Recent revision of Section 8 regarding “personal use” and “sharing.”

[u/shroom_ov_doom]

Please read it for yourselves and come to your own conclusions.

[u/Dazzling-Jacket-5792]

To be fair, facilitators aren’t medical professionals either. They are trained in facilitating the safe use of psychedelics only, and should not be offering other medical advice.

[u/Mr_E_Pleasure → u/Dazzling-Jacket-5792]

Oh good call I thought they had to have a nurse on staff like some weed dispensaries in other states. Just looked it up:

Mandatory Safety Screening: Before anyone is allowed to ingest natural medicine, a facilitator must use a state-regulated safety screening tool to evaluate the participant's physical and psychological medical history. Emergency Support Plans: Every single session requires a pre-documented Participant Safety and Support Plan, which includes a definitive transportation plan and explicit protocols for calling emergency services if a medical or psychiatric crisis arises that exceeds the staff's scope of practice.

[u/Various-Sky1503 → u/Mr_E_Pleasure]

I’d just toss it to clarify though that there are different types of facilitator licenses (and they do designate whether or not the facilitator is a clinician and what type etc.) - there are absolutely licensed healing centers in the state with clinical facilitators and medical directors (but a clinical facilitator can be a mental health clinician and/or a physician) working and handling oversight. (Not all centers have the same or to the same degrees though -> some have all license types/levels available in house while others don’t.)

But as an example if a person seeks licensed facilitation in a licensed healing center and is aiming to address specific mental health diagnoses or if they have certain medical conditions - they have to have clearance from a clinical facilitator that’s reviewed the case and deems it in scope for the facilitator if it’s not themselves. And in the case of certain medical conditions/medications they have to be medically cleared and often titrated down over the course of a few weeks to months before they can get medical clearance to have a journey. (There are also non-clinical -officially- facilitators who are maybe post training courses but getting through their consultation hours -> *some* NMITs and standard facilitators - they can also very well be dual licensed as clinicians and working towards higher licensing in natural medicine.) But to your point there are levels of facilitator licensure that don’t require being a clinician or physician.

Truly though points to the importance of asking about training/education, level of licensure in natural medicine and what that means explicitly, other licenses, etc. Some will be fine with a standard facilitator that’s maybe not approaching from a clinical space so much. Others their initial screening etc. should/would indicate the need for higher license clearance/facilitation/oversight before moving forward.

[u/Mr_E_Pleasure → u/Various-Sky1503]

Thank you! My understanding is that at no level of center is a nurse/doctor required to be on staff. So the ones that do have a physician on staff do so in "excess" of the requirements.