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Colorado rides cresting wave of psychedelic medicine as state prepares to roll out regulation
The Psychedelic Science 2023 conference in Denver was the largest-ever gathering of psychedelic scientists, researchers, medical professionals, policy makers and entrepreneurs
Posted inBusiness
Unpaid wages, injuries: The dark side of a celebrated Colorado mushroom farm known for helping migrants
Dozens of interviews show hidden perils for immigrants working at Colorado Mushroom Farm, which sold produce at Whole Foods and King Soopers before going bankrupt.
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 inPolitics and Government
Proposition 122: Colorado voters will decide whether to legalize the possession and use of magic mushrooms
The measure would allow for the creation of natural medicine healing centers where people could use psychedelic mushrooms. There are some unexpected critics.
Posted inColoradans, Environment, News
“Can I eat it?”: Colorado mushroom forays, improved by summer monsoons, are becoming more popular
BAILEY — Jon Sommer is standing in the shade of a spruce forest holding a white mushroom with a golden-yellow cap to his nose. He smells it. Not like a sniff, more like he nearly shoves it up a nostril and inhales audibly. To most, the mushroom smells like, well, a mushroom. Or maybe the […]
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With Denver’s vote on magic mushrooms, will Colorado anchor a psychedelic medicine revolution?
Denver is treading trippy new ground with this psilocybin vote. With voters requiring police to slacken enforcement of laws around psilocybin mushrooms, Colorado and the Mile High City are poised to anchor an emerging psychedelic renaissance, where once maligned psychoactive drugs are being championed as therapeutic remedies for illnesses like anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and […]