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December 07, 2022
Drug Sales Get Trippy
Sign on Shroom House Shop
Magic mushroom
shop opens in
Portland
The country’s first over-the-
counter magic mushroom shop
is open in Portland. Tons of res-
idents took the whimsical store.
The Shroom House which is
referred to as a wellness shop
by the owner is located on West
Burnside and is getting atten-
tion around the country. With its
arrival sparking fears that Port-
land's record-murder rate and
soaring violent crime problems
will spike further. The Shroom
House is selling psychedelic
fungi with catchy names ranging
from $70 to $95 per 7-gram bag-
gie. Customers have to be at least
21, provide two forms of identi-
fication, and fill out a question-
naire that asks about depression
and anxiety, among other things.
Before purchasing from the
Shroom shop customers must fill
out paperwork to become a mem-
ber of the “Shroom House Soci-
ety.” The application states the
businesses’ board “will consider
your application at which time it
will be rejected or accepted.”
Oregon passed measure 109 in
November 2020. The law forbids
the drug from being sold at retail
shops and says it must be taken
on-premises at the state-approved
centers under the guidance of
a worker trained in a program
approved by the Oregon Health
Authority. However, Oregon will
start accepting applications for
permits to sell psilocybin prod-
ucts from January 2, 2023.
“Retail sales of psilocybin
are not legal under Oregon law,”
said Sam Chapman, executive
director of the Healing Advocacy
Fund, who advocated for Mea-
sure 109, which legalized magic
mushrooms in Oregon. “Noth-
ing in Measure 109 or any other
law allows the sale of psilocybin
mushrooms today or in the fu-
ture,” he stated.
The store also sells non psy-
chedelic products such as teas
and “elixirs” made with a vita-
min-rich mushroom with pur-
ported brain benefits.
The Oregon Health Authority
doesn't have any licensed psilo-
cybin dispensaries at this time,
and OHA says it does not deal
with enforcement or regulation
and that would be up to the po-
lice. Portland police say they are
aware the store is open and sell-
ing mushrooms but won't give
details on the activity of the bu-
reau's Narcotics and Organized
Crime unit.
2022 Subsidized Housing Waiting List Opening
Studio, 1, 2, 3, and 4- Bedroom Apartments
Wednesday November 30 – Wednesday December 14
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dized housing assistance will be opening the waiting lists for studio, one,
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Applications will be accepted online from any internet capable device at
www.homeforward.org beginning November 30 at 9:00 am. If you do not
have internet service, please call us at 503-419-8050 for assistance.
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PM.
Phone assistance will not be available on Saturday or Sunday
Photo Courtesy of the OLCC website
Mandatory Cannabis
Recall Issused
OLCC issues
mandatory recall
for marijuana
extract products;
investigation to
determine cause
The Oregon Liquor and Can-
nabis Commission (OLCC) have
issued a mandatory recall for sev-
eral marijuana products due to the
potential presence of pesticides.
The possible marijuana product
contamination is a result of fail-
ure to follow OLCC and Oregon
Health Authority (OHA) rules for
tracking and isolating marijuana
products where the presence of
pesticides has been detected.
This recall has been issued
for 9,300 units that were still on
the market and affects 13,600
units that were sold to consum-
ers. The recall is being issued to
ensure that licensees do not sell,
and customers do not consume
the effected products, because
OLCC investigators cannot de-
termine if the potential contam-
ination is isolated or is wide-
spread through the product lines.
These products were manu-
factured under the trade names
Bobsled and Quantum Alche-
my. A list of these products can
be found on the OLCC website
product recall page. The OLCC
has notified cannabis retailers
about the recall, advising that
these products are under a man-
datory recall with instructions
on how the products must be
destroyed or returned to a li-
censed supplier for destruction.
The state’s Cannabis Tracking
System to detected potential-
ly tainted products, contact the
licensees that produced the im-
pacted brands and locate all the
questionable items distributed
and sold through Oregon’s reg-
ulated market.
Inspectors will follow up with
licensees in possession of the
affected products to ensure they
are removed from sale, isolated
from other inventory, and then
ultimately destroyed according
to OLCC rules. Customers who
have purchased this product can
either return it to the licensed re-
tailer they purchased it from or
destroy the product.
The OLCC has not identified
any fault by the laboratory that
conducted the pesticide analysis.
The items identified as subject to
the mandatory recall are related
to batches that originally failed
testing for pesticides. Under
OHA rules, manufacturers must
follow certain procedures to re-
test any failed batches, and may
only remediate the suspect prod-
uct under certain circumstances.
The manufacturers of the prod-
ucts identified did not follow
proper procedures in tracking,
retesting, and isolating the af-
fected marijuana products.
An investigation started on
November 29, 2022. The compa-
nies that produce Bobsled prod-
ucts (Bobsled, LLC) and Quan-
tum Alchemy products (Happy
Hollow Farms, Inc.) are cooper-
ating with OLCC in the isolation
and destruction of the affected
items. Although the discovery of
these incidents occurred simulta-
neously, OLCC is investigating
them as separate incidents.
Consumers with health-re-
lated concerns about a recalled
product should contact the Ore-
gon Poison Center at 800-222-
1222, or their medical provider.
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