{"id":245375,"date":"2026-04-24T22:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245375\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:09:07","slug":"legal-mushroom-hemp-dispensary-shutting-down-st-pete-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245375\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Mushroom, Hemp Dispensary Shutting Down St. Pete Store"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Chillum<\/a>, a legal mushroom and hemp dispensary, is closing the doors of its St. Petersburg location. <\/p>\n

Sunday is the last day of business at the shop, located at 1916 Central Ave. N.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s Tampa store at 1714 E. 7th Ave. in Ybor City will remain open. <\/p>\n

Chillum had high hopes when it opened St. Petersburg shop opened in September 2023. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ve been here for three years, three-and-a-half years, and we honestly just didn\u2019t get the business that we were hoping for,\u201d store manager Abby Hettrich told Patch. <\/p>\n

With a new wave of businesses moving into this area, the eastern part of the Grand Central District, their landlord also raised their rent. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think with everything coming on this block – there didn\u2019t use to be anything over here and then Salt Light opened, and then Wendy\u2019s [Closet] opened \u2026 but I think because of all that, they\u2019re [the landlord] is like, \u2018Well, you guys can definitely pay more,\u2019\u201d Hettrich said. <\/p>\n

Since opening in 2022, Chillum has produced and sold legal alternatives to traditional psilocybin mushrooms, she said. <\/p>\n

Chillum was the first company to sell these types of mushrooms in Florida, Hettrich said. \u201cAt least mushroom products that were in any way psychedelic or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the company works \u201coff a good amount of loopholes\u201d to do so legally, she added. The way the mushrooms used in their products are bred, they don\u2019t test positive for psilocybin. <\/p>\n

With public conversation swirling around the topic and regulatory pressure, the company leads with an education-focused approach. <\/p>\n

This led to the creation of Learn Euphoria<\/a>, \u201can education company founded to give people access to structured, responsible information about psychedelics, micro-dosing, mushroom cultivation, and non-detectable tryptamine products,\u201d according to the Chillum website. <\/p>\n

While some customers take Chillum\u2019s products to get high, many use them to microdose.<\/p>\n

\u201cMicrodosing can treat a variety of different things, whether it\u2019s mental ailments, chronic pain, just kind of wanting a day-to-day mood boost, or anything like that,\u201d Hettrich said. \u201cI had my own microdose regimen for quite some time and I\u2019ve heard so many people say how it changes their life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The effects of Chillum\u2019s products tend to last three to six hours.<\/p>\n

With the closure of the St. Petersburg store, where the company has been manufacturing most of its products, the focus will shift to the Tampa location, she said. <\/p>\n

But she doesn\u2019t rule out the brand finding its way back to St. Petersburg down the road. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure [the owner] at some point would love another store here,\u201d Hettrich said. <\/p>\n

Are you a local business owner? Post a business listing on Patch! It\u2019s an easy way to reach a local audience and connect with customers close to home. Go here<\/a> to get started today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Chillum, a legal mushroom and hemp dispensary, is closing the doors of its St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-245375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245375","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=245375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}