In his annual State of the State address on Thursday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) touted the state’s leadership on both adult-use marijuana and the emerging psychedelic reform movement—two areas where Colorado voters have led the country in adopting drug policy reforms.
“Colorado was the first state to legalize recreational use of cannabis, setting a standard for innovation and safety and economic mobility that’s been replicated by states across the nation and countries across the world, who come here to learn what Colorado did right,” Polis said in the speech. “Now, thanks to our voters, we’re once again leading the nation on natural medicine, unfreezing 50-plus years of stifled research to learn about the potential benefits for the people of our state and beyond.”
Colorado was one of two states where voters legalized cannabis through ballot measures in 2012 and it was the first to launch an adult-use market in 2014. In May of last year, Polis also signed a psychedelics regulation bill into law following a voter-approved initiative to legalize psychedelics in 2022, making it the first state to allow adults to legally produce, possess and use substances like psilocybin, ibogaine, mescaline and DMT.
While Polis
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