Someone who legally partakes of psychedelic mushrooms in Oregon can either chomp down on a dried shroom or sip a tea or lemonade made from the powdered form.
Another, potentially tastier, option will soon be available: dried and homogenized mushrooms in dark chocolate. The state granted the first license for psilocybin edibles to a small manufacturer based in a Milwaukie industrial park called Spiritus, which goes under the brand name Horizon Edibles. Horizon Edibles is a maker of psilocybin chocolates and gummies, to be sold to service centers. Horizon can only sell to licensed service centers, the only place where adults can legally trip on psilocybin in Oregon, under the guidance of a licensed facilitator. Dr. Rachel Knox, Horizon’s owner, is a doctor of family and integrative medicine, co-chair of the Oregon Psilocybin Board’s Equity Subcommittee and former chair of the Oregon Cannabis Commission.
Michael Briggs, the president of operations, came to Horizon after his own transformational healing experience with psilocybin and a decade working in cybersecurity. He got into cultivating mushrooms as a pandemic project, he said.
“I’m very passionate when it comes to mental health,” he said. “This was something very interesting to me to approach and see first-hand the therapeutic benefits. As soon as I started cultivating, I fell in love, thought it was so fun and interesting.”
Horizon is one of 13 licensed psilocybin manufacturers but the only one, so far, doing edibles.
Horizon also needed to obtain a license from the Oregon Department of Agriculture to operate a commercial kitchen. Once the city of Milwaukie gives approval for handling flammable materials, Horizon will also produce psilocybin extract to be made into gummies, Briggs said.
The chocolate-covered psilocybin process starts with placing spores in an agar mixture, followed by a sorghum-based, nutrient-dense fluid, then an inoculating grain spawn and, finally, into a “fruiting bag” with coconut husks.
“We ensure there’s a sterile environment, with no contamination,” Briggs said.
The mushrooms are dehydrated and vacuum-sealed, then ground up into a powder that can be mixed with dark chocolate.“It’s an earthy flavor mixed with dark chocolate, so it tastes pretty good,” Briggs said.The process for […]
Chocolate covered psychedelic mushrooms, anyone? Oregon grants first psilocybin edibles license
