New Mexico Medical Psilocybin Program · Advisory Board
Updated July 25, 2026. New entries are added as meetings happen.
Every meeting, vote and document that produced the published proposed rule, newest first, each one sourced.
The Training and Education Committee writes a recommendation. At an Advisory Board meeting with a quorum, the board votes to accept it and submit it to the Department of Health. The department turns it into rule language, which then goes through the public rule-hearing process before it is promulgated. The department is not obligated to adopt the recommendation as written.
"once we have a thumbs up here from the board… we will be turning this into the rule and then it will still go through and continue to go through the public process of rule hearings and going through all of that."Dominic Zurlo, department, June 26 board meeting
The record
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The next full Advisory Board meeting is August 14. The Training and Education Committee meets August 21, 9 to 11 AM. The rule hearing is August 28. The committee’s next meeting therefore falls after the proposed rule was published and seven days before the hearing.
Source: dates set on the record at the July 17 Advisory Board and Training and Education Committee meetings.
July 23, 2026
The Department of Health published its proposed rule 7.35.3, 19 pages, and set a rule hearing for August 28. This is the first version with final section numbering, 7.35.3.1 through .28.
The practicum hours were published unchanged at 100 for facilitators and 120 for practitioners, six days after the board voted 7-0 to send those hours back to the Training and Education Committee. The shared didactic module was raised from 25 hours to 30, and three curriculum topics were added: Trauma-Informed Care, Dosing, and Non-ordinary states of consciousness. Both figures were covered by that deferral vote.
Also in the published text: both waiver deadlines now read December 31, 2027, which the board had agreed on July 9 but which the draft had not yet carried; the three certifying-clinician exam pathways read into the record on July 17; a new rule that the practicum may not begin until at least half the didactic and all simulated patient requirements are complete; and a staffing ratio counting a "qualified student" at 50 practicum hours.
Source: published proposed rule, July 23 · what changed, section by section. Not final rule text; it goes to the August 28 hearing.
July 17, 2026 · afternoon
The committee met the same afternoon the board deferred the hours to it. Dr. Anne Metz presented recommendations: retitle "practitioner", a single 84-hour didactic standard, a four-step scaffolded practicum of roughly 62 to 72 hours with a training permit, and consultation sign-off tied to two presented cases. The full presentation is recorded on Training hours.
Requests made on the record: Denali Wilson asked that substance use disorder, end-of-life, suicidality and PTSD be added as didactic requirements, and raised whether students could count toward the required staffing ratio. Chris Caldwell argued for 19 or more live end-of-life instruction hours; Larry Leeman supported roughly 10 to 15 in the core curriculum. Several participants asked for a legacy practitioner pathway.
On timing, Dominic Zurlo told the committee the department was moving forward with a proposed rule and that "the sooner if there are specific topics to include in or suggestions as far as hours, we really need them sooner rather than later." No deadline was given. The committee has not delivered a recommendation.
Source: July 17 committee transcript (unofficial, no speaker attribution).
July 17, 2026 · morning
Practicum and didactic hours: deferred by a 7-0 vote. The board voted, with no objection, to send the practicum and didactic hours to the Training and Education Committee to develop updated standards.
Controlled-substance number: kept by the department. Dominic Zurlo said that after taking the earlier concerns to the Secretary of Health and the department’s attorneys, the certifying-clinician controlled-substance-number requirement will remain in the rule the department puts forward, as a medical program consistent with medical cannabis. The board did not vote to remove it; Chris Peskuski restated his objection that it is an access bottleneck and puts liability on a clinician who is not in the room.
Certifying-clinician exam: revised language. The department read in updated language adding three ways to meet the in-person requirement: an in-person exam within six months, or a telemedicine evaluation paired with either a records review or a formal consult with a clinician who examined the patient in person within six months. It is meant to ease rural and end-of-life access. The verbatim language is on the CS-number page.
Also on the record: the requirement is the state controlled-substance number, not the federal Schedule I registration; Larry Leeman said federal rescheduling to Schedule III, which he considers likely by mid-2027, could reopen the requirement; and the board asked the department to find how many New Mexico providers hold prescriptive authority without the state number.
Source: July 17, 2026 Advisory Board meeting; the department posts recordings publicly. Not final rule text; the rule goes to a public hearing.
July 9, 2026
Reciprocity was resolved without objection, extending both waiver deadlines to December 31, 2027. The board voted to table the practicum and didactic hours and send them to the Training and Education Committee (July 17). The controlled-substance number for the certifying clinician was sent back to the department to weigh alternatives. Also on the record: "diagnostic clinician" was renamed "certifying clinician" throughout the draft; AED certification was added alongside BLS and CPR in individual training, and EMT certification was added as an outdoor-location staffing alternative; Keenan Ryan appeared as the new Medicaid seat.
Source: July 9 meeting transcript (unofficial) · July 9 rules draft (superseded by the July 23 published rule).
June 26, 2026
The Advisory Board voted 3-2 to accept the recommendation and set three items aside: (1) the controlled-substance number for the certifying clinician, (2) the practicum and didactic hours (practicum 100 for facilitators, 120 for practitioners, plus 20 supervisory), and (3) the reciprocity timeline. Only Larry Leeman's "reluctant yes" is named on the record; the two votes against are not.
Source: June 26 board meeting transcript.
June 25, 2026
The department presented a rules-formatted draft of the same subject at the June 25 committee meeting. This is history: it was superseded by the July 9 draft two weeks later.
Source: June 25 committee meeting; June 25 draft (superseded by the July 9 draft) · what changed from it, section by section.
June 12, 2026
The committee produced its recommendation: permit qualifications by role, curriculum modules, practicum hours (100 / 120), mentoring, record-keeping, and continuing education.
Source: June 12 recommendation · what changed from it, section by section.
Jan 23 – May 22, 2026
The Training and Education Committee met through the winter and spring to build the recommendation (Jan 23, Mar 6, Apr 10, a May 8 joint session with End-of-Life, and May 22). The May 22 meeting was held but not recorded or posted by DOH.
Source: DOH Advisory Board meeting records; committee meeting inventory.