3 magic mushroom labs in Ontario shut down by police

York Regional Police accidental the find of 1 tiny magic mushroom laboratory led investigators to 2 different larger operations successful Ontario, each of which person been unopen down.

Police said their probe into the organisation of amerciable psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known arsenic magic mushrooms, started successful August.

A hunt warrant was issued astatine location successful Whitchurch-Stouffville wherever officers recovered a “small clandestine lab” wherever magic mushrooms were allegedly being grown, constabulary said.

This find past led constabulary to a overmuch larger cognition successful Puslinch and successful the Hamilton area, investigators said.

On Tuesday, further hunt warrants were conducted — 1 astatine a residence successful Hamilton and different astatine a agrarian spot connected Victoria Road South successful Puslinch, conscionable southbound of Guelph.

About 100 pounds of magic mushrooms and immoderate currency were seized astatine the Hamilton property, constabulary said.

Meanwhile, astatine the Puslinch property, officers recovered a ample manufacturing installation wherever constabulary accidental “it’s believed the laboratory is producing magic mushrooms for amerciable commercialized organisation crossed Ontario.”

York Regional Police said this is 1 of the largest psilocybin laboratory operations they person uncovered.