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Colorado finalizes psilocybin regulations, allowing for supervised use
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Colorado has officially finalized its regulatory framework for the emerging psilocybin industry following voters’ approval two years ago. Proposition 122 decriminalized the possession, use, and cultivation of psilocybin — commonly known as “magic mushrooms” — making Colorado the second state in the nation to do so. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); “(Gov. Jared Polis) appreciates the…
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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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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…
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DENVER ELECTION 2019: Voters reject homeless camping measure
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UPDATE 5 PM 5/8: Initiative 301, the magic mushrooms decriminalization measure, reversed a 9-point deficit and was narrowly leading by fewer than 2,000 votes in final unofficial returns Wednesday, with overseas ballots yet to be counted. Initiative 300, the ballot measure to allow camping on public property across Denver, was defeated in Tuesday’s city election…
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COVER STORY | Magic mushrooms in Denver: Medicine or mayhem?
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Denver voters will head into uncharted territory when they decide whether to decriminalize possession of small amounts of psilocybin, better known as “magic mushrooms.” Initiated Ordinance 301 on the ballot mailed to city voters starting April 15 would make use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms “the city’s lowest law-enforcement priority.” And while the mushroom referendum…
