Officials in Oregon have taken an important step towards establishing the state’s psilocybin program (passed by voters in 2020) by approving a license for the state’s first-ever psilocybin testing facility, and three licenses for the state’s first psilocybin facilitators.
Psilocybin mushrooms, also called “magic mushrooms”.
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has issued a license for psilocybin testing to Rose City Laboratories, LLC, the first company in state’s history to hold such a license. This comes just a couple days after OHA approved licenses for three psilocybin facilitators, David Naftalin, Jeanette Small and Alexander Polvi. The licenses will allow them to provide psilocybin services to adults. Psylocibin is the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms.
“We want to congratulate the first facilitators to be licensed in Oregon for psilocybin,” said Oregon Psilocybin Services (OPS) Section Manager Angie Allbee “As your work in providing non-directive psilocybin services takes shape, we thank you for your dedication to client safety and access as we move closer to opening service centers.”
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