About the Seattle psilocybin almanac
Magic Mushrooms Seattle is a dated, sourced reference on psilocybin in Seattle and the Puget Sound region. It's published by the team that runs My Mushroom Dispensary, an online shop for adults 21+, and it gives no dosing, growing or foraging instructions.
From the shop our team runs, My Mushroom Dispensary. Adults 21+ only.
What the almanac is
An almanac records what's true on a given date and where the fact came from. That's the whole idea here. Seattle's relationship with psilocybin mushrooms runs from the mycologists who named a species from a collection made on the University of Washington campus to a 2021 City Council resolution and a state-funded study at UW Medicine, and much of what's written about it online is undated, unsourced or selling something. We wanted one place where every fact carries a date and a link.
The almanac's entries:
- Magic mushrooms in Seattle, the main entry and the almanac table.
- The timeline, every dated event we could confirm, free to download.
- The history, told as a story, and the species named in the Pacific Northwest, as natural history.
- Seattle's research register and the city by the numbers.
- Myths checked against the record, a visitors' entry, the wider psychedelics scene, the Stamets stack and an A to Z.
- A news desk that reports from primary documents.
Who publishes it
Magic Mushrooms Seattle is published by the team that runs My Mushroom Dispensary, an online shop for adults 21+. That's a commercial interest in the subject, and you should read what we publish with it in mind.
We sell no advertising and nothing on this site, and nobody pays for coverage. Every page has a Products button under its opening paragraph that goes to the shop's order page, with a line under it saying the shop is run by our team and is for adults 21+ only. Four entries (the main entry, the visitors' entry, the psychedelics entry and the Stamets stack) also carry a short note about the shop, and every note ends with the same disclosure line. Apart from the button, the timeline, history, species, research, numbers, myths and A to Z entries and every news story don't mention the shop, so what they report can be cited on its own terms.
Psilocybin is a Schedule I controlled substance under federal law and illegal to possess under Washington law. Ordering it online or by mail is illegal under federal law and in every state. The disclaimer sets out the legal position.
What we never publish
No dosing instructions, schedules or preparation steps. No growing or cultivation instructions. No foraging guidance: no identification keys, no places and no seasons for finding wild mushrooms, because deadly lookalikes grow in the same places and a web page can't make a safe identification for you. No advice on avoiding police, customs or drug tests. When an entry reports an amount, it's what a study measured or administered, given as a finding about that study.
How facts are dated and checked
Every fact links to its source, preferably the primary document: a statute, a council record, a court opinion, a trial registry entry, a journal article with its PubMed ID, a government dataset. Each entry shows the date it was last checked. If we couldn't confirm something against the primary record, we leave it out or say who reported it. Drafts are written with AI tools and checked against their sources before publication; the editorial standards explain how, and how to report an error.
Who compiles it
Entries are bylined to the Magic Mushrooms Seattle editors, the team that researches, writes and checks them. We don't put named experts on pages, quote people we haven't interviewed, or publish reviews or testimonials. Questions and corrections go to almanac@magicmushroomsseattle.org; more on the contact page.