Colorado residents voted for the legalization of cannabis back in November 2012, becoming one of the first states in the country to legalize the plant for recreational use and sale. Now there is an effort there to decriminalize psilocybin, the active psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.
An organization called Denver for Psilocybin met with Denver city officials earlier this month to submit its proposal, dubbed the Psilocybin Decriminalization Initiative. The group is now waiting for the Denver Elections Division to approve the proposal, at which time they will be able to start collecting the signatures needed to put the measure on the November 2018 ballot.