Vancouver city council has rejected an attempt to create a licensing framework for retail stores selling magic mushrooms and other psychoactive ethnogens.
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The proposal went on to argue that a regulated market of mushrooms could be viewed as an approach to harm reduction and a way to reduce opioid overdose deaths, and called on the city to look at it in the context of its medical marijuana licensing framework that predated cannabis legalization in Canada.Woman accused of solar eclipse shootings said God told her to do it: police
“Looks like this motion won’t pass, but it’s good we’re having this conversation. Let’s make sure this is a civic election issue next year! Because shroom shops aren’t going away.”
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