Is there a mushroom dispensary in Denver?

Can you buy psilocybin mushrooms at a dispensary in Denver?

No. Colorado licenses healing centers, not dispensaries: psilocybin is given in a supervised session with a licensed facilitator, and the only lawful sale to an individual is one made inside a healing center to someone taking part in a session there.² Adults 21+ may possess, grow and share mushrooms "without remuneration," but nothing in state law lets anyone "dispense, sell, or distribute" them for payment outside a license, and federal law still bans all of it.¹

For how Colorado's rules compare with other states, see the Colorado section of My Mushroom Dispensary's legality page; that online shop is run by the people who publish this register. Buying psilocybin online or by mail is illegal under federal law and in every state, Colorado included.

What can adults do under Proposition 122?

Colorado voters approved Proposition 122, the Natural Medicine Health Act, on Nov. 8, 2022, by 53.64% to 46.36%.⁶ SB23-290, signed May 23, 2023 and in effect July 1, 2023, set the details.⁷ Under C.R.S. 18-18-434, an adult 21 or older who "for the purpose of personal use and without remuneration, possesses, consumes, shares, cultivates, or manufactures" natural medicine "does not violate state law."¹

The line is payment. "Remuneration" means "anything of value, including money," personal use "does not mean the sale of natural medicine or natural medicine product for remuneration," and the law does not cover distributing it "as a part of a business promotion or commercial activity."¹ So "buy a sticker, get free mushrooms" is not sharing; see the claims storefronts make. SB23-290 also made possession under 21 and public use drug petty offenses.⁷

How do healing centers and the new limited sales license work?

A healing center license may go only to a business that employs or contracts with a licensed facilitator, and the facilitator must verify that the participant is 21 or older.⁸ The state's Natural Medicine Division opened license applications on Dec. 31, 2024. As of Oct. 30, 2026 it listed 47 approved healing centers (12 standard and 35 micro), 15 cultivation licenses, 8 product manufacturers and 1 testing lab.³

HB26-1325, signed June 4, 2026, took effect Aug. 12, 2026, along with emergency rules.²⁴ It created a limited regulated natural medicine sales license that lets a licensee co-located in a healing center sell natural medicine "to individuals taking part in an administration session." The fiscal note assumed about 20 of 40 healing center licensees would apply.² It is a point of sale inside a session, not a store, and the division's page gave no count of these licenses as of Nov. 2, 2026; our news report on the limited sales license has more. A final hearing on permanent rules is set for Nov. 4, 2026.⁴

Denver adds its own layer. In March 2025 the City Council unanimously adopted local licensing for healing centers, with a 1,000-foot buffer from child care and K-12 schools and a ban on all outdoor natural medicine advertising.¹⁰ To find a center, use the division's healing center directory or DORA's facilitator lookup, both linked from where psilocybin is sold legally. Oregon's service centers, which work on a similar model, are covered on our Oregon page.

What are Denver's unlicensed shops and "support centers"?

Cease-and-desist letters. The Natural Medicine Division lists five cease-and-desist letters, sent from Nov. 3, 2023 to Sept. 12, 2024, to recipients it describes as engaged in the commercial sale of psilocybin mushrooms; one went to a group calling itself a church. The state page doesn't say where the businesses were.⁵ HB26-1325 now lets the division's director issue cease-and-desist orders; we found none issued under that power yet.²

The "support center" model. A Denver psilocybin "co-op" running since 2023 charges a screening-based support fee and then provides mushrooms, and calls that harm reduction, not a sale. The division sent it a cease-and-desist letter in 2023 over its advertising; in December 2025 the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) issued a separate cease-and-desist order alleging unlicensed facilitation, and the operator was set to appear before a DORA administrative judge. No one was arrested, and we found no final ruling.¹¹ HB26-1325 answered the model directly: state law does not permit using "harm reduction services or support services to conduct sales of natural medicines."²

Denver's 2019 ordinance, repealed. Denver voters passed Initiative 301 on May 7, 2019, 50.64% to 49.36%, making adults' personal use and possession the city's lowest enforcement priority; it never covered sales.⁹ In March 2025 the council repealed it unanimously; the city's excise official said state law had made it obsolete, and the city said enforcement against businesses that give mushrooms away while charging for services would be civil and aimed at compliance.¹⁰

Tobacco shops and gas stations. On July 29, 2025, Denver's excise department warned every licensed tobacco retailer that selling psilocybin products is illegal, after city testing found psilocybin in a brand of chocolate bar whose maker said it had none; it threatened enforcement up to license revocation.¹² In January 2026 Denver7 reported city tests on chocolate bars seized from six retailers: of three samples, one held only psilocybin, one psilocybin plus synthetic tryptamines and one only synthetic tryptamines, none of them on the label.¹³

Colorado Springs. On Oct. 14, 2026, KRDO reported that the Colorado Springs Police Department's Metro Task Force and the DEA searched seven businesses, five stores of one smoke shop chain and two of one liquor store chain, over alleged unlicensed sales of THC and psilocybin products, including to minors. Citing a police update, KRDO listed 4.2 pounds of psilocybin products among the seizures; no arrests had been reported.¹⁴ We could not read the city's own announcement (register record).

The register holds 21 Colorado records from May 2019 to October 2026: 7 state actions, 7 warning letters (5 from the Natural Medicine Division, 1 from DORA, 1 from Denver), 3 city actions, 2 voter measures, 1 criminal case and 1 raid. Six are in Denver; 13 are confirmed and 8 reported. See the Colorado section of the register.

What's the risk if you buy from an unlicensed shop?

In Colorado, an adult 21+ who possesses psilocybin mushrooms for personal use and without remuneration breaks no state law. Buying them is different: the seller commits a state crime, and paying means taking part in an unlawful sale.¹ Under 21, possession is a drug petty offense with a fine of up to $100.⁷ Federal law makes no exception: simple possession under 21 U.S.C. 844 carries up to a year and a minimum $1,000 fine on a first offense.¹⁵

Unlicensed products are also untested, and Denver's own tests found undisclosed synthetic drugs; what testing found in shop gummies has more. If someone is in trouble, call 911 or Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222, and see where to get help.

What happened in Colorado, and when?

1. May 7, 2019Denver voters pass Initiative 301.
2. Nov. 8, 2022Colorado voters pass Proposition 122.
3. May 23, 2023SB23-290 is signed.
4. Nov. 3, 2023The state sends its first listed cease-and-desist letter over mushroom sales.
5. Dec. 31, 2024Healing center license applications open.
6. March 2025Denver repeals its 2019 ordinance and licenses healing centers.
7. July 29, 2025Denver warns tobacco retailers about psilocybin products.
8. December 2025DORA orders a Denver "co-op" to stop unlicensed facilitation.
9. Aug. 12, 2026HB26-1325 and the limited sales license take effect.
10. Oct. 14, 2026Colorado Springs police and the DEA search seven shops, KRDO reports.
11. Oct. 30, 2026The state lists 47 approved healing centers.