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State officials have drawn from months of stakeholder meetings, collaboration with the state's Natural Medicine Advisory Board, and examples of Oregon psilocybin regulations as they prepare for Colorado to become the second state in the country to offer magic mushroom facilitation at licensed facilities.Many of the areas of contention echoed marijuana industry discussions regarding packaging, edibles, extraction and the introduction of publicly traded companies.
The NMD's final draft does allow for ground mushroom powder, which would be used for edible infusion. According to Novello, powder isn't an extraction, but"simply mushrooms that have been put into a grinder. It is not a form of extract or concentrate.
Several psilocybin advocates pushed back against calls to ban edibles, arguing that raw mushrooms are an acquired taste and that adding forms of consumption would help more people consider and benefit from treatment. "There's no question it will introduce complexities to our rules and processes that will drive higher fees," she said. However, Mendiola added that there is"an intent to revisit" that rule down the road.As with marijuana, licensed testing labs likely won't be able to analyze homegrown mushrooms or products made outside of the regulatory structure.