Magic Mushrooms in Minneapolis

Minneapolis is one of the few American cities where a mayor has formally told police to stand down on mushrooms, and one of many where that still does not mean you can buy any. Executive Order 2023-01, signed by Mayor Jacob Frey on July 21, 2023, made investigating or arresting adults for personal possession and use of entheogenic plants and fungi the Minneapolis Police Department's lowest priority. Read closely, though, it is narrow: it says outright that it does not legalize anything or limit prosecutors, and it expressly carves out commercial sales and manufacturing. So possession draws little police attention here in 2026, while selling remains fully exposed. Statewide, psilocybin is still Schedule I, and 2026 was a near miss — the House voted 114-15 in May for a regulated therapy program, but the language never reached the governor, leaving only a state study, with Office of Cannabis Management recommendations due January 15, 2027. No storefront in Minneapolis can lawfully sell psilocybin, and the shops below sell glass, CBD, and accessories.

The legal picture in Minneapolis

Mayor Jacob Frey signed Executive Order 2023-01 on July 21, 2023, directing that investigation and arrest for the personal possession and use of entheogenic plants and fungi be the Minneapolis Police Department's lowest law enforcement priority. The order states plainly that it does not legalize anything and does not restrict prosecutorial discretion, and it expressly carves out commercial sales and manufacturing, possession or distribution at schools, driving under the influence, possessing weapons while under the influence, and public disturbances — so selling carries the same exposure it always did. (Peyote is excluded from the order's definition entirely, at the request of Native American Church organizations.) Statewide, psilocybin and psilocyn remain Schedule I controlled substances under Minn. Stat. 152.02, subd. 2, and possession is charged as fifth-degree possession under Minn. Stat. 152.025 — a felony punishable by up to five years and a $10,000 fine, dropping to a gross misdemeanor only for a first offense involving less than 0.25 grams or a single dosage unit, a threshold that mushroom quantities rarely fall under.

Places operating legally in Minneapolis

What about the storefronts you may have heard of?

Minneapolis has no tolerated psilocybin storefronts of the kind seen in Vancouver or Toronto. The mayor's executive order lowers arrest risk for personal possession only and specifically carves out commercial sales and manufacturing, so a shop selling mushrooms in Minneapolis is exposed to the same felony sale and manufacture charges as anywhere else in Minnesota — city policy does not bind Hennepin County prosecutors, the state, or federal authorities. Treat online directory categories with caution: the word 'smartshop' is borrowed from the Netherlands, where truffles are legally sold, and aggregated business databases sometimes attach overseas herbal retailers to US addresses, so a Minneapolis 'smartshop' entry does not imply a real local storefront or a legal psychoactive product. No Minneapolis retailer can lawfully sell truffles, grow kits intended for psilocybin, or dosed psilocybin products, and anything advertised that way is either mislabelled or illegal, with no potency or purity oversight either way.

Legal alternatives

Psilocybin spores contain no psilocybin and are not scheduled in Minnesota, so buying and possessing them for microscopy is legal — germinating them is not, and can be charged as manufacture. Amanita muscaria is not a controlled substance in Minnesota, and functional mushroom products such as lion's mane and reishi are ordinary dietary supplements sold across the Twin Cities; note that in December 2024 the FDA wrote to food manufacturers that Amanita muscaria, its extracts, and constituents including muscimol, ibotenic acid and muscarine are not authorized for use in conventional food, so those edibles are unapproved and unverified for potency. The nearest genuinely legal supervised psilocybin is out of state: licensed healing centers in Colorado and licensed service centers in Oregon, neither of which has a residency requirement, where the psilocybin is consumed on site.

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Sources

• Executive Order 2023-01, Deprioritizing Enforcement of Entheogenic Plants — Mayor Jacob Frey, City of Minneapolis, signed July 21, 2023 (states it does not legalize anything or restrict prosecutorial discretion; excludes commercial sales and manufacturing, schools, driving, weapons, public disturbance; peyote excluded from the definition) (accessed 2026-07-29)
• Minn. Stat. 152.02, subd. 2 — Schedule I hallucinogens list psilocybin (21) and psilocyn (22); no listing for spores, amanita muscaria, muscimol, or ibotenic acid (accessed 2026-07-29)
• Minn. Stat. 152.025 — Fifth-degree controlled substance crime; subd. 4 sets a five-year / $10,000 felony maximum, with a gross-misdemeanor tier only for a first offense under 0.25 grams or one dosage unit (accessed 2026-07-29)
• HF 2906 — Psilocybin therapeutic use program established (Rep. Andy Smith); committee report to adopt as amended and re-refer to Commerce Finance and Policy, 3/16/2026 — Minnesota Legislature (accessed 2026-07-29)
• Bill that would legalize psilocybin-assisted therapy gets committee OK — Minnesota House Session Daily, March 9, 2026 (HF 2906 would reschedule psilocybin to Schedule IV and put the Office of Cannabis Management in charge of registries and licensing) (accessed 2026-07-29)
• SF 4612 — Omnibus Health and Human Services supplemental appropriations, signed 5/26/2026 as Chapter 127 (House 69-63 on 5/7/2026, repassed 108-26 on 5/17/2026); the enacted chapter contains no psilocybin program (accessed 2026-07-29)
• Minnesota is on the verge of expanding access to psilocybin therapy — Minnesota Reformer, July 10, 2026 (Office of Cannabis Management to report on a state-regulated therapeutic psilocybin program; recommendations due January 15, 2027) (accessed 2026-07-29)
• Minnesota Psychedelic Medicine Task Force Legislative Report — MN Department of Health, January 1, 2025 (accessed 2026-07-29)
• FDA Alerts Industry and Consumers About the Use of Amanita muscaria or its Constituents in Food — U.S. Food and Drug Administration, December 2024 (accessed 2026-07-29)
• Head Shops in Minneapolis — shroomap.com city directory (accessed 2026-07-29)

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