magic mushrooms
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Lawmakers pass bill to implement legal ‘magic mushroom’ industry in Colorado
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An effort to roll out Colorado’s legal psychedelics industry cleared its last major legislative hurdle on Saturday with the House’s passage of Senate Bill 290. If made law, the bill would help to implement Proposition 122, passed by Colorado voters in November. The ballot measure legalized the “magic mushroom” hallucinogenic compounds psilocybin and psilocin for medicinal…
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Colorado voters decriminalize ‘magic mushrooms’
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Colorado voters have approved a ballot measure to decriminalize hallucinogenic compounds in magic mushrooms. Proposition 122 passed with 52.41% of the over 2.24 million votes, according to unofficial results from the Secretary of State’s Office as of 3:30 p.m. Friday. The Associated Press officially declared the measure’s victory Friday afternoon. The vote makes Colorado the second state…
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Protect Our Kids PAC warns against Colorado’s magic mushroom ballot measure
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The Protect Our Kids political action committee warned against a Colorado ballot measure seeking to decriminalize the hallucinogenic compounds in magic mushrooms during a town hall Tuesday. The town hall – hosted by Colorado Politics, The Denver Gazette and The Colorado Springs Gazette – was a public forum for the proponents and opponents of Proposition…
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Bipartisan group of 30 leaders opposes Colorado’s ‘magic mushroom’ ballot measure
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A bipartisan group of 30 current and former elected officials have banded together to speak out against Proposition 122, the “natural medicine” ballot measure seeking to decriminalize the hallucinogenic compounds found in certain strains of mushrooms. Under Proposition 122, so-called “magic mushrooms” – more specifically the hallucinogenic compounds psilocybin and psilocin – would become legally accessible to individuals 21 years or older…
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Opposition to marijuana, psychedelic mushroom ballot questions possible in Colorado Springs-based district
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School District 49 may formally oppose measures to legalize recreational marijuana sales in Colorado Springs and a statewide measure to decriminalize possession and use of psychedelic mushrooms. The proposed resolution states that approving the ballot questions could increase students’ access to harmful psychoactive substances. Denver recreational marijuana data sheds light on revenues versus cost of…
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Big money pours in for ballot measures on housing, liquor and magic mushrooms
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Get ready for lots of campaign ads on housing, liquor and “magic mushrooms” in the next 90 days because that’s where the big money will likely be spent in the November election. As of Monday, two ballot measures have qualified for the general election and another four are under signature review by the Secretary of…
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DENVER RUNOFF 2019 | Scenes from the mayoral campaign (GALLERY)
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What a campaign season this year’s Denver municipal election has been. The campaign featured big complex issues like homelessness, affordable housing, growth and development, traffic congestion and, yes, even magic mushrooms. After millions in campaign spending, hundreds of volunteer hours, lots of debates and candidate forums, it all comes down to a very competitive race…
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DENVER RUNOFF 2019 | Nearly 24% percent of ballots cast already; heavy last-minute voting possible
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Nearly 24% of the registered voters in Denver had turned in their mail-ballots by late Monday afternoon as a competitive mayoral runoff campaign and several other races drew to a close before Tuesday’s 7 p.m. voting deadline. But Alton Dillard, a spokesman for the Denver Elections Division, cautioned that Denver voters are well-known for casting…
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Final results of Denver election: Magic mushroom measure’s win confirmed
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The Denver Elections Division released its final official results on Thursday from the May 7 general election. None of the outcomes changed after the military and overseas ballots were counted. Initiative 301, which made Denver the first city in the nation to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, padded its lead in the final count, winning by 2,291 votes,…
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Will Denver become the next Amsterdam? The story behind the surprising turnaround of the magic mushroom initiative
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Cindy Sovine went to bed on election night thinking that the initiative she and others has worked on for the last 17 months, to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, had gone down to defeat. True, it had garnered a decent-enough 9 percentage-point loss for a long-shot, first-in-the-nation measure, but it was still a defeat. But when the…
