The state’s Natural Medicine Division approved seven applications on Thursday.
The state of Colorado awarded its first-ever psilocybin-related licenses to prospective business owners, kickstarting what could be a major new therapeutic industry, directly in the wake of the decades-long national medical marijuana boom.
The Natural Medicine Division, a wing of the state Department of Revenue, on Thursday gave the thumbs up to seven license applications by owners for a range of business types, The Denver Post reported, but the companies themselves have yet to be approved for licensure.
Officials at the NMD indicated to The Post they expect the legal psilocybin market will launch sometime this coming spring. Voters approved the development of a psychedelics therapy industry in 2022.
The winning owners included a psilocybin mushroom grower and a healing center operator, with Greeley resident Troy Leonard winning approval for a grow permit. His company, Valor Minds, wants to become a supplier to licensed psychedelic healing centers, The Post reported. Leonard told the newspaper he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, which he said is helped greatly by psilocybin.
Jillian Gordon won a healing center permit for her Lakewood-based company, Go Within Collective, where she hopes to launch a legal consumption site for psilocybin customers and patients. Gordon told The Post she’s transitioning into the legal psychedelics space from years of work treating patients in the underground market.
No other details were immediately available about the other permit winners.
According to the NMD website , as of Feb. 21 the agency has approved three owner and handler licenses out of 45 license submissions, but it hasn’t acted on any of the 11 healing center applications, six cultivation applications, two manufacturer applications or the lone testing lab application.
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