Where is psilocybin legal near New York?

The short answer

Nowhere near New York. No state from Maine to Maryland has legalized psilocybin, and it's a Schedule I drug under federal law everywhere.¹ The nearest licensed programs are healing centers in the Denver area, Colorado, about 1,780 road miles from Times Square, and service centers in Oregon, about 2,787 miles away. New Mexico's medical program isn't open yet.^{2, 3, 4}

In the drawing below, each square is 100 miles of driving from Times Square (OSRM routes to the nearest center in each state's own directory, November 2, 2026), so Colorado is about 32 hours at the wheel. New Mexico has no bar because no one can enroll there yet.²

1. Denver area, Colorado1,780 miles The nearest healing centers in the Natural Medicine Division's directory are in north Denver and Arvada. Adults 21+; the statute sets no residency requirement. Source
2. Bend, Oregon2,787 miles Two service centers in Bend are the nearest in Oregon's public directory. Adults 21+, and Oregon says clients don't need to live in the state. Source

New Mexico: Not open yet: the law requires the program by December 31, 2027, and the state is aiming for first patients in December 2026. Whether non-residents can enroll isn't settled. Source

What do legal, deprioritized and illegal mean?

Every place on this page falls into one of three groups:

• Legal (regulated) A state licenses supervised adult use: Oregon and Colorado, with New Mexico's medical program being set up.
• Decriminalized More precisely, deprioritized: police are told to make arrests a low priority, but possession and sale stay crimes under state and federal law.
• Illegal New York and every Northeastern state. New Jersey's and Connecticut's research pilots are tagged Therapy pilot below, but possession is an offense in both.

In New York, psilocybin and psilocyn are Schedule I under Public Health Law 3306, and possessing any amount is a class A misdemeanor under Penal Law 220.03.⁵ We found no city, county or district attorney in the state that has changed that. See whether shrooms are legal in New York, the penalties guide and the Albany bill tracker.

The list covers 21 states, cities and districts by status, each with its measure, date and source, free to download and reuse.

Is psilocybin legal in New Jersey or Connecticut?

No. Both states fund psilocybin research, and neither lets adults buy or use it outside a study.

New Jersey: a hospital research pilot

P.L.2025, chapter 296, approved January 20, 2026, creates a Department of Health pilot and appropriates $6,000,000: $2,000,000 for each of three hospitals the department selects, for research the Legislature intends to comply with FDA and DEA regulations. It began as a bill for service centers serving New Jersey residents 21 and older, a model the enacted text strikes out.⁶ We found no Department of Health announcement naming the hospitals through November 2, 2026; our report on the law has its deadlines.

Possession is still an offense. Since February 4, 2021, possessing one ounce or less of psilocybin has been a disorderly persons offense rather than a third-degree crime, punishable by up to six months in jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both, according to the bill's statement. More than that is still a third-degree crime.⁷

Connecticut: the Yale pilot, opened wider

The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services runs a pilot (C.G.S. 17a-484g), administered by Yale's medical school, that provides MDMA- or psilocybin-assisted therapy "as part of a research program approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration." Public Act 26-108 (SB 191), in force since July 1, 2026, defines a qualified patient as "an individual who is eighteen years of age or older and meets clinical eligibility criteria established by the institutional review board of the medical school selected to administer the pilot program," "including, but not limited to, a resident of the state who is (A) a veteran, (B) a retired first responder, or (C) a direct care health care worker." The legislature's Office of Legislative Research summarizes the act as "allowing Connecticut residents to participate" who are at least 18 and meet those criteria; before it, the pilot was limited to Connecticut veterans, retired first responders and direct health care workers.⁸ See our report on the act.

Outside the pilot, possession is still a crime: 2025 proposals "that would have decriminalized possession of psilocybin" "did not move forward," a Pullman & Comley review found.⁹

Is psilocybin decriminalized in Massachusetts, Maine or D.C.?

Only in a narrow sense: police there are told to make it a low priority, but possession is still illegal and nothing is for sale.

Massachusetts

Voters rejected Question 4, which would have let adults 21 and older possess and use psilocybin and four other natural psychedelics, on November 5, 2024. The official count was 1,444,797 yes and 1,902,513 no, or 43.2% yes among 3,347,310 yes or no votes, with 165,620 ballots left blank.¹⁰

Somerville, Cambridge, Northampton and Easthampton (2021), Salem and Provincetown (2023) and Medford (2024) have resolutions putting psychedelic plants and fungi, or psilocybin, among their police's lowest enforcement priorities. Amherst's 2022 resolution only endorses decriminalization.¹¹

• What they do: ask local police to make these cases a low priority, and in several cities ask the district attorney to stop prosecuting.¹¹
• What they don't: carry legal force, change state or federal law, or allow sales. Possession is still a crime in these cities, and with Question 4's defeat there's no state licensing system.¹⁰

Maine

Portland's City Council voted 6-3 on October 2, 2023 to deprioritize criminal prosecution for personal use of psychedelic mushrooms, a resolution the city's Corporation Counsel called "a statement of the council's opinion."¹² Statewide decriminalization (LD 1034) failed final enactment on June 10, 2025, 72-74 in the House and 16-16 in the Senate, and possession remains a Class D crime.¹³

Washington, D.C.

Initiative 81, D.C. Law 23-268 since March 16, 2021, tells the Metropolitan Police Department to treat investigating and arresting people 18 and older for non-commercial activity with entheogenic plants and fungi, including those containing psilocybin or psilocyn, "as among its lowest enforcement priorities." On prosecution, the people of D.C. only "call upon" the D.C. Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney to stop prosecuting D.C. residents, and the law doesn't cover sales.¹⁴

What about Vermont, Pennsylvania and the rest?

Psilocybin is illegal statewide in all of them, and none has a licensed program.

Vermont

A working group created by Act 126 of 2024 reported on November 12, 2024 that "the majority did not recommend the creation of a state program for psychedelic therapy at this time." The 2025-2026 bills H.452 (decriminalization) and S.106 never got past committee referral.¹⁵

Pennsylvania

HB 1439, whose sponsor memo is titled "Legislation to Expedite Access to FDA-Approved Psilocybin Treatments," and SB 1149, on veterans' access to "Breakthrough Mental Health Therapies," had not left committee by November 2, 2026.¹⁶

The other four

• Rhode Island: 2026 bills H 7756 and H 7925 were introduced; we found no enactment.
• New Hampshire: the Senate killed a 2026 medical advisory board bill (HB 1809) on May 7, 2026.
• Maryland: 2026 laws extended a state task force on natural psychedelics to December 31, 2027.
• Delaware: we found no psilocybin bill in the 2023 to 2026 General Assemblies.

Each of the four is linked to its source in the status list above.

Can a New Yorker legally go to Oregon or Colorado?

Under state law, yes, at 21 or older. Oregon says you don't have to live there, and Colorado's statute doesn't make residency a condition. In both, you take psilocybin at a licensed center under a facilitator's supervision, and federal law still applies (see below).

Oregon's directory shows only licensees that agree to be listed, and OHA says it "is not a comprehensive list of all OPS licensees." OHA's licensing dashboard counts license statuses, not open centers: its Q2 2026 archive shows 22 service center licenses "approved" and 27 "renewed" between January 2023 and September 2026, and one license can hold both statuses. Colorado's directory is filled in by the centers themselves, so either directory could miss a center.^{18, 3}

Oregon

"Clients do not need to live in Oregon to access psilocybin services," the Oregon Health Authority says. No prescription is needed, a preparation session with a licensed facilitator comes first, and the administration session at a service center "is the only time a client may purchase and consume psilocybin products." OHA adds that products "may not be purchased and taken off-site."⁴

Colorado

The statute defines a participant as "an individual who is twenty-one years of age or older and who receives natural medicine services performed by and under the supervision of a facilitator."¹⁷ It says nothing about residency, and the Natural Medicine Division pages we checked don't address it either way.³

How many clients come from out of state?

In Oregon, 525 of the 1,220 clients served from April to June 2026 (43.0%) gave a home elsewhere in the U.S., up from 1,753 of 5,935 (29.5%) for all of 2025. That's a floor, because 291 clients opted out of reporting. Measured instead against the 821 residence responses OHA published, which include 51 clients who declined to answer and leave out Oregon counties with fewer than 12 clients, the share is 64%. OHA doesn't report home states, so there's no count of New Yorkers.¹⁸ Colorado's 2025 annual report counted 109 participants from August to December 2025, in preliminary data healing centers shared voluntarily, with no residency breakdown.³

Federal law still applies

A state license doesn't change federal law: psilocybin and psilocyn are Schedule I at 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(29) and (30).¹

• Mailing it is a federal crime. When distributing a controlled substance is unlawful, "then the mailing of the substance is also unlawful under 18 U.S.C. § 1716," the Postal Service says.¹⁹ Using the mail to commit or help commit a federal drug felony is a separate offense under 21 U.S.C. 843(b).²⁰
• Carrying it home is illegal too. Federal law applies in every state on the drive back, and possessing any amount in New York is a class A misdemeanor.^{1, 5}

When will New Mexico's program open?

Not yet. The Medical Psilocybin Act (SB 219, Laws 2025, chapter 73), signed April 7, 2025, requires the Department of Health to implement a medical program "by December 31, 2027." Qualifying conditions are treatment-resistant major depression, PTSD, substance use disorders, end-of-life care and others the department approves.²¹ The department is "accelerating the program's launch to December 2026," Marijuana Moment reported on October 14, 2026, with psilocybin given only in supervised sessions at approved locations.²²

The patient rule, 7.35.3 NMAC, had its public hearing on October 2, 2026 and was still listed among the department's pending rulemakings on November 2.^{22, 23} Whether non-residents can enroll is undecided: the statute's definition of a qualified patient doesn't mention residency, and the proposed rule's patient application asks for an address and a driver's license "or comparable photo identification card."^{21, 23}