Published Jun 25, 2025 • Last updated 10 hours ago • 2 minute read
Windsor police this week busted a downtown magic mushroom business for what is believed to be the eighth time over the last two years.
As with mushrooms in the wild, this illegal mushroom dispensary in the city keeps sprouting back up.
The latest crackdown at the same location took place Tuesday morning as officers with the Windsor Police Service’s drugs and guns unit executed a search warrant at a commercial storefront in the 300 block of Ouellette Avenue.
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Police say they seized $21,100 in illegal drugs from the dispensary that sells psilocybin, commonly known as magic mushrooms and used as a hallucinogen.
Found during the search were 136 bags of dried psilocybin, 108 bottles of psilocybin capsules, 98 psilocybin chocolate bars, 44 packages of psilocybin gummies, four bags of psilocybin candy and one vape cartridge.
A 33-year-old employee, on the premises when police arrived, has been charged with possession of a Schedule 3 substance for the purpose of trafficking and failure to comply with an undertaking.
Investigators last seized almost $30,000 in illegal drugs from the dispensary in May.
Over the past two years, officers have repeatedly raided the same storefront location, seizing more than $200,000 worth of psilocybin-infused products and charging a number of individuals with trafficking related offences.
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Police vowed in July 2023, following the opening of the downtown Windsor business Fun Guyz, to hold “criminally accountable” anyone in posession of or trafficking in outlawed substance.
Sales of products containing the hallucinogen psilocybin are illegal in Canada.
Advocates tout the natural product’s health benefits in helping those suffering from anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
But police point to Health Canada warnings that taking magic mushrooms can cause people to “see, hear or feel things that are not there, or to experience anxiety, fear, nausea and muscle twitches accompanied by increased heart rate and blood pressure.”
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Police continue to investigate.
Anyone with further information is asked to call the Windsor Police Service drugs and guns unit at 519-255-6700, ext. 4361 or contact Windsor & Essex County Crime Stoppers anonymously at 519-258-8477 or online at www.catchcrooks.com.
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