Did you know that Detroit has a psychedelic mushroom church?

In 2021 Detroit voters approved Proposal E, which decriminalized entheogenic plants and fungi in the city. Detroit’s Per Ankh Entheogenic Church is a non-denominational house of worship that incorporates psilocybin mushrooms and cannabis into its service.

On Sunday, it will host Kendis Gibson, an Emmy-winning journalist who details his personal journey using psilocybin to treat depression in his recent memoir Five Trips: An Investigative Journey into Mental Health, Psychedelic Healing, and Saving a Life .

Though the church building has been operating for about a year, according to the Per Ankh founder and director Moudou Baqui the movement behind it in Detroit goes back many years.

“We operate under the definition that

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