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Montreal police raid illegal magic mushroom store | Winnipeg Free Press
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Post behind a paywall so i couldn’t read it. But that looks like a Fun Guyz “medicinal mushroom dispensary” (which is funny because to my knowledge zoomers aren’t legal for any type of use). There’s been one open about 2 blocks from me here in east toronto for about 4 months now, and I’ve seen a few pop up in a couple different cities in Ontario. I would love to know the how and why of both the business and the seeming inability to shut them down in a timely fashion.
I mean, the intent behind these kinds of businesses is activism, really. They're definitely taking a page out of the Marc Emery playbook with their business model, forcing law enforcement to sort of play wack-a-mole with multiple locations but being super duper obvious with their presence as a business, and using that to really highlight the disproportionate investment of resources in the enforcement of some rather archaic drug laws.
Also to make fat stacks of cash
lol you do realize they'll have fines to pay at the very least, right? This isn't black market dealing, this is a push for decriminalization knowing full well that civil disobedience has some expensive and unavoidable consequences.
Cops on the payroll maybe?