Police raid Shroom House in Portland, making four arrests

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Portland Police and the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office served the warrant around 1 a.m. on Thursday, seizing more than $13,000 in cash and 22 pounds of “dried fungus and other edibles” that gave a presumptive positive test for psilocybin.Investigators also seized records from the business, which officers said will be used to further the investigation, pursue prosecution, and deliver more arrests or citations “where appropriate.”Arrests madeOfficers made four arrests on Thursday in connection with the warrant.Steven Tachie is the owner of “Alive N Well Hospitality Group” and has been previously linked to the downtown business.The therapeutic psilocybin will be administered by trained facilitators in a secured location with supervision with controlled dosing and with appropriate therapeutic support for the person who is getting treatment, and that’s completely different.”Even though Oregon passed the law for legal administration of psilocybin in 2020, the clinics that are expected to do this kind of therapy have yet to open.The program has been gradually making its way through an extensive administrative and regulatory process before that happens."

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