🚨 Colorado just passed SB25-297, requiring de-identified data collection from psychedelic healing centers starting in 2026. It’s a big step toward evidence-based care—but raises real questions about privacy. Why it matters & how we’re navigating it at Althea: withalthea.com/2025/05/07/w...

When we talk about psychedelics in mental health, the headlines often focus on the stats: reduced depression, eased anxiety, fewer PTSD symptoms. But healing is not just the absence of suffering. Healing is presence. It’s feeling connected again — to yourself, to others, to the world around you.

20 drugs, ranked by harm to the user and society. Psilocybin ranks last, with MDMA and LSD also in the bottom quartile. withalthea.com/2025/02/17/i... @altheapbc.bsky.social

This is a tough one to share. I had tears in my eyes throughout this interview and again as I edited the video and wrote the post.

I made an AI bot to help us understand the CO Natural Medicine Program. It's trained on the law, rules, and guidelines published by DOR and DORA. Ask it all your questions about the program! altheapbc.com/2025/01/29/a...

From clinical trials, to dosage and treatment methods, to pharmacology, I attempted to gather a review of psilocybin for depression. Let me know what I missed!

These were the top reasons people sought out facilitated psilocybin services, collected through Althea. altheapbc.com/2025/01/12/c...

Psychedelic assisted therapy is now legal in two states. But it's still difficult to find a facilitator that meets client preferences. The market is fragmented. Althea is starting to match seekers with licensed facilitators in Oregon and (coming soon) to Colorado. altheapbc.com/journeyers/

Anyone have experience with using the Mystical Experience Questionnaire post-journey? I've used it to quantify the experience and bring some structure to the ineffable. Althea provides an easy way to take it and will send a detailed report to help you interpret. altheapbc.com/mystical-exp...

The world needs a standardized screening tool for psilocybin use. Each practitioner seems to have their own. The Psilocybin Risk Assessment Collaborative will build and distribute a screener in an open and collaborative way. Learn more and join the collaborative here: practool.org

Come 2025, Colorado will go live with the nation's second legal psilocybin program. I've been trying to find my Colorado folk here to pull together this starter pack, but it's slim pickings. Let me know if I missed you! go.bsky.app/FZB7p4N

Oregon has the only legal psychedelic program in the country. It's explicitly non-medical, so HIPAA doesn't apply. We had to come up with a new data sharing heuristic from the ground up. I discussed a bit here, as Althea on-boards practitioners in Oregon. altheapbc.com/2024/12/10/o...

Sunrise over Boulder this morning.

“We have the potential to treat thousands more patients here in Colorado than have been done in all of the academic trials,” @sthom003.bsky.social says. “We can learn from the experience of these Coloradans.” coloradobiz.com/psychedelics...

Colorado psilocybin healing centers are gearing up for tourist season: “We’re going to market primarily in the midwest and support our clients with a virtual 12-week program around their journey.” boulderweekly.com/features/on-...

Insurance in the psychedelic space is ripe for a new entrant. Traditional carriers can't handle it. Naropa has to form a new corporate entity because their current provider won't insure their psilocybin training program. boulderweekly.com/news/naropa-...

Thanks for giving us a place to start!

1/ This type of question comes up frequently in this emerging psychedelic industry. It’s why we cringe at calling it an “industry”, why we have so many non-profits, and why sliding scale pricing models are fairly standard among practitioners. Do profits have a place in the psychedelic industry?

Why do we need software in this emerging land of state-regulated psychedelics?

Just a baby on the trail.

Hello world! 👋 I hear it's nice in here.