{"id":10655,"date":"2025-03-13T19:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=6952186"},"modified":"2025-03-13T19:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:11:19","slug":"denver-shroom-fest-canceled-due-to-some-bad-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/denver-shroom-fest-canceled-due-to-some-bad-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Shroom Fest canceled due to \u201csome bad luck\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/denver-shroom-fest-canceled-due-to-some-bad-luck\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/denver-shroom-fest-canceled-due-to-some-bad-luck.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Updated 1:45 p.m. on March 13 to include comment from event organizers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denvershroomfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Shroom Fest<\/a>, a celebration of psychedelic mushroom culture, will not go on as planned in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, organizers announced the second annual event, which was scheduled for June 15, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHGjZHxxFlg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been cancelled<\/a> due to \u201cunforeseen circumstances and some bad luck.\u201d Co-founder Jonathan Cherkoss suggested the festival may not return in future years either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDenver Shroom Fest was a huge success, and collaborating with Colorado\u2019s vibrant mushroom community was an incredible experience. Though a sequel may not be in the cards, stay tuned for more psychedelic events in the future,\u201d\u00a0Cherkoss said in a statement emailed to The Denver Post.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Denver Shroom Fest was preparing to welcome psychedelic enthusiasts, mushroom growers and more back to ReelWorks in RiNo after a successful inaugural year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the event marked something of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/06\/10\/denver-shroom-fest-psilocybin-mushrooms-reelworks\/\">a coming-above-ground party for the local psychedelics community<\/a>. There were educational talks, live music and free samples of mushroom products \u2013 all possible because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/02\/05\/colorado-psychedelics-decriminalization-law-psilocybin-shrooms-dmt-mescaline-arrest\/\">psilocybin is now decriminalized in Colorado<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Denver Shroom Fest had happened on June 15, it would have taken place around the same time as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/03\/07\/psychedelic-science-conference-coming-to-denver-announces-initial-lineup\/\">Psychedelic Science<\/a>, a massive conference focused on research, policy, and business, coming to the Colorado Convention Center from June 16 to 20.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\">Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, In The Know, to get entertainment news sent straight to your inbox.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: March 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM MDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Denver Shroom Fest, a celebration of psychedelic mushroom culture, will not go on as planned in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,6811,6807,376,2435,6471,7938,4995,77,9,5019,8147,8148,1,3,7072,6923,61,1736],"tags":[2632,6816,6809,2954,2436,6479,7939,4996,2655,5022,8152,8153,7073,6924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}