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$12,000 worth of magic mushrooms seized from Chatham, Ont. business: police

A vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a cannabis marketplace in Los Angeles, Friday, May 24, 2019. A lawyer alleged Tuesday Canada's government violated the constitutional right to life, liberty and security of hundreds of patients who are on a waiting list to access psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy by rejecting applications from health-care professionals requesting permission to ingest restricted drugs as a part of their training to provide the service. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Richard Vogel. RV

Police in Chatham-Kent, Ont., say more than $12,000 worth of magic mushrooms were seized from a business.

Police say a shop on King Street West was searched on Wednesday and Friday.

In total, 207 packages of psilocybin were seized.

Officials say the seized drugs will “undergo analysis as the investigation progresses.”

Police state the possession, sale and production of magic mushrooms, psilocybin and psilocin are illegal.

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