{"id":240769,"date":"2026-04-21T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240769\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:27:10","slug":"legal-mushroom-dispensery-to-close-st-pete-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240769\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Legal mushroom dispensery’ to close St. Pete location"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSt Petersburg, Grand Central District:
\nChillum Mushroom & Hemp Dispensary \/\/ Credit: chillumdispensary.com <\/p>\n

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A shop considered one of the first legal mushroom dispensaries in the US is closing its St. Petersburg location.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The store is set to close Sunday, April 26th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chillum Mushroom & Hemp Dispensary offers hemp-derived cannabinoids, functional mushrooms, legal psychedelic-adjacent products, and harm-reduction education.<\/p>\n

Carlos Hermida is the store\u2019s owner and founder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He cited a mix of factors, including economic pressures, marketing challenges, and the industry\u2019s evolving nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really are proud that we were in St. Pete. We were quite happy to be a part of the community. We love that community. But it seems like that community has kind of changed.\u201d Hermida told WMNF.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reports that Pinellas County lost almost 12,000 residents last year, the second-most in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur lease is up at the end of the month on April 30th. And it\u2019s just, the numbers aren\u2019t there to continue.\u201d Hermida said.<\/p>\n

Hermida said the store\u2019s biggest challenge was marketing, saying their social media pages got shut down often. <\/p>\n

The store\u2019s flagship in Ybor City remains open, and they say they will continue their education program focused on psychedelic literacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Petersburg, Grand Central District: Chillum Mushroom & Hemp Dispensary \/\/ Credit: chillumdispensary.com Listen: A shop considered one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[91685,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-240769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-mushrooms","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}