The Psychedelic Healing Shack in Detroit has been closed since police with guns drawn raided the building along Woodward in September, seizing 99 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and 10 grams of marijuana.
But the defiant owner, Robert Pizzimenti, better known as Dr. Bob, is determined to reopen, despite facing threats from the city.
“It’s our religious freedom to have these psychedelics,” Pizzimenti tells Metro Times. “Drugs are something you manipulate in a laboratory, not something you pick from nature that has medicinal benefits.”
In a statement to Metro Times, the city’s corporation counsel, Conrad Mallett Jr., said the city is not messing around.
“It is against the law to sell marijuana without a license,” Mallett said. “It is against the law to sell psychedelic mushrooms. Like others before him Mr. Pizzimenti is trying to hide behind the church and mask his criminal behavior. The City of Detroit has confronted others making similar claims. In each case the city of Detroit was able to prove behavior was illegal. If Mr. Pizzimenti persists, he will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
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