{"id":15002,"date":"2019-05-08T18:06:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=57863"},"modified":"2019-05-08T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:06:40","slug":"denver-first-in-u-s-to-decriminalize-psychedelic-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/denver-first-in-u-s-to-decriminalize-psychedelic-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver first in U.S. to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_786708343-1024x637.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_786708343-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_786708343-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_786708343-768x478.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Psilocybin possession would remain illegal but would become police\u2019s \u201clowest law-enforcement priority.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/><em>SHUTTERSTOCK<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Denver is poised to become the first city in the nation to effectively decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>After&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/07\/psychedelic-magic-mushrooms-denver-election\/\">trailing in results postings Tuesday night<\/a>&nbsp;and early Wednesday, final unofficial results&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denvergov.org\/electionresults#\/results\/20190507\">posted<\/a>&nbsp;late in the afternoon showed a reversal of fortune \u2014 with Initiative 301 set to pass narrowly with 50.6 percent of the vote. The total stands at 89,320 votes in favor and 87,341 against, a margin of 1,979.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Elections Division expects to continue accepting military and overseas ballots, but typically those numbers are small. Results will be certified May 16.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/08\/denver-psychedelic-magic-mushroom\/\">https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/08\/denver-psychedelic-magic-mushroom\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/crime\/denver-first-in-u-s-to-decriminalize-psychedelic-mushrooms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psilocybin possession would remain illegal but would become police\u2019s \u201clowest law-enforcement priority.&#8221;SHUTTERSTOCK Denver is poised to become the first city in the nation to effectively decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. After&nbsp;trailing in results postings Tuesday night&nbsp;and early Wednesday, final unofficial results&nbsp;posted&nbsp;late in the afternoon showed a reversal of fortune \u2014 with Initiative 301 set to pass narrowly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 17:32:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}