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The Church of Ambrosia in the news
The Church of Ambrosia has been featured in publications across the country, from Forbes and the LA Times to local Bay Area outlets like KQED, the San Francisco Chronicle, and NBC Bay Area. Below is a collection of press coverage about our mission, our community, and our commitment to religious freedom.
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Major and National Publications
- Forbes: The Prophet Of Shroom
- Forbes: America’s Largest Megachurch, Where Shrooms Are A Sacrament, Makes Millions
- Forbes Argentina: El profeta de los hongos psicodelicos
- LA Times: 420 celebration canceled at San Francisco’s Hippie Hill? Not if a psychedelic church can hash out plan
- Daily Mail: Pastor behind psychedelic San Francisco church raking in $5m a year
- NBC Bay Area: A church’s plan to keep 4/20 participants safe
- CBS News Bay Area: Church of Ambrosia to offer services during unofficial Golden Gate Park 4/20 celebrations
- Vice: This Pastor Offers People Shrooms and Weed at His Church
- Yahoo News: First responders, veterans hail benefits of psychedelic drugs as California debates legalization
- Yahoo News: 420 celebration canceled at San Francisco’s Hippie Hill? Not if a psychedelic church can hash out plan
- AOL: 420 celebration canceled at San Francisco’s Hippie Hill? Not if a psychedelic church can hash out plan
- Benzinga: Divine Supply: How A California Church Became A Psychedelics And Weed Sanctuary Challenging Federal Prohibition
- Men’s Journal: San Francisco Church Offers Support to Cannabis Users for 4/20
- Hyperallergic: Inside the Bay Area’s Church of Magic Mushrooms
- BusinessWire: Psilocybin Potency, The Missing Link For Magic Mushroom Safety
Bay Area and Regional Coverage
- San Francisco Chronicle: No official Hippie Hill event? No problem: here’s where to celebrate 420 in the Bay Area
- San Francisco Chronicle: No hallucination: Hundreds back magic mushrooms at Oakland psychedelic wellness conference
- San Francisco Chronicle: 4/20 in S.F.: High spirits despite lower turnout at unofficial cannabis celebration
- KQED: SF’s Official 420 Hippie Hill Celebration Is Canceled. Where Else Can You Celebrate (Legally)?
- KTVU: Church of Ambrosia to offer services for those celebrating 4/20 on Hippie Hill
- KTVU: Thousands flock to SF’s Hippie Hill for unofficial 420 celebration
- ABC 7 News: Scrapped 420 Hippie Hill event doesn’t stop crowd from lighting up in Golden Gate Park
- SF Gate: ‘Chaos’: Concerns grow over 420 crowds, lack of toilets at Golden Gate Park
- SF Gate: SF asked people not to gather at Hippie Hill for 420. Thousands came anyway
- SF Gate: This San Francisco church has 115K members yet might be illegal
- SFist: A Magic Mushrooms Church Is Providing More 4/20 Porta-Potties and Crowd Control Than the City Is
- SFist: SF Hippie Hill 4/20 Draws Thousands of Pot Smokers, Despite Being Officially Canceled
- The San Francisco Standard: Oakland’s magic mushroom church opens outpost in this San Francisco neighborhood
- The San Francisco Standard: From 420 to a naked bike ride, this was the most San Francisco day ever
- Local News Matters: Like a pilgrimage to Mecca: SF church to serve those celebrating 4/20 on Hippie Hill
- The Business Journal: Teambuilding on ecstasy? Fresno summit to explore expanding role of psychedelic drugs
Industry and Specialty Press
- Marijuana Moment: California Campaign To Legalize Psychedelics Submits Final Version Of Proposed 2024 Ballot Measure
- Marijuana Moment: California Psychedelics Ballot Measure Could Undermine Marijuana Taxes, State Officials Say
- Double Blind: Don’t Miss these Psychedelic Conferences in 2024
- Tricycle Day: Psychonaut POV
- The Psychedelic Skeptic: It’s a Psychedelic Church, Man: Meet California’s mushroom Church of Ambrosia
- Pilzezauber: Mushrooms, Entities and the World’s Largest Psychedelic Church
- Web Times: Inside the Megachurch Where Shrooms and Weed Are Religion
- Medium (The Bold Italic): 420 was definitely not canceled in San Francisco
- Medium: More Cult Fun and Psychedelia with David Hodges and the Church of Ambrosia
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