Colorado’s medicinal psilocybin program is set to launch soon after officials said they have licensed and inspected a testing facility, which was the last type of business required to properly run the program, Marijuana Moment reports.
The Colorado Department of Revenue’s Natural Medicine Division (NMD) said in an email Tuesday that officials are “excited to announce that the first licensed testing facility is fully certified by the Department of Public Health and Environment” (CDPHE).
Colorado voters approved the legalization of psychedelic mushrooms in 2022. Under the proposal, people aged 21 or older can grow and share psychedelic mushrooms, and the state is establishing regulated “healing centers” where people will soon be able to make appointments to consume psilocybin in a controlled environment.
In addition to the testing license, regulators have also approved five separate healing center licenses, three cultivation licenses, and two manufacturing licenses. Dozens more licenses are still pending.
“Now that the Colorado Department of Revenue has licensed cultivators, manufacturers, healing centers, and testing facilities, CDPHE has certified a testing facility, and the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies has licensed facilitators, natural medicine can start to be transferred from a cultivator or manufacturer to a lab for testing, then eventually to a healing center where a facilitator can oversee administration.” — CDPHE statement, via Marijuana Moment
The Colorado psychedelics program follows in the footsteps of Oregon, where voters approved a medicinal psilocybin program in late 2020, and the program launched in early 2023.
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