23 Apr
23Apr

Coun. Melissa De Genova is raising alarms about the impact a medicinal mushroom shop could have on public safety and health. The proposed motion, tabled in city council today, seems to be fuelled by an announcement on the website of the Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary which they plan to open a storefront in Vancouver in the spring of 2021. According to the website, the proposed shop will specialize in "medical grade" mushrooms. There are no legal specifics provided on what the company will do with their product or how they will identify it as "medicinal".
The website does not indicate how the mushrooms will be harvested or cultivated, nor does it address issues of contamination or toxicity, view mushroom delivery. It does suggest that some of the microcosms contained in the mushrooms may have a role to play in combating the "common threads of mental illness, drug abuse and addiction". This is reminiscent of the work being done by Pest Management Association and the Mushroom Association, two similar organizations which monitor the cultivation and sale of mushrooms both for ingestion and injection. But what role can medicinal mushrooms play in reducing the harm caused by legalized drugs like MDMA and cannabis?In a world where MDMA and cannabis are legal alternatives to prescription pain medication, it is easy to understand why the medicinal mushroom dispensary is targeting them. After all, the goal is to create controlled access to small, controlled amounts of MDMA and psilocybin. By doing this, they hope to create a black market for these substances, much like the cannabis industry has, which allows users to exchange one form of legalization for another. Legalizers argue that there is nothing illegal about the exchange of these mushrooms and that there is a legitimate difference between the amount of exposure a person has and the legal access to them.The argument put forward by the medicinal mushroom dispensary is also similar to the argument put forward by medical marijuana dispensaries; that there is no legitimate risk associated with medical marijuana when microdoses are exchanged. The argument goes something like this: if you are not risking anything, then why would anyone make a market out of it? The logic seems to follow that the sale of MDMA and other microdoses is only going to result in increased sales, which mean increased profit for the retailer, and therefore increased bottom line profit for the owner of the dispensary. While many hemp growers and gardeners will be quick to disagree, the logic here could be argued as reasonable.However, if there is any legitimate difference between psilocybin mushrooms and MDMA and other recreational drugs, it is in the amount of power that is released with use, check magic mushroom dispensary. Microdoses of psilocybin mushrooms do not result in nearly as much dopamine or serotonin release as does ingest a small amount of marijuana. This does not mean that the medicinal mushroom dispensary is charging customers for higher doses of the active ingredient in mushrooms, just that there is a different chemical involved.Regardless, of what you think, a Medical Mushroom Dispensory is simply a legally accessible way to grow and sell mushrooms that have already been standardized to a certain potency, often with legal access granted by a license. While legal access alone may not necessarily mean that you can go into your neighbor's yard and grow an unlimited amount of mushrooms, it certainly does mean that you can charge whatever you want. The increased bottom line profits of these types of businesses come from customers who are willing to pay the high price that is required for high quality products. These people do not necessarily plan on growing very many plants, but they do know that legal access to high quality microdose mushrooms is a good thing. Read more at https://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-and-animals/microbes-algae-and-fungi/moneran-and-protistan/mushroom 

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