Beth Jauquet, psychedelic counselor, prepared as a guide for a psychedelic session with mushrooms at Primalized Health Consultants in Castle Rock, Colorado on Friday, July 19, 2024. No city or town in Colorado is allowed to prohibit natural medicine healing centers from opening and offering supervised consumption of mushrooms and other psychedelics to adults — that much was plain in an initiative passed by the state’s voters two years ago.
Her business, Primalized Health Consultants, which offers acupuncture, nutrition counseling and massage, also provides guided psychedelic journeys that are permitted under the new state law’s provision that allows adults 21 and older to share the substances. But Jauquet told the council that new location and time restrictions as part of formal regulations for the industry could hobble that side of her business.
Douglas County has also been consistent in rejecting Colorado’s legal marijuana marketplace, banning the sale and cultivation of the drug over the past decade. “We’re only the second state to try and stand up a natural medicine program so there’s not a lot we can go on,” Draper said. “What office hours would a doctor’s office have? What hours would a dentist’s office have?” Toborg said. “That’s 8 to 5.”
Eric Escudero, spokesman for the department, said it’s not yet clear whether the work group will even forward regulations for the City Council to consider. That may be unsurprising, given that Denver was the nation’s first city to