The first legal and regulated psilocybin program in the world is ready for its second draft.

Now the big opportunity begins. Our community rallied through the hearings and the comment period, and on September 22 the Oregon Health Authority withdrew its plan to double every license fee. The agency did not say why. The relief is real, and it is temporary.

Our namesake envisioned this program nearly a decade ago and co-wrote Measure 109, the ballot measure Oregon voters passed in 2020. More than 22,000 people have been served since, with a safety record to match. That record belongs to the facilitators, service center operators, manufacturers and clients who built it and trusted it early.

A program built by ballot measure does not improve on its own. Its structure lives in statute, which rulemaking cannot touch, so changing it takes a bill and the organized effort of people who know how the program actually runs. The 2027 session is that chance.

The first step is taken. Representative Rob Nosse pre-session filed the bill concept on September 10, Legislative Counsel returns one draft by December 1, and the session opens January 19. Nothing is introduced yet, which is the useful part: the language is still ours to shape.

This is what we are asking that bill to do: cap the license fee in law, refine the program so fees can come down over time, write rules and safeguards to the actual risk profile of psilocybin, cut the unnecessary cost of running the program, bring services to the homes of people who cannot travel, and more.

To bring the Legislature along we need data and results. Good thing we have those in spades, and they came out of your work.

Every change in the bill is built on what the program has shown since it went live in 2023: what is working, what is not, and the research beside it. The skeleton was set in 2020 and has never changed, drawn in part from 2018 polling about what voters would tolerate rather than what would work best. We know a great deal more now.

In 2027 Oregon can give this model, the first state regulated psychedelic healthcare model in the world, its second draft. The Oregon Psychedelic Services Improvement Act is that second draft. We want your corrections before it is final, and your support when it moves.