Westword
In true holiday fashion, the Denver Mushroom Cooperative held a Gifting Portal for psilocybin enthusiasts.
An organization dedicated to not-for-profit psychedelic mushroom education events such as Microdose Mondays or Psilocybin 101, the Denver Mushroom Cooperative’s Gifting Portal event, held on December 21 at Plant Magic Cafe, allowed individuals aged 21-and-up to share and give away mushrooms they had grown.
The event was created in contrast to a psilocybin co-op claiming to sell support and advice with a free side of psilocybin, according to Gifting Portal organizers, who say the event complied with Colorado’s new psychedelic laws allowing the gifting of psilocybin.
“You can give anybody mushrooms, but there’s a responsibility there,” Denver Mushroom Cooperative co-founder Travis Tyler Fluck says. “I feel it is necessary to poetically recoin the way that the ‘black market’ and ‘underground’ are portrayed. The words themselves have connotations that remove their merits, and the laws to which these groups are positioned after all are unjust, politically motivated and a vestige from the Nixon presidency. I’d like to show that events like this can be a successful model and an alternative pathway to regulated purchase for legislators to consider as they return to session.”
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