How to Get Psilocybin Mushrooms in Colorado: What You Need to Know in 2025

After decades of stigma and criminalization, Colorado is rewriting the narrative on psilocybin mushrooms. Coloradans now have multiple legal pathways to explore this powerful natural medicine.

Psilocybin mushrooms are showing promising results for treating mental health issues, including depression and end-of-life distress. As evidence builds, advocates and policymakers are calling for new legal ways to access their healing potential.

But what do Colorado’s new laws actually allow when it comes to psilocybin mushrooms?

In November 2022, the state passed Proposition 122: Access to Natural Psychedelic Substances, which:

• Descriminalizes the personal possession, growing, sharing, and use of natural substances that contain psilocybin, psilocin, DMT, ibogaine, and mescaline (except peyote).

• Allows the supervised use of psychedelic mushrooms by individuals over the age of 21 in licensed healing centers.

• Requires the state to establish a regulated system for accessing psychedelic mushrooms.

Now that the regulated program is officially up and running, let’s break down Colorado’s natural medicine laws, how they affect residents, and safe, legal pathways to guided mushroom experiences.

What Exactly is a ‘Natural Medicine Service’?

Natural medicine services refer to providing guided psilocybin mushroom journeys in a licensed healing center by licensed facilitators.

These guided mushroom journeys consist of four steps: screening, preparation, administration, and integration.

Screening begins with a discussion of your reasons for seeking a psilocybin mushroom journey, and whether or not it’s a good fit. This is usually done through an initial questionnaire and then one or more calls with the providers.

Not everyone is a good match for psychedelic work, so this step is vital to maximize physical and psychological safety and minimize health risks.

Psilocybin mushroom capsules

During your preparation session(s), you meet with your facilitator to establish safety and prepare physically, mentally, and emotionally for the experience. This might look like setting appropriate expectations around what could happen, clarifying intentions, and practicing internal tools to navigate the journey. You also discuss with your facilitator the strain and dose of psilocybin mushrooms you will take for your journey, which can be based on your experience level, your intention, and any health risks present.

Then, you receive the psilocybin mushrooms during the administration session, which can last four to six hours, or until you’re no longer altered. The facilitator is present with you for the entire journey and is there to provide support throughout.

In your integration session(s), you can explore and unpack your mushroom experience and draw insights to then integrate into your everyday life. Many practitioners and therapists may recommend multiple integration sessions over time to support you as you make desired changes and process your experience.

This four-step structure is taken from best practices in clinical trial settings and established underground practitioner wisdom from across the globe.

It’s important to note that facilitators are only required to provide one preparation and one integration session, but spending more time on preparation and integration offers key benefits. Multiple preparation and integration sessions on either side will help you build deeper trust with the facilitator, increase your sense of readiness, build a powerful intention, and make the most out of the possible changes that can be seeded during your journey.

Mushrooms For Personal Use: What’s Legal? 

A guided session with a licensed facilitator is not the only path available in Colorado, though.

Personal use means you’re able to grow, possess, consume, and share psilocybin mushrooms without facing legal consequences. You are simply not allowed to commercially grow, sell, or distribute psilocybin mushrooms unless you have appropriate licensing in the regulated space.

Personal psilocybin use is not permitted in public spaces, schools, or workplaces. There’s also a limit to how much you can cultivate at any given time. Individuals can grow mushrooms in a max 12x12 foot space on private property, and it must be locked to anyone under 21. For many people, this means growing mushrooms at home in a closet for personal consumption and sharing them with friends. 

Under personal use, you can also host a small gathering, with friends, for example, and share your mushrooms for a private ceremony. The caveat here is that you cannot advertise your ceremony, and it cannot be part of a commercial or for-profit business.

Licensing for Healing Centers in Colorado

A Mushroom Journey Facilitator and a Journeyer

The licensing of healing centers and facilitators in Colorado falls primarily under two state agencies: the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) and the Department of Revenue (DOR).

Facilitators providing natural medicine services (including psilocybin journeys) are licensed by DORA’s Natural Medicine Program.

DOR’s Natural Medicine Division regulates and licenses natural medicine businesses, including healing centers, cultivators, manufacturers, and testing facilities, and their owners and staff.

Licensed healing and micro-healing centers are not just limited to therapists' offices – they can also include retreat centers and wellness centers. Micro-healing centers have a storage limit of 750mg of psilocybin or less, which might roughly be 30 journey doses, while standard healing centers don’t have a storage limit.

Find out more about license types, licensed premises, manufacturing, testing, and more here.

Sourcing Psilocybin Mushrooms in Colorado

In Colorado’s regulated market, only licensed facilitators-handlers, or licensed healing center owners, can purchase psilocybin mushrooms, and that’s only for use in a guided session at a licensed healing center. They must buy them from a state-licensed cultivator or manufacturer, and the psilocybin must be derived from mushrooms (not synthesized). 

All psilocybin products are lab-tested for potency and contaminants. Licensed centers can choose from various product types for their mushroom sessions, including whole mushrooms, capsules of powdered mushrooms, and tea bags, plus possibly chocolates, gummies, or extracts.

This means that you can’t walk into a healing center and purchase psilocybin mushrooms for later use, as is the case with cannabis dispensaries. You can’t even take home leftover mushrooms that you don’t use in your journey – these will be disposed of at the healing center.

If you happen to come across mushrooms for sale in a store, know that this is not legal and not part of the regulated marketplace.

Remember, though, the personal use guidelines enable you to grow your own mushrooms at home, share them with others, and even transport them (as long as you’re not ON mushrooms while you’re driving!).

How Do I Become a Psilocybin Mushroom Facilitator in Colorado?

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Are you curious about what it takes to become a licensed mushroom facilitator in Colorado?

According to DORA guidelines, “A Facilitator is someone who is licensed to perform and supervise natural medicine services for participants whose safety screen doesn’t indicate needing the involvement of a medical or behavioral health provider.”

Facilitators are not required to have a clinical background, but they must have completed a DORA-approved 150-hour training program, 40 hours of supervised practice, and 40 hours of consultation (all of which is provided at our partner training organization, Elemental Psychedelics).

Both clinical facilitators and “original” (non-clinical) facilitators have to complete the same training, practice, and consultation hours, but have a different scope of practice in how they work with mushrooms after they get licensed.

Clinical facilitators could be licensed therapists (LPC), social workers (LSW or LCSW), nurse practitioners (NP), doctors (MD), or addiction counselors (LAC), among other professions recognized in Colorado. Once they become psilocybin mushroom facilitators, they can integrate natural medicine services into their practice.

This means that if your therapist, nurse practitioner, social worker, or addiction counselor completes an approved 150-hour facilitator training program and other mushroom licensure requirements, they can add psilocybin mushrooms to their toolkit in therapy.

Meanwhile, an “original facilitator” is someone who has completed the same training requirements, but they don’t have another professional license, such as LPC or LCSW. They could theoretically have a background in anything, from nursing to energy work, to life coaching, to chaplaincy – some even come from careers like tech or business.

Original facilitators cannot work with mushrooms to treat physical or mental health conditions, whereas clinical facilitators can. We love this about Colorado’s law because it creates multiple pathways for accessing mushroom work, and opens the door to those who have deep experience or interest in the spiritual and ceremonial aspects of mushroom journeys to become licensed facilitators.

If you’re interested in becoming a psilocybin facilitator in Colorado, take a look at the 150-hour training program by Elemental Psychedelics. They offer both clinical and wellness pathways. 

How Do I Find a Licensed Healing Center in Colorado?

If you’re seeking somewhere to experience a legal, facilitated mushroom journey, take a look at the Healing Advocacy Fund’s healing center directory for Colorado to see a list of all healing centers, city by city.

An Enduring Love partners with Reflective Healing Center in Fort Collins as a micro licensed healing center for psilocybin mushroom journeys. You can schedule a free consultation with us to begin the conversation about whether mushrooms might be a beneficial addition to your own healing or growth journey.