Oregon regulators nix higher fees for psilocybin after industry backlash
The Oregon Health Authority has decided not to implement proposed fee increases for the state's legal psilocybin industry. The decision follows warnings from businesses that doubling annual licensing fees would cause financial instability. Regulators originally planned the hikes before industry backlash led to the withdrawal of the proposal.
State regulators have backed off pursuing sizable fee increases on Oregon’s magic mushroom businesses after dire warnings from the legal psilocybin industry that it would buckle under the added costs. The Oregon Health Authority announced Tuesday that it would not adopt proposed rules that would have doubled the annual licensing fees for businesses across the […]
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