Cybin Colorado Forum/ Boulder
With Dana First and Dr Lloyd Covens, Moderator, CBGresearch PBC
July 29 - August 1, 2025
Our Urban Retreats are heavy on education, healthy-outlooks and community and personal growth. For 2025, New West Encounters is focused exclusively on the Colorado plans and practices for legacy and regulated access to psilocbybin mushrooms.
(NOTE: Our forum does not focus on ketamine, MDMA or other synthetic/chemical formulations, including LSD or any other non-permitted natural medicines).
Under the Colorado approved citizen Initiative 122, residents may now grow, possess and share psilocybin shrooms within certain hours of monitoring and responsible consumer dose/strain limits and times needed for trip monitoring. No psilocybin mushrooms or products may be commercially sold in Colorado.
elcome and Interview with Kevin Matthews: Denver’s 2020 Vote for Legalization – Detroit, Washington DC, Oregon and Colorado
10:30 National Trends and Data Scan: RAND Study — Odyssey Analysis of Oregon Rollout – Why a 22% Total Usage Capacity
11am Challenges From a 80/20 World: Legacy vs “Regulated” Plan
11:30 Psychedelic Church Rights and Responsibilities (Kris M. with Sean McCallester)
11:30– Colorado Natural Medicine Vision: What, When &How??
(TBD, Natural Medicine Division,)
Lunch Buffet-(Outside Patio)- Research and Discovery: CU/Denver Psychedelic Research Center —Dr. James Grigson– The Long Path to Psilocybin and Cancer Research
1:15pm — Federal Right-To-Try Legislation and FDA Certification (Dr. Lloyd Covens and Dr. Sue Sisley, remote)
2pm Brigitte Mars: Addressing End-of-Life Anxiety w/ Psilocybin (also discuss PTD suicide and other aspects BM selects)
2:30 Assessing Priority One: Veterans’ Psilocybin Research and Access for PTSD and TBI Mitigation
3:15 The Oregon Process for Lab Screening & Testing– Dan Huson, Founder/CEO, Rose City Labs, Portland, OR
Per the required “support services” and “harm reduction coursework” required, we are registered natural medicine “consultants” with mover 200 hours of direct experience. We are not licensed as a state of Colorado fixed healing center. You have the option of selecting the range of facilitation.
Therefore, please note: No sales of psilocybin are made at NWE, but there is a lab testing fee ($96) for mushroom batch testing for each micro course– screening for all biotoxins (e.coli, salmonella, heavy metals) and for product strain, potency and psilocin profile.
Prior to arrival, all students are to have have completed Course 2: “Ethics, Privacy and Consent and Course 3: “Best Practices: Turning Intention into Action”.
About the Leaders
Dana First
Dana brings a twenty-year background in traditional health care delivery, and found after her first psilocybin journey at age 44 her perspective on helping to heal folks was so much more than traditional medicine. Now Dana is a key member of the client services team, collecting client intentions along with their health/physical evaluation. She works […]
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Dr Lloyd Covens, Moderator, CBGresearch PBC
The next wave of states--MN, NM, NV,MI and more--will need a "best practices" roadmap on what Colorado has sought to bring about in the regulatory framework for legal access. Problem is: That regulated segment is likely to be only 20% of consumers-- so why shouldn't we be "best practices" for all consumers (so-called "underground" or […]
Learn more about Dr Lloyd Covens, Moderator, CBGresearch PBC