{"id":149842,"date":"2022-11-09T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/colorado-becomes-second-state-to-legalize-magic-mushrooms"},"modified":"2022-11-09T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:25:41","slug":"colorado-becomes-second-state-to-legalize-magic-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/colorado-becomes-second-state-to-legalize-magic-mushrooms","title":{"rendered":"Colorado becomes second state to legalize \u201cmagic mushrooms\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/colorado-becomes-second-state-to-legalize-magic-mushrooms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cColorado voters saw the benefit of regulated access to natural medicines, including psilocybin, so people with PTSD, terminal illness, depression, anxiety and other mental health issues can heal,\u201d co-proponents, Kevin Matthews and Veronica Lightening Horse Perez said in emailed statement Wednesday evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ten years after legalizing the use and sale of marijuana, Colorado became only the second state in the U.S. to legalize the use of psilocybin mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot measure, Proposition 122, squeaked across the finish line as ballots were tallied the day after Election Day, receiving 51% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents called it a \u201ctruly historic moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cColorado voters saw the benefit of regulated access to natural medicines, including psilocybin, so people with PTSD, terminal illness, depression, anxiety and other mental health issues can heal,\u201d co-proponents, Kevin Matthews and Veronica Lightening Horse Perez said in emailed statement Wednesday evening.\u201d Ten years after legalizing the use and sale of marijuana, Colorado became only [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}