New Mexico Legalizes Medical Magic Mushrooms
Good news! New Mexico has now joined Oregon and Colorado by legalizing supervised medical use of magic mushrooms, which would open the door for magic mushroom retreats, at least presumably if there were a licensed physician on staff.
In fact, New Mexico Senate Bill 219 allows for doctors to prescribe psilocybin mushrooms, though the regulatory framework hasn’t been created yet, and the legalization won’t take affect until 2027.
There’s now going to be a medical psilocybin advisory board, consisting of nine members who are knowledgeable about the medical use of psilocybin – one of which even needs to be a member of an “Indian” (Native American) nation located in New Mexico.
The advisory board is directed to create a “medical use of psilocybin program” which among other things will determine what the qualifying conditions are for patients; and what training, treatment, and safety protocols will be needed by providers of magic mushroom retreats and clinicians.
Notably though, unlike Colorado, New Mexico’s bill doesn’t even mention DMT (such as in Ayahuasca) or Mescaline (such as in San Pedro). So that’s disappointing, but nonetheless, it’s good to see progress being made with the legalization of these plants.
And it should be quite interesting to hear how this progresses, and to see what kind of program they come up with!
