Colorado vs Oregon: A Tale of Two Trials in Psychedelic Policy

Explore the different approaches Colorado (decriminalization) and Oregon (legalization) have taken towards psilocybin and how these models are playing out in terms of access, safety, and commercialization. In this live panel discussion, we will explore concerns with regulation, the pitfalls of capitalism, and the need for greater psychedelic policy reform.

The different approaches Colorado and Oregon have taken toward psilocybin
Lessons learned in both states
Successes and challenges experienced in implementing these policies
The importance of taking social ramifications into consideration
What’s next for these two states

You'll hear from:

Sami Bass Moderator

Sacred Matriarch

Sami Bass is a lineage ancestral channel, somatic movement and embodiment practitioner and medicine person challenging social narratives by creating safer spaces for all voices.

Barine Majewska

Counsel, Vicente LLP

Barine Majewska is counsel in Vicente LLP's Denver office, where she is a leading member of the firm's Psychedelics and Emerging Therapies Practice Group. She became an attorney because she loved the logical reasoning skills required by law, and grew to enjoy applying those skills to help people and companies be successful in business.

Where to find Barine Majewska

Jon Dennis

Attorney and Activist

Jon Dennis is a lawyer, activist, and community organizer in psychedelics ecosystem. You may know him from his work with the Psychedelics Today organization attempting to protect religious and community use of psilocybin under Oregons Measure 109 program. Now hes working with an organization called REACH Washington to help create legal access to natural entheogens in Washington.

Where to find Jon Dennis

Anthony Johnson

Oregon Measure 110 Chief Petitioner

Political consultant Anthony Johnson is a former criminal defense attorney that served as chief petitioner, spokesperson, and deputy communications director for Measure 110 in 2020, a ballot initiative that decriminalized the personal possession of all drugs. He also was the chief petitioner for Oregon Measure 91, the state's cannabis legalization campaign that passed back in 2014.

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Jessica 'jaz' Cadoch

Psychedelic Anthropologist

Was involved in the crafting of Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act while holding the both-and of various opposing viewpoints on the measure and took a seat on the steering committee of the campaign for Prop 122.

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