July 06, 2022 12:34 PM UTC

Poll: Legalized Magic Mushrooms, Colorado?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Colorado Public Radio’s Max Lubbins reports:

A measure to legalize psychedelic mushrooms statewide is a step closer to the ballot after proponents submitted signatures to the Secretary of State’s office.

If the state finds they have enough valid signatures, Coloradans can expect to vote on Initiative 58 — also known as the Natural Medicine Health Act — this November. Co-chief proponent Veronica Lightning Horse Perez said the campaign collected over 220,0000 signatures, giving them a cushion of about 100,000 above the minimum required…

Denver voters decriminalized psilocybin mushrooms in 2019. This initiative would go further, effectively creating a legal, regulated market across Colorado for psilocybin and psilocin, the hallucinogenic compounds found in certain strains of mushrooms.

Despite their reputation emanating mostly from inaccurate movie portrayals and exaggerated tales from your hippie uncle, psilocybin is considered a very mild hallucinogenic with a range of therapeutic benefits and little risk of serious adverse effects. And unlike the relatively free market created by marijuana legalization in 2012, retail availability of shrooms under this ballot measure would be limited to “healing centers” with trained personnel to guide you back from never-never land.

Here’s a totally unscientific poll, asking our readers what you honestly think–not what you’d prefer to see happen. In 2012, groundbreaking marijuana legalization passed with 55% of the vote in Colorado. Will 2022 be the year of the magic mushroom?

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