PSYCHEDELIC CITY: Hallucinogenic drug community mushrooms in Denver
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Colorado voted to decriminalize a handful of hallucinogenic drugs in 2022. But Kess Hirsheimer says Denver's psychedelic community had been growing well before then.
"It completely transformed my entire world view on things," she told Fox News. "I was able to find beauty when I had been in pain for such a long time. I was able to find appreciation for the smaller things, and I was able to really see the love that I had for myself and people loving me." Ethan Barton is a producer/reporter for Digital Originals. You can reach him at ethan.barton@fox.com and follow him on Twitter at @ethanrbarton.
The journey wasn’t exactly fun and games, like you might see in movies. And it wasn’t like the cliché acid bad trip, either. For Hirsheimer, it was something deeper.
"Being in that change was incredibly painful," she said. "Like for four hours it was a lot of crying."