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Psilocybin service providers warn $3.5M shortfall could force higher fees, reduce rural access
Summary
Providers, facilitators and service-center owners urged lawmakers to cover a reported $3.5 million shortfall in the Oregon Psilocybin Services budget to avoid doubling licensing fees and shrinking access, especially in rural areas.
Heidi Pendergast, Oregon director of the Healing Advocacy Fund, and psilocybin service-center owners told the subcommittee that Oregon's regulated psilocybin program — established by Measure 109 and administered by the Oregon Health Authority — faces a $3,500,000 shortfall in the current budget cycle.
"This program, established under measure 109, has provided life changing hope and healing to over 9,000 clients in just the past year and a half," Pendergast said, and she asked…
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