programs are the ones that are literally sitting with people during the experience, providing real services. And there might be a way you could provide education. Come in, talk to me, I'll teach you how to use mushrooms. You pay me $50 and I give you free mushrooms. But that's an area to talk to a lawyer about. But that's an example of why it is the freest place in the nation, Colorado. Are any other states close behind? New Mexico just passed a regulated psilocybin program. It's going to be only for specific medical conditions. So Colo-
cultivate for every adult over 21. For three of those psychedelics, every adult over 21 can share them for no money legally. So distribution with no money for psilocybin, mescaline and DMT. How are they administered? We have a kind of gray area called this “harm reduction work” in Colorado where people can give away the three psyche- delics, mescaline, psilocybin, DMT, and be paid for bona fide harm reduction services related to the sharing of that medicine. So I represent a lot of people in that area doing retreats and medicine
rado, you don't have to have any specific con- dition. Any of us can go to a healing center. You want to work on seeing your mom who died three years ago, whatever the issue is, you can go. No issue at all if you want to ex- plore your conscious- ness in Colorado. And that's the same in Oregon. No medical condition required, with a regulated psi- locybin program only. There is no decrimi- nalization in Oregon
work, and there are opportunities to earn a living without being in the regulated model in Colorado. You could also go with the regulated pathway. In the regulated world in Colorado, to be a facilitator, you can be a therapist or a doc- tor, but you don't have to be. You can be any person with 150 hours of training and you can become a facilita- tor (someone licensed to administer natural medicines). In the un-
...It is the most exciting time in history – at least since
decriminalization – for psychedelics...
anymore. They took that away. So it's actually not legal to possess any psy- chedelic in Oregon outside of a service center. But in the Oregon service centers, you can get psilocybin healing, you know, $2,000 to $4,000 a journey. In New Mexico, they're requiring specific diagnosis of medical conditions. There's also no widespread decriminalization.
regulated decriminalized world, there's no licensing. So anybody over 21 could share medicine and be paid for services. It can be very risky and dangerous in the unregulated world if you aren’t care- ful. Some people have gotten warning letters and cease and desist letters. If all you're doing is selling a product, you're violating the law. The best decriminalized
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