Are we ready to buy magic mushrooms like they’re craft beer?
For the past two years, the Rockhouse has also had another distinction: Its gift shop will openly, legally sell you a magic mushroom chocolate bar. In June 2021, when it first added them to its inventory, it became one of the first stores that is not a drug dispensary to openly and officially sell a product containing psilocybin anywhere in the world.
The experience goes a little like this: You enter the shop and make your way past woven handbags, CBD oil, and Jamaican jerk sauce to the life-size sculpture of a Patoo, a Jamaican owl that the chocolate brand is named after. Flanking it are two thick, golden boxes the size of large Hershey bars, embossed with brown mushrooms and the word Patoo. You ask the woman behind the counter if people often buy it. “Yeah,” she says. In some ways, the scene at the Rockhouse – and the 11 other hotels and 28 dispensaries that are now selling around 2,000 total Patoo chocolate bars a month…
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Are we ready to buy magic mushrooms like they’re craft beer?
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