Psilocybin

Psychedelics like mushrooms and mescaline could be decriminalized in California as advocates tout their therapeutic potential.

The owners of two psilocybin service centers in Eugene and Ashland have begun providing psychedelic mushrooms in supervised settings regulated by the Oregon Health Authority.

The Oregon Health Authority has granted a license to the state’s first psilocybin service center. Last week, EPIC Healing Eugene got the green light to soon offer psychedelic therapy sessions to clients 21 and older.

In November 2020, Oregon voters passed Measure 109, which allows the psychedelic compound psilocybin to be administered to adults in licensed service centers. The state’s first cohort of trained psilocybin-assisted therapy facilitators are completing their programs this spring.

After more than two years of developing rules and regulations, Oregon Psilocybin Services is now reviewing applications and issuing licenses for facilitators, service centers, manufacturers and laboratories.

The complicated financial landscape around psilocybin means none of the early businesses are guaranteed to survive the next few years as Oregon tries to navigate the uncharted landscape of allowing therapeutic use of a drug that is still illegal federally.

Hundreds of psilocybin facilitators from around the state have now graduated or are near the end of their programs.

Retreat Guru said it expects as many as 90% of Synthesis Digital's 220 former students to continue their coursework and join the ranks of Oregon’s first psilocybin facilitators. The Canadian company took over Synthesis' Oregon operations earlier this month due to a financial collapse. The fate of Synthesis' Buckhorn Springs Resort training facility near Ashland is unclear.

The sudden collapse of one of Oregon’s biggest psilocybin players raises questions about the rollout of an untested industry.

The Oregon Health Authority is holding three public hearings this week about a new set of draft rules regarding the psychedelic drug psilocybin.

Voters across Oregon mostly voted against allowing the therapeutic use of the psychedelic drug psilocybin on Tuesday.

This election more than two thirds of Oregon’s counties will vote on whether to opt out of the state’s new psilocybin therapy program. The debate is largely a rural discussion, and in some places, there’s not much discussion at all.