Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

maintaining balance in Colorado's rollout — patgs 26

16 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief conversational excerpt, Fleet Maull asks a co‑speaker about the strategic thinking behind Colorado’s rollout of psilocybin services, focusing on how to balance affordability, accessibility, and safety. The speaker emphasizes a "balance" between access and cost, noting that Indigenous communities bring valuable real‑world experience in administering psychedelics and that many clinical facilitators already have formal mental‑health training. Colorado’s allowance for retreat‑style delivery is highlighted as a cost‑lowering mechanism because labor is shared among retreat participants. The speaker argues that end‑users should not bear the cost; instead, funding should shift to healthcare systems, insurers, or employers, positioning psilocybin services as a public‑health benefit rather than a direct consumer expense.

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What were you thinking as you rolled things out in Colorado and trying to get the best balance of affordability, accessibility, and safety?
Well, you said the magic word, balance between access and accessibility, cost and safety, finding the best happy medium they could, recognizing that Indigenous communities have people with a great deal of real-world experience administering psychedelic drugs to folks. And in fact, most of the clinical facilitators already have clinical training. They are clinical psychologists, The other thing that Colorado allows are these retreats, and that's a great way to lower the cost. You're dividing the labor costs amongst the pool of people at the retreat, and I think that's, that's really great. I mean, ultimately, we shouldn't be charging the, the people who are seeking psilocybin services for those services. We should be charging healthcare systems. We should be charging healthcare payers. We should be charging employers.