Legal Status
P. cyanescens specimens do not fall under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances because the convention does not cover naturally occurring plants that incidentally contain a scheduled drug. However, many countries choose to prohibit possession of psilocybin containing mushrooms, including P. cyanescens, under their domestic laws.
Countries that have banned or severely regulated the possession of P. cyanescens include the United States, Germany, New Zealand, and many others. Because spores contain no psilocybin or psilocin, they are not always covered by the same legislation as mushrooms or mycelia. Because of this, Psilocybe cyanescens spores are legal to possess in most of the United States. (It is illegal to possess spores in Georgia and Idaho, and illegal to possess them with the intent to produce mushrooms in California.) In many other countries, spores themselves are illegal.
In some jurisdictions, cultivation is treated differently than possession of wild-occurring mushrooms, and in some jurisdictions knowledge that a mushroom contains psilocybin (or psilocin) is necessary in order to be prosecuted.
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