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   From: lucifer@target.com   
      
   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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