Colorado activists announced on Monday that they have submitted what they believe to be more than enough signatures to place a measure on the state’s ballot that would legalize psychedelics and create licensed psilocybin “healing centers” where people can use the substance for therapeutic purposes.
The Natural Medicine Colorado campaign, which is backed by the national New Approach PAC, said that it turned in 222,648 signatures to the secretary of state’s office. Activists need just 124,632 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.
The measure would legalize possession of certain psychedelics, establish a therapeutic model for supervised psilocybin treatment and provide a pathway for record sealing for prior convictions.
“This initiative would give Coloradans access to a new, promising, and research-based treatment option for PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges, in a safe, careful, and beneficial way,” Kevin Matthews, a designated representatives for the initiative who led the historic campaign to decriminalize psilocybin in Denver in 2019, said in a press release.
“These medicines can be transformative for people who have suffered for years and struggled to find help,” he said.
Activists were able to collect the significant number of signatures, which they have been independently verifying throughout
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