Editorial standards
Every claim on this site points to a dated source, preferably the statute, record or study itself, and the legal facts are rechecked every month. When we get something wrong, we fix it on the page and date the correction.
From our sister shop, My Mushroom Dispensary. Adults 21+ only.
Where our facts come from
Primary records come first, in this order:
- Statutes (Florida's current edition on the Florida Senate's site), the U.S. Code and the Code of Federal Regulations.
- Bill pages, staff analyses and votes; court opinions; agency rules and releases.
- ClinicalTrials.gov records and peer-reviewed studies with their PubMed entries. A preprint, which hasn't been peer reviewed, is always labeled as one.
- News reports, always named, for dated reporting or to find a record we then open.
Numbered citations point to a dated source list at the end of each page. If we can't confirm something against a source we've opened, we leave it out or say who reported it. Words like "first", "only" and "never" stay out unless the source supports them.
How legal facts are checked, and rechecked
Statutes and court opinions are quoted exactly, and paraphrases keep the legal meaning. A maximum sentence is written as "up to", never as the usual outcome. Pages that compare places use the same three categories: legal under a regulated program, decriminalized or deprioritized but still illegal under state law, and illegal, which is where Florida stands.
Every month the desk rechecks the legal facts on each guide against the current statutes, the bill tracker against the Legislature's bill pages, and the trials list against ClinicalTrials.gov. The timeline and enforcement log get the same check. A page's "last checked" date moves only after that check.
What we never publish
- Dosing instructions: no amounts, schedules or advice on what to take. Any amount on a page is what a named clinical trial gave its participants.
- Instructions for preparing or extracting psilocybin, or for producing mushrooms.
- Help finding wild mushrooms: no locations, habitats, seasons or identification features. Poisonous species look alike, and no page can make an identification safe.
- Ways to avoid police, customs, mail inspection or drug tests.
- Names of private people in criminal cases, raids or lawsuits, or street addresses of raided businesses. Officials, researchers, agencies and companies in official records may be named.
- Invented reviews, testimonials, ratings, anecdotes or quotes. Quotes come from named documents or published statements.
The publisher and the reporting
This site is published by the team that runs an online shop for adults 21+, named on our About page. We sell no advertising, nothing is for sale here, and no one pays for coverage.
The shop appears in a note on six pages: the home page and the guides to Florida law, Miami dispensaries, ordering online, microdosing and visiting Miami. Each note sits in a box tagged "From our publisher" and ends with the same disclosure: the site and the shop are run by the same team, the shop is for adults 21+, psilocybin is illegal under Florida and federal law, and no state allows it by mail. Most of those pages also link to the shop once in the text, as the About page does.
News stories, the four data pages, the safety and help pages and the therapy guide carry no publisher notes and no links to the shop, apart from the Products button under the intro of every page, which links to the shop's order page. Pages with a note meet the same sourcing rules as any other, and a note never replaces reporting.
AI-generated illustrations
Our pictures are AI-generated illustrations in a 1980s airbrush style, not photographs of real events, and every caption starts "AI illustration". They were made with Google's Gemini, so Google's SynthID watermark may be present in the pixels, invisible to the eye but readable by Google's detection tools.
AI in our writing
AI tools help the desk research, draft and fact-check. They are never a source: a claim in a draft without a source we've opened is cut. Before publication, a separate fact-check pass checks every fact against the source it cites, and an automated check flags unmatched citations, broken links and wording we don't use.
Corrections
To report an error, email newsroom@magicmushroomsmiami.com with the page address, the sentence that's wrong and a link to a source that shows it. We check the claim against the primary record.
If we got a fact, figure, date or quote wrong, we fix it and add a note at the end of the page. It starts with "Correction" and the date, then says what was wrong and what the page says now. A guide's "last checked" date or a news story's "updated" date changes too. Errors are never removed quietly; typos and broken links are fixed without a note. A dataset error is fixed in its row and the downloads are rebuilt.
Reusing our data
Four datasets are free to reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0): the Florida psilocybin bills, the clinical trials with a Florida site, the timeline and the enforcement log. Each offers CSV and JSON downloads. Credit Magic Mushrooms Miami with a link to the data's page. Bill status and trial recruitment change, so check a row's source before relying on it.