Add The California Post on Google A mushroom-obsessed San Diego admitted to dosing his 9 and 11-year-old kids with psilocybin mushrooms so that they could experience altered states of consciousness.
Randal Vance pled guilty to several drugs charges in federal court Friday. He allegedly lead a drug operation that used children to cultivate, produce and distribute psilocybin mushrooms in San Francisco’s Fallbrook and Bonsall areas.
Vance dosed his own kids with mushrooms daily, prosecutors said.
Vance also provided psilocybin capsules to his older son to sell to his young friends, offifials said. Adding his wife, 42-year-old Rebecca Vance, was his partner in business along with a friend, Keir Ceballos-Rivera.
The trio sold whole, dried and freeze-dried through their Instagram page along with two websites — psillyrabbit.com and psillyrabbitmushrooms.com. The mushroom dealers also produced chocolates induced with hallucinogenic mushrooms.
On Oct 4, 2024, law enforcement officials searched two of Vance’s business locations in Fallbrook and Bonsall. At the Ash Street site, they seized 204 pounds of fresh and 53 pounds of dried psilocybin mushrooms, 18 pounds of inoculated substrate and processing equipment.
At the Lilac Road site, officials recovered 25 pounds of dried mushrooms, five pounds of capsules, and six unsecured firearms, including a Glock 34, Walther P22, Henry Survival AR7, Browning 30-06, and two revolvers. Loaded magazines were found next to the pistols.
At the time of the raid, the drugs had an estimated street value of more than $200,000.
Vance is facing up to 40 years of imprisonment for exploiting minors in narcotics operations, another 40 years for distributing controlled substances to children and decades more for distribution and obstruction of justice.
