Another Toronto mushroom shop caught fire last night
Guys who sell mushrooms in Ziploc bags in the park, this could be your time to shine
Around 5 a.m. this morning, firefighters were called to a suspicious blaze at an Annex psilocybin dispensary after reports that an object had been thrown into the storefront. No one was hurt as the business was closed during the incident, and the flames were put out by someone with a fire extinguisher by the time firefighters arrived.
This is not the first suspicious event at a Shroomyz. Last August, a masked driver drove a pickup truck into the store in the middle of the night, and a fire at a Shroomyz on Yonge was confirmed by police to be a suspected arson.
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In September, fires at two Shroomyz locations in Ottawa were also called suspicious by police.
Seems stressful for all involved. Those who indulge may have suggested a low-to-medium dose to encourage a better mood, but Shroomyz is closed today, clearly.
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
