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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.

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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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