Soul Tribes International Ministries — billed as Detroit’s first “psychedelic church” where psilocybin mushrooms are offered as a holy sacrament — was raided by the Detroit Police Department on Friday, just days after Metro Times published a cover story about it.
DPD confirmed that a search was conducted on the 15000 block of the Southfield Freeway, but declined to give a reason for the investigation or provide further details about what was taken from the property. Metro Times obtained a copy of a search warrant issued by the Third Judicial Circuit Court on Thursday, Sept. 21 for Soul Tribes International Ministries at 15000 Southfield Freeway.
Soul Tribes opened inside Bushnell Congregational Church over Labor Day weekend with plans to host healing ceremonies with psilocybin mushrooms and other entheogenic plants like ayahuasca and iboga. The church runs a “sacrament center” which sells dried psilocybin mushrooms, capsules, and gummies.
The warrant states all narcotics including “psychedelic mushrooms” were to be seized from the “illegal dispensary inside the purported church” along with “all books, records, receipts, notes, ledgers, and other papers relating to the procurement, distribution, storage, and transportation of controlled substances.”
Soul Tribes owner Shaman Shu says 15 armed officers in masks showed up, seized more than $700,000 in psilocybin mushrooms intended for therapeutic use, and ordered the church to close.
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