Colorado Now Second State to Decriminalize Psychedelics
by Amy Wilding-Fox
Colorado’s Prop 122 passed the Natural Medicine Health Act initiative with 53.6 percent of the votes. Here is what the act will do:
- Possession, use, cultivation and sharing of psilocybin, ibogaine, mescaline (not derived from peyote), DMT and psilocyn are now legal for adults 21 and older, without an explicit possession limit. However, there is no recreational sales component.
- Under the act, the Department of Regulatory Agencies is now responsible for developing rules for a therapeutic psychedelics program where adults 21 and older can visit a licensed healing center to receive treatment under the guidance of a trained facilitator.
- A two-tiered regulatory model is allowed, where only psilocybin and psilocyn are permitted for therapeutic use at licensed healing centers until June 2026. After that point, regulators could decide whether to also permit regulated therapeutic use of DMT, ibogaine and mescaline.
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