Dana Larsen, pictured in his Vancouver dispensary on Jan. 26, 2023, had his business licence reissued by Vancouver city councillors, in a tacit official approval for him to continue selling magic mushrooms and other illegal substances.
Dana Larsen’s reissued licence must clarify that the store offers “education and advocacy regarding entheogens and medicinal psychoactive substances such as psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, LSD and DMT.” “We are seeing an average of 10 deaths per week of overdose in the city of Vancouver. I don’t want people who are trying to find safer alternatives through microdosing mushrooms – or what have you – turning to some black-market supplier on the internet or a guy at a bar.”
Vancouver now has a month to file a judicial review. Mr. Lloyd said he would welcome such an appeal because, if the city loses, the ruling could create a binding precedent to, in effect, license the two dozen other active mushroom dispensaries across Vancouver. Mike Farnworth, B.C.’s Solicitor-General and Minister of Public Safety, called the development “bizarre” at an unrelated press conference Wednesday.