When your illegal business is causing traffic problems, there’s a good chance you’re going to get the attention of the authorities. That’s what happened yesterday when the Portland Police Bureau’s Narcotics and Organized Crime unit took a search warrant to Shroom House, a store selling “suspected psilocybin products.”
Several local news outlets had covered the lines that were stretched down the block waiting to get into the store; the two suspects arrested are facing 10 felony counts of money laundering and 10 counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school. A legal psilocybin program was voted into place in 2020, but it doesn’t go into effect until next month.
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