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The new rules include licensing procedures for mushroom growers and other business types and sets strict serving limits.
The Colorado state government put the finishing touches on a new set of industry rules for entrepreneurs wishing to take part in the psychedelic trade of “magic” mushrooms, including for potential growers, product manufacturers and therapy centers.
The move is the culmination of nearly two years of work and waiting after voters approved Proposition 122, which legalized limited production and distribution of a few specific psychedelics, including psilocybin, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline and psilocin.
According to The Denver Post, the new rules include licensing procedures for mushroom growers and other business types. “Healing centers” or “therapy centers” are essentially clinics where consumers will be allowed to partake under the watchful eye of state-certified staff. Sales will only be allowed in such settings, and patients will not be allowed to take psychedelic goods home with them.
Manufacturers will be allowed to bring not just dried magic mushrooms to market, but also psilocybin-infused tea bags, capsules, chocolates, gummies, tablets and tinctures, The Post reported.
Single servings are also defined strictly as 10 milligrams of psilocin, the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms. The dried mushroom version of a single dose is about 1 gram, The Post reported, while edibles are allowed to contain up to 5 milligrams of psilocybin mushrooms or 50 milligrams of psilocin total.
Healing centers will also be able to set up shop as part of larger health care facilities or in tandem with mushroom grow sites or manufacturing plants, as long as they’re in distinctly separate areas, the new rules dictate.
For more information or to view the rules in their entirety, visit the state Department of Revenue’s website.
