Oregon became the first in the nation to legalize psychedelic therapy through psilocybin back in 2020.

What soon followed were bans in various jurisdictions, large costs for individuals seeking treatment and other barriers to access. Now, new reporting from the New York Times found that a third of Psilocybin service centers have closed and other states have also begun offering this therapy, including Colorado and New Mexico.

Andrew Jacobs is a health and science reporter for the NYT. He joins us to share more on where things stand in Oregon’s program and what other states have learned from the state’s first-in-the-nation rollout.

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