Oregon regulators announced on Tuesday that they have approved the nation’s first state-licensed psilocybin facilitators to administer the psychedelic to adults at regulated facilities.
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) approved three facilitators—David Naftalin, Alexander Polvi and Jeanette Small—to provide psilocybin health services under the law that voters approved in 2020.
“We want to congratulate the first facilitators to be licensed in Oregon,” Oregon Psilocybin Services (OPS) Section Manager Angie Allbee said in a press release. “As your work in providing non-directive psilocybin services takes shape, we thank you for your dedication to client safety and access as we move closer to opening service centers.”
OHA approved the first-ever license for a psilocybin manufacturer last month, and it’s since issued an additional license to provide the psychedelic to service centers.
Regulators were tasked under the historic voter-approved initiative to begin issuing licenses for the manufacturing, testing and administering of psilocybin by January 2, 2023. OPS said that it “anticipates issuing licenses to service center and laboratory applicants in the coming months.”
OHA has also approved 60 psilocybin worker permits so far. A total of 302 worker permit and license applications have been submitted to the state as of Tuesday.
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