How does Mushrooms New York check what it publishes?

What counts as a source?

We build pages from primary records, numbered in a source list at the foot of each page.

• Primary: statutes and bill pages on nysenate.gov and nyassembly.gov, court decisions, NYC Council records, agency releases and data, ClinicalTrials.gov entries, and peer-reviewed papers with their PubMed IDs.
• Secondary: news reports, trade bulletins and policy trackers, for dated events and leads. We name the outlet and check the primary record when one exists.
• Not sources: sellers' legal claims, unsourced posts and AI output.

How are facts checked?

Before a page is published, a separate checker that didn't write it opens the sources and checks every figure and its denominator, date, bill number, statute section and quote. What doesn't match is fixed or cut; what we couldn't confirm stays out or is attributed.

How do corrections work?

When we get a fact wrong, we fix it and add a dated correction note at the foot of the page saying what was wrong and what the page now says. We don't change facts quietly. Routine updates, such as a bill moving, change the "last checked" date instead and go in the bill tracker's changelog.

To report an error, email desk@mushroomsnewyork.com with the page address, what's wrong and a source that shows it. Correction notes don't name the person who reported it.

How are links to My Mushroom Dispensary handled?

Our team also runs My Mushroom Dispensary, an online shop for adults 21+ (see who publishes this site). Links to the shop can appear on the home page, six guides about the law and buying in New York City, and once on the About page; on a guide, that's one link in the text and a labeled shop box. Separately, every page has a Products button under its introduction that goes to the shop's order page, with the line "From our sister shop, My Mushroom Dispensary. Adults 21+ only." under it; its link carries tags that tell the shop which page a visit came from (see the privacy page). Apart from that button, shop links never appear in news posts, on the safety and help page, the bill tracker, the trials list or the near-New-York page, or in fact boxes, FAQs or source lists.

Every shop box ends with the same disclosure line: who runs the shop, that it's for adults 21+, and that ordering psilocybin is illegal under federal law and in New York. Nobody pays for these links; they point to a business with the same owners as this site. We don't call the shop legal, licensed or local, publish its prices or rate it.

Where do we use AI?

We use AI tools to organize research notes, draft and edit pages, and run the separate fact checks described above. Nothing is published until it has been checked against the cited sources, and AI output is never treated as a source. The mosaic illustrations are AI-generated and captioned "AI illustration"; they show generic scenes, not real places, people or products.

What does "last checked" mean?

Guides show when the desk last checked them against their sources; datasets, when their records were last updated. Every month we recheck each bill and look for new ones, rerun the ClinicalTrials.gov search, recheck nearby states' laws and update the pages that quote them.

Why no dosing or preparation advice?

We don't publish amounts to take, schedules, instructions for taking, preparing or growing mushrooms, foraging spots, or tips on avoiding police or detection. Possessing any amount of psilocybin is a crime in New York,¹ and no web page can do the medical screening a clinical trial does. We do report what a study measured or a trial gave its participants, as a finding, and the weights in the Penal Law, because they're the law. Who should avoid psilocybin and where to get help are on the safety and help page.

How do we treat people in criminal cases?

We don't name private individuals who were arrested, charged or convicted, even when police, prosecutors or other outlets did. We name businesses, agencies, courts and officials in their public roles, give the date and source, and say when a case is only a charge. If a case we covered has changed, for example by dismissal or sealing, tell us and we'll update the page.