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Thornton staff recommends classifying psilocybin healing centers as medical clinics; council asks for local time/place/manner options
Summary
Staff summarized state regulations for natural medicine (psilocybin) businesses and recommended treating healing centers as medical‑clinic uses under the development code, while defining cultivation, manufacturing and testing and allowing the latter in industrial zoning districts. Council asked staff to return with specific time, place and manner
Thornton city development staff briefed council on Colorado’s regulatory framework for “natural medicine” (psilocybin and related substances), explained staff’s recommended land‑use interpretations and requested feedback on possible local time, place and manner regulations.
Ty Robbins, city development liaison, outlined the state framework created after Proposition 122 (2022) and Senate Bill 23‑290, which decriminalized natural medicine possession and then established a licensing/operational framework. Robbins emphasized a statutory distinction: the state’s rules do not permit retail sale of natural medicine to the general public — instead, the statute regulates licensed healing centers where licensed facilitators administer medicine in supervised sessions; other regulated categories include cultivation, manufacturing and testing facilities.
Staff’s recommendation was twofold: (1)…
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