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Title: Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
Post by: Elderberry on November 14, 2022, 03:41:25 pm
Vice News by Manisha Krishnan 11/11/2022

Colorado became the second state to legalize psilocybin mushrooms, following in Oregon's footsteps.

Colorado became the second state to legalize magic mushrooms and decriminalize other psychedelics for adults following Tuesday’s midterm elections.

With 92 percent of the vote counted, the Associated Press projects voters passed Proposition 122 , which decriminalizes using and possessing psilocybin and psilocin (the active ingredients in psychedelic mushrooms), DMT (the active ingredient in ayahuasca), mescaline (a hallucinogen that comes from a variety of cacti), and ibogaine (a psychoactive drug that comes from the central African shrub iboga and is used as an experimental addiction treatment).

Through the Natural Medicine Health Act, Coloradans 21 and older will be able to do shrooms under supervision at licensed psilocybin healing centers. Shrooms will not be for sale at retail stores. The state could also decide to allow the supervised administration of the other psychedelics it decriminalized.

More: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5vm/colorado-votes-to-decriminalize-shrooms-and-other-psychedelics (https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5vm/colorado-votes-to-decriminalize-shrooms-and-other-psychedelics)
Title: Re: Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 15, 2022, 06:33:08 am
Well, that should be interesting...from a safe distance.
Title: Re: Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
Post by: Wingnut on November 15, 2022, 11:36:31 am
The whole state is uncomfortably dumb.
Title: Re: Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 15, 2022, 01:09:40 pm
Quote from: Wingnut on November 15, 2022, 11:36:31 am
The whole state is uncomfortably dumb.
The biggest factor in Californication there was a song: Rocky Mountain High.
 :shrug:
Title: Re: Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
Post by: Elderberry on November 15, 2022, 01:17:05 pm
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Shrooms will not be for sale at retail stores.

What about from your local cow pastures?
Title: Re: Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
Post by: Kamaji on November 15, 2022, 02:14:36 pm
That'll make for some fun accident reports:  "Officer, I swear everything was going fine, until that great big purple housecat flew in front of me, flapped its ear-wings, and jammed its brakes on."
Title: Re: Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
Post by: Fishrrman on November 15, 2022, 10:46:14 pm
Looks like there's no "goin' back" for the state of Colorado.

It's transforming into a cross between California and Vermont...
Title: Re: Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
Post by: Hoodat on November 15, 2022, 10:57:17 pm
I feel a John Prine song coming on.