PT 656 - Travis Tyler Fluck: Denver Mushroom Decriminalization, Mutual Aid, and the Future of Psychedelic Culture
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Denver mushroom decriminalization changed the national conversation around psilocybin access, personal use, and grassroots psychedelic reform. In this episode of Psychedelics Today, Joe Moore speaks with Travis Tyler Fluck, an autognostic mycologist, educator, activist, end-of-life doula, and longtime Colorado mushroom community organizer.
Fluck was involved in Denver's 2019 psilocybin campaign, which made adult personal use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms the city's lowest law enforcement priority. The campaign passed by a narrow margin and helped open the door for later reforms in Oakland, Washington, D.C., Oregon, Colorado, and beyond.
This conversation looks at the people, ethics, and tensions behind Denver mushroom decriminalization. It also explores what happens after a law changes: how communities educate themselves, how personal use spaces develop, and how grassroots access fits alongside regulated psychedelic services.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to psychedelics today. |
| 0:22.6 | This is Joe Moore. |
| 0:23.5 | Today on the show we have Travis Tyler Fluck from the Denver Psychedelic ecosystem. |
| 0:29.7 | He's been an activist for a long time in the space working on the decriminalization aspect of the Colorado space. We get into his history in the show. He's become a |
| 0:41.6 | very known entity in the psychedelic scene here in Colorado, teaching a lot of people how to grow |
| 0:48.4 | and microdose and doing a lot more than that. I've known Travis for a very long time, but we finally got around to |
| 0:55.6 | getting on the show, which I'm very thankful for. Worth noting, we recorded this podcast on |
| 1:01.8 | the anniversary of when Colorado found out they won, the decriminalization of mushrooms in Denver |
| 1:09.9 | specifically. Very cool to see this, you know, |
| 1:13.6 | movement kind of unfold from there. I'm just really thankful we got Travis on. So Travis, thanks |
| 1:18.3 | again. Thanks for all your hard work. And let's keep going on with the podcast after a couple |
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