Montreal has emerged as a leader in the country’s psychedelic resurgence, offering multiple clinics, dispensaries and online shops that deliver high-quality shrooms for recreational or therapeutic use. The city offers a variety of mushroom strains including Penis Envy, Golden Teachers, Koh Samui Super Strain and Nepal Chitwan. As always, consumers are encouraged to practice caution and to take only a small amount of mushrooms for the most enjoyable experience. URL northcoastremedies.com

A chain that sells illegal hallucinogenic mushrooms opened a Montreal location on Tuesday, risking a police raid and the possible arrest of its employees. The shop, FunGuyz, advertises itself as a “medical dispensary” that sells psilocybin-containing magic mushrooms, a type of fungus considered to be a hallucinogen. The production, sale and possession of the drug is illegal in Canada, except in some medical contexts that require special permission from Health Canada.

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In the case of the FunGuyz store, Mayor Valerie Plante has said that her administration would not tolerate such a business. But the owner of the chain, Edgar Gorbans, says that opening a store in Montreal is not a violation of law.

The store’s presence is part of a nationwide boom in shops selling the drug, which are driven by growing demand and subtle shifts in federal drug policy. For example, while the Trudeau government has made it clear that cannabis is its priority for decriminalization, it has relaxed possession laws for a number of drugs in recent years, and psilocybin may be next.