Both were handed two-year suspended sentences and ordered to perform community service.
A mother and son arrested last summer when the Montreal police carried out a series of raids at a magic mushroom dispensary on Ontario St. have been sentenced for drug trafficking.
The pair were sentenced at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday. Lawyers representing another five people charged in the same case, including two from Ontario, announced plans on Tuesday to plead guilty at the Montreal courthouse in April.
Annie Sirois, 51, of Montreal, pleaded guilty to possession of drugs with the intent to traffic. Her son, Maxime Sirois Cotton, 28, pleaded guilty to possession and drug trafficking. Prosecutor Sarah-Audrey Daigneault told TVA that Sirois Cotton was an employee of FunGuyz for a week. The store opened for a brief period of time last summer and was raided at least three times by Montreal police. When police searched Annie Sirois’s apartment, they found mushrooms and cannabis.
The son received a two-year suspended sentence and is required to carry out 180 hours of community service in 12 months. The mother received the same suspended sentence and is required to carry out 50 hours of community service.
The store opened on July 11 and offered pills, dried fungi and chocolate bars, all containing the psychedelic agent psilocybin, a substance subject to sale and possession bans in Canada. The Montreal police raided the store the first day it opened. Sirois, her son and five other people made their first court appearances on July 21.
The store reopened at least twice following similar raids, but it appears to have since closed.
A message on the FunGuyz Montreal website asks clients to “Call to get a secret location.”
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