Colorado’s capital city will soon be hosting its second annual mushroom extravaganza following a successful launch last year. It will be held at the ReelWorks event venue in the River North Art District once again.
The team responsible for organizing the expo revealed earlier this week that the one day event will take place on Jun. 15 this time around. It is more fun-focused than anything.
“Our team is hard at work making sure Denver Shroom Fest 2025 is even bigger, better and shroomier than last year,” the organizers said in a social media post. “It will feature live music acts, art installations, vendors and psychedelic learning opportunities.”
Notable attractions from 2024 included a mushroom testing booth, psilocybin cultivation workshops and trippy live painting showcases by local artists.
Situated in one of the first American states to decriminalize natural psychedelics like magic mushrooms, Denver recently hosted another psychedelics event. The Open:Minds Expo also made its second-ever appearance at the Jonas Bros Center in the city’s art district last November.
State citizens are known for their progressive outlook on topics like legalization of cannabis and psychedelics. In recent years, a church on the city’s northside has hosted attendees for an educational class known as “Microdose Mondays.” The host, Travis Tyler Fluck, gives his students shroom capsules on their way out the door at the end of each course. The session costs US$30.
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Psilocybin therapy now permitted in Colorado
Legal measures passed by voters three years ago came into effect as residents celebrated the beginning of a new year this month.
Healing centres will be popping up at an increasing rate throughout Colorado in the coming weeks. The state has invested millions in new regulatory measures for this variety of psychedelic therapy.
Next year, other natural psychoactive plants and their derivatives will become legally accepted as mental health treatments here too. These include iboga, ayahuasca and mescaline-bearing cacti like San Pedro.
Before psilocybin therapy became prescribable in January, a psychedelics church set up in a Colorado Springs local’s basement had become increasingly popular among state residents.
CBS News Colorado provided live coverage of last year’s Denver Shroom Fest.
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