Magic Mush: Ottawa’s third psilocybin dispensary opens in Centretown

This is an article I wrote in my final year at Carleton University when I was writing a lot about the intersection of psychedelics and mental health in Canada. Psilocybin dispensaries started opening all around Ottawa and Toronto. I was interested in learning about how these dispensaries were opening despite legal regulations surrounding the sale of psilocybin in Canada. Canada’s capital has joined the psychedelic renaissance after welcoming its third magic mushroom dispensary, following Health Canada opened a narrow window of permissible use of the otherwise illegal drug.