Legal status of psilocybin mushrooms

Legal status of psilocybin mushrooms The legal status of unauthorised actions with psilocybin mushrooms varies worldwide. and  are listed as  under the United Nations 1971 Schedule I drugs are defined as drugs with a high potential for abuse or drugs that have no recognized medical uses. However, psilocybin mushrooms have had numerous medicinal^[2][3][4] and religious uses in dand have a significantly lower potential for abuse than other Schedule I drugs.^[5]

Psilocybin mushrooms are not regulated by UN treatiesMany countries, however, have some level of regulation or prohibition of psilocybin mushrooms (for example, the US and the Canadian

In some jurisdictions, Psilocybe spores are legal to sell and possess, because they contain neither psilocybin nor psilocin.In other jurisdictions, they are banned because they are items that are used in drug manufacture. A few jurisdictions (such as the US states of CaliforniaGeorgia, and Idahohave specifically prohibited the sale and possession of psilocybin mushroom spores. Cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms is considered drug manufacture in most jurisdictions and is often severely penalized, though some countries and one US state (New Mexico) have ruled that growing psilocybin mushrooms does not qualify as “manufacturing” a controlled substance.

In the United States, psilocybin (and psilocin) were first subjected to federal regulation hby the Drug Abuse Control Amendments of 1965, a product of a bsponsored by Senator T.^[12]: 25

Despite the seemingly strict provisions of the law, many people were exempt from prosecution. The statutes “permit[ted] … people to possess such drugs so long as they were for the personal use of the possessor, [for] a member of his household, or for administration to an animal”.