The Department of Regulatory Agencies warned lawmakers in January that it is not prepared to handle the passage of Proposition 122, saying it has no idea what to do with psilocybin
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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?
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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
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Opinion: Mushrooms are not ready to be medicine
Take a look at the fine print in — and the money behind — Proposition 122.
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Opinion: A psychoactive substance helped me beat heroin. Proposition 122 would give others that hope
Regulated use of plant-derived psychedelics has promise for treating difficult mental health conditions
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Eight months ago I started microdosing shrooms to relieve crippling anxiety and depression. It’s working.
After limited progress with prescriptions and talk therapy, psilocybin dramatically sped up the healing decades after a sibling’s suicide.
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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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 […]