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The administering of magic mushrooms from healing centers is not set to take place in Colorado until 2025, but the state made headway when it comes to getting rules in place for the medicine ā finalizing them late last week.
Tasia Poinsatte is the Colorado director of the Healing Advocacy Fund. The group helped Oregon get its psilocybin program off the ground four years ago. Now, Poinsatte is closely watching and weighing in on Coloradoās process as they get ready for next year. To recap, Coloradoās format will not allow patients to take the products home. Instead, licensed facilitators will administer the treatments at healing centers,
āThe state has actually set minimum sessions based on the dosage of psilocybin. So, no session in Colorado under the current rules would be shorter than three hours. They might be up to five or six,ā Poinsatte said. āI really think theyāve met the mark and that weāre going to have a really strong program.ā
In the final rules, the state defines a single serving as 10 mg of psilocybin, edibles can have up to 50 mg. The state will also allow the healing centers to operate at facilities that house other health care centers.
āWe want to allow as many of the options as possible for psychedelic therapies to be integrated within our mental health and health care system. And part of what that means is allowing these sessions to take place at locations like clinics, addiction treatment centers and therapist offices where people are already receiving mental health care,ā Poinsatte said.
The state will also allow the medicine to be administered in the form of gummies or chocolates, along with teas, tinctures and capsules.
Some groups, like One Chance to Grow Up, were concerned about children getting a hold of the products; specifically, they were worried about facilitatorsā ability to take the products outside of healing centers for administration.
In a statement, the groupās director said she is disappointed in the final rulemaking, saying:
We are disappointed that the final rulemaking on psilocybin left the language allowing for productsĀ toĀ come in chocolate and gummy form intact.
Colorado must have a thoughtful regulatory framework for psychedelics that provides protections for kids. That is our only focus. While the labeling requirements prohibiting imagery and colors that may appealĀ toĀ children is a good start, we still have concerns. PropositionĀ 122 allowed for the āadministrationā of psychedelics outside of a healing center by a facilitator opening the door for accessĀ toĀ this powerful drug. OverĀ 125 concerned citizens expressed their concerns by way of petition, but their concerns were not heard by the regulators.
When it comesĀ toĀ marijuana, weāve seen the surge of accidental ingestions of candy-like edibles by kids. It appears that weāll haveĀ toĀ learn these same lessons over again when it comesĀ toĀ psychedelic drugs, but with even higher stakes for kids. The safety of kids is more important than the taste preferences of adults. If this isĀ toĀ be treated as medicine, letās treat it like other medicine that is not provided in kid-friendly flavors that could leadĀ toĀ accidental ingestion.ā
Henny Lasley, One Change to Grow Up
Advocates like Poinsatte appreciate the concern for child safety but they note the state did specify that packaging cannot appeal to children in the final rules. The state is looking to lay out licensing and application fees for administrators next.
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Colorado has been a hotbed of mushroom entrepreneurism over the last two years since Proposition 122 was passed with a 54% to 46% vote. The passing of āProp 122ā permitted personal possession, growing, sharing, and use ā but not sale ā of Psilocybin, Psilocin, DMT, Ibogaine and Mescaline.
The mushroom community in Colorado built around this āGrow, Gather, Giftā model has yielded some incredible results and world-class data. The below graph is an example of community self-regulation through the development of testing standards and data sharing (see https://www.tryptomics.com/ for more on this)
Mushroom potency data from Tryptomics Elevated Natural Product Research
Prop 122 also dictates that āby late 2024, allow the supervised use of psychedelic mushrooms by individuals aged 21 and over at licensed facilities and require the state to create a regulatory structure for the operation of these licensed facilities;ā
The time has come for the regulatory structure referenced above to be enacted ā and it seems that mushroom home cultivation provision and the cottage industry of services supported by it are on the chopping block. The proposed changes that may be pushed through into law would effectively severely limit who can produce and provide mushrooms (and other natural psychedelics) to ā surprise, surprise ā costly and resource-intensive centers with steep licensing fees, insurance requirements, and general inflated overhead that makes it all but impossible for anyone without deep pockets and political connections to legally provide āpsilocybin servicesā ā
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