Westword
Darren Lyman hasn’t shut down his psilocybin service, but a new state law is coming for it.
One of Colorado’s early adopters of the unlicensed psilocybin space wants to take the state to federal court for trying to shut down his operation.
Darren Lyman has been a Denver-based psilocybin purveyor since 2023 out of his studios at 800 W. Eighth Ave., but his business, Lyman Support Centers, has existed in a gray zone.
Psilocybin use is legal in Colorado, but state law requires screening and post-facilitation meetings, and patients must be supervised while they experience psilocybin’s psychoactive effects. The average price for one of these ventures, according to Lyman, is around $2,000.
Lyman Support Centers has less red tape than the supervised services, with most visits costing anywhere from $60 to $100. Adults 21 and over enter one of the suites and pay to be screened by Lyman, who hands out educational materials and advice on how to properly use psychedelics that are decriminalized in Colorado, which include psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine and mescaline. Then, customers go to a different suite in the building and are “gifted” psychedelics such as raw mushrooms, infused chocolates, capsules and DMT. The actual transaction is over education materials and guidance on intentional use, he says, and not the psychedelics themselves, he says.
