Vancouver police recommending charges over mushroom dispensary [Video]

Vancouver police say they plan to forward the results of an investigation into a storefront ‘magic mushroom’ dispensary to Crown counsel and that report will include a recommendation of charges.

Police raided the shop in November of last year.

“Evidence obtained during those searches, and throughout the course of this investigation, indicates that multiple criminal offences were occurring at these for-profit businesses,” Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Const. Tania Visintin said in a statement.

The latest legal development comes as the store at 651 East Hastings St. celebrates a partial victory over the City of Vancouver in court.

The Strathcona Tea Society operates the mushroom dispensary and is named in court documents along with its director Cindy Heemeryck and a numbered company.

“Well, it depends how you look at it. But yeah, I think we are,” said store spokesperson Dana Larsen, when asked by CTV News if the store was breaking the law.

Larsen, who is not named in the …