Psychedelic Professionals Meet: DENVER
Thu, Aug 04
|Mercury Cafe
For psychedelic professionals, researchers, practitioners, and activists to learn, share, network, and connect in community. Let's keep Colorado leading the way forward in transforming our relationships with drugs and medicines.


Time & Location
Aug 04, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM MDT
Mercury Cafe, 2821, 2199 California St, Denver, CO 80205, USA
About the event
Psychedelic Professionals Meetup Groups are happening! Let's keep Colorado on the leading edge of psychedelic medicine work by coming together in community to learn, share, and grow. Each Psychedelic Professionals Meetup Group starts with an informative topic relevant to research, practice, policy, or activism around psychedelic medicines, followed by open discussion and an opportunity to connect with like-minded others.
For our August meetup, we are excited to welcome Dr. Craig Heacock for a talk on: Psychedelics, Psychosis, and Risk Reduction
Medicalization and/or legalization of psilocybin is likely coming to Colorado soon, with other psychedelics soon to follow. This will foster both a new era of psychiatric treatments and psychospiritual exploration, as well as a significant increase in adverse psychiatric events, including psychotic breaks. This talk will look at various classes of psychedelics (cannabinoids, tryptamines, phenethylamines, ketamine, e.g.) and assess their relative risk of triggering psychosis, how and why polypharmacy (particularly…