Thu, Sep 02
|Mercury Cafe
Psychedelic Professionals Meet: DENVER
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
Sep 02, 2021, 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 September 2021 gathering in Denver, we are excited to welcome Dr. Shannon Hughes, one of the founding board members of the Nowak Society and an Associate Professor of Social Work at Colorado State University. Shannon will be making an argument against medicalization and psychedelic gatekeeping through prescription privileges. By default, substances like MDMA and psilocybin that are being taken through the FDA approval process will eventually be available by prescription through a licensed prescriber. Additional efforts to decriminalize or otherwise regulate these and other psychedelics may open up access beyond…