'Huge setback': SF's massive psychedelic church is leaving the city
‘Huge setback’: SF’s massive psychedelic church is leaving the city
The psychedelic pastor said it would cost $200K to stay in the city
San Francisco’s expensive and byzantine building permit system is often blamed for many of the city’s problems, whether it’s delaying affordable housing, dooming a small bakery into months of construction limbo or forcing a homeowner to flee the city because of legal fight over backyard sheds. But now even San Francisco’s most famous magic mushroom church is leaving the city and citing pricey permits and building requirements as the cause.
Dave Hodges, the pastor of the Church of Ambrosia, said the church has decided to close its San Francisco location in the SoMa neighborhood at the end of this month because they can’t afford to pay for expensive improvements to their ground level windows, which he said could cost over $200,000 to comply with.
He called it a “huge setback” for his religious organization, which is built around distributing magic mushrooms, cannabis and other psychedelic substances.
“We want to make sure people have safe access to the sacraments they need and there’s a lot of people who preferred to go to the SF location,” Hodges said.
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/sf-magic-mushroom-church-leaving-city-19972072.php
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