Colorado Lawmakers Consider Mushrooms, Big Changes to Marijuana Industry in 2023

The Colorado Legislature will adjourn its 2023 session today, May 8, in a rush to the finish line. As lawmakers engage in the time-honored tradition of last-minute TABOR talks, they’ve wrapped up most of their marijuana and psychedelics work.

A controversial measure proposing fewer medical marijuana restrictions for doctors and patients met a hard stop .early in the session, with sponsors pulling the bill without public testimony. There were some wins for marijuana proponents later on, however, including successful proposals to protect online dispensary sales (not just pre-orders) and off-hour cannabis use by licensed workers.

Here are six last-minute developments:

Mushroom Legalization Implementation

Introduced with three weeks left in the 2023 legislative session and now passed by…