Magic Mushrooms in Ann Arbor (2026): What's Legal Near You

No shop in Ann Arbor can lawfully sell you psilocybin in 2026 — the city's 2020 resolution deprioritized arrests for personal use but explicitly excluded sales.

Ann Arbor draws a lot of "magic mushrooms near me" searches, and the reason is a resolution the City Council passed unanimously on September 21, 2020. It declared that investigating or arresting people for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, or possessing entheogenic plants and fungi would be the city's lowest law enforcement priority, and that city funds would not go toward those cases. Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit went further in January 2021, directing his office not to charge personal-use entheogen cases. What most search results leave out is the next paragraph of that same resolution, which says it does not authorize commercial sales or manufacturing. So in 2026 there is no shop, dispensary, clinic, or delivery service in Ann Arbor that can lawfully sell psilocybin mushrooms, and none is coming without a change in state law. Psilocybin remains Schedule 1 in Michigan and federally. What changed in Ann Arbor is the practical risk of arrest for personal use — not the legality of buying.

The legal picture in Ann Arbor

On September 21, 2020, Ann Arbor's City Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution declaring that the investigation and arrest of people for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with, or possessing entheogenic plants and fungi on the federal Schedule 1 list is the city's lowest law enforcement priority, and that city funds or resources will not be used in any such investigation, detention, arrest, or prosecution. That same resolution states in writing that it "does not authorize or enable" commercial sales or manufacturing of these plants and fungi, possessing or distributing them in schools, driving under the influence, or public disturbance, and adds that "any significant violation of this section may result in law enforcement involvement by the City of Ann Arbor." Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit announced a broader non-prosecution policy on January 12, 2021, declining to charge use and possession and creating a general presumption against charging small-scale sales while expressly keeping discretion to prosecute larger distribution. That is a charging directive rather than a law: Savit was still in office in 2026 and was nominated in April 2026 as the Democratic candidate for Michigan Attorney General, and the policy can be revised by whoever holds the office. Psilocybin and psilocyn remain Schedule 1 under Michigan's Public Health Code (MCL 333.7212) and under federal law — possession is a 1-year misdemeanor statewide (MCL 333.7403(2)(c)) and manufacture or delivery a 7-year felony (MCL 333.7401(2)(b)(ii)). No state law has changed: House Bill 4686, introduced June 25, 2025, would create only a narrow psilocybin exception for people diagnosed with PTSD, and it remains in committee.

What about the storefronts you may have heard of?

Local deprioritization tends to move psilocybin sales out of sight rather than end them, and the pattern reported around cities that have passed these resolutions is the familiar one: informal delivery arrangements, social-media and messaging-app sellers, "gifting" setups where mushrooms accompany a paid item, and occasional pop-up markets, sometimes promoted as though the city resolution made them legal. It did not. The resolution's own text excludes commercial sales and manufacturing, the county's charging directive is a presumption that expressly leaves larger distribution chargeable, and neither the city nor the county policy binds the Michigan State Police, university police departments, or federal prosecutors. Beyond the legal exposure, these products are unregulated and untested: potency varies widely between and within batches, misidentification of wild-picked mushrooms is a real risk, and psychedelic edibles and "chocolate bar" products sold in this market have repeatedly been found on testing to contain undisclosed compounds rather than psilocybin. The clearest documented case is the 2024 Diamond Shruumz recall, in which a nationally distributed "microdosing" chocolate bar and gummy line was linked by FDA and CDC to 180 illnesses across 34 states, 73 hospitalizations and 3 potentially associated deaths, with muscimol among the compounds identified in the products.

Legal alternatives

Psilocybin spores are legal to buy and possess in Michigan for microscopy because they contain no psilocybin — Michigan has no spore statute, unlike California, Florida, Georgia and Idaho, the four states with spore-specific bans — but germinating them is manufacturing a Schedule 1 substance and a 7-year felony, so the legal line here is narrow and easy to cross. Amanita muscaria products and functional mushroom supplements such as lion's mane and reishi are sold openly and lawfully in Michigan, which has not scheduled amanita or muscimol; amanita is not a psilocybin substitute, though — it acts on GABA receptors, produces sedative and delirium-like effects, and is sold unregulated with unreliable labeled dosing. The nearest genuinely legal supervised psilocybin access is a licensed healing center in Colorado or a licensed service center in Oregon; neither state imposes a residency requirement, but both require attending sessions in person in that state. Michigan residents can also check ClinicalTrials.gov for enrolling psilocybin studies — the University of Michigan has run psychedelic research through its Michigan Psychedelic Center, launched in 2022.

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FAQ

Where can I buy shrooms in Ann Arbor?

Nowhere legally. Ann Arbor's 2020 resolution deprioritized arrests for personal use, but it explicitly does not authorize commercial sales or manufacturing, and Michigan has no licensed psilocybin program. Any storefront, delivery service, or online seller offering psilocybin in Ann Arbor is operating illegally, no matter how it describes itself. The only mushroom products legally sold in the city are spores for microscopy, amanita muscaria, and non-psychoactive functional mushrooms.

Are magic mushrooms legal in Ann Arbor?

No. Deprioritization is not legalization. Psilocybin and psilocyn are still Schedule 1 under Michigan law (MCL 333.7212) and federal law, and the City Council resolution of September 21, 2020 changed only how Ann Arbor police rank enforcement — it did not amend any statute. Possession remains a misdemeanor on the books carrying up to a year in jail, and growing or selling remains a felony carrying up to seven years.

Can you get arrested for mushrooms in Ann Arbor?

It is much less likely than elsewhere in Michigan but not impossible. Ann Arbor police treat personal-use entheogen cases as their lowest priority, and the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office has had a policy against charging them since January 12, 2021. Those are discretionary policies set by a city council and a sitting prosecutor, not legal protection: they can be revised by whoever holds the office, they do not cover driving under the influence or possession on school grounds, they leave larger-scale distribution chargeable, and they do not bind the Michigan State Police, university police departments, or federal prosecutors.

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