The Promise of Psychedelics for Mental Health and Well-Being:

The medicines that we use to treat mental illness have changed little in the past 50 years. Building on millennia of human experience with naturally occurring psychedelic plants and fungi, western cultures have begun to appreciate their potential for improving mental health. Dozens of careful academic studies have demonstrated promising benefits of a single administration of psilocybin and other psychedelics for relieving the symptoms of depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, chronic pain, and other disorders. Many people also report benefits to their creativity, well-being, and focus, as well as a strengthened sense of meaning in their lives.

Our Vision:

Our goal is to understand how these powerful substances exert their beneficial actions, how they can best be used to improve lives, how to provide them in a way that promotes equitable access for all, how to educate users and providers in a manner that minimizes risks and reduces possibility of harm, and how to train people to deliver psychedelic assisted care.

The Consortium:

Colorado is leading the way in the advancement of psychedelics. We are one of only two states that has legalized the cultivation, possession, and sharing of mushrooms containing the psychedelic compound, psilocybin. We have also created a well-regulated system to provide safe access to psilocybin under the care of licensed facilitators and healing centers. Researchers at two of the campuses of the University of Colorado, our major public university system, are working to understand psychedelics and advance their safe use. We have come together to form the University of Colorado Psychedelic Research Consortium to share our expertise and work together to advance our mutual goals for the benefit of all Coloradans.