Shumake helped draft a ballot initiative that Detroit voters passed in 2021 decriminalizing [possession, but not cultivation of] magic mushrooms, paving the way for his church. 

“Shaman Shu,” as he refers to himself, is accused of masterminding a penny stock “pump-and-dump scheme” that defrauded investors out of nearly $8 million between 2019 and 2021 … Shumake garnered media attention in Michigan when in September 2023 he opened Soul Tribes International Ministries in Detroit’s Bushnell Congregational Church. The church operated a shop that Shumake referred to as a “sacrament room,” selling… psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms. Detroit police raided the church, declared it a public nuisance and ordered the psychedelic church to close… Shumake is now charged in Washington, D.C.‘s U.S. District Court with securities fraud and obstruction of justice, each crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Original Article (MLive):
Self-proclaimed Michigan mushroom shaman charged in $8 million fraud
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