person arrested on possession and sale charges.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Huge drug stash found during undercover Miami smoke shop SWAT raid, police say", "publisher": "NBC 6 South Florida", "url": "https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/huge-drug-stash-found-after-undercover-miami-smoke-shop-swat-raid-police-say/3780719/?amp=1", "date": "2026-03-13", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Acusan a hombre de Homestead de vender drogas a agente encubierto en smoke shop de Miami", "publisher": "Local 10 / WPLG", "url": "https://www.local10.com/espanol/2026/03/13/acusan-a-hombre-de-homestead-de-vender-drogas-a-agente-encubierto-en-smoke-shop-de-miami/", "date": "2026-03-13", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "il-2022-01", "state": "IL", "city": "Chicago", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2022-05-29", "summary": "Chicago vice officers and city building and business-affairs inspectors entered a bong store that had advertised an event online and found about 500 g of cannabis, edibles and about 90 g of mushrooms; the business affairs department issued 12 citations and three cease-and-desist orders.", "agency": "Chicago Police Department; Chicago Department of Buildings; Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection", "outcome": "Store owner arrested and charged with felony cannabis delivery and mushroom possession.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Chicago police seize kilo of weed, magic mushrooms from underground pot parties", "publisher": "FOX 32 Chicago / Sun-Times Media Wire", "url": "https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-police-seize-kilo-weed-magic-mushrooms-underground-pot-parties", "date": "2022-06-07", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "il-2022-02", "state": "IL", "city": "Chicago", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "arrest", "date": "2022-06-03", "summary": "Police on a business compliance task force mission arrested four people at a pop-up cannabis shop in West Town and seized 241 g of mushrooms with cannabis products; some faced felony mushroom charges.", "agency": "Chicago Police Department", "outcome": "Charged with felony cannabis delivery; two also faced felony mushroom charges.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Chicago police seize kilo of weed, magic mushrooms from underground pot parties", "publisher": "FOX 32 Chicago / Sun-Times Media Wire", "url": "https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-police-seize-kilo-weed-magic-mushrooms-underground-pot-parties", "date": "2022-06-07", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "il-2024-01", "state": "IL", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2024-02-09", "summary": "SB 3695, the Illinois CURE Act, was introduced to license psilocybin service centers, facilitators, manufacturers and testing labs and remove psilocybin from Schedule I.", "agency": "Illinois Senate", "outcome": "Sent back to Assignments June 26, 2024; died with the 103rd General Assembly.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "SB 3695 Bill Status, 103rd General Assembly", "publisher": "Illinois General Assembly", "url": "https://witnessslips.ilga.gov/ftp/legislation/103/BillStatus/HTML/10300SB3695.html", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "il-2025-01", "state": "IL", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-01-04", "summary": "HB1143, the Illinois CURE Act, was prefiled to create a licensed psilocybin services system and remove psilocybin from Schedule I. It was assigned to a subcommittee in March 2026, then re-referred to Rules on March 27, 2026.", "agency": "Illinois House of Representatives", "outcome": "Stalled in Rules Committee as of Nov 2, 2026.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "HB1143 Bill Status, 104th General Assembly", "publisher": "Illinois General Assembly", "url": "https://www.ilga.gov/ftp/legislation/104/BillStatus/HTML/10400HB1143.html", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ma-2021-01", "state": "MA", "city": "Somerville", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-01", "summary": "Somerville City Council passed a resolution deprioritizing enforcement for entheogenic plants, defined as the 'full spectrum of psychedelic plants, fungi, and natural materials'. A council resolution does not change state law.", "agency": "Somerville City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Why some Mass. communities are moving to decriminalize psychedelics", "publisher": "Boston.com", "url": "https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2021/07/21/massachusetts-communities-moving-decriminalize-psychedelics/", "date": "2021-07-21", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Massachusetts, Psychedelics Policy Reform Impact Tracker", "publisher": "Reason Foundation", "url": "https://psychedelicdata.reason.org/massachusetts", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ma-2021-02", "state": "MA", "city": "Cambridge", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-02-03", "summary": "Cambridge City Council passed a resolution deprioritizing enforcement for entheogenic plants and fungi on Wednesday, Feb 3, 2021, the month after Somerville.", "agency": "Cambridge City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Cambridge decriminalizes psychedelics", "publisher": "DoubleBlind", "url": "https://doubleblindmag.com/cambridge-decriminalizes-psychedelics/", "date": "2021-02-04", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Why some Mass. communities are moving to decriminalize psychedelics", "publisher": "Boston.com", "url": "https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2021/07/21/massachusetts-communities-moving-decriminalize-psychedelics/", "date": "2021-07-21", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ma-2021-03", "state": "MA", "city": "Northampton", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-04-01", "summary": "Northampton City Council passed Resolution 21.207, 'A Resolution Decriminalizing Controlled Substance Possession as well as Cultivation and Distribution of Psychedelic Plants', on second reading 8-0 with one abstention. It was reported as the third Massachusetts city to act.", "agency": "Northampton City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "A Third Massachusetts City Decriminalized Psychedelics", "publisher": "Benzinga", "url": "https://in.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/21/04/20585751/a-third-massachusetts-city-decriminalized-psychedelics", "date": "", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Why some Mass. communities are moving to decriminalize psychedelics", "publisher": "Boston.com", "url": "https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2021/07/21/massachusetts-communities-moving-decriminalize-psychedelics/", "date": "2021-07-21", "type": "news" }, { "title": "City Council Minutes, April 1, 2021", "publisher": "City of Northampton", "url": "https://www.northamptonma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04012021-5563", "date": "2021-04-01", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ma-2021-04", "state": "MA", "city": "Easthampton", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-10-20", "summary": "Easthampton City Council passed a resolution 7-0 with two abstentions making arrests for growing, possessing or using psychedelic plants among the lowest priorities. WBUR: 'The resolution does not authorize the commercial sale of psychedelics.'", "agency": "Easthampton City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Easthampton is the fourth city in Mass. to vote to decriminalize psychedelics", "publisher": "WBUR", "url": "https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/10/21/easthampton-psychedelic-plant-decriminalization", "date": "2021-10-21", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ma-2023-01", "state": "MA", "city": "Salem", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2023-05", "summary": "Salem City Council unanimously approved a resolution making investigation and arrest of adults for cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing or possessing psilocybin fungi among the lowest priorities and asking the Essex County District Attorney to deprioritize prosecution. Boston.com, citing The Salem News, reported that it does not authorize commercial retail of such substances.", "agency": "Salem City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Salem decriminalizes psilocybin, the 'magic' chemical in magic mushrooms", "publisher": "Boston.com", "url": "https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/05/19/salem-decriminalizes-psilocybin-chemical-magic-mushrooms-city-council/?amp=1", "date": "2023-05-19", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ma-2023-02", "state": "MA", "city": "Provincetown", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2023-12-11", "summary": "Provincetown Select Board voted 3-1-1 to instruct police to deprioritize psilocybin cases and ask the Cape and Islands District Attorney to stop prosecuting possession, cultivation or distribution. It does not authorize commercial sale.", "agency": "Provincetown Select Board", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Provincetown moves to decriminalize psychedelics for adults", "publisher": "WBUR / State House News Service", "url": "https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/12/14/provincetown-decriminalize-psychedelics", "date": "2023-12-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ma-2024-01", "state": "MA", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2024-11-05", "summary": "Voters defeated Question 4, which would have let adults 21+ grow, possess and use certain natural psychedelics and created licensed therapy centers, with sale outside that framework still illegal. Result: 43.2% yes, 56.8% no.", "agency": "Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (ballot question)", "outcome": "Defeated.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "2024 ballot questions, statewide results (Question 4)", "publisher": "Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Statistics", "url": "https://electionstats.state.ma.us/ballot_questions/search/year_from:2024/year_to:2024", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Map: Mass. psychedelics legalization election results", "publisher": "Boston Globe", "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/06/metro/psychedelics-legalization-election-results-map", "date": "2024-11-06", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "md-2025-01", "state": "MD", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-11", "summary": "Maryland's Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances recommended a three-phase approach to psilocybin: first a regulatory framework plus deprioritization with civil penalties and expungement for personal possession and cultivation, then use with medical oversight in clinical settings, and commercial sales only in the third phase.", "agency": "Maryland Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Task force endorses move toward natural psychedelics for clinical, recreational use", "publisher": "Maryland Matters", "url": "https://marylandmatters.org/2025/11/10/task-force-endorses-move-toward-natural-psychedelics-for-clinical-recreational-use/", "date": "2025-11-10", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Maryland task force recommends decriminalization of psychedelics to lawmakers", "publisher": "WYPR", "url": "https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news/2025-11-07/maryland-task-force-recommends-decriminalization-of-psychedelics-to-lawmakers", "date": "2025-11-07", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "md-2026-01", "state": "MD", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-04-28", "summary": "SB 336 extended the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to Dec 31, 2027, added a member from a historically Black college or university, and required an updated report by Oct 31, 2026. The Governor approved it on April 28, 2026 as Chapter 208, effective July 1, 2026.", "agency": "Maryland General Assembly", "outcome": "Enacted.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "SB0336, Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances - Extension and Membership (2026 Regular Session)", "publisher": "Maryland General Assembly", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0336?ys=2026RS", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "mi-2020-01", "state": "MI", "city": "Ann Arbor", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2020-09-21", "summary": "Ann Arbor City Council unanimously adopted a resolution making investigation and arrest for entheogenic plants and fungi the city's lowest law-enforcement priority. Per a law-firm history, it states that commercial sales or manufacturing are not decriminalized.", "agency": "Ann Arbor City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Ann Arbor decriminalizes magic mushrooms, psychedelic plants", "publisher": "WDIV ClickOnDetroit", "url": "https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2020/09/26/ann-arbor-decriminalizes-magic-mushrooms-psychedelic-plants/", "date": "2020-09-26", "type": "news" }, { "title": "How Ann Arbor Decriminalized Psychedelic Plants and Fungi", "publisher": "Lucid News", "url": "https://www.lucid.news/how-ann-arbor-decriminalized-psychedelic-plants/", "date": "2020-09-30", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Psychedelic Policy Reform in Michigan: A Brief History", "publisher": "Vicente LLP", "url": "https://vicentellp.com/insights/psychedelic-policy-reform-michigan-history", "date": "2023-02-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2021-01", "state": "MI", "city": "Washtenaw County", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-01-12", "summary": "The Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney's Office issued Policy Directive 2021-06 on entheogenic plants, described as making such prosecutions its lowest priority; distribution charges require sign-off by senior prosecutors.", "agency": "Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Psychedelic Policy Reform in Michigan: A Brief History", "publisher": "Vicente LLP", "url": "https://vicentellp.com/insights/psychedelic-policy-reform-michigan-history", "date": "2023-02-14", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Detroit just decriminalized psychedelics and magic mushrooms. Here's what that means", "publisher": "PBS NewsHour", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/detroit-just-decriminalized-psychedelics-and-magic-mushrooms-heres-what-that-means", "date": "2021-11-03", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2021-02", "state": "MI", "city": "Ann Arbor", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "delivery", "event": "storefronts-reported", "date": "2021-03", "summary": "A local magazine reported a psilocybin delivery service in Ann Arbor that called itself a nonprofit community; Ann Arbor police were investigating whether it complied, since the city resolution does not authorize commercial sales.", "agency": "Ann Arbor Police Department", "outcome": "Outcome not found.", "count": 1, "sources": [ { "title": "[Service name omitted] Delivery Service Raises Legal Questions in Ann Arbor", "publisher": "Current Magazine (Ann Arbor)", "url": "https://www.ecurrent.com/?p=37927", "date": "2021-03-24", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2021-03", "state": "MI", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2021-09-02", "summary": "Two state senators introduced SB 631 to exempt conduct associated with entheogenic plants and fungi from criminal penalties in certain circumstances.", "agency": "Michigan Senate", "outcome": "Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety; no further action; died with the 2021-2022 session.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Senate Bill 631 of 2021", "publisher": "Michigan Legislature", "url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2021-SB-0631", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "mi-2021-04", "state": "MI", "city": "Grand Rapids", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "council-or-city-action", "date": "2021-09-28", "summary": "The Grand Rapids City Commission adopted a resolution supporting decriminalization efforts and further research; it does not itself decriminalize anything.", "agency": "Grand Rapids City Commission", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Psychedelic Policy Reform in Michigan: A Brief History", "publisher": "Vicente LLP", "url": "https://vicentellp.com/insights/psychedelic-policy-reform-michigan-history", "date": "2023-02-14", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Detroit just decriminalized psychedelics and magic mushrooms. Here's what that means", "publisher": "PBS NewsHour", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/detroit-just-decriminalized-psychedelics-and-magic-mushrooms-heres-what-that-means", "date": "2021-11-03", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2021-05", "state": "MI", "city": "Detroit", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-11-02", "summary": "Detroit voters approved Proposal E (just over 61% yes) to decriminalize 'to the fullest extent permitted under Michigan law' the personal possession and therapeutic use of entheogenic plants by adults and make it the city's lowest law-enforcement priority. It does not authorize sales.", "agency": "City of Detroit (ballot measure)", "outcome": "Codified as Ordinance 2021-62 per Vicente LLP. After the 2023 church raid, Detroit's Law Department (relayed by the mayor's office) said the ordinance does not override state law or allow the sale or distribution of psilocybin.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Detroit just decriminalized psychedelics and magic mushrooms. Here's what that means", "publisher": "PBS NewsHour", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/detroit-just-decriminalized-psychedelics-and-magic-mushrooms-heres-what-that-means", "date": "2021-11-03", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Psychedelic Policy Reform in Michigan: A Brief History", "publisher": "Vicente LLP", "url": "https://vicentellp.com/insights/psychedelic-policy-reform-michigan-history", "date": "2023-02-14", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Detroit psychedelic church Soul Tribes Ministries raided by police", "publisher": "Detroit Metro Times", "url": "https://www.metrotimes.com/news/detroit-psychedelic-church-soul-tribes-ministries-raided-by-police-34225685", "date": "2023-09-25", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2022-01", "state": "MI", "city": "Hazel Park", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2022-03-22", "summary": "Hazel Park City Council approved a resolution covering psychedelic plants and fungi, including magic mushrooms, that deprioritizes enforcement and calls on the Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney to stop prosecuting adults for entheogen activity. The quoted text reported by Metro Times had no sales carve-out; a law-firm summary says commercial sales remain illegal.", "agency": "Hazel Park City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Hazel Park decriminalizes magic mushrooms, psychedelic plants", "publisher": "WDIV ClickOnDetroit", "url": "https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2022/03/22/hazel-park-decriminalizes-magic-mushrooms-psychedelic-plants/", "date": "2022-03-22", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Psychedelic Policy Reform in Michigan: A Brief History", "publisher": "Vicente LLP", "url": "https://vicentellp.com/insights/psychedelic-policy-reform-michigan-history", "date": "2023-02-14", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Hazel Park becomes third Michigan city to decriminalize natural psychedelics", "publisher": "Detroit Metro Times", "url": "https://www.metrotimes.com/weed/hazel-park-becomes-third-michigan-city-to-decriminalize-natural-psychedelics-29617358", "date": "2022-03", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2023-01", "state": "MI", "city": "Ferndale", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2023-02-27", "summary": "Ferndale City Council unanimously adopted a resolution making investigation and arrest for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing or possessing entheogenic plants the city's lowest law-enforcement priority. The vote was reported as 'Monday evening'.", "agency": "Ferndale City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Ferndale decriminalizes magic mushrooms and other psychedelics", "publisher": "Detroit Metro Times", "url": "https://metrotimes.com/weed/ferndale-decriminalizes-magic-mushrooms-and-other-psychedelics-32494825", "date": "2023-02-28", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Psychedelic Policy Reform in Michigan: A Brief History", "publisher": "Vicente LLP", "url": "https://vicentellp.com/insights/psychedelic-policy-reform-michigan-history", "date": "2023-02-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2023-02", "state": "MI", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2023-09-14", "summary": "A state senator introduced SB 499 to exempt conduct associated with entheogenic plants and fungi from criminal penalties, described as keeping cultivation and distribution non-commercial.", "agency": "Michigan Senate", "outcome": "Referred to Regulatory Affairs; no further action listed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Senate Bill 499 of 2023", "publisher": "Michigan Legislature", "url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2023-SB-0499", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Ypsilanti becomes Michigan's fifth city to decriminalize psychedelics via local resolution", "publisher": "Benzinga", "url": "https://drupal-cloudfront.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/24/01/36601004/ypsilanti-becomes-michigans-fifth-city-to-decriminalize-psychedelics-via-local-resolution", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "mi-2023-03", "state": "MI", "city": "Detroit", "business": "Soul Tribes International Ministries", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "religious", "event": "raid", "date": "2023-09-22", "summary": "Detroit police executed a court-issued search warrant at a psychedelic 'church' running a 'sacrament center' that sold psilocybin mushrooms, capsules and gummies; the warrant called it an illegal dispensary inside a purported church. Metro Times later reported over 99 lbs. of suspected psilocybin mushrooms seized.", "agency": "Detroit Police Department", "outcome": "No criminal charges reported; city closed the building and sued for nuisance abatement. The group claimed RFRA and Proposal E protection.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Detroit psychedelic church Soul Tribes Ministries raided by police", "publisher": "Detroit Metro Times", "url": "https://www.metrotimes.com/news/detroit-psychedelic-church-soul-tribes-ministries-raided-by-police-34225685", "date": "2023-09-25", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Detroit Officials Close Psychedelic Church Raided in September", "publisher": "Ganjapreneur", "url": "https://ganjapreneur.com/detroit-officials-close-psychedelic-church-raided-in-september", "date": "2023-10-23", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Detroit psychedelic church moves to take case to federal court", "publisher": "Detroit Metro Times", "url": "https://www.metrotimes.com/news/detroit-psychedelic-church-moves-to-take-case-to-federal-court-34830841/", "date": "2023-12-06", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2023-05", "state": "MI", "city": "Detroit", "business": "Soul Tribes International Ministries", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "religious", "event": "lawsuit", "date": "2023-10", "summary": "The City of Detroit sued in Wayne County Circuit Court for a restraining order and nuisance abatement, calling the site a distribution center for controlled substances. The defendant removed the case to federal court on Nov 6, 2023 citing RFRA and announced a $1 billion discrimination countersuit; the city moved to remand on Dec 4, 2023.", "agency": "City of Detroit Law Department", "outcome": "Final outcome not found.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Detroit psychedelic church moves to take case to federal court", "publisher": "Detroit Metro Times", "url": "https://www.metrotimes.com/news/detroit-psychedelic-church-moves-to-take-case-to-federal-court-34830841/", "date": "2023-12-06", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2023-04", "state": "MI", "city": "Detroit", "business": "Soul Tribes International Ministries", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "religious", "event": "closure", "date": "2023-10-18", "summary": "The city issued a Notice of Building Closure and padlocked the church building raided in September. Detroit's Law Department (relayed by the mayor's office) said the decriminalization ordinance does not override state law.", "agency": "City of Detroit", "outcome": "Building padlocked; litigation followed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Detroit Officials Close Psychedelic Church Raided in September", "publisher": "Ganjapreneur", "url": "https://ganjapreneur.com/detroit-officials-close-psychedelic-church-raided-in-september", "date": "2023-10-23", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Detroit psychedelic church moves to take case to federal court", "publisher": "Detroit Metro Times", "url": "https://www.metrotimes.com/news/detroit-psychedelic-church-moves-to-take-case-to-federal-court-34830841/", "date": "2023-12-06", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2024-01", "state": "MI", "city": "Ypsilanti", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2024-01", "summary": "Ypsilanti City Council unanimously passed a resolution making arrests for entheogenic plants the lowest enforcement priority and barring city funds for such investigations; reported as Michigan's fifth city. It does not legalize sales.", "agency": "Ypsilanti City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Ypsilanti becomes Michigan's fifth city to decriminalize psychedelics via local resolution", "publisher": "Benzinga", "url": "https://drupal-cloudfront.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/24/01/36601004/ypsilanti-becomes-michigans-fifth-city-to-decriminalize-psychedelics-via-local-resolution", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2024-02", "state": "MI", "city": "Detroit", "business": "Psychedelic Healing Shack", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "religious", "event": "raid", "date": "2024-09-12", "summary": "After an undercover purchase on Sept 11, Detroit police searched a cafe-shop the next day, seizing 99 g of psilocybin mushrooms and 10 g of marijuana. The city buildings department (BSEED) cited unlawful use of property and ordered an emergency closure. The owner then claimed religious freedom through a church affiliation.", "agency": "Detroit Police Department; Detroit Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department", "outcome": "The city did not seek charges and offered a consent agreement.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Psychedelic Healing Shack battles Detroit over religious use of mushrooms", "publisher": "Detroit Metro Times", "url": "https://metrotimes.com/news/psychedelic-healing-shack-battles-detroit-over-religious-use-of-mushrooms-37993230", "date": "2024-12-03", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Detroit's 'Psychedelic Healing Shack' determined to open back up after police raid", "publisher": "Mugglehead", "url": "https://mugglehead.com/?p=1413955", "date": "2024-12-03", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Local Victories and Legal Battles: Michigan's Psychedelic Advocates Persist", "publisher": "Lucid News", "url": "https://www.lucid.news/michigans-psychedelic-advocates-persist/", "date": "2025-06-03", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2025-01", "state": "MI", "city": "Detroit", "business": "Psychedelic Healing Shack", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "religious", "event": "council-or-city-action", "date": "2025-03", "summary": "The owner signed a consent agreement with the City of Detroit acknowledging that the marijuana and psilocybin sales were illegal, waiving the right to sue and accepting random inspections.", "agency": "City of Detroit Corporation Counsel; BSEED", "outcome": "Property listed for sale by April 2025.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Psychedelic Healing Shack goes up for sale, owner sick of conflict with Detroit officials", "publisher": "Mugglehead", "url": "https://mugglehead.com/psychedelic-healing-shack-goes-up-for-sale-as-owner-gets-sick-of-conflict-with-detroit-officials/", "date": "2025-04-25", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mi-2026-01", "state": "MI", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-02-26", "summary": "A state senator introduced SB 802 on conduct associated with 'qualified psychoactive substances', exempting certain conduct from criminal penalties.", "agency": "Michigan Senate", "outcome": "Referred to Regulatory Affairs; no further action as of Nov 2, 2026.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Senate Bill 802 of 2026", "publisher": "Michigan Legislature", "url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2026-SB-0802", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "2026 Senate Bill 802", "publisher": "MichiganVotes", "url": "https://www.michiganvotes.org/legislation/2026/senate/bill-802", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "mn-2023-01", "state": "MN", "city": "Minneapolis", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2023-07-21", "summary": "The Mayor issued Executive Order 2023-01 making investigation and arrest for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing or possessing entheogenic plants and fungi, such as psilocybin mushrooms, the city's lowest law-enforcement priority. The order says it does not legalize any unlawful activity and does not 'authorize or enable' 'commercial sales or manufacturing of these plants and fungi'.", "agency": "Mayor of Minneapolis", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Executive Order 2023-01, Deprioritizing Enforcement of Entheogenic Plants", "publisher": "City of Minneapolis", "url": "https://minneapolismn.gov/government/mayor/executive-orders/executive-order-2023-01/", "date": "2023-07-21", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Minneapolis effectively decriminalizes certain psychedelics", "publisher": "GreenState", "url": "https://www.greenstate.com/news/minneapolis-psychedelics-decriminalization/", "date": "2023-07-21", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "mn-2025-01", "state": "MN", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-01-06", "summary": "The Minnesota Psychedelic Medicine Task Force recommended a state-regulated clinical psilocybin program and removing criminal penalties for use; a recreational market did not win enough support.", "agency": "Minnesota Psychedelic Medicine Task Force", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Minnesota task force recommends decriminalization of magic mushrooms", "publisher": "CBS Minnesota", "url": "https://cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/task-force-recommends-decriminalization-magic-mushrooms", "date": "2025-01-06", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mn-2025-02", "state": "MN", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-03-24", "summary": "HF 2699 was introduced to remove penalties for adult personal psilocybin use and possession and allow limited home cultivation, while barring commercial distribution.", "agency": "Minnesota House of Representatives", "outcome": "Referred to Health Finance and Policy; no further action listed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "HF 2699, 94th Legislature (2025-2026)", "publisher": "Minnesota Revisor of Statutes", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2699&ssn=0&y=2025", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Magic mushroom personal use penalties in MN eliminated in new bill", "publisher": "FOX 9", "url": "https://www.fox9.com/news/magic-mushroom-use-penalties-mn-eliminated-2025", "date": "2025-03-25", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "nj-2026-01", "state": "NJ", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-01-20", "summary": "New Jersey enacted P.L.2025, c.296, creating a Department of Health Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Therapy Pilot Program at three hospitals for research that complies with FDA and DEA rules, with $6 million appropriated. The earlier licensing and sales framework was removed from the enacted version.", "agency": "New Jersey Legislature; Governor of New Jersey", "outcome": "Law; pilot starts once the department selects hospitals.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "P.L.2025, c.296 (Senate Committee Substitute for S2283)", "publisher": "New Jersey Legislature", "url": "https://pub.njleg.gov/bills/2024/AL25/296_.HTM", "date": "2026-01-20", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "NJ S2283, 2024-2025 Regular Session", "publisher": "LegiScan", "url": "https://legiscan.com/NJ/bill/S2283/2024", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ny-2022-01", "state": "NY", "city": "New York City", "business": "Come Back Daily", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2022-12-20", "summary": "After undercover buys, NYPD searched two East Village storefronts, a CBD store selling from a password-access back room and a smoke shop, seizing about 1,500 psilocybin pills plus mushrooms, gummies and chocolate bars. Four people were charged with fifth-degree criminal sale and/or possession of a controlled substance.", "agency": "NYPD Narcotics Borough Manhattan South; Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York", "outcome": "Four charged; see ny-2024-05 for the reported outcome of one case.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Four New York City residents cuffed for selling psychedelic mushrooms out of East Village storefronts", "publisher": "amNY", "url": "https://www.amny.com/news/new-york-city-residents-cuffed-psychedelic-mushrooms/", "date": "2022-12-22", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Shrooms seized from secret back area of NYC store; 4 arrested in psilocybin mushroom investigation", "publisher": "PIX11", "url": "https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/shrooms-seized-from-secret-back-area-of-nyc-store-4-arrested-in-psilocybin-mushroom-investigation/amp/", "date": "2022-12-22", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ny-2023-01", "state": "NY", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2023-01", "summary": "Assembly bill A114 was introduced to legalize possession, use, cultivation and gifting of certain substances including psilocybin for adults 21+, without legalizing sales.", "agency": "New York State Assembly", "outcome": "Was in Assembly Health as of July 2024; not enacted.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Notes From the Underground Mushroom Market", "publisher": "DoubleBlind", "url": "https://doubleblindmag.com/notes-from-the-underground-mushroom-market/", "date": "2024-07-17", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ny-2024-01", "state": "NY", "city": "Carmel", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "arrest", "date": "2024-03-04", "summary": "After three undercover purchases at a tobacco shop in January 2024, the Putnam County Sheriff's narcotics unit arrested one person and searched the shop, seizing a large quantity of psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana products. Charges: three counts each of fifth-degree criminal possession and criminal sale of a controlled substance, Class D felonies.", "agency": "Putnam County Sheriff's Office", "outcome": "Released pending court; Town code enforcement notified.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Brewster Man Charged With Selling Psilocybin Mushrooms in Carmel", "publisher": "Putnam County Sheriff's Office", "url": "https://putnamsheriff.com/news/brewster-man-charged-with-selling-psilocybin-mushrooms-in-carmel/", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ny-2024-05", "state": "NY", "city": "New York City", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "conviction-or-plea", "date": "2024-07", "summary": "One of the people arrested in the December 2022 East Village CBD-store case reportedly resolved it with a disorderly conduct disposition, community service and two years' probation (reported by July 2024).", "agency": "Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Notes From the Underground Mushroom Market", "publisher": "DoubleBlind", "url": "https://doubleblindmag.com/notes-from-the-underground-mushroom-market/", "date": "2024-07-17", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ny-2024-02", "state": "NY", "city": "New York City", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2024-07-16", "summary": "During Operation Padlock to Protect, the Sheriff's task force inspected 51 locations and found psilocybin mushroom edibles at a Bronx store and psilocybin edibles and concentrate at a warehouse behind another business. The city said 639 unlicensed shops had been sealed to date.", "agency": "New York City Sheriff's Office; NYPD; Department of Consumer and Worker Protection", "outcome": "Two operators shut down; FOX 5 reported two workers arrested.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Mayor Adams, Sheriff Miranda, NYPD Commissioner Caban Announce Results of Major Illegal Cannabis Bust, Estimating $1 Million of Product Seized", "publisher": "NYC Office of the Mayor", "url": "https://nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/551-24/mayor-adams-sheriff-miranda-nypd-commissioner-caban-results-major-illegal-cannabis", "date": "2024-07-17", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "NYC raid seizes over $1M in marijuana, magic mushrooms from Bronx bodega", "publisher": "FOX 5 New York", "url": "https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-crime-bronx-bodega-raid-drugs-marijuana", "date": "2024-07-17", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ny-2024-03", "state": "NY", "city": "New York City", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "storefronts-reported", "date": "2024-07-17", "summary": "DoubleBlind reported 'scores' of NYC businesses selling illegal psilocybin products, centered on East Village and West Village smoke shops and some bodegas, and said raids appeared rare. No formal count was given.", "agency": null, "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Notes From the Underground Mushroom Market", "publisher": "DoubleBlind", "url": "https://doubleblindmag.com/notes-from-the-underground-mushroom-market/", "date": "2024-07-17", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ny-2025-02", "state": "NY", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-01-13", "summary": "S1801 (same as A3845) was introduced to create a psilocybin-assisted therapy pilot for veterans and first responders at SUNY academic health centers under FDA and DEA rules. It was amended and recommitted to Senate Health on Jan 9, 2026.", "agency": "New York State Senate", "outcome": "In committee as of Nov 2, 2026.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Senate Bill S1801A (2025-2026)", "publisher": "New York State Senate", "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S1801", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ny-2025-01", "state": "NY", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-01-15", "summary": "The Medical Psilocybin Act (A2142 / S5303) was introduced to create a Department of Health medical psilocybin program with licensed producers and providers and a patient registry. It was amended and recommitted to Assembly Health on May 8, 2026.", "agency": "New York State Legislature", "outcome": "In committee as of Nov 2, 2026.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "A2142: Allow Medical Psilocybin Use (NY Assembly, 2025-26)", "publisher": "Smith & Moses bill tracker", "url": "https://www.smithmoses.com/2025/bills/A2142", "date": "", "type": "news" }, { "title": "A2142A bill text", "publisher": "New York State Senate Open Legislation", "url": "https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/A2142A", "date": "2026-05-08", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ny-2025-03", "state": "NY", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-01-30", "summary": "A3775 (same as S495) was introduced to legalize and regulate medical psilocybin administered by certified facilitators. It was re-referred to Assembly Health on Jan 7, 2026.", "agency": "New York State Assembly", "outcome": "In committee as of Nov 2, 2026.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "A3775: Allow Medical Psilocybin Therapy (NY Assembly, 2025-26)", "publisher": "Smith & Moses bill tracker", "url": "https://www.smithmoses.com/2025/bills/A3775", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ny-2026-01", "state": "NY", "city": "Rome", "business": "Mothra Madness", "named_in": "official", "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2026-04-08", "summary": "State and local police executed a search warrant at an illicit cannabis shop and recovered about 800 g of psilocybin mushrooms along with cannabis and THC products; the state cannabis office padlocked the shop.", "agency": "NYS Office of Cannabis Management; New York State Police Troop D VGNET; Rome Police Department; Oneida County Department of Health", "outcome": "Padlocked; no arrests listed in the release.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "ICYMI: OCM Partners With State and Local Law Enforcement to Shut Down Illicit Cannabis Sales in Rome", "publisher": "New York State Office of Cannabis Management", "url": "https://cannabis.ny.gov/rome-icymi-enforcement-release", "date": "2026-04-20", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "oh-2025-01", "state": "OH", "city": "Elyria", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2025-04", "summary": "Elyria police executed a search warrant at an unlicensed dispensary and seized several pounds of marijuana, suspected psilocybin mushrooms, a handgun and cash. Police called it the first investigation of its kind in Lorain County.", "agency": "Elyria Police Department", "outcome": "Charges: trafficking in psilocybin, trafficking in marijuana and two counts of drug possession.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Elyria Police raid alleged unlicensed dispensary", "publisher": "Cleveland 19 / WOIO", "url": "https://www.cleveland19.com/2025/04/25/elyria-police-raid-alleged-unlicensed-dispensary/", "date": "2025-04-25", "type": "news" }, { "title": "'First investigation of its kind;' Police raid alleged unlicensed dispensary", "publisher": "WHIO", "url": "https://www.whio.com/news/local/police-raid-alleged-unlicensed-dispensary/POLX5A7YBJEFRBTP5NHGQE7RNQ/", "date": "2025-04-28", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ak-2024-01", "state": "AK", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2024-09-19", "summary": "Alaska HB 228, creating a task force on regulating FDA-approved psychedelic medicines, became law without the governor's signature.", "agency": "Alaska Legislature", "outcome": "Effective Sept 20, 2024. The task force issued its final report Feb 4, 2026; a 2026 ballot initiative fell short of signatures.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Law and Policy Map", "publisher": "UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics", "url": "https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law-and-policy-map", "date": "2026-10-01", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "az-2022-01", "state": "AZ", "city": "Phoenix", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2022-08", "summary": "Maricopa County sheriff's task force busted an unlicensed marijuana dispensary that was also allegedly selling psilocybin mushrooms. Three people were booked on charges including control of an illegal enterprise and sale of dangerous narcotics.", "agency": "Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Drug Suppression Task Force", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "MCSO announces bust of illegitimate marijuana dispensary in Phoenix", "publisher": "KTAR", "url": "https://ktar.com/arizona-news/mcso-announces-bust-of-illegitimate-marijuana-dispensary-in-phoenix", "date": "2022-08-10", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2019-01", "state": "CA", "city": "Oakland", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2019-06-04", "summary": "Oakland City Council unanimously adopted a resolution making the investigation and arrest of adults for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing or possessing entheogenic plants and fungi among the city's lowest law enforcement priorities. The resolution says nothing about commercial sales either way, and it does not license or authorize any shop.", "agency": "Oakland City Council", "outcome": "The council's agenda report said 'there will be no sales of entheogenic plants and fungi', and NPR, citing KQED, reported that the measure 'does not allow for commercial sale or manufacturing'; neither statement is in the resolution text.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Oakland City Council Effectively Decriminalizes Psychedelic Mushrooms", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/730061916/oakland-city-council-effectively-decriminalizes-psychedelic-mushrooms", "date": "2019-06-05", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Text of Oakland City Council Resolution No. 87731 C.M.S., Supporting Entheogenic Plant Practices", "publisher": "Chacruna Institute (reproduction)", "url": "https://chacruna.net/?p=13519", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ca-2020-01", "state": "CA", "city": "Santa Cruz", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2020-01-28", "summary": "Santa Cruz City Council unanimously adopted a resolution making adult (21+) personal use and possession of entheogenic plants and fungi among the lowest enforcement priorities.", "agency": "Santa Cruz City Council", "outcome": "The resolution text, as quoted, covers only adults' personal use and personal possession; it does not address sales.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "City of Santa Cruz, California Decriminalizes Naturally-Occurring Psychedelics", "publisher": "Psychedelic Science Review", "url": "https://psychedelicreview.com/city-of-santa-cruz-california-decriminalizes-naturally-occurring-psychedelics/", "date": "2020-01-31", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2020-02", "state": "CA", "city": "Oakland", "business": "Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "religious", "event": "raid", "date": "2020-08-13", "summary": "Oakland police raided a church that distributed cannabis and mushrooms to members as 'sacrament', saying it was illegally selling them; firefighters helped open a safe and police seized mushrooms, cannabis and cash. No arrests were made.", "agency": "Oakland Police Department", "outcome": "No charges reported; the church sued in 2022.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Police Raid Oakland Church; Seize Marijuana, Magic Mushrooms", "publisher": "CBS San Francisco", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/oakland-police-raid-marijuana-church", "date": "2020-08-31", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Oakland church that promotes psychedelic mushrooms sues city over police raid", "publisher": "KTVU", "url": "https://ktvu.com/news/oakland-church-that-promotes-psychedelic-mushrooms-sues-city-over-police-raid", "date": "2022-08-17", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2021-01", "state": "CA", "city": "Arcata", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-10-06", "summary": "Arcata City Council voted 5-0 to make possession, cultivation and distribution of entheogenic plants and fungi among the city's lowest law enforcement priorities. Marijuana Moment reported that the resolution states commercial sale and manufacturing remain prohibited.", "agency": "Arcata City Council", "outcome": "Resolution number and text not checked against city records.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Third California City Moves To Decriminalize Psychedelics As Reform Movement Expands", "publisher": "Marijuana Moment", "url": "https://www.marijuanamoment.net/third-california-city-moves-to-decriminalize-psychedelics-as-reform-movement-expands/", "date": "2021-10-07", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2022-01", "state": "CA", "city": "Oakland", "business": "Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "religious", "event": "lawsuit", "date": "2022-08", "summary": "The church sued the City of Oakland and its police department over the 2020 raid, alleging violation of its constitutional and religious freedoms and seeking return of seized property; one outlet described it as a federal suit.", "agency": null, "outcome": "Outcome not found.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Oakland church that promotes psychedelic mushrooms sues city over police raid", "publisher": "KTVU", "url": "https://ktvu.com/news/oakland-church-that-promotes-psychedelic-mushrooms-sues-city-over-police-raid", "date": "2022-08-17", "type": "news" }, { "title": "You can buy magic mushroom candy bars over the counter in Oakland", "publisher": "The San Francisco Standard", "url": "https://sfstandard.com/arts-culture/as-sf-weighs-decriminalizing-psychedelics-you-can-buy-shroom-candy-bars-over-the-counter-in-oakland/", "date": "2022-08-25", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2022-02", "state": "CA", "city": "Oakland", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "storefronts-reported", "date": "2022-08-25", "summary": "The SF Standard reported psilocybin chocolate bars and capsules sold over the counter in Oakland smoke shops (seven, per the brand's website) and a church offering psilocybin products to confirmed members. Oakland police said psilocybin sales are a felony under state law.", "agency": "Oakland Police Department (statement)", "outcome": null, "count": 7, "sources": [ { "title": "You can buy magic mushroom candy bars over the counter in Oakland", "publisher": "The San Francisco Standard", "url": "https://sfstandard.com/arts-culture/as-sf-weighs-decriminalizing-psychedelics-you-can-buy-shroom-candy-bars-over-the-counter-in-oakland/", "date": "2022-08-25", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2022-03", "state": "CA", "city": "San Francisco", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2022-09-06", "summary": "The Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution 379-22 urging that investigation and arrest of adults for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing or possessing entheogenic plants be among the lowest priorities. The text has no sales exclusion and is non-binding.", "agency": "San Francisco Board of Supervisors", "outcome": "Effective without the Mayor's signature (certified 09/16/2022).", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Resolution No. 379-22 [Supporting Entheogenic Plant Practices]", "publisher": "San Francisco Board of Supervisors", "url": "https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/r0379-22.pdf", "date": "2022-09-16", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ca-2022-04", "state": "CA", "city": "San Francisco", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2022-11-23", "summary": "San Francisco police raided a shop in the Haight neighborhood that had opened in October 2022 and arrested one person. The District Attorney's office filed three felony counts for selling, possessing and maintaining a place for selling psilocybin.", "agency": "San Francisco Police Department; San Francisco District Attorney's Office", "outcome": "Disposition not found.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "San Francisco Magic Mushroom Shop Raided", "publisher": "The San Francisco Standard", "url": "https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/sf-magic-mushroom-shop-raided-for-allegedly-selling-meth", "date": "2022-12-20", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2023-02", "state": "CA", "city": "Los Angeles County", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2023-05", "summary": "The Los Angeles Times reported that the L.A. County Sheriff's Department had served about 50 search warrants at dispensaries selling magic mushrooms in the prior six months; a sheriff's narcotics lieutenant called it 'whack-a-mole'. An April 2022 sheriff's post cited 277 arrests and 29 pounds of mushrooms seized from illegal marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas over the previous half-year.", "agency": "Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department", "outcome": "Shops 'reopen in another location', a sheriff's narcotics lieutenant said.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "L.A. dispensaries openly sell 'magic mushrooms' as state weighs decriminalization", "publisher": "Los Angeles Times (via AOL)", "url": "https://www.aol.com/news/l-dispensaries-openly-sell-magic-120018291.html", "date": "2023-05-16", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Los Angeles cannabis dispensaries sell illegal mushrooms: report", "publisher": "Fox News", "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/los-angeles-cannabis-dispensaries-sell-illegal-mushrooms-report", "date": "2023-05-16", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2023-03", "state": "CA", "city": "Jurupa Valley", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2023-05-04", "summary": "Riverside County sheriff's deputies answering a disturbance call at a marijuana dispensary obtained a search warrant; the Marijuana Enforcement Team seized 10 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms along with cannabis products, more than $1 million in goods in total.", "agency": "Riverside County Sheriff's Department, Marijuana Enforcement Team", "outcome": "Several detained; charges not reported.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Authorities Seize Over $1 Million in Goods at Marijuana Dispensary", "publisher": "NBC Palm Springs", "url": "https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2023/05/08/authorities-seize-over-1-million-in-goods-at-marijuana-dispensary", "date": "2023-05-08", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2023-01", "state": "CA", "city": "Los Angeles County", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "storefronts-reported", "date": "2023-05-16", "summary": "The Los Angeles Times saw psilocybin products on display at two suburban L.A. County cannabis dispensaries over several visits.", "agency": null, "outcome": null, "count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "L.A. dispensaries openly sell 'magic mushrooms' as state weighs decriminalization", "publisher": "Los Angeles Times (via AOL)", "url": "https://www.aol.com/news/l-dispensaries-openly-sell-magic-120018291.html", "date": "2023-05-16", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Los Angeles cannabis dispensaries sell illegal mushrooms: report", "publisher": "Fox News", "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/los-angeles-cannabis-dispensaries-sell-illegal-mushrooms-report", "date": "2023-05-16", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2023-04", "state": "CA", "city": "Berkeley", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2023-07-11", "summary": "Berkeley City Council unanimously adopted a resolution de-prioritizing enforcement of laws on psychedelic plants and fungi for personal use (peyote excluded). The text says it does not authorize giving away, sharing, distributing, transferring, dispensing or administering psychedelics to another person.", "agency": "Berkeley City Council", "outcome": "Adopted July 11, 2023, per Filter; resolution number not confirmed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "2023-07-11 Item 35 De-Prioritizing the enforcement", "publisher": "City of Berkeley", "url": "https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07-11%20Item%2035%20De-Prioritizing%20the%20enforcement.pdf", "date": "2023-07-11", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Berkeley Vote Spreads Psychedelic Decriminalization in the Bay Area", "publisher": "Filter", "url": "https://filtermag.org/berkeley-psychedelic-decriminalization/", "date": "2023-07-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ca-2023-06", "state": "CA", "city": "Eureka", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2023-10-17", "summary": "Eureka City Council unanimously adopted a resolution saying that adults' planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with or possessing entheogenic plants and fungi 'will not be a public safety priority'. It does not change the city's approach to commercial sales or processing.", "agency": "Eureka City Council", "outcome": "Adopted Oct 17, 2023, per two outlets; city minutes not checked.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "After California Governor's Psychedelics Bill Veto, Another City Council Approves Decriminalization Resolution", "publisher": "Marijuana Moment", "url": "https://www.marijuanamoment.net/after-california-governors-psychedelics-bill-veto-another-city-council-approves-decriminalization-resolution/", "date": "2023-10-19", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Eureka City Council Unanimously Decriminalizes Psychedelic Mushrooms and Other Entheogenic Plants", "publisher": "Lost Coast Outpost", "url": "https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2023/oct/18/eureka-decriminalizes-psychedelic-mushrooms-and-ot/", "date": "2023-10-18", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2023-05", "state": "CA", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2023-10-07", "summary": "California's governor vetoed SB 58, which would have removed penalties for personal possession of psilocybin, DMT and mescaline, saying it would decriminalize possession before treatment guidelines were in place.", "agency": "Governor of California", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "SB 58 veto message", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of California", "url": "https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-58-Veto.pdf", "date": "2023-10-07", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Senator Wiener's Psychedelics Bill Passes Assembly", "publisher": "Office of Senator Scott Wiener", "url": "https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/node/322", "date": "2023-09-06", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ca-2023-07", "state": "CA", "city": "Los Angeles", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "storefronts-reported", "date": "2023-11-17", "summary": "LA Magazine reported psilocybin gummies sold in L.A. and California dispensaries; a brand founder said enforcement was not happening. No officials were quoted.", "agency": null, "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Psilocybin Is Illegal, But Mushroom Gummies Are Flooding L.A. Dispensaries Anyway", "publisher": "Los Angeles Magazine", "url": "https://lamag.com/news/psilocybin-mushroom-gummies-flooding-la-dispensaries/", "date": "2023-11-17", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2024-01", "state": "CA", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2024-05-16", "summary": "SB 1012, which would have licensed psychedelic facilitators for supervised sessions, was held in committee and under submission, ending it for the session.", "agency": "California Senate", "outcome": "Failed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "SB 1012: The Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Act and the Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Act", "publisher": "CalMatters Digital Democracy", "url": "https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1012", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2024-02", "state": "CA", "city": "San Francisco", "business": "Zide Door SF (Church of Ambrosia)", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "religious", "event": "closure", "date": "2024-12-11", "summary": "A psychedelic church that gave psilocybin, DMT and cannabis 'sacrament' to members for a suggested donation announced it would close its San Francisco site by the end of 2024, citing pressure from city planning and building officials. The Planning Department said it opened without seeking required permits, and the Department of Building Inspection cited three open plumbing and electrical code violations.", "agency": "San Francisco Planning Department; Department of Building Inspection", "outcome": "Announced closure of the SF site; no police action reported.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "San Francisco Mushroom Church Will Close, Alleging It Was Targeted by City", "publisher": "KQED", "url": "https://www.kqed.org/news/12017642/san-francisco-mushroom-church-will-close-al", "date": "2024-12-11", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Bay City News report on the planned closure of Zide Door SF (headline not retrieved)", "publisher": "Local News Matters (Bay City News)", "url": "https://localnewsmatters.org/?p=147910", "date": "2024-12-11", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2025-01", "state": "CA", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-05-23", "summary": "SB 751, a veterans and first responders psilocybin pilot in up to five counties, died in committee.", "agency": "California Legislature", "outcome": "Held in the Senate Appropriations Committee May 23, 2025; returned to the Secretary of the Senate under Joint Rule 56 on Feb 2, 2026, ending it.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "State psychedelics legalization and policy roundup: June 2025", "publisher": "Reason Foundation", "url": "https://reason.org/commentary/state-psychedelics-legalization-and-policy-roundup-june-2025", "date": "2025-06-16", "type": "news" }, { "title": "SB 751: Veterans and Former First Responders Research Pilot Program", "publisher": "CalMatters Digital Democracy", "url": "https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb751", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2025-02", "state": "CA", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-10-10", "summary": "Governor signed AB 1103, which speeds Research Advisory Panel review of qualifying psychedelic research studies. It took effect Jan 1, 2026 and does not change possession or sales law.", "agency": "Governor of California", "outcome": "Chapter 571, Statutes of 2025.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Newsom Signs Veteran-Backed Bill to Accelerate Study of Psychedelics for PTSD, Mental Health", "publisher": "Military.com", "url": "https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/10/16/newsom-signs-veteran-backed-bill-accelerate-study-of-psychedelics-ptsd-mental-health.html", "date": "2025-10-16", "type": "news" }, { "title": "AB 1103: Controlled substances: research", "publisher": "CalMatters Digital Democracy", "url": "https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1103", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2026-01", "state": "CA", "city": "Rosamond", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2026-02-12", "summary": "A joint federal, state and local task force served warrants at four unlicensed dispensaries outside Edwards Air Force Base, seizing 46 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms plus large amounts of cannabis products. Nine people were arrested on charges including maintaining a place for drug sales.", "agency": "412th Security Forces Squadron (Edwards Air Force Base); Drug Enforcement Administration; Kern County HIDTA task force", "outcome": "Four dispensaries closed; investigation ongoing.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Zero Tolerance bust closes four dispensaries in Rosamond", "publisher": "Edwards Air Force Base (U.S. Air Force)", "url": "https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Display/Article/4430220/zero-tolerance-bust-closes-four-dispensaries-in-rosamond/", "date": "2026-03-10", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ca-2026-02", "state": "CA", "city": "Nevada City", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2026-08-26", "summary": "Nevada City Council unanimously approved Resolution 2026-29, making personal, non-commercial use of entheogenic plants and fungi by adults 21+ among the city's lowest law enforcement priorities.", "agency": "Nevada City Council", "outcome": "Adopted, per The Union. The police chief noted that entheogens remain illegal under state and federal law.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Nevada City Council unanimously approves resolution declaring psychedelic mushrooms as low-priority by law enforcement", "publisher": "The Union", "url": "https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-city-council-unanimously-approves-resolution-declaring-psychedelic-mushrooms-as-low-priority-by-law-enforcement/article_1056b5ff-27f8-4d67-a627-e1a7af84ee80.html", "date": "2026-08-28", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ca-2026-03", "state": "CA", "city": "San Francisco", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2026-10-09", "summary": "San Francisco police served search warrants at smoke shops on Sept 10 and Oct 9, 2026, in an investigation focused on the Sunset and Park districts, seizing items suspected of containing psilocybin mushrooms and other psilocybin products along with kratom, 7-OH, flavored vapes and nitrous oxide. City health inspectors and the City Attorney's Office took part.", "agency": "San Francisco Police Department; San Francisco Department of Public Health; San Francisco City Attorney's Office", "outcome": "An arrest was made (number not given). Charges, civil action and lab results not reported as of Nov 2, 2026.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "SFPD Seizes Hundreds of Items Illegally for Sale at City Smoke Shops #26-132", "publisher": "San Francisco Police Department", "url": "https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/news/sfpd-seizes-hundreds-items-illegally-sale-city-smoke-shops", "date": "2026-10-21", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ca-2026-04", "state": "CA", "city": "Wildomar", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "arrest", "date": "2026-10-15", "summary": "Riverside County sheriff's deputies served a search warrant at a Wildomar business after an August complaint alleging sales of kratom and flavored nicotine pouches to minors, and seized psilocybin mushrooms, kratom and 7-OH products and flavored tobacco. One adult was arrested on suspicion of possessing psilocybin mushrooms for sale, among other charges.", "agency": "Riverside County Sheriff's Office, Lake Elsinore Station Special Enforcement Team", "outcome": "Arrested; District Attorney filing decision not reported as of Nov 2, 2026. The release does not say psilocybin was sold to minors.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Fontana Suspect Arrested for Sale of Kratom and Psilocybin Mushrooms to Minors in Wildomar", "publisher": "Sierra Sun Times (reprint of a Riverside County Sheriff's Office release)", "url": "https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/california/82748-fontana-suspect-arrested-for-sale-of-kratom-and-psilocybin-mushrooms-to-minors-in-wildomar", "date": "2026-10-21", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "co-2019-01", "state": "CO", "city": "Denver", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2019-05-07", "summary": "Denver voters approved a citizen initiative (Ordinance 301) making enforcement of laws on personal use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms by adults 21+ the city's lowest law enforcement priority. It addressed possession and use only, not sales.", "agency": "City and County of Denver (voters)", "outcome": "Repealed by Denver City Council in March 2025 after state law superseded it.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Voters to decide in May whether to make Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms", "publisher": "Ballotpedia News", "url": "https://news.ballotpedia.org/2019/02/04/voters-to-decide-in-may-whether-to-make-denver-the-first-u-s-city-to-decriminalize-psilocybin-mushrooms/", "date": "2019-02-04", "type": "news" }, { "title": "It's the end of an era for mushrooms in Denver as council adopts new licensing law", "publisher": "Denverite", "url": "https://denverite.com/2025/03/03/its-the-end-of-an-era-for-mushrooms-in-denver-as-council-adopts-new-licensing-law/", "date": "2025-03-03", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Oakland City Council Effectively Decriminalizes Psychedelic Mushrooms", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/730061916/oakland-city-council-effectively-decriminalizes-psychedelic-mushrooms", "date": "2019-06-05", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "co-2022-01", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2022-11-08", "summary": "Colorado voters approved Proposition 122, the Natural Medicine Health Act, 53.64% to 46.36%. It made personal use, growing and sharing without remuneration of psilocybin and four other natural medicines legal under state law for adults 21+ and created licensed healing centers; it did not provide for retail sales.", "agency": "Colorado voters", "outcome": "Implemented by SB23-290; the measure's text says 'personal use' does not include 'the sale of natural medicines for remuneration' (section 12-170-109(2) of the measure).", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Colorado Proposition 122 (2022)", "publisher": "Ballotpedia", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_122,_Decriminalization_and_Regulated_Access_Program_for_Certain_Psychedelic_Plants_and_Fungi_Initiative_(2022)", "date": "", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Natural Medicine Health Act of 2022, final initiative text", "publisher": "Colorado Secretary of State", "url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/Initiatives/titleBoard/filings/2021-2022/58Final.pdf", "date": "2022", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2022-02", "state": "CO", "city": "Denver", "business": "The Sacred Tribe", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "religious", "event": "charges", "date": "2022-12-08", "summary": "The Denver District Attorney's office dismissed felony manufacturing/distribution charges against the founder of a religious group that used psilocybin ceremonially and a chemist, after a warehouse grow raid earlier that year. The office cited the voters' approval of Proposition 122.", "agency": "Denver District Attorney's Office", "outcome": "Charges dismissed 'in the interest of justice'. Not a storefront.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "DA drops felony drug charge against Denver's mushroom rabbi, citing voter legalization of psilocybin", "publisher": "Denver7", "url": "https://denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/da-drops-felony-drug-charge-against-denvers-mushroom-rabbi-citing-voter-legalization-of-psilocybin", "date": "2022-12-09", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Illegal Shroom Dispensaries in the US and Canada are Getting Busted", "publisher": "DoubleBlind", "url": "https://doubleblindmag.com/illegal-shroom-dispensaries-busted/", "date": "2023-01-04", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "co-2023-01", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2023-05-23", "summary": "Governor signed SB23-290, the Natural Medicine Regulation and Legalization act, setting up licensing and protecting personal use only 'without remuneration'. Effective July 1, 2023.", "agency": "Governor of Colorado", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "SB23-290 Natural Medicine Regulation And Legalization", "publisher": "Colorado General Assembly", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-290", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "New Law Shapes Colorado's Legal Psychedelics Landscape", "publisher": "Filter", "url": "https://filtermag.org/colorado-psychedelics-regulations/", "date": "2023-05-26", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2023-02", "state": "CO", "city": "Denver", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "gifting", "event": "warning-letter", "date": "2023-11-03", "summary": "The state Natural Medicine Division sent a cease-and-desist letter to an individual operator concerning the commercial sale of psilocybin mushrooms. The division's list and Westword identify the same recipient: the operator of a Denver 'co-op' that charged a support fee and then provided mushrooms. Per Westword, the letter told the operator that advertising and exchanging psilocybin mushrooms for payment was not lawful and had to stop immediately.", "agency": "Colorado Department of Revenue, Natural Medicine Division", "outcome": "The co-op stopped advertising in Westword, per its attorney; DORA issued a separate order in Dec 2025 (see co-2025-08).", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Unlicensed and Unlawful Activities", "publisher": "Colorado Natural Medicine Division", "url": "https://nmd.colorado.gov/unlicensed-and-unlawful-activities", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Denver Magic Mushroom Co-Op Fighting to Stay Open in Face of State Closure Orders", "publisher": "Westword", "url": "https://www.westword.com/news/denver-magic-mushroom-co-op-fighting-state-close-order-40879511/", "date": "2026-05-05", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2024-01", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": "Mile Hi Urban Fungi", "named_in": "official", "model": "unknown", "event": "warning-letter", "date": "2024-04-04", "summary": "The Natural Medicine Division issued a cease-and-desist letter to Mile Hi Urban Fungi concerning the commercial sale of psilocybin mushrooms.", "agency": "Colorado Department of Revenue, Natural Medicine Division", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Unlicensed and Unlawful Activities", "publisher": "Colorado Natural Medicine Division", "url": "https://nmd.colorado.gov/unlicensed-and-unlawful-activities", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2024-02", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": "My Mynd Project LLC", "named_in": "official", "model": "unknown", "event": "warning-letter", "date": "2024-06-18", "summary": "The Natural Medicine Division issued a cease-and-desist letter to My Mynd Project LLC concerning the commercial sale of psilocybin mushrooms.", "agency": "Colorado Department of Revenue, Natural Medicine Division", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Unlicensed and Unlawful Activities", "publisher": "Colorado Natural Medicine Division", "url": "https://nmd.colorado.gov/unlicensed-and-unlawful-activities", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2024-03", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": "Cheech Wizards", "named_in": "official", "model": "unknown", "event": "warning-letter", "date": "2024-07-31", "summary": "The Natural Medicine Division issued a cease-and-desist letter to Cheech Wizards concerning the commercial sale of psilocybin mushrooms.", "agency": "Colorado Department of Revenue, Natural Medicine Division", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Unlicensed and Unlawful Activities", "publisher": "Colorado Natural Medicine Division", "url": "https://nmd.colorado.gov/unlicensed-and-unlawful-activities", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2024-04", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": "PsiloVibe Church", "named_in": "official", "model": "religious", "event": "warning-letter", "date": "2024-09-12", "summary": "The Natural Medicine Division issued a cease-and-desist letter to PsiloVibe Church concerning the commercial sale of psilocybin mushrooms.", "agency": "Colorado Department of Revenue, Natural Medicine Division", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Unlicensed and Unlawful Activities", "publisher": "Colorado Natural Medicine Division", "url": "https://nmd.colorado.gov/unlicensed-and-unlawful-activities", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2024-05", "state": "CO", "city": "Colorado Springs", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "council-or-city-action", "date": "2024-11", "summary": "Colorado Springs and Fountain councils took up zoning for licensed healing centers (Colorado Springs proposal: one-mile buffer; Fountain: 1,000 feet and industrial zones). State law lets cities regulate but not ban licensed centers.", "agency": "Colorado Springs City Council; Fountain City Council", "outcome": "Final ordinance numbers and votes not confirmed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Fountain joins Colorado Springs in seeking to regulate fledgling psychedelic mushroom industry", "publisher": "Colorado Springs Gazette", "url": "https://gazette.com/2024/11/13/fountain-joins-colorado-springs-in-seeking-to-regulate-fledgling-psychedelic-mushroom-industry/", "date": "2024-11-13", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "co-2025-02", "state": "CO", "city": "Manitou Springs", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "delivery", "event": "council-or-city-action", "date": "2025-02-25", "summary": "Manitou Springs police warned the public about a website that falsely claimed to sell psilocybin mushrooms, listing a Colorado phone number and the Manitou Springs address of an unrelated, legitimate business; records showed the site was registered in Nairobi, Kenya.", "agency": "Manitou Springs Police Department", "outcome": "Public warning; no arrests reported.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Manitou Springs Police Warn Public of Online Psilocybin Scam", "publisher": "City of Manitou Springs", "url": "https://www.manitouspringsco.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6884/02-25-2025-Manitou-Springs-Police-Warn-Public-of-Online-Psilocybin-Scam", "date": "2025-02-25", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Authorities warn of psilocybin scam that appears to originate in Manitou Springs, but is linked overseas", "publisher": "Colorado Public Radio", "url": "https://www.cpr.org/2025/02/26/manitou-springs-psilocybin-scam/", "date": "2025-02-26", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2025-04", "state": "CO", "city": "Denver", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "council-or-city-action", "date": "2025-03-03", "summary": "Denver City Council unanimously repealed the 2019 psilocybin lowest-priority ordinance and adopted local licensing for healing centers, including a 1,000-foot school and childcare buffer and a ban on all outdoor natural medicine advertising. The city said enforcement against unlicensed businesses that give away mushrooms while charging for services would be civil.", "agency": "Denver City Council; Denver Department of Excise and Licenses", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "It's the end of an era for mushrooms in Denver as council adopts new licensing law", "publisher": "Denverite", "url": "https://denverite.com/2025/03/03/its-the-end-of-an-era-for-mushrooms-in-denver-as-council-adopts-new-licensing-law/", "date": "2025-03-03", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "co-2025-03", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-03-12", "summary": "The Natural Medicine Division issued a consumer alert on natural medicine fraud and scams.", "agency": "Colorado Department of Revenue, Natural Medicine Division", "outcome": "Listed with its date on the division's home page; the alert text was not read (file blocked to our fetcher).", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Natural Medicine Division home page", "publisher": "Colorado Natural Medicine Division", "url": "https://nmd.colorado.gov/", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2025-05", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-06-03", "summary": "Governor signed SB25-297, which lets the governor grant clemency for natural medicine convictions and requires data collection from healing centers.", "agency": "Governor of Colorado", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "State psychedelics legalization and policy roundup: June 2025", "publisher": "Reason Foundation", "url": "https://reason.org/commentary/state-psychedelics-legalization-and-policy-roundup-june-2025", "date": "2025-06-16", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Law and Policy Map", "publisher": "UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics", "url": "https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law-and-policy-map", "date": "2026-10-01", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "co-2025-06", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-06-18", "summary": "Colorado's governor issued an executive order pardoning state-level convictions for possessing psilocybin or psilocin that would be legal today; the state identified four such convictions. The order does not mention manufacturing or distribution convictions.", "agency": "Governor of Colorado", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Governor Polis Speaks at Psychedelic Science 2025 Conference, Announces New Pardons for Psilocybin and Psilocin Possession Convictions", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of Colorado", "url": "https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/governor-polis-speaks-psychedelic-science-2025-conference-announces-new-pardons-psilocybin-and", "date": "2025-06-18", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Polis announces mass pardon for previous psilocybin and psilocin convictions", "publisher": "Colorado Public Radio", "url": "https://www.cpr.org/2025/06/18/polis-pardons-previous-psilocybin-psilocin-convictions/", "date": "2025-06-18", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2025-07", "state": "CO", "city": "Denver", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "amanita-or-legal-mushrooms", "event": "warning-letter", "date": "2025-07-29", "summary": "Denver Excise and Licenses warned all licensed tobacco retailers that selling psilocybin-based products is illegal after city testing found psilocybin in a branded 'mushroom' chocolate bar sold at gas stations and convenience stores whose maker claimed it had none.", "agency": "Denver Department of Excise and Licenses", "outcome": "Warning of enforcement up to license revocation; no arrests reported.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Denver warns of psilocybin-laced products, including chocolate bars", "publisher": "Colorado Politics", "url": "https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/07/29/denver-warns-of-psilocybin-laced-products-including-chocolate-bars-bf9310dd-7eaf-5156-b8c1-b14c31c72ecb", "date": "2025-07-29", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "co-2025-08", "state": "CO", "city": "Denver", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "membership", "event": "warning-letter", "date": "2025-12", "summary": "The Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies issued a cease-and-desist to a Denver psilocybin 'co-op' that charged a screening-based support fee, alleging unlicensed facilitation. The operator argued Proposition 122's harm-reduction and support-services clause covers it.", "agency": "Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA)", "outcome": "Set for hearing before a DORA administrative law judge; no final ruling reported; no arrest.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Denver Magic Mushroom Co-Op Fighting to Stay Open in Face of State Closure Orders", "publisher": "Westword", "url": "https://www.westword.com/news/denver-magic-mushroom-co-op-fighting-state-close-order-40879511/", "date": "2026-05-05", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "co-2026-01", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-05-01", "summary": "The Natural Medicine Division issued an industry bulletin on the prohibition of sales of regulated natural medicine.", "agency": "Colorado Department of Revenue, Natural Medicine Division", "outcome": "Listed with its date on the division's home page; the bulletin text was not read (file blocked to our fetcher).", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Natural Medicine Division home page", "publisher": "Colorado Natural Medicine Division", "url": "https://nmd.colorado.gov/", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2026-02", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-05-13", "summary": "The legislature finished passing HB26-1325 (House concurred in Senate amendments 59-6). Per the final fiscal note it creates a limited regulated natural medicine sales license for people taking part in an administration session, lets the Natural Medicine Division director issue cease-and-desist orders, and clarifies that state law does not permit advertising natural medicine, advertising harm reduction or support services outside personal use, or using those services to conduct sales.", "agency": "Colorado General Assembly", "outcome": "Signed by the governor June 4, 2026; took effect Aug 12, 2026 (per the final fiscal note).", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "HB26-1325 Natural Medicine", "publisher": "Colorado General Assembly", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1325", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "HB 26-1325 Final Fiscal Note", "publisher": "Colorado Legislative Council Staff", "url": "https://www.leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/117336/download", "date": "2026-07-09", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2026-03", "state": "CO", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-08-12", "summary": "HB26-1325 took effect and Natural Medicine Division emergency rules creating Limited Regulated Natural Medicine Sales Licenses took effect. Sales are limited to people taking part in an administration session at a licensed healing center; this is not retail.", "agency": "Colorado Department of Revenue, Natural Medicine Division", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Natural Medicine Division home page", "publisher": "Colorado Natural Medicine Division", "url": "https://nmd.colorado.gov/", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "HB 26-1325 Final Fiscal Note", "publisher": "Colorado Legislative Council Staff", "url": "https://www.leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/117336/download", "date": "2026-07-09", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "co-2026-04", "state": "CO", "city": "Colorado Springs", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "open-retail", "event": "raid", "date": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Colorado Springs police, working with the DEA, served search warrants at seven businesses (five locations of one smoke shop chain and two of a liquor store chain) that investigators said sold THC and psilocybin products without a license, some to minors. Police later reported seizing 4.2 pounds of psilocybin products, more than a ton of THC products, 7-OH and cash.", "agency": "Colorado Springs Police Department (Metro Task Force); Drug Enforcement Administration", "outcome": "No arrests as of the raid day; police said the investigation was continuing. Charges and lab results not reported as of Nov 2, 2026.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "[Smoke shop and liquor store chains] raided, accused of selling THC and psilocybin to minors (headline names the businesses)", "publisher": "KRDO", "url": "https://krdo.com/?p=1767807", "date": "2026-10-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "hi-2026-01", "state": "HI", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-05", "summary": "Hawaii SB 3199, a 2026 bill for a task force to prepare the state for psychedelic therapy, passed the Senate and died in May 2026; the 2025 veterans pilot bill SB 1042 had been carried over to the 2026 session.", "agency": "Hawaii Legislature", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Law and Policy Map", "publisher": "UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics", "url": "https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law-and-policy-map", "date": "2026-10-01", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "id-2026-01", "state": "ID", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-03", "summary": "Idaho H 0899, the 'Medical Advanced Healing Act', proposed a pilot for regulated access to certain approved psychedelic medicines.", "agency": "Idaho Legislature", "outcome": "Further status not confirmed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Law and Policy Map", "publisher": "UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics", "url": "https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law-and-policy-map", "date": "2026-10-01", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "mt-2023-01", "state": "MT", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2023-05-02", "summary": "Montana bill draft LC 1208 (psilocybin for certain mental health conditions) died in committee and the LC 2311 interim study draft died in process, both on May 2, 2023.", "agency": "Montana Legislature", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Law and Policy Map", "publisher": "UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics", "url": "https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law-and-policy-map", "date": "2026-10-01", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "nm-2025-01", "state": "NM", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-04-07", "summary": "Governor signed SB 219, the Medical Psilocybin Act (Laws 2025, chapter 73), creating a state medical psilocybin program for qualifying patients under licensed providers, to be implemented by the Department of Health by 2027.", "agency": "Governor of New Mexico", "outcome": "Effective June 20, 2025; the statutory deadline to start the program is Dec 31, 2027. Medical only; no retail sales.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "SB 219 2025 Regular Session", "publisher": "New Mexico Legislature", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=219&year=25", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Law and Policy Map", "publisher": "UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics", "url": "https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law-and-policy-map", "date": "2026-10-01", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "nv-2023-01", "state": "NV", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2023-06-12", "summary": "Nevada enacted SB 242 after it was amended to drop decriminalization of psilocybin possession and instead create a psychedelic medicines working group. Penalties stayed at up to four years in prison or $5,000 fines.", "agency": "Governor of Nevada", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "NV stops short of decriminalizing 'magic mushrooms' some call transformative for mental health", "publisher": "TheNevadaIndependent.com", "url": "https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/nv-stops-short-of-decriminalizing-magic-mushrooms-some-call-transformative-for-mental-health", "date": "2023-08-01", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Law and Policy Map", "publisher": "UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics", "url": "https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law-and-policy-map", "date": "2026-10-01", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "nv-2025-01", "state": "NV", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2025-06", "summary": "AB 378, which would have created an alternative therapy pilot program, failed.", "agency": "Nevada Legislature", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Law and Policy Map", "publisher": "UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics", "url": "https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law-and-policy-map", "date": "2026-10-01", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "or-2020-01", "state": "OR", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2020-11-03", "summary": "Oregon voters approved Measure 109 (55.75%), creating Oregon Health Authority licensing of psilocybin service centers where clients consume psilocybin under supervision. It did not legalize purchase or possession outside licensed premises.", "agency": "Oregon voters; Oregon Health Authority", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Oregon Measure 109 (2020)", "publisher": "Ballotpedia", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_109,_Psilocybin_Mushroom_Services_Program_Initiative_(2020)", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "or-2020-02", "state": "OR", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2020-11-03", "summary": "Oregon voters approved Measure 110, which reduced possession of small amounts of controlled substances, including psilocybin, to a violation.", "agency": "Oregon voters", "outcome": "Possession penalties restored by HB 4002 from Sept 1, 2024.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Oregon Measure 110, Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative (2020)", "publisher": "Ballotpedia", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_110,_Drug_Decriminalization_and_Addiction_Treatment_Initiative_(2020)", "date": "", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "or-2022-01", "state": "OR", "city": "Portland", "business": "Shroom House", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "membership", "event": "storefronts-reported", "date": "2022-10-24", "summary": "An unlicensed storefront opened selling psilocybin over the counter, checking two forms of ID and asking customers to join a members' 'society'. Oregon had no licensed service centers yet.", "agency": null, "outcome": "Raided Dec 8, 2022.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "The Implications of Police Raids on Shops Selling Psilocybin Mushrooms", "publisher": "Filter", "url": "https://filtermag.org/psilocybin-mushroom-shops-raids/", "date": "2022-12-15", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Police serve warrant, arrest 4 at Portland shop selling psychedelic mushrooms", "publisher": "KPTV", "url": "https://www.kptv.com/2022/12/08/police-serve-warrant-make-arrests-portland-shop-selling-psychedelic-mushrooms", "date": "2022-12-08", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "or-2022-03", "state": "OR", "city": "Portland", "business": "Shroom House", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "membership", "event": "charges", "date": "2022-12-16", "summary": "A Multnomah County grand jury indicted the shop's owner and manager on 40 felony counts each, including money laundering and distributing a Schedule I substance near a school.", "agency": "Multnomah County District Attorney's Office", "outcome": "The manager pleaded guilty in December 2022 (see or-2022-04); the owner pleaded not guilty and his case outcome is not confirmed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Shroom House Co-Defendants Indicted on 40 Felony Charges", "publisher": "Willamette Week", "url": "https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2022/12/19/shroom-house-co-defendants-indicted-on-40-felony-charges", "date": "2022-12-19", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "or-2022-02", "state": "OR", "city": "Portland", "business": "Shroom House", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "membership", "event": "raid", "date": "2022-12-08", "summary": "Portland Police served a search warrant at the shop, arrested four people, and seized more than $13,000 in cash, 22.1 pounds of mushrooms and edibles, and business records. Two were booked on delivery near a school and money laundering; two were cited for delivery of psilocybin.", "agency": "Portland Police Bureau", "outcome": "Grand jury indictment and a guilty plea followed (see or-2022-03, or-2022-04).", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Police serve warrant, arrest 4 at Portland shop selling psychedelic mushrooms", "publisher": "KPTV", "url": "https://www.kptv.com/2022/12/08/police-serve-warrant-make-arrests-portland-shop-selling-psychedelic-mushrooms", "date": "2022-12-08", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Portland's infamous Shroom House raided, evidence seized and arrests made", "publisher": "KVAL", "url": "https://kval.com/news/local/portlands-infamous-shroom-house-raided-evidence-seized-and-arrests-made-psychidelic-psilocybin-mushrooms-police-investigation-shrooms-magic-oregon", "date": "2022-12-08", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "or-2022-04", "state": "OR", "city": "Portland", "business": "Shroom House", "named_in": "two-outlets", "model": "membership", "event": "conviction-or-plea", "date": "2022-12", "summary": "The shop's manager pleaded guilty to three felonies (money laundering, drug sales, and drug sales near a school), per a plea document filed Dec 20, 2022; 37 other counts were dropped. Prosecutors recommended 10 days in jail, 80 hours of community service and three years of probation.", "agency": "Multnomah County District Attorney's Office", "outcome": "Sentence imposed not confirmed; owner pleaded not guilty and his case outcome is not confirmed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Shroom House Manager Pleads Guilty to Three Felonies", "publisher": "Willamette Week", "url": "https://wweek.com/news/courts/2022/12/21/shroom-house-manager-pleads-guilty-to-three-felonies", "date": "2022-12-21", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "or-2024-01", "state": "OR", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2024-09-01", "summary": "HB 4002 (Oregon Laws 2024, chapter 70) made possession of small amounts of controlled substances a 'drug enforcement misdemeanor' again from Sept 1, 2024 (up to 180 days jail at the defendant's request, otherwise probation up to 18 months). Psilocybin stays outside the controlled-substance definition only when handled under the licensed ORS 475A program.", "agency": "Oregon Legislative Assembly", "outcome": "Ends Measure 110's violation-only treatment for possession, including psilocybin outside service centers.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "HB 4002 2024 Regular Session overview", "publisher": "Oregon Legislature", "url": "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/HB4002", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "HB 4002 Enrolled", "publisher": "Oregon Legislature", "url": "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4002/Enrolled", "date": "2024", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "or-2026-01", "state": "OR", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-09-01", "summary": "Oregon Psilocybin Services and the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program merged into the Medical Cannabis & Psilocybin (MCAP) Section of the Oregon Health Authority.", "agency": "Oregon Health Authority", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Oregon Psilocybin Services", "publisher": "Oregon Health Authority", "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/preventionwellness/pages/oregon-psilocybin-services.aspx", "date": "", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ut-2024-01", "state": "UT", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2024-03-21", "summary": "Utah SB 266 (Medical Amendments), which lets health systems run a highly regulated program that its sponsor said targets psilocybin and MDMA (the bill names neither), became law without the governor's signature; participants cannot take drugs home.", "agency": "Utah Legislature; Governor of Utah", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "S.B. 266 Medical Amendments (2024 General Session)", "publisher": "Utah Legislature", "url": "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0266.html", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Bill letting Utahns try psilocybin goes into effect without governor's signature", "publisher": "FOX 13 News Utah", "url": "https://fox13now.com/news/politics/bill-letting-utahns-try-psilocybin-goes-into-effect-without-governors-signature", "date": "2024-03-21", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "ut-2026-01", "state": "UT", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2026-03-04", "summary": "Utah HB 390 (Veterans PTSD Clinical Research Amendments), authorizing a donation-funded study of psychedelic-assisted therapy for veterans, received final passage and was enacted.", "agency": "Utah Legislature", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 First Quarter: Legislative Wrap Up", "publisher": "MAPS", "url": "https://maps.org/?p=358732", "date": "2026-03-30", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "ut-2026-02", "state": "UT", "city": "Utah County", "business": "Singularism", "named_in": "official", "model": "religious", "event": "lawsuit", "date": "2026-10-05", "summary": "A federal appeals court ruled that a district court should not have blocked Utah County's felony psilocybin prosecution of a member of Singularism, a group that uses psilocybin in religious ceremonies. The panel held that the district court should have abstained, and that Utah's psilocybin law does not treat secular use more favorably than comparable religious use, so it gets only rational-basis review; the plaintiffs did not contest the law's neutrality.", "agency": "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit", "outcome": "Reversed and remanded with instructions to vacate the injunction against the state criminal proceedings. A separate preliminary injunction under the Utah Religious Freedom Restoration Act, requiring return of seized items and barring interference with the group's religious use of psilocybin, was not appealed, and the court expressed no opinion on it.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Opinion, No. 25-4115 (10th Cir. Oct. 5, 2026)", "publisher": "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit", "url": "https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/010111520627.pdf", "date": "2026-10-05", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "wa-2021-01", "state": "WA", "city": "Seattle", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-10-04", "summary": "Seattle City Council unanimously passed Resolution 32021, making investigation, arrest and prosecution of entheogen-related activity, including growing and sharing without financial or other consideration, among the city's lowest enforcement priorities. Commercial activity is not covered.", "agency": "Seattle City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "BREAKING: City of Seattle Decriminalizes Psychedelics", "publisher": "Harris Sliwoski LLP", "url": "https://harris-sliwoski.com/cannalawblog/breaking-city-of-seattle-decriminalizes-psychedelics/", "date": "2021-10-05", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Seattle Becomes Largest U.S. City To Decriminalize Psychedelics", "publisher": "Marijuana Moment", "url": "https://www.marijuanamoment.net/seattle-becomes-largest-u-s-city-to-decriminalize-psychedelics/", "date": "2021-10-04", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "wa-2021-02", "state": "WA", "city": "Port Townsend", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2021-12-20", "summary": "Port Townsend City Council unanimously made adult entheogen activity in nonpublic places a low enforcement priority.", "agency": "Port Townsend City Council", "outcome": "No sales exclusion reported.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Port Townsend Council makes entheogens low police priority", "publisher": "Peninsula Daily News", "url": "https://peninsuladailynews.com/news/port-townsend-council-makes-entheogens-low-police-priority", "date": "2021-12-24", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "wa-2023-02", "state": "WA", "city": "Jefferson County", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2023-05-01", "summary": "Jefferson County commissioners unanimously made entheogens the county's lowest law enforcement priority and backed decriminalization, not legalization.", "agency": "Jefferson County Board of Commissioners", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Jefferson County de-prioritizes psychedelics", "publisher": "Peninsula Daily News", "url": "https://peninsuladailynews.com/news/jefferson-county-de-prioritizes-psychedelics", "date": "2023-05-02", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "wa-2023-01", "state": "WA", "city": null, "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "state-action", "date": "2023-05-09", "summary": "The governor signed SB 5263 with partial vetoes (Chapter 364, Laws of 2023). As enacted it created a Health Care Authority psilocybin task force and, subject to funding, a University of Washington pilot offering psilocybin therapy through FDA-approved pathways to first responders and veterans 21+. It did not legalize possession or sales.", "agency": "Governor of Washington", "outcome": "Vetoed sections included a state psilocybin advisory board and an interagency work group. Effective July 23, 2023 (task force section May 9, 2023).", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "SB 5263 - 2023-24", "publisher": "Washington State Legislature", "url": "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5263&Year=2023", "date": "", "type": "primary" }, { "title": "Second Substitute Senate Bill 5263, Chapter 364, Laws of 2023 (partial veto)", "publisher": "Washington State Legislature", "url": "https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5263-S2.SL.pdf", "date": "2023-05-09", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "confirmed" }, { "id": "wa-2024-01", "state": "WA", "city": "Olympia", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2024-08-13", "summary": "Olympia City Council made psilocybin and similar substances a low enforcement priority; manufacturing and sales remain prohibited.", "agency": "Olympia City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "What's an 'entheogen'? Magic mushrooms are now a low priority in Olympia", "publisher": "KUOW", "url": "https://www.kuow.org/stories/what-s-an-entheogen-olympia-s-approach-to-psychedelics-is-now-a-low-priority", "date": "2024-08-14", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "wa-2025-01", "state": "WA", "city": "Tacoma", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2025-01-28", "summary": "Tacoma City Council unanimously lowered enforcement priority for entheogens. The resolution does not authorize or enable commercial manufacturing or sales.", "agency": "Tacoma City Council", "outcome": null, "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Tacoma City Council lowers enforcement priority for psilocybin, similar substances", "publisher": "Northwest Public Broadcasting", "url": "https://www.nwpb.org/2025/01/30/tacoma-city-council-lowers-enforcement-priority-for-psilocybin-similar-substances/", "date": "2025-01-30", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "wa-2026-01", "state": "WA", "city": "King County", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2026-03-24", "summary": "King County Council passed a motion asking that arresting adults for personal entheogen use be the lowest enforcement priority in unincorporated areas. It explicitly does not support commercial manufacturing or sales.", "agency": "King County Council", "outcome": "Sponsor said it reaffirms existing Sheriff and Prosecutor practice.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "King County resolution decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms", "publisher": "Bellevue Reporter", "url": "https://www.bellevuereporter.com/2026/03/25/king-county-resolution-decriminalizes-psychedelic-mushrooms/", "date": "2026-03-25", "type": "news" } ], "confidence": "reported" }, { "id": "wa-2026-02", "state": "WA", "city": "Pierce County", "business": null, "named_in": null, "model": "unknown", "event": "decriminalization-measure", "date": "2026-09-01", "summary": "Pierce County Council reportedly voted unanimously on Sept 1, 2026 to deprioritize personal use of natural psychedelics, including psilocybin.", "agency": "Pierce County Council", "outcome": "The county's news item refuses automated access, so its text, the measure's number and any sales exclusion are not confirmed.", "count": null, "sources": [ { "title": "Psilocybin decriminalization in the United States", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_decriminalization_in_the_United_States", "date": "", "type": "news" }, { "title": "Pierce County Council Establishes County Position on Entheogen-related Research", "publisher": "Pierce County Council", "url": "https://www.piercecountywa.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=7245", "date": "2026-09-03", "type": "primary" } ], "confidence": "unconfirmed" } ] }