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A tray of psilocybin mushrooms is prepared to be distributed to congregants by Benji “Teopixqui Dez” Dezaval, founder of The Community of PACK Life, before a gathering in the basement of his home, which serves as Colorado’s first psychedelic church, on February 18, 2025, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dezaval, who started the church in 2024, hands out up to two grams of a psilocybin mushroom to each church congregant weekly. Colorado voters passed Proposition 122 in 2022, which decriminalized the use of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly referred to as “magic mushrooms.” Dezaval has seen the church grow to over 400 congregants in the past year. (Photo by Jason Connolly / AFP)

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