Editorial standards
These are the rules every page on Magic Mushrooms San Diego follows. If you find a page that breaks one, tell us and we'll fix it.
On this page
Sources come first
Every factual claim in our guides, tracker and news posts links to a numbered source at the bottom of the page. We prefer primary documents: the California Health and Safety Code and Penal Code on the Legislature's site, bill histories and floor votes, the Federal Register, agency pages from the FDA, DEA, CDC, California Department of Public Health, Oregon Health Authority and Colorado's Natural Medicine Division, court records, and peer-reviewed studies cited by PubMed ID or DOI. We use news reports for what only reporting can tell us, such as what an official said at a hearing, and we name the outlet.
When sources disagree, we say so instead of picking the more dramatic number. When we can't confirm something, we leave it out.
How we check a page
A page isn't published until its numbers, dates, names, bill numbers and statute sections have been checked against the cited sources by someone other than the person who drafted it. We avoid words like "first", "only" and "most" unless a source literally supports them. Legal pages carry a "last checked" date, and we re-check them at least monthly and whenever a bill, ballot measure or rule changes.
Corrections
If we get something wrong, we fix it, update the page's modified date and add a short note at the bottom of the page saying what changed and when. Significant corrections to the bill tracker are listed in its changelog. Send corrections to desk@magicmushroomssandiego.com with the page address and, if you can, a source.
How we use AI
We use AI tools to help gather research, organize notes and draft text. A person on the desk reviews every page, and every claim is checked against its source before publication. AI tools don't decide what we cover, and we don't publish anything a tool produced without that check.
All illustrations on the site are AI-generated cut-paper artwork, made for this site and captioned "AI illustration". They are not photographs and don't depict real people, places or products exactly.
Our conflict of interest
Magic Mushrooms San Diego is published by the team that runs My Mushroom Dispensary, an online shop for adults 21 and older. That's a conflict of interest, and we handle it in the open:
- Shop cards appear only on the home page and a few guides about buying, delivery, products and microdosing, and every one ends with a disclosure line.
- Our legal guides, penalties page, bill tracker, safety and crisis pages, therapy cost guide, parents' guide, local scene guide, enforcement log and news posts carry no shop links.
- We report the law as it is: psilocybin is illegal under California and federal law, and no state allows it to be sold by mail. We say so next to every mention of the shop.
- We don't accept payment for coverage, sell advertising or join affiliate programs.
What we don't publish
No dosing instructions or schedules, no growing or preparation instructions, no foraging locations, no tips for evading police or drug tests, and no names of private people involved in criminal cases. We don't publish reviews, testimonials or quotes we can't trace to a real public record. Harm reduction is different: we do explain interactions, warning signs and where to get help, because that information keeps people safe.
Data you can reuse
The California psychedelics bill tracker data is free to reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). Credit "Magic Mushrooms San Diego" and link to the tracker page. The downloads are a CSV file and a JSON file, both linked from the tracker.