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Jared Polis has signed a bill designed to implement and regulate
psychedelic legalization and decriminalization, with the law taking effect
July 1.

Passed just a week before the 2023 session ended, Senate Bill 23-290 puts guidelines on Proposition 122, the landmark psychedelics ballot initiative passed by Colorado voters last November. Although the bill received plenty
of attention during its run through the Colorado Legislature, Polis's
office didn't make a major announcement when the governor signed SB 290 on Tuesday, May 24.

The ballot initiative, dubbed the Natural Medicine Health Act, legalized therapeutic psilocybin and decriminalized the personal cultivation, use
and sharing of psilocybin mushrooms and three other natural psychedelics
(DMT, ibogaine and mescaline that is not from peyote). While licensed psilocybin therapy centers could open by late 2024, Prop 122 did not allow
for the establishment of retail operations, only healing centers, so there won't be mushroom stores popping up like the hundreds of cannabis
dispensaries currently in Colorado.

Approved by just under 54 percent of voters in the November 2022 election,
Prop 122 didn't place limits on the personal cultivation of mushrooms or suggest criminal penalties for illegal trafficking, and was short on
clinical and therapeutic psychedelic regulations, too. The measure left
the creation of the bulk of Colorado's new psychedelic framework to laws
passed by the legislature and rules adopted by the state Department of Regulatory Agencies, which is currently overseeing a Natural Medicine
Advisory Board.

https://www.westword.com/marijuana/colorado-psychedelics-laws-take-effect- july-16931189

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