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Posted inHealth
Have a safe trip: Oregon trains magic mushroom facilitators
Oregon begins licensed, regulated use of psychedelic mushrooms in 2023. Colorado’s next, in 2024.
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Jim Morrissey: Was voting to legalize cannabis just the beginning in Colorado?
Jim Morrissey wonders whether Colorado voters are becoming addicted to ballot measures legalizing once-forbidden substances — all for a good cause?
Posted inElection 2022
Colorado becomes second state to legalize “magic mushrooms”
Proposition 122, which passed by an extremely thin margin, would allow healing centers where people could consume psilocybin mushrooms
Posted inElection 2022
Colorado voters divided on proposal to legalize “magic mushrooms,” other natural psychedelic drugs
Proposition 122, which would allow healing centers where people could consume psilocybin mushrooms, was split 51% to 49%
Posted inOpinion Columns
Zornio: Benefits of magic mushrooms in Proposition 122 likely outweigh the risks
Despite poor ballot language for Colorado’s Prop. 122, science and historical context provide enough evidence to pursue therapeutic psilocybin
Posted inElection 2022, Health, News, Politics and Government
Colorado voters will decide in November whether to decriminalize magic mushrooms
Colorado voters will decide in November whether to decriminalize the possession and use of “magic” mushrooms and allow the creation of “healing centers” where people would be allowed to purchase and consume those substances. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Thursday that the supporters of Initiative 58 had turned in enough signatures to qualify […]
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Colorado may be the next state to decriminalize “magic” mushrooms as new research shows potential benefits
It wasn’t just the painful tumors or medication that made Alan Floyd sick. It was the idea that death could come at any time, a brutal fact of his condition that came to dominate his days and grew into night terrors during his sleep. “It was this monstrous, impending doom of death hanging over me,” […]
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Denver authorities might be instructed to look the other way on magic mushrooms, but they remain illegal
The Denver vote directing police to de-prioritize arresting people for psilocybin mushrooms forges new legal ground because getting caught with even a small amount of psychedelic mushrooms can lead to felony charges. Possession of marijuana was a petty offense — the lowest of all crimes — when Mile High voters decriminalized weed in 2005. And […]