Back in 2020, when Oregon voters legalized psychedelic mushrooms for use in therapeutic settings, backers of the measure expected the industry to flourish like fungi in a fall mist.

Sadly, that hasn’t been the case. Rules governing the production and use of psilocybin are strict and the fees are high. Facilitators who guide psychonauts pay the fees, as do growers and operators of “service centers,” the antiseptic-sounding spaces where people are allowed to trip.

The bottleneck is in centers. The state charges owners $10,000 a year for a license and requires security cameras for patient safety and steel safes for storing Psilocybe cubensis because the magical species remains a Schedule I illegal drug under federal law.

The result? One quarter of the psilocybin service centers opened in

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