Seattle mushroom news
Council and legislative action, new research, nearby therapy programs and the mushroom season around Puget Sound. Every story links to its sources.
Seattle's mushroom resolution turned five. Here's what it changed, and what it didn't
The council's 9–0 vote in October 2021 made Seattle the largest US city at the time to deprioritize psychedelic plants and fungi. Five years on, state law hasn't moved, the city added a public drug use law, and the idea has spread across the region.
The Wild Mushroom Show returns to Shoreline Oct. 24–25: what to know
Hundreds of identified wild species, experts who'll look at your own finds, and the region's best crash course in telling edible from deadly. Here's what to know before you go.
It's wavy cap season in Seattle. The deadly mushroom that grows beside them is out too
Fall rains bring psilocybin mushrooms up in Seattle's landscaping chips, along with Galerina marginata, which carries the same toxins as the death cap. Here's why they get confused, and what to do if someone eats the wrong one.
Washington's psilocybin study nears its finish line as legalization bills stall
The University of Washington trial lawmakers paid for in 2023 lists November 2026 as its estimated primary completion date. Meanwhile, every bill to create a legal psilocybin program in Washington died in committee.
Oregon's psilocybin program is shrinking. What that means for Seattleites heading south
About half of Oregon's licensed service centers have let their licenses expire or surrendered them, its regulator was merged to save money, and regulators have proposed sharply higher license fees from January. The program still served more than 1,700 clients from other states last year.
The first psilocybin medicine could arrive in 2027. What it would and wouldn't change in Washington
Compass Pathways expects to finish its FDA application this quarter, backed by a priority voucher and an April executive order meant to speed psychedelic drugs. Approval would bring a prescription treatment given in clinics, not legal mushrooms.
