On April 29th, 2025, Colorado quietly cleared the final regulatory hurdle needed to launch its natural medicine program: a laboratory has been licensed to test psychedelic medicines.
The newly approved lab, Nordic Analytical Laboratories, based out of Denver and Pueblo, is now certified to analyze psilocybin as part of the state’s regulated rollout. According to their website, Nordic is “the gold standard in Colorado cannabis testing” but doesn’t discuss their move into psychedelics yet.
This is more than a bureaucratic detail—it’s the last essential piece of infrastructure required to ensure medicine quality and safety for participants statewide. Colorado’s Department of Revenue lists the lab in their NMD search tool.
Many of us have been tracking the steady progress: facilitators licensed, healing centers approved, cultivation and manufacturing permitted. But without a licensed lab, none of the medicine could be distributed for legal use. Now that changes.
This marks a quiet but historic moment in Colorado’s journey toward safe, dignified, and legal access to psychedelic healing. It means the system is real—and ready.
We expect to see the first legal sessions begin in the coming weeks. For facilitators, participants, and all who have worked to build this system with care and integrity: this is a moment worth pausing for. Now we just need finalized forms. 😉
Let the healing begin.
