A legal win for shrooms
Court Rules Psychedelic Mushroom Dispensary Can Remain Open in Vancouver
A mushroom dispensary in Vancouver won in court after the city failed to provide enough evidence that its products contained psilocybin.
A Vancouver mushroom dispensary, Coca Leaf Café, just won a key court case after the city couldn’t prove its products contained psilocybin. Despite claims that most of the shop’s sales were from magic mushrooms, the court found the city’s evidence lacking—no products were tested, and no customers or employees were interviewed.
Our mushroom dispensaries will outlast the current mayor and council,” spokesperson Dana Larsen told DoubleBlind. “We will outlast the current chief of police. We’re not going anywhere and in the end, we are going to win.”
The City of Vancouver contended, according to CBC, that it didn’t need to further prove that the shop was selling a controlled substance. The inspector’s report that the business was “operating an illegal mushroom dispensary where substances containing psilocybin were being sold” was sufficient evidence. British Columbia provincial court judicial justice Aamna Afsar disagreed, though she found the director of the business guilty of a bylaw offense.