Magic mushroom use claimed as religion

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation,

A woman who trains people to guide others on psychedelic mushroom trips and calls it a religion may lose her company’s exempt status from government oversight if the Oregon Health Authority follows through on its threat to revoke approval of Myco-Method, according to according to Willamette Week. The OHA has approved 25 private schools that charge thousands in tuition to train psilocybin facilitators to guide state-sanctioned psychedelic mushroom trips, but in the past year, the OHA has threatened to revoke approval of a program run by Shasta Winn, formerly an addiction counselor who cofounded Saba Cooperative, a New Age religious movement, in 2011. She started the Myco-Method last year as an arm of the religious movement, saying it’s exempt from oversight by state agencies, but the OHA disagrees and threatened to deauthorize the program, which means its 20 graduates could no practice in the state legally.