New Mexico passes nation’s first legislature-driven psilocybin access act

New Mexico passes nation’s first legislature-driven psilocybin access act
Psychedelic Alpha; 4/8/25
Yesterday, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed SB 219, the Medical Psilocybin Act, which will establish the third state-legal psilocybin access system in the US. In simple terms, the Act creates a framework through which patients with qualifying conditions can access and use non-synthetic psilocybin through consultation with a licensed healthcare provider. Qualifying conditions, according to the bill, are ‘major treatment-resistant depression’, PTSD, substance use disorders and end-of-life care, as well as other conditions that the department might approve. While Oregon and Colorado’s state-legal psilocybin programs were the product of popular ballot measures, New Mexico’s is the first to be mandated by the state’s legislature.