Colorado Governor ‘Excited’ About Psychedelics Legalization Vote, Touting ‘Promising’ Medical Benefits Despite Not Endorsing Before Election
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The governor of Colorado says he’s “excited” about the state’s historic vote last week to legalize psychedelics and create psilocybin healing centers, calling it a “promising” treatment option for certain mental health conditions. During an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, Gov. Jared Polis (D) cheered the approval of the psychedelics ballot initiative, despite having declined the opportunity to endorse to proposal ahead of the vote. The pivot is reminiscent of how he approached Colorado’s 2012 adult-use marijuana legalization vote, which he also did not endorse prior to its passage but which he has since celebrated. While Polis told Maher that he’s never personally used psilocybin, he feels that “there is a lot of promise that some of the mushroom-based therapies, natural medicines, show for post-traumatic stress disorder, for depression.” “We want to make that available,” the governor said, adding that the federal process for getting drugs to market through Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval “takes decades or years, and it comes out costing $1,000 in a pill—it’s ridiculous.”

“So we want to make this available. It’s promising,” he said. “We’re going to work on getting it right from a health perspective in Colorado. But anything we can do to help those with PTSD” is a positive. The governor did previously say that he feels psychedelics should be decriminalized, touting the therapeutic benefits—but advocates have taken note of the fact that he did not proactively promote the initiative that was on the ballot last week. When asked about the measure in a mid-October debate, Polis said that he was undecided and needed to do more research about how he would personally vote. Now that voters narrowly approved the initiative, though, he’s apparently willing to align himself with the reform. It’s a similar shift…

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