Originally published at: Psychedelic mushrooms decriminalized in Colorado | Boing Boing
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It’s how they deal with Boebert right?
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She is absolutely the last person I would want to be within eyesight distance of if I were tripping. Holy hell.
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Color me relieved and thrilled
Denver voters decriminalized mushrooms a while ago, but this means the whole state is safe for people who wish to trip in peace without going to jail. Offering these in a therapeutic setting should help people at the end of their ropes while adding to the literature on doing this right.
Bonus? In 2026, there will be opportunity to add DMT, ibogaine, and other plant-based teachers with therapeutic potential to this list. Oddly, mescaline is allowed, but peyote is not. Anyone living in AZ, CA, and parts of NM can visit a nursery and buy cacti that have the goods but not the apparent stigma. Hooray!
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Yes, but not by taking the mushrooms yourself.
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Release the myconids!
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Fuck yes! I don’t live there, but I’ve seen what decriminalization in one state does to prices and availability in mine.
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Me: Hey, can I have one of the $20 “I like Mushrooms” stickers?
Vendor: What!? You bought a sticker? That’s so cool! Have some mushrooms! On me!
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Clever!
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I voted yes
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Looking forward to the growth of an industry of trip + therapy services.
There are guided trips in Europe, but so far I’ve only found quasi-religious stuff with drums and chanting, which as a an atheist seems about as appealing to me as sitting through a church service.
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Maybe we shall find out whether they actually work. I believe there are many anecdotal tales of miraculous cures, but people won’t stand up and say ‘meh, shrooms did nothing for me, hallelujah’. It could turn out like microdosing LSD: that it works if you believe it works.
This is good news, though. Shrooms is powerful medicine. If they can do good, then they should.
Even if they don’t they are fun as hell, which is therapeutic in and of itself*
*Caveats apply. Be careful.
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naturally occurring psychedelics, which have been used for hundreds of years
More like thousands.
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Weirdly enough, not for me. I have smoked cannabis twice, and felt no effect while people fell asleep all about me. I have tried some rather wrinkly mushrooms which lacked the promised magic. Morphine was no fun (a sad story as the original patient died, but waste not, want not). Even wine is mostly habit these days. I have fun. I am not ‘what is this fun of which you speak?’. But I don’t seem to get any of the short-cuts.
My own theory is that the spirit of recklessness plays a large part in getting high. But I dunno.
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