Policy · Issue 01 · Genesis
The Decriminalization Map, 2026
Where personal cultivation sits with the law this year, from Oregon and Colorado to the quiet reforms nobody reported. A living, sourced tracker.
The map changes faster than print can keep up with, which is why we keep this one online and dated. The headline: a growing number of jurisdictions have moved personal psilocybin activity from "serious crime" to "lowest law-enforcement priority" or to a regulated framework, while the clear majority of the world still treats cultivation as a felony.
The United States is a patchwork. Oregon and Colorado have built supervised-use systems; several cities have deprioritised personal use and cultivation without formally legalising them. Deprioritised is not legal, a distinction that has caught out more than one person who read a headline and not the statute.
Elsewhere the picture ranges from tolerant to draconian. A handful of countries permit possession or cultivation in narrow ways; most do not. Spores occupy a strange legal grey zone in some places because they contain no psilocybin, and a firmly illegal one in others. We source every claim in this tracker, and we say plainly when we are unsure. The safest reading of your own situation is always the strictest one.