Colorado Might Be the Next State to Decriminalize âMagicâ Mushrooms
It wasnât just the painful tumors or medication that made Alan Floyd sick. It was the idea that death could come at any time, a brutal fact of his condition that came to dominate his days and grew into night terrors during his sleep.
âIt was this monstrous, impending doom of death hanging over me,â Floyd said.
But Floyd found a way to interrupt the cycle of rumination and fear by experimenting with âmagicâ mushrooms. Heâs one of many patients and spiritual seekers in Colorado who have sought healing and relief from mushrooms and other psychedelic substances, despite a federal prohibition.
Although recent research showing the healing potential of these drugs has spurred renewed interest, mushrooms and naturally derived psychedelics like mescaline, ibogaine, and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, have been used by people for centuries. Itâs only in the past 50 years that they were considered illegal.
