Editorial standards
Every fact in the almanac carries a date and a link to the record it came from, errors are corrected in the open, and AI assistance is disclosed. We say who publishes the site wherever the shop the same team runs appears.
From the shop our team runs, My Mushroom Dispensary. Adults 21+ only.
How we source facts
- Primary records first: Washington statutes and session laws, bill reports and roll calls, Seattle City Council and King County records, court opinions, the Federal Register, agency datasets, ClinicalTrials.gov records and peer-reviewed studies with their PubMed IDs. News reports are used to find the primary record, or are cited as reporting when no primary record exists.
- Every factual claim is cited in the text and listed in the entry's sources. Each row of the timeline and the datasets carries its own source.
- Numbers keep their denominators, periods and definitions. A survey estimate, a registry count and a press report are different kinds of evidence, and we say which is which.
- Dates are as precise as the source allows. When a source gives only a month or a year, so do we.
- Anything we can't confirm against the primary record is left out or attributed to whoever reported it. We don't name private individuals in criminal cases.
- No reviews, testimonials, ratings, awards or anecdotes, and no quotes from people we didn't interview. Quotes come from public documents and are attributed.
Dates and updates
Each entry shows the date it was last checked. Laws, programs and research change, so we recheck the legal facts and the datasets every month and update the dates when we do. News stories carry the date of the event they report and are changed afterward only to correct an error or add a dated update.
Corrections
If you find an error, email almanac@magicmushroomsseattle.org with the entry, what's wrong and a source if you have one. We check it against the primary record. If we got it wrong, we fix it and update the date, and when a correction changes a fact, a figure or a date, we add a note at the end of the entry saying what changed and when. We don't quietly remove errors.
How we use AI tools
Drafts are written with AI tools, and separate checking passes compare each claim with the source it cites before publication. An automated check also flags citations without sources, broken links, amounts that look like doses, and wording we don't publish. The illustrations are made with an AI image tool in the style of wood engravings, show no real people, and are captioned as AI illustrations.
Ownership and links to the shop
The almanac is published by the team that runs an online shop for adults 21+ (see About). We sell no advertising and nothing on this site, and we take no payment for coverage.
Every page carries a Products button under its opening paragraph that links to the shop's order page, with one line under it: "From the shop our team runs, My Mushroom Dispensary. Adults 21+ only." Beyond that button, the shop appears on four entries (the main entry, the visitors' entry, the psychedelics entry and the Stamets stack), plus one link in the About page's ownership section. On those entries it appears in a note headed "From the team that publishes this almanac", which ends with the same fixed disclosure line every time: the almanac and the shop are run by the same team, the shop is for adults 21+ only, and psilocybin is illegal under Washington and federal law, with no state allowing it by mail.
Apart from the button, the timeline, history, species, research, numbers, myths and A to Z entries and the news desk never link to the shop or mention it.
What we never publish
No dosing instructions, schedules, preparation, growing or foraging instructions, and no advice on avoiding police, customs or drug tests. The wild-species entry is natural history: who named each species and when, with the poisoning risk. It contains no identification features, places or seasons for finding mushrooms. Why we work this way.
Data license
The timeline, the figures, the research register and the species list can be downloaded as CSV and JSON under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). Reuse them freely with a link to the entry they came from.