Posted on 01/03/2025 12:47:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
Colorado is the second state to legalize psilocybin therapy
As Colorado becomes the second state to legalize psychedelic therapy this week, a clash is playing out in Colorado Springs, where conservative leaders are restricting the treatment over objections from some of the city's 90,000 veterans, who've become flagbearers for psychedelic therapyopens in a new tab or window to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Colorado residents voted to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the chemical compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, in a 2022 ballot measure, launching 2 years of rulemaking before it could be used to treat conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
This week, companies and people will be able to apply for licenses to administer the mind-altering drug, though treatment will likely not be available for some months as applications are processed.
Colorado joined Oregon in legalizing psilocybin therapy, though the drug remains illegal in most other states and federally. Over the last year, a growing number of Oregon cities have voted to banopens in a new tab or window psilocybin. While Colorado metros cannot ban the treatment under state law, several conservative cities have worked to preemptively restrict what are known as "healing centers."
At a city council meeting in Colorado Springs this month, members were set to vote on extending the state prohibition on healing centers from 1,000 feet to 1 mile from certain locations, such as schools. From the lectern, veterans implored them not to.
"We have an opportunity to support veterans, and it's a really easy one to say 'yes' to," said Lane Belone, a special forces veteran who said he's benefited from his own psychedelic experiences. Belone argued that the restrictions effectively limit the number of centers and would mean longer waiting lists for the treatment.
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I think some people think there is not adequate testing.
So, people who want more proof on this are bad, but Ivermectin, which had a lot of testing and was used safely by millions and millions, was black magic?
Based on some interactions with folks having ingested Psilocybin mushrooms, I would proceed, if at all, only with the greatest caution.
Do patients using this substance waive their gun rights? That might be part of the “devil in the details.”
‘for the veterans’ has replaced ‘for the children’
Legalizing pot for PTSD was ‘for the veterans’. I guess that didn’t work real well or PTSD if the dummies in control want to escallate ‘treatment’ to injesting ‘shrooms.
It has been tested on at least one airline pilot.
The government will do anything to prevent war veterans from getting help for PTSD.
Pot works for PTSD. Untold thousands of vets have benefited from it.
I don’t know about shrooms. Is there any actual data?
“The government will do anything to prevent war veterans from getting help for PTSD.”
Not so.
The VA has more programs than you can shake a stick at.
UNTREATED PTSD in vets is a personal choice. It’s available to all who are diagnosed.
Another psychiatric scam. A new therapy. It doesn’t work any better than placebo. Eventually it screws so many people up that it falls out of practice. They they use a new “wonder drug”. Rinse repeat.
Psychiatry and psychology are scams. They create mass murderers. Why do people keep falling for their BS?
there are a lot of treatments that have been very sucessful that are outlawed in the US. Like those mushrooms and there is a drug called Ibogain that helps with opioid addiction and PTSD. A lot of soldiers get hooked on opioids to try to stop the bad dreams.
And some people want everyone to die as miserable as they are.
What does that mean?
As long as law and order isn’t being impacted.
If government psilocybin for veterans doesn’t fill the recruiting offices, I don’t know what will, it sure would have helped recruiting during the 60s.
Hey if psilocybin worked for Luigi Mangione, then it should work for everybody, right? What’s the worst that could happen?
Based on multiple personal psilocybin therapy sessions in the 70’s don’t do it! That chit is really bad for you! 😆
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