Colorado’s Department of Revenue recently finalized rules and regulations for psychedelic-assisted therapy, clearing the way for providers to begin offering this new model of therapeutic care in 2025. The new rules provide requirements for businesses entering the field of psilocybin as healing centers, cultivators and manufacturers.
“These therapies will naturally be controversial because they represent a complete paradigm shift in the way mental health services are provided,” said Dr. Brooke Allen, a neurologist at Roaring Fork Neurology. “Using psychedelics as a catalyst to induce meaningful change that is patient-led by their own inner healing ability is very different from the current model of dampening symptoms, and with many fewer side effects and likely better efficacy.”
Pushed ahead by the passage of Proposition 122 by Colorado voters in 2022, the state’s psilocybin therapeutic program will be the second in the nation. Oregon voters passed its program in 2020, with the first state-regulated programs launching in 2022.
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