In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in psychedelics and their potential therapeutic benefits. This phenomenon, often referred to as the "psychedelic renaissance," has led to a renewed focus on research and understanding of these substances.

Psychedelic sitting services are intended as a scaffold of support upon which individuals undergoing a psychedelic experience may lean. Before the passing of Prop 122, Psychedelic Support Services were more or less relegated to places where people were already consuming the medicines such as shows and festivals. Now that the law has changed, we have the opportunity to create much more cultivated and intentional containers for a psychedelic experience.

On November 8th, 2022 Colorado yet again made drug policy history by passing Proposition 122. Also known as the Natural Medicine Health Act (NMHA), Amendment 58, and Article 170, this measure establishes hybrid legalization and decriminalization of certain Psychedelic Medicines within the State.

The events in our lives are not passing landmarks along a road, they are rings of a tree. We don’t cruise right on past who we used to be. Instead, we develop new layers surrounding those that came before. Our younger selves are not behind us like a town in the review mirror, they are contained within us. Just below the surface of our newest growth layer lies everything that we used to be. All the wounds, all the hurt, the joy, the laughter, and the lightness, all that defined our younger years is still right there underneath who we now are.

Wishful and sloppy thinking creates a desire to respond to the title question: “Of course psychedelics make people more peaceful! If only we could dose the politicians! The war would cease, destructive consumerism dissolved, and the rest of history spent in wild celebration of the sacred phenomenon that is the human existence itself!”.

No reasonable person could call the blackness of space that fills the night sky “bad”. Terrifying and mysterious, absolutely. But bad? That’s the stuff of cosmic moralists and small-town evening news anchors. Nonsense, to put it simply. The same is true about the psychedelic space. The darkness found there is the medium through which light itself shines, without it there can be no glow.