PORTLAND, Ore. — A KGW viewer recently left a message asking about a Portland store that appeared to be selling spores for growing mushrooms that contain the psychoactive substance psilocybin, ...

The business was founded to obtain psilocybin spores for microscopy research purposes, each syringe containing hundreds of thousands of mushroom spores (each black dot visible with the naked eye is ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week that he will soon sign legislation that, among its provisions, would ban trafficking in psychedelic mushroom spores. That measure is part of an omnibus “Florida Farm ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The first psilocybin treatment ...

Monosson is the author of Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst There are many reasons to fear a new fungal pathogen—from ...