Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

Now, Dave is very careful to point out you cannot buy mushrooms or anything else in the sacrament room, even though the church is a cash-only congregation.

There are very intentionally no sales here.

The word sales is kind of a bad word.

Instead, you can make a cash donation to the church, after which one of the sacrament providers behind the counter will offer you whatever you think might help you get in touch with your soul.

And the sacrament room contains a lot of different options.

All around there are glass cases filled with pre-rolled joints and cannabis gummies, but also drawers filled with psychedelic mushrooms of various strains and potencies.

For those with a bit of a sweet tooth, there are mushroom confections of all shapes and sizes.

Like sweeties?

It's like a psychedelic Willy Wonka situation.

The sacrament room even contains DMT, or dimethyltryptamine, one of the most powerful hallucinogenic compounds known to science.

Widely, but maybe dubiously, rumored to be released by your brain when you are being born and when you're dying.

And how much would I have to donate to get one of these?

I'm visiting the church on a relatively sleepy Monday afternoon.

But Dave says on a busy weekend, they can see more than 300 members a day in the sacrament room.

And it is that kind of volume that's made Dave famous and a little bit controversial in the psychedelic movement.

I've heard people compare your church to mega church status.

Is that right?

Wow.

Hello and welcome to Planet Money.

I'm Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi.