Threading Denver’s magic mushrooms needle: Promising as medicine, risky as recreation – USA TODAY

Threading Denver’s magic mushrooms needle: Promising as medicine, risky as recreation  USA TODAY

Denver, the biggest city in the first state to legalize recreational marijuana back in 2012, has narrowly passed an ordinance to essentially decriminalize psilocybin, the hallucinatory substance found in over 100 varieties of mushrooms. After the results are officially certified later this month, enforcement will be given the lowest priority, and a panel will be established to try to assess the impact of “magic mushrooms” on public safety, finances and public health. From a purely medical perspective, this seems to be a good thing, to allow treatment for a drug problem rather than locking p…