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InvisibleveggieM

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[CAN] A magic mushroom dispensary is about to open in Montreal
    #28392293 - 07/11/23 10:07 AM (10 months, 3 days ago)

Here he goes again, this guy doesn't give up. Good luck ...

A magic mushroom dispensary is about to open in Montreal. The only problem? It's illegal.
July 11, 2023 - CBC

A shop that sells illegal hallucinogenic mushrooms is set to open a Montreal location on Tuesday, risking a police raid and the possible arrest of their employees.

The shop, Fun Guyz, advertises itself as a "medical" dispensary that sells magic mushrooms, a type of fungi that is considered a hallucinogen.

The production, sale and possession of magic mushrooms are illegal in Canada, except for some medical contexts which require special permission from Health Canada.

But the people behind Fun Guyz say they should be legalized.

A person reached by phone at the Montreal location on Monday, who declined to provide their name but said they were a spokesperson for the chain, said the store's existence is part of a broader push to legalize magic mushrooms.

Fun Guyz already operates 11 locations in Ontario, five of them in Toronto. Police have raided several of the stores, have seized stock and arrested employees, but each store reopened shortly afterward.

Their owners are challenging the charges in court, the spokesperson said.

Jean-Sébastien Fallu, an addictions specialist and assistant professor at the Université de Montréal's School of Psychoeducation, said the people behind Fun Guyz are engaging in civil disobedience similar to that of those who opened cannabis stores prior to the legalization of marijuana.

"Social change happens through different paths," Fallu said. "Either with debate and rational argument — that's my job, my business — but some choose civil disobedience and human history has shown that civil disobedience is a way of changing things."

Fallu said there is a growing body of scientific research showing the potential therapeutic benefits of magic mushrooms.

Fun Guyz says the products it sells are therapeutic. The store spokesperson said the products the shop sells aren't for recreational use, adding that they are instead intended as a kind of medical product.

But medical use of psilocybin, the main active compound in magic mushrooms that causes hallucinations, is tightly controlled by Health Canada.

A path to legalization?

Dr. Houman Farzin, a physician at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital who uses psilocybin as part of psychotherapy for cancer patients in palliative care, said he sees Fun Guyz's push for legalization as fundamentally different from the push to have the drug recognized as having therapeutic merit in the right circumstances.

"I don't think it has any relevance to the medical side," he said. "The reality is the medical model that we're applying and developing is very specific and the people that go to the medical system are different; their needs are different.

"Doing this for wellness, for recreation, is very different than doing this for therapy."

Farzin added that recent data, expected to be published soon, shows much of the population is in favour of the therapeutic use of psilocybin and even its full legalization.

"Activism has a role to play," he said. "The reality is that even in our medical model, we've had to deploy activism to get patients access [to psilocybin] and so what's happening with this store is activism to give the population at large access."

The Fun Guyz spokesperson said the store was slated to open at 11 a.m. on Tuesday.

A Montreal police spokesperson declined to say whether officers planned to raid the store or not, but said the police service intended to enforce the law as it is written in the criminal code.

The federal government has acknowledged an increasing interest in the "potential therapeutic uses of magic mushrooms and psilocybin," according to a publication on the Health Canada website. But said that "while clinical trials with psilocybin have shown promising results, at this time, there are no approved therapeutic products containing psilocybin in Canada or elsewhere."

Health Canada only grants access to psilocybin for clinical trials or on a case-by-case basis for trained health care practitioners to use in specific circumstances.

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Re: [CAN] A magic mushroom dispensary is about to open in Montreal [Re: veggie]
    #28392517 - 07/11/23 02:13 PM (10 months, 2 days ago)

Chip away, chip away, chip away slowly.
Interesting that the government wants a preponderance of evidence to legalize something that was so arbitrarily made illegal.

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InvisibleveggieM

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Re: [CAN] A magic mushroom dispensary is about to open in Montreal [Re: The Tao]
    #28392737 - 07/11/23 05:35 PM (10 months, 2 days ago)

And - busted again. How long before the new store opens? ...

Montreal police raid illegal magic mushroom store on opening day, arrest four people
July 11, 2023 - The Star



Montreal police on Tuesday raided a store selling illegal magic mushrooms and arrested four people, but a spokesperson for the shop said he expected it to reopen within 24 hours.

The first FunGuyz location in Quebec opened in Montreal Tuesday offering pills, dried fungi and chocolate bars, all containing the psychedelic agent psilocybin, a substance subject to sale and possession bans in Canada.

Hours later, Montreal police confirmed they had launched an operation against the store in the city’s Village neighbourhood, making four arrests.

The store spokesperson, who identified himself as Edgras Goban, described the raid as a “simple” product seizure and “waste of taxpayers’ money.”

FunGuyz, he said, has already been the target of police raids in Ontario, where it has 10 franchises. He said the company has “been through this multiple times before.”

The spokesman has been identified in media reports as the co-owner of Ontario-based FunGuyz stores. Those reports have spelled his name various ways, including “Edgars Gorbans” and “Edgar Gurben.” He refused to say on Tuesday whether he is the owner of the brand, nor would he divulge the identity of the Montreal franchisee.

Goban said he expected police action at the Montreal location. “We do expect the police to come in and raid us because obviously what we’re doing, it’s illegal,” he said on Tuesday before police descended on the store. “The idea behind everything is, are the police willing to … use the taxpayers’ money for mushroom stuff?”

He described FunGuyz as a form of protest to challenge public policy surrounding hallucinogenic drugs, adding that the company planned to open as many as five more locations in Quebec this summer, including a store in the Montreal suburb of Laval that he said was set to open within weeks.
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Several customers had managed to purchase products at the Montreal FunGuyz location before the police raid. They included Ahmed Adel, who said he used to go to Amsterdam to consume magic mushrooms.

“When this opened here, it saved me the flight,” he said, dismissing authorities’ warnings about psilocybin.

“I don’t like the police. I don’t deal with the police. I don’t acknowledge the police. I have nothing to do with the police and what they think is totally irrelevant.”

Roman Lebourg was also among FunGuyz’s curious customers Tuesday. “I was very intrigued and wanted to check it out before it was closed down by authorities,” he said.

Lebourg expressed concern about the content of FunGuyz’s products in the absence of any quality control legislation, in contrast, he said, to quality assurance in Quebec’s government-run cannabis stores.

“This is a whole different can of worms.”

In a statement, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante’s office said that despite the “administration’s strong stance in favour of decriminalizing the simple possession of drugs, and the adoption of a declaration to this effect by the entire city council, the sale of psilocybin remains illegal, and the (police) will continue to enforce the law.”

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Re: [CAN] A magic mushroom dispensary is about to open in Montreal [Re: veggie]
    #28393010 - 07/11/23 11:29 PM (10 months, 2 days ago)

This country is fucked you can stand on the corner selling hard drugs all day and no one will stop you but open a storefront selling soft and people lose their fucking minds


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Re: [CAN] A magic mushroom dispensary is about to open in Montreal [Re: veggie]
    #28394221 - 07/13/23 08:21 AM (10 months, 1 day ago)

So fucking based.


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Re: [CAN] A magic mushroom dispensary is about to open in Montreal [Re: veggie]
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