Norshroomhttps://norshroom.org/Psilocybin news: laws, research and safety.en-usTue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700The first psilocybin drug application is almost complete. Here's where COMP360 stands.https://norshroom.org/news/compass-comp360-fda-filing-2026/https://norshroom.org/news/compass-comp360-fda-filing-2026/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700Compass Pathways expects to finish its FDA application for COMP360 psilocybin by the end of 2026. What the trials showed and what still has to happen.Colorado now has 47 licensed psilocybin healing centershttps://norshroom.org/news/colorado-healing-centers-october-2026/https://norshroom.org/news/colorado-healing-centers-october-2026/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700Colorado's regulated psilocybin program has grown from one healing center in March 2025 to 47 in October 2026, as a new law tightens rules on advertising and sales.Mystery shoppers found Oregon's psilocybin centers screened callers carefully. The price was the problem.https://norshroom.org/news/oregon-psilocybin-centers-mystery-shopper-study/https://norshroom.org/news/oregon-psilocybin-centers-mystery-shopper-study/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700Researchers posing as clients called 15 Oregon psilocybin service centers. Staff screened for risks and refused take-home use, but sessions cost a median $1,900.New Mexico aims to treat its first medical psilocybin patients by December 31https://norshroom.org/news/new-mexico-medical-psilocybin-first-patients/https://norshroom.org/news/new-mexico-medical-psilocybin-first-patients/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700New Mexico's health department wants its medical psilocybin program serving patients by the end of 2026, a year early. Draft rules drew pushback in October.No psilocybin legalization on the November 3 ballot. Here's what voters will see.https://norshroom.org/news/psilocybin-ballot-measures-november-2026/https://norshroom.org/news/psilocybin-ballot-measures-november-2026/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700No state will vote on legalizing psilocybin on November 3, 2026. Idaho's HJR 4 and three Oregon city measures are the psychedelics questions on the ballot.What Executive Order 14401 does, and doesn't do, for psilocybinhttps://norshroom.org/news/executive-order-14401-psychedelics/https://norshroom.org/news/executive-order-14401-psychedelics/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700The April 2026 order on psychedelic medicines speeds FDA review and funds state programs. It doesn't legalize psilocybin. Here's what changed.Oregon drops its plan to double psilocybin license feeshttps://norshroom.org/news/oregon-psilocybin-license-fees-2026/https://norshroom.org/news/oregon-psilocybin-license-fees-2026/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700Oregon regulators withdrew proposed fee increases for psilocybin service centers and facilitators on September 22, 2026, but the program still faces a budget gap.The VA's first Phase 3 psilocybin trial is enrolling veterans in five citieshttps://norshroom.org/news/va-pivot-psilocybin-trial-veterans/https://norshroom.org/news/va-pivot-psilocybin-trial-veterans/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700PIVOT will enroll about 240 veterans with treatment-resistant depression at VA sites in Alabama, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington.About 8 million Americans used psilocybin in the past year, federal survey data showhttps://norshroom.org/news/psilocybin-use-survey-8-million-americans/https://norshroom.org/news/psilocybin-use-survey-8-million-americans/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700The first National Survey on Drug Use and Health with psilocybin-specific questions puts past-year use at 2.8% of Americans 12 and older. What the numbers mean.