Queensland police charge man with drug offences over alleged commercial-scale magic mushroom operation

Queensland police have laid charges over an allegedly commercial-scalepsilocybin production operation south of Brisbane, as separate and unrelated investigations continue intohigh-profile deathssuspected to be linked to mushroomsin Australia.

Officers from the major and organised crime squad raided two houses in Logan on Thursday, at First Avenue in Marsden and Rossmore Road in Chambers Flat, where they say they discovered large quantities of illicit psilocybin – commonly referred to as magic mushrooms.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration released guidance on the advertising of magic mushrooms, after psychiatrists were permitted to prescribe them for mental health illness for the first time in April last year.

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The advice requires advertisers to get approval from the administration before selling them, and restricts the types of health claims that can be made to do so.

Det Insp Craig Bowman from the organised crime gangs group said “these criminal syndicates have no regard for the wider harm illicit drugs cause to the community.