New Mexico Medical Psilocybin Program
Updated August 26, 2026.
Pick where you start below and follow every step to each certification the rule opens to you: the three individual ones, certifying clinician, practitioner, facilitator, and the healing center, which is the certification held by a location rather than a person and which the rule opens to any applicant. All four are as the revised proposed rule published August 25 sets them out. The recommendation's proposed renames, medical screener and Licensed Provider, were not adopted. Where the committee recommendation would change a step, the change is shown directly beneath it.
Starting license
Pick the one that fits you. Your routes to each permit appear below.
Starting license
Certifying Clinician No current path
Needs a NM professional license.
Practitioner No current path
Needs a NM professional license.
These verdicts summarize the rows for this group in the eligibility tables.
No professional license required. An end-of-life doula enters here, on the same terms as any other applicant. The rule gives a doula no permit or scope of their own; it allows any other individual to be present at an administration session on each patient's prior written consent, at 7.35.3.20 (D).
Apply for certification. No professional license required.
Certifications: HIPAA, plus BLS, or (CPR and AED), or New Mexico EMT licensure. Attestation you are not a registered sex offender.
Approved facilitator training: the 65-hour therapy module, at least one third in person, with 10 hours of simulated patient experience, plus a 5-hour facilitator-specific module. Begins with the New Mexico Module, the one module you cannot test out of.
The August 25 text doubled the module: the July 23 text set 30 didactic hours with 5 simulated patient hours.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedThe recommendation, at its August 21 position, sets the same 80-hour total, with minimum hours in nine content areas and 2 simulated patient hours inside it; the published text sets no per-area minimums and 10 simulated hours. The New Mexico module stays required of every role, with no exemption by reciprocity.
published rule 7.35.3.18 (A), p.11 · 7.35.3.18 (C), p.12 · 7.35.3.17 (B), p.11
Practicum at a healing center or other approved location. Published rule: 100 hours.
◆ OpenDeferred to the Training and Education Committee by a 7-0 board vote July 17, published unchanged July 23, and published unchanged again August 25, now with a case-presentation evaluation, a low-risk requirement on the first 20 hours, and a qualifying-condition diversity requirement inside the total. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
If the committee recommendation is adopted102 hours, staged: 24 with well participants, 24 co-facilitating with a department-permitted licensed provider, 12 of group work, and 42 of supervised practice on two cases, with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the total, and every stage spanning preparation, administration, and integration. The published text takes the two-case presentation without the consultation group, and the department stated on August 21 that the statute does not allow a well-participants stage.
Mentoring: 10 hours after graduation and after the practicum.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedRemoved as a separate step: the recommendation closes the practicum with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the practicum total, with sign-off requiring two presented cases the permittee personally provided. The August 25 text keeps the mentoring and adds its own two-case evaluation inside the practicum.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 20 hours every 2 years. Keep BLS or CPR/AED current.
Open to anyone. The rule sets no license, training, or examination for the applicant; the certification is held by the center, and the people who work in it are certified separately.
No license, training, or examination is required of the applicant. The healing center is the one certification in this rule that any person may apply for. “Person” is defined to include a natural person as well as a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, so an individual may hold it. The center itself is certified; the people who work in it are certified separately.
Compare the practitioner and facilitator applications at 7.35.3.9, which require a professional license, completed practicum, life support certification, and HIPAA training. None of that attaches here.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A), p.5 · 7.35.2.7 definition of person
Stand up the business. Register with the New Mexico secretary of state and with taxation and revenue, and obtain any business licenses your city or county requires.
Secure the premises. A certificate of occupancy for each New Mexico location where you will operate, and either proof that you own the property or a signed written statement from the owner acknowledging that people will be participating in the medical psilocybin program there and what they are authorized to do.
◆ ContestedThe same owner-statement instrument governs treatment at a patient's home under Subsection B, where it means a renting patient needs the landlord's signature before being treated at home. Landlord approval and patient privacy were raised at the August 21 committee meeting and the chair called it a subject to be discussed further. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
Make the location safe and reachable. Proof of compliance with disability access law, proof of a working communication device that reliably reaches emergency medical services, a plan for secured storage of the psilocybin, and a plan for wastage of what is not used.
Write the operating plans. Record retention; patient confidentiality, which the list asks for twice at items (13) and (18); a safety and emergency response plan covering adverse health event response and reporting; written complaint and grievance procedures available to patients; and a plan for transparency and disclosure of fees to patients.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(12) to (15), (18), (19), pp.5-6
If sessions will happen outdoors, add a detailed description of the outdoor area identifying safe entrances and exits and verifying it is free of hazards, an emergency safety and response plan, and proof that emergency medical services can be contacted from the location and can respond to it.
A separate operating duty applies once you are running: a natural-environment setting 15 minutes or more from emergency services needs a first aid kit, an AED, and two people present holding wilderness first aid, wilderness first responder, or New Mexico emergency medical technician credentials.
Name everyone. An organizational chart of governance and operations, a list of all owners or board members with contact information, the primary program contact, a list of all employees by legal name, and the contact details of any affiliated practitioners or facilitators.
The employee list matters twice over: 7.35.3.14 (C) grants medicine-handling authority to owners and employees “who are registered with the department,” and no section of the rule creates that registration. The application list is the nearest thing the rule has to one.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(2), (3), (10), (11), (22), pp.5-6
Sign the affirmations. Consent to publication of the center's contact information if certified, an affirmation that everything submitted is true and accurate, an attestation that no person associated with the applicant is registered as a sex offender in any jurisdiction, and the authorized representative's signature and date.
Submit and wait. The whole application goes through the department's electronic system. The rule sets no application or certification fee, here or for any other certification; the only fees it names are the ones a center discloses to patients and the ones an educational program charges students. Certification takes effect the day the department issues it and runs two years.
If the application is denied the department gives notice within 30 calendar days, and you may re-apply after six months. A second denial means another six months. A denial may be appealed.
You cannot run a session alone. The center holds the certification, but an administration session needs certified people in the room: at least one practitioner and one facilitator for an individual session, and for a group session one practitioner for every eight patients and one facilitator or qualified student for every two.
◆ OpenRead literally the individual-session rule requires exactly one of each, so two practitioners would not satisfy it. The department may waive or decrease the ratio if it finds the ratio is a barrier for patients and safety concerns are otherwise alleviated.
Then the operating duties begin, and they are in a different section from the application. Fourteen of them: keep a list of qualified patients and a daily log, no firearms on the premises, consumption only on the premises, limit who may be present, display the certification publicly, give patients specified information, maintain the safety plan and provide it to everyone who uses the location, storage rules, adverse health event reporting, and record access for the department.
An applicant reading only 7.35.3.11 would not meet most of this. The obligations that decide how the center actually runs live at 7.35.3.20.
Renew every two years, filing the renewal packet no more than 60 and no less than 30 calendar days before the certification expires.
One ownership rule, and one silence. A certificant, or a person who owns part of one, may not hold an ownership interest in a permittee, which means a psilocybin producer or a testing laboratory. The rule says nothing about whether a certifying clinician, practitioner, or facilitator may own a healing center.
◆ UnresolvedThe wall the rule builds runs between treatment and supply, not inside treatment. No provision permits a provider to own a center and none forbids it, so a person deciding whether to invest has nothing in the text to rely on. Nothing in the rule addresses a certifying clinician certifying a patient into a center the clinician holds an interest in.
Starting license
These verdicts summarize the rows for this group in the eligibility tables, and the certifying-clinician verdict turns on the controlled-substance number.
Only with a NM Controlled Substance number, and the August 25 text requires a license that permits diagnosing the qualifying conditions. The number requirement was contested and kept by the department on July 17.
Hold a current NM professional license that permits diagnosing the qualifying conditions (for example MD, NP).
New in the August 25 text: the license must permit diagnosis of the qualifying conditions. The July 23 text gave examples without describing a scope.
Approved certifying clinician training: an 8-hour module covering pharmacology, 42 CFR Part 2, diagnosis of qualifying conditions, medical clearance, monitoring, and data-collection requirements.
Hold a New Mexico Controlled Substance number (state number, not the federal DEA number).
Contested through June and July, and kept by the department on July 17. It stands in the August 25 text, and the amended definition of certifying clinician in 7.35.2.7 carries the number inside it.
No practicum.
The practicum section applies to practitioners and facilitators only; the certifying clinician's packet lists no practicum item.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 8 CME hours every 2 years.
Direct route.
Hold a current NM professional license to practice therapy, counseling, or behavioral services (for example PSY, LSW, LCSW).
New in the August 25 text: the license type is stated. The July 23 text gave examples without describing a scope.
Certifications and attestation, same as Facilitator.
Approved practitioner training: the 65-hour therapy module, at least one third in person, with 10 hours of simulated patient experience, plus a 5-hour module on psychedelic and psilocybin therapeutic approaches.
The August 25 text doubled the module: the July 23 text set 30 didactic hours with 5 simulated patient hours.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedThe recommendation, at its August 21 position, sets the same 80-hour total, with minimum hours in nine content areas and 2 simulated patient hours inside it; the published text sets no per-area minimums and 10 simulated hours. The recommendation also proposed renaming the roles, the practitioner to the licensed provider and the certifying clinician to the medical screener; the August 25 text keeps certifying clinician and practitioner.
Practicum at a healing center or other approved location. Published rule: 120 hours.
◆ OpenDeferred to the Training and Education Committee by a 7-0 board vote July 17, published unchanged July 23, and published unchanged again August 25, now with a case-presentation evaluation, a low-risk requirement on the first 20 hours, and a qualifying-condition diversity requirement inside the total. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
If the committee recommendation is adopted114 hours, staged: the facilitator sequence of 102 plus 12 provider supervisory hours, with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the total. The published text takes the two-case presentation, evaluated by the practicum supervisor at 7.35.3.19 (C), without the 18-hour consultation group.
Includes an additional 20 hours supervising facilitators during administration day sessions.
▼ ContestedDr. Anne Metz asked to make this optional at the June 25 committee meeting. The department kept it in the July 23 text and again in the August 25 text. The 20 hours sit inside the 120 rather than adding to them.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedBecomes 12 provider supervisory hours, a stage of the staged practicum.
published rule 7.35.3.19 (D), p.14 · committee meeting, 6/25
Mentoring: 10 hours after graduation and after the practicum.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedRemoved as a separate step: the recommendation closes the practicum with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the practicum total, with sign-off requiring two presented cases the permittee personally provided. The August 25 text keeps the mentoring and adds its own two-case evaluation inside the practicum.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 20 hours every 2 years. Keep BLS or CPR/AED current.
Also open. No license needed for this one.
Apply for certification. No professional license required.
Certifications: HIPAA, plus BLS, or (CPR and AED), or New Mexico EMT licensure. Attestation you are not a registered sex offender.
Approved facilitator training: the 65-hour therapy module, at least one third in person, with 10 hours of simulated patient experience, plus a 5-hour facilitator-specific module. Begins with the New Mexico Module, the one module you cannot test out of.
The August 25 text doubled the module: the July 23 text set 30 didactic hours with 5 simulated patient hours.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedThe recommendation, at its August 21 position, sets the same 80-hour total, with minimum hours in nine content areas and 2 simulated patient hours inside it; the published text sets no per-area minimums and 10 simulated hours. The New Mexico module stays required of every role, with no exemption by reciprocity.
published rule 7.35.3.18 (A), p.11 · 7.35.3.18 (C), p.12 · 7.35.3.17 (B), p.11
Practicum at a healing center or other approved location. Published rule: 100 hours.
◆ OpenDeferred to the Training and Education Committee by a 7-0 board vote July 17, published unchanged July 23, and published unchanged again August 25, now with a case-presentation evaluation, a low-risk requirement on the first 20 hours, and a qualifying-condition diversity requirement inside the total. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
If the committee recommendation is adopted102 hours, staged: 24 with well participants, 24 co-facilitating with a department-permitted licensed provider, 12 of group work, and 42 of supervised practice on two cases, with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the total, and every stage spanning preparation, administration, and integration. The published text takes the two-case presentation without the consultation group, and the department stated on August 21 that the statute does not allow a well-participants stage.
Mentoring: 10 hours after graduation and after the practicum.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedRemoved as a separate step: the recommendation closes the practicum with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the practicum total, with sign-off requiring two presented cases the permittee personally provided. The August 25 text keeps the mentoring and adds its own two-case evaluation inside the practicum.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 20 hours every 2 years. Keep BLS or CPR/AED current.
Open. No license is required of the applicant, and holding one adds nothing to this application.
No license, training, or examination is required of the applicant. The healing center is the one certification in this rule that any person may apply for. “Person” is defined to include a natural person as well as a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, so an individual may hold it. The center itself is certified; the people who work in it are certified separately.
Compare the practitioner and facilitator applications at 7.35.3.9, which require a professional license, completed practicum, life support certification, and HIPAA training. None of that attaches here.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A), p.5 · 7.35.2.7 definition of person
Stand up the business. Register with the New Mexico secretary of state and with taxation and revenue, and obtain any business licenses your city or county requires.
Secure the premises. A certificate of occupancy for each New Mexico location where you will operate, and either proof that you own the property or a signed written statement from the owner acknowledging that people will be participating in the medical psilocybin program there and what they are authorized to do.
◆ ContestedThe same owner-statement instrument governs treatment at a patient's home under Subsection B, where it means a renting patient needs the landlord's signature before being treated at home. Landlord approval and patient privacy were raised at the August 21 committee meeting and the chair called it a subject to be discussed further. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
Make the location safe and reachable. Proof of compliance with disability access law, proof of a working communication device that reliably reaches emergency medical services, a plan for secured storage of the psilocybin, and a plan for wastage of what is not used.
Write the operating plans. Record retention; patient confidentiality, which the list asks for twice at items (13) and (18); a safety and emergency response plan covering adverse health event response and reporting; written complaint and grievance procedures available to patients; and a plan for transparency and disclosure of fees to patients.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(12) to (15), (18), (19), pp.5-6
If sessions will happen outdoors, add a detailed description of the outdoor area identifying safe entrances and exits and verifying it is free of hazards, an emergency safety and response plan, and proof that emergency medical services can be contacted from the location and can respond to it.
A separate operating duty applies once you are running: a natural-environment setting 15 minutes or more from emergency services needs a first aid kit, an AED, and two people present holding wilderness first aid, wilderness first responder, or New Mexico emergency medical technician credentials.
Name everyone. An organizational chart of governance and operations, a list of all owners or board members with contact information, the primary program contact, a list of all employees by legal name, and the contact details of any affiliated practitioners or facilitators.
The employee list matters twice over: 7.35.3.14 (C) grants medicine-handling authority to owners and employees “who are registered with the department,” and no section of the rule creates that registration. The application list is the nearest thing the rule has to one.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(2), (3), (10), (11), (22), pp.5-6
Sign the affirmations. Consent to publication of the center's contact information if certified, an affirmation that everything submitted is true and accurate, an attestation that no person associated with the applicant is registered as a sex offender in any jurisdiction, and the authorized representative's signature and date.
Submit and wait. The whole application goes through the department's electronic system. The rule sets no application or certification fee, here or for any other certification; the only fees it names are the ones a center discloses to patients and the ones an educational program charges students. Certification takes effect the day the department issues it and runs two years.
If the application is denied the department gives notice within 30 calendar days, and you may re-apply after six months. A second denial means another six months. A denial may be appealed.
You cannot run a session alone. The center holds the certification, but an administration session needs certified people in the room: at least one practitioner and one facilitator for an individual session, and for a group session one practitioner for every eight patients and one facilitator or qualified student for every two.
◆ OpenRead literally the individual-session rule requires exactly one of each, so two practitioners would not satisfy it. The department may waive or decrease the ratio if it finds the ratio is a barrier for patients and safety concerns are otherwise alleviated.
Then the operating duties begin, and they are in a different section from the application. Fourteen of them: keep a list of qualified patients and a daily log, no firearms on the premises, consumption only on the premises, limit who may be present, display the certification publicly, give patients specified information, maintain the safety plan and provide it to everyone who uses the location, storage rules, adverse health event reporting, and record access for the department.
An applicant reading only 7.35.3.11 would not meet most of this. The obligations that decide how the center actually runs live at 7.35.3.20.
Renew every two years, filing the renewal packet no more than 60 and no less than 30 calendar days before the certification expires.
One ownership rule, and one silence. A certificant, or a person who owns part of one, may not hold an ownership interest in a permittee, which means a psilocybin producer or a testing laboratory. The rule says nothing about whether a certifying clinician, practitioner, or facilitator may own a healing center.
◆ UnresolvedThe wall the rule builds runs between treatment and supply, not inside treatment. No provision permits a provider to own a center and none forbids it, so a person deciding whether to invest has nothing in the text to rely on. Nothing in the rule addresses a certifying clinician certifying a patient into a center the clinician holds an interest in.
Starting license
These verdicts summarize the rows for this group in the eligibility tables, and the certifying-clinician verdict turns on the controlled-substance number.
Direct route, for a licensee holding a NM Controlled Substance number, a requirement the department kept on July 17.
Hold a current NM professional license that permits diagnosing the qualifying conditions (for example MD, NP).
New in the August 25 text: the license must permit diagnosis of the qualifying conditions. The July 23 text gave examples without describing a scope.
Approved certifying clinician training: an 8-hour module covering pharmacology, 42 CFR Part 2, diagnosis of qualifying conditions, medical clearance, monitoring, and data-collection requirements.
Hold a New Mexico Controlled Substance number (state number, not the federal DEA number).
Contested through June and July, and kept by the department on July 17. It stands in the August 25 text, and the amended definition of certifying clinician in 7.35.2.7 carries the number inside it.
No practicum.
The practicum section applies to practitioners and facilitators only; the certifying clinician's packet lists no practicum item.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 8 CME hours every 2 years.
Requires a license to practice therapy, counseling, or behavioral services, stated in the August 25 text (examples PSY, LSW, LCSW).
Hold a current NM professional license to practice therapy, counseling, or behavioral services (for example PSY, LSW, LCSW).
New in the August 25 text: the license type is stated. The July 23 text gave examples without describing a scope.
Certifications and attestation, same as Facilitator.
Approved practitioner training: the 65-hour therapy module, at least one third in person, with 10 hours of simulated patient experience, plus a 5-hour module on psychedelic and psilocybin therapeutic approaches.
The August 25 text doubled the module: the July 23 text set 30 didactic hours with 5 simulated patient hours.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedThe recommendation, at its August 21 position, sets the same 80-hour total, with minimum hours in nine content areas and 2 simulated patient hours inside it; the published text sets no per-area minimums and 10 simulated hours. The recommendation also proposed renaming the roles, the practitioner to the licensed provider and the certifying clinician to the medical screener; the August 25 text keeps certifying clinician and practitioner.
Practicum at a healing center or other approved location. Published rule: 120 hours.
◆ OpenDeferred to the Training and Education Committee by a 7-0 board vote July 17, published unchanged July 23, and published unchanged again August 25, now with a case-presentation evaluation, a low-risk requirement on the first 20 hours, and a qualifying-condition diversity requirement inside the total. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
If the committee recommendation is adopted114 hours, staged: the facilitator sequence of 102 plus 12 provider supervisory hours, with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the total. The published text takes the two-case presentation, evaluated by the practicum supervisor at 7.35.3.19 (C), without the 18-hour consultation group.
Includes an additional 20 hours supervising facilitators during administration day sessions.
▼ ContestedDr. Anne Metz asked to make this optional at the June 25 committee meeting. The department kept it in the July 23 text and again in the August 25 text. The 20 hours sit inside the 120 rather than adding to them.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedBecomes 12 provider supervisory hours, a stage of the staged practicum.
published rule 7.35.3.19 (D), p.14 · committee meeting, 6/25
Mentoring: 10 hours after graduation and after the practicum.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedRemoved as a separate step: the recommendation closes the practicum with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the practicum total, with sign-off requiring two presented cases the permittee personally provided. The August 25 text keeps the mentoring and adds its own two-case evaluation inside the practicum.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 20 hours every 2 years. Keep BLS or CPR/AED current.
Also open.
Apply for certification. No professional license required.
Certifications: HIPAA, plus BLS, or (CPR and AED), or New Mexico EMT licensure. Attestation you are not a registered sex offender.
Approved facilitator training: the 65-hour therapy module, at least one third in person, with 10 hours of simulated patient experience, plus a 5-hour facilitator-specific module. Begins with the New Mexico Module, the one module you cannot test out of.
The August 25 text doubled the module: the July 23 text set 30 didactic hours with 5 simulated patient hours.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedThe recommendation, at its August 21 position, sets the same 80-hour total, with minimum hours in nine content areas and 2 simulated patient hours inside it; the published text sets no per-area minimums and 10 simulated hours. The New Mexico module stays required of every role, with no exemption by reciprocity.
published rule 7.35.3.18 (A), p.11 · 7.35.3.18 (C), p.12 · 7.35.3.17 (B), p.11
Practicum at a healing center or other approved location. Published rule: 100 hours.
◆ OpenDeferred to the Training and Education Committee by a 7-0 board vote July 17, published unchanged July 23, and published unchanged again August 25, now with a case-presentation evaluation, a low-risk requirement on the first 20 hours, and a qualifying-condition diversity requirement inside the total. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
If the committee recommendation is adopted102 hours, staged: 24 with well participants, 24 co-facilitating with a department-permitted licensed provider, 12 of group work, and 42 of supervised practice on two cases, with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the total, and every stage spanning preparation, administration, and integration. The published text takes the two-case presentation without the consultation group, and the department stated on August 21 that the statute does not allow a well-participants stage.
Mentoring: 10 hours after graduation and after the practicum.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedRemoved as a separate step: the recommendation closes the practicum with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the practicum total, with sign-off requiring two presented cases the permittee personally provided. The August 25 text keeps the mentoring and adds its own two-case evaluation inside the practicum.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 20 hours every 2 years. Keep BLS or CPR/AED current.
Open. No license is required of the applicant, and holding one adds nothing to this application.
No license, training, or examination is required of the applicant. The healing center is the one certification in this rule that any person may apply for. “Person” is defined to include a natural person as well as a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, so an individual may hold it. The center itself is certified; the people who work in it are certified separately.
Compare the practitioner and facilitator applications at 7.35.3.9, which require a professional license, completed practicum, life support certification, and HIPAA training. None of that attaches here.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A), p.5 · 7.35.2.7 definition of person
Stand up the business. Register with the New Mexico secretary of state and with taxation and revenue, and obtain any business licenses your city or county requires.
Secure the premises. A certificate of occupancy for each New Mexico location where you will operate, and either proof that you own the property or a signed written statement from the owner acknowledging that people will be participating in the medical psilocybin program there and what they are authorized to do.
◆ ContestedThe same owner-statement instrument governs treatment at a patient's home under Subsection B, where it means a renting patient needs the landlord's signature before being treated at home. Landlord approval and patient privacy were raised at the August 21 committee meeting and the chair called it a subject to be discussed further. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
Make the location safe and reachable. Proof of compliance with disability access law, proof of a working communication device that reliably reaches emergency medical services, a plan for secured storage of the psilocybin, and a plan for wastage of what is not used.
Write the operating plans. Record retention; patient confidentiality, which the list asks for twice at items (13) and (18); a safety and emergency response plan covering adverse health event response and reporting; written complaint and grievance procedures available to patients; and a plan for transparency and disclosure of fees to patients.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(12) to (15), (18), (19), pp.5-6
If sessions will happen outdoors, add a detailed description of the outdoor area identifying safe entrances and exits and verifying it is free of hazards, an emergency safety and response plan, and proof that emergency medical services can be contacted from the location and can respond to it.
A separate operating duty applies once you are running: a natural-environment setting 15 minutes or more from emergency services needs a first aid kit, an AED, and two people present holding wilderness first aid, wilderness first responder, or New Mexico emergency medical technician credentials.
Name everyone. An organizational chart of governance and operations, a list of all owners or board members with contact information, the primary program contact, a list of all employees by legal name, and the contact details of any affiliated practitioners or facilitators.
The employee list matters twice over: 7.35.3.14 (C) grants medicine-handling authority to owners and employees “who are registered with the department,” and no section of the rule creates that registration. The application list is the nearest thing the rule has to one.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(2), (3), (10), (11), (22), pp.5-6
Sign the affirmations. Consent to publication of the center's contact information if certified, an affirmation that everything submitted is true and accurate, an attestation that no person associated with the applicant is registered as a sex offender in any jurisdiction, and the authorized representative's signature and date.
Submit and wait. The whole application goes through the department's electronic system. The rule sets no application or certification fee, here or for any other certification; the only fees it names are the ones a center discloses to patients and the ones an educational program charges students. Certification takes effect the day the department issues it and runs two years.
If the application is denied the department gives notice within 30 calendar days, and you may re-apply after six months. A second denial means another six months. A denial may be appealed.
You cannot run a session alone. The center holds the certification, but an administration session needs certified people in the room: at least one practitioner and one facilitator for an individual session, and for a group session one practitioner for every eight patients and one facilitator or qualified student for every two.
◆ OpenRead literally the individual-session rule requires exactly one of each, so two practitioners would not satisfy it. The department may waive or decrease the ratio if it finds the ratio is a barrier for patients and safety concerns are otherwise alleviated.
Then the operating duties begin, and they are in a different section from the application. Fourteen of them: keep a list of qualified patients and a daily log, no firearms on the premises, consumption only on the premises, limit who may be present, display the certification publicly, give patients specified information, maintain the safety plan and provide it to everyone who uses the location, storage rules, adverse health event reporting, and record access for the department.
An applicant reading only 7.35.3.11 would not meet most of this. The obligations that decide how the center actually runs live at 7.35.3.20.
Renew every two years, filing the renewal packet no more than 60 and no less than 30 calendar days before the certification expires.
One ownership rule, and one silence. A certificant, or a person who owns part of one, may not hold an ownership interest in a permittee, which means a psilocybin producer or a testing laboratory. The rule says nothing about whether a certifying clinician, practitioner, or facilitator may own a healing center.
◆ UnresolvedThe wall the rule builds runs between treatment and supply, not inside treatment. No provision permits a provider to own a center and none forbids it, so a person deciding whether to invest has nothing in the text to rely on. Nothing in the rule addresses a certifying clinician certifying a patient into a center the clinician holds an interest in.
Starting license
Certifying Clinician No current path
Needs a diagnosing license.
Practitioner No current path
Needs a therapy license.
These verdicts summarize the rows for this group in the eligibility tables.
Direct route.
Apply for certification. No professional license required.
Certifications: HIPAA, plus BLS, or (CPR and AED), or New Mexico EMT licensure. Attestation you are not a registered sex offender.
Approved facilitator training: the 65-hour therapy module, at least one third in person, with 10 hours of simulated patient experience, plus a 5-hour facilitator-specific module. Begins with the New Mexico Module, the one module you cannot test out of.
The August 25 text doubled the module: the July 23 text set 30 didactic hours with 5 simulated patient hours.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedThe recommendation, at its August 21 position, sets the same 80-hour total, with minimum hours in nine content areas and 2 simulated patient hours inside it; the published text sets no per-area minimums and 10 simulated hours. The New Mexico module stays required of every role, with no exemption by reciprocity.
published rule 7.35.3.18 (A), p.11 · 7.35.3.18 (C), p.12 · 7.35.3.17 (B), p.11
Practicum at a healing center or other approved location. Published rule: 100 hours.
◆ OpenDeferred to the Training and Education Committee by a 7-0 board vote July 17, published unchanged July 23, and published unchanged again August 25, now with a case-presentation evaluation, a low-risk requirement on the first 20 hours, and a qualifying-condition diversity requirement inside the total. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
If the committee recommendation is adopted102 hours, staged: 24 with well participants, 24 co-facilitating with a department-permitted licensed provider, 12 of group work, and 42 of supervised practice on two cases, with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the total, and every stage spanning preparation, administration, and integration. The published text takes the two-case presentation without the consultation group, and the department stated on August 21 that the statute does not allow a well-participants stage.
Mentoring: 10 hours after graduation and after the practicum.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedRemoved as a separate step: the recommendation closes the practicum with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the practicum total, with sign-off requiring two presented cases the permittee personally provided. The August 25 text keeps the mentoring and adds its own two-case evaluation inside the practicum.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 20 hours every 2 years. Keep BLS or CPR/AED current.
Open. No license is required of the applicant, and holding one adds nothing to this application.
No license, training, or examination is required of the applicant. The healing center is the one certification in this rule that any person may apply for. “Person” is defined to include a natural person as well as a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, so an individual may hold it. The center itself is certified; the people who work in it are certified separately.
Compare the practitioner and facilitator applications at 7.35.3.9, which require a professional license, completed practicum, life support certification, and HIPAA training. None of that attaches here.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A), p.5 · 7.35.2.7 definition of person
Stand up the business. Register with the New Mexico secretary of state and with taxation and revenue, and obtain any business licenses your city or county requires.
Secure the premises. A certificate of occupancy for each New Mexico location where you will operate, and either proof that you own the property or a signed written statement from the owner acknowledging that people will be participating in the medical psilocybin program there and what they are authorized to do.
◆ ContestedThe same owner-statement instrument governs treatment at a patient's home under Subsection B, where it means a renting patient needs the landlord's signature before being treated at home. Landlord approval and patient privacy were raised at the August 21 committee meeting and the chair called it a subject to be discussed further. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
Make the location safe and reachable. Proof of compliance with disability access law, proof of a working communication device that reliably reaches emergency medical services, a plan for secured storage of the psilocybin, and a plan for wastage of what is not used.
Write the operating plans. Record retention; patient confidentiality, which the list asks for twice at items (13) and (18); a safety and emergency response plan covering adverse health event response and reporting; written complaint and grievance procedures available to patients; and a plan for transparency and disclosure of fees to patients.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(12) to (15), (18), (19), pp.5-6
If sessions will happen outdoors, add a detailed description of the outdoor area identifying safe entrances and exits and verifying it is free of hazards, an emergency safety and response plan, and proof that emergency medical services can be contacted from the location and can respond to it.
A separate operating duty applies once you are running: a natural-environment setting 15 minutes or more from emergency services needs a first aid kit, an AED, and two people present holding wilderness first aid, wilderness first responder, or New Mexico emergency medical technician credentials.
Name everyone. An organizational chart of governance and operations, a list of all owners or board members with contact information, the primary program contact, a list of all employees by legal name, and the contact details of any affiliated practitioners or facilitators.
The employee list matters twice over: 7.35.3.14 (C) grants medicine-handling authority to owners and employees “who are registered with the department,” and no section of the rule creates that registration. The application list is the nearest thing the rule has to one.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(2), (3), (10), (11), (22), pp.5-6
Sign the affirmations. Consent to publication of the center's contact information if certified, an affirmation that everything submitted is true and accurate, an attestation that no person associated with the applicant is registered as a sex offender in any jurisdiction, and the authorized representative's signature and date.
Submit and wait. The whole application goes through the department's electronic system. The rule sets no application or certification fee, here or for any other certification; the only fees it names are the ones a center discloses to patients and the ones an educational program charges students. Certification takes effect the day the department issues it and runs two years.
If the application is denied the department gives notice within 30 calendar days, and you may re-apply after six months. A second denial means another six months. A denial may be appealed.
You cannot run a session alone. The center holds the certification, but an administration session needs certified people in the room: at least one practitioner and one facilitator for an individual session, and for a group session one practitioner for every eight patients and one facilitator or qualified student for every two.
◆ OpenRead literally the individual-session rule requires exactly one of each, so two practitioners would not satisfy it. The department may waive or decrease the ratio if it finds the ratio is a barrier for patients and safety concerns are otherwise alleviated.
Then the operating duties begin, and they are in a different section from the application. Fourteen of them: keep a list of qualified patients and a daily log, no firearms on the premises, consumption only on the premises, limit who may be present, display the certification publicly, give patients specified information, maintain the safety plan and provide it to everyone who uses the location, storage rules, adverse health event reporting, and record access for the department.
An applicant reading only 7.35.3.11 would not meet most of this. The obligations that decide how the center actually runs live at 7.35.3.20.
Renew every two years, filing the renewal packet no more than 60 and no less than 30 calendar days before the certification expires.
One ownership rule, and one silence. A certificant, or a person who owns part of one, may not hold an ownership interest in a permittee, which means a psilocybin producer or a testing laboratory. The rule says nothing about whether a certifying clinician, practitioner, or facilitator may own a healing center.
◆ UnresolvedThe wall the rule builds runs between treatment and supply, not inside treatment. No provision permits a provider to own a center and none forbids it, so a person deciding whether to invest has nothing in the text to rely on. Nothing in the rule addresses a certifying clinician certifying a patient into a center the clinician holds an interest in.
Starting license
These verdicts summarize the rows for this group in the eligibility tables.
Set by the license held. A hospice and palliative medicine physician or nurse practitioner reads on the prescribing and medical group; a palliative care social worker reads on the behavioral health group.
Hold a current NM professional license that permits diagnosing the qualifying conditions (for example MD, NP).
New in the August 25 text: the license must permit diagnosis of the qualifying conditions. The July 23 text gave examples without describing a scope.
Approved certifying clinician training: an 8-hour module covering pharmacology, 42 CFR Part 2, diagnosis of qualifying conditions, medical clearance, monitoring, and data-collection requirements.
Hold a New Mexico Controlled Substance number (state number, not the federal DEA number).
Contested through June and July, and kept by the department on July 17. It stands in the August 25 text, and the amended definition of certifying clinician in 7.35.2.7 carries the number inside it.
No practicum.
The practicum section applies to practitioners and facilitators only; the certifying clinician's packet lists no practicum item.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 8 CME hours every 2 years.
Set by the license held. A palliative care social worker has a direct route; a palliative care physician's license is not one to practice therapy, counseling, or behavioral services, which the August 25 text requires for this permit.
Hold a current NM professional license to practice therapy, counseling, or behavioral services (for example PSY, LSW, LCSW).
New in the August 25 text: the license type is stated. The July 23 text gave examples without describing a scope.
Certifications and attestation, same as Facilitator.
Approved practitioner training: the 65-hour therapy module, at least one third in person, with 10 hours of simulated patient experience, plus a 5-hour module on psychedelic and psilocybin therapeutic approaches.
The August 25 text doubled the module: the July 23 text set 30 didactic hours with 5 simulated patient hours.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedThe recommendation, at its August 21 position, sets the same 80-hour total, with minimum hours in nine content areas and 2 simulated patient hours inside it; the published text sets no per-area minimums and 10 simulated hours. The recommendation also proposed renaming the roles, the practitioner to the licensed provider and the certifying clinician to the medical screener; the August 25 text keeps certifying clinician and practitioner.
Practicum at a healing center or other approved location. Published rule: 120 hours.
◆ OpenDeferred to the Training and Education Committee by a 7-0 board vote July 17, published unchanged July 23, and published unchanged again August 25, now with a case-presentation evaluation, a low-risk requirement on the first 20 hours, and a qualifying-condition diversity requirement inside the total. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
If the committee recommendation is adopted114 hours, staged: the facilitator sequence of 102 plus 12 provider supervisory hours, with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the total. The published text takes the two-case presentation, evaluated by the practicum supervisor at 7.35.3.19 (C), without the 18-hour consultation group.
Includes an additional 20 hours supervising facilitators during administration day sessions.
▼ ContestedDr. Anne Metz asked to make this optional at the June 25 committee meeting. The department kept it in the July 23 text and again in the August 25 text. The 20 hours sit inside the 120 rather than adding to them.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedBecomes 12 provider supervisory hours, a stage of the staged practicum.
published rule 7.35.3.19 (D), p.14 · committee meeting, 6/25
Mentoring: 10 hours after graduation and after the practicum.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedRemoved as a separate step: the recommendation closes the practicum with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the practicum total, with sign-off requiring two presented cases the permittee personally provided. The August 25 text keeps the mentoring and adds its own two-case evaluation inside the practicum.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 20 hours every 2 years. Keep BLS or CPR/AED current.
Open whatever license is held, because this route turns on no license at all. It is the one route the whole palliative care team shares.
Apply for certification. No professional license required.
Certifications: HIPAA, plus BLS, or (CPR and AED), or New Mexico EMT licensure. Attestation you are not a registered sex offender.
Approved facilitator training: the 65-hour therapy module, at least one third in person, with 10 hours of simulated patient experience, plus a 5-hour facilitator-specific module. Begins with the New Mexico Module, the one module you cannot test out of.
The August 25 text doubled the module: the July 23 text set 30 didactic hours with 5 simulated patient hours.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedThe recommendation, at its August 21 position, sets the same 80-hour total, with minimum hours in nine content areas and 2 simulated patient hours inside it; the published text sets no per-area minimums and 10 simulated hours. The New Mexico module stays required of every role, with no exemption by reciprocity.
published rule 7.35.3.18 (A), p.11 · 7.35.3.18 (C), p.12 · 7.35.3.17 (B), p.11
Practicum at a healing center or other approved location. Published rule: 100 hours.
◆ OpenDeferred to the Training and Education Committee by a 7-0 board vote July 17, published unchanged July 23, and published unchanged again August 25, now with a case-presentation evaluation, a low-risk requirement on the first 20 hours, and a qualifying-condition diversity requirement inside the total. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
If the committee recommendation is adopted102 hours, staged: 24 with well participants, 24 co-facilitating with a department-permitted licensed provider, 12 of group work, and 42 of supervised practice on two cases, with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the total, and every stage spanning preparation, administration, and integration. The published text takes the two-case presentation without the consultation group, and the department stated on August 21 that the statute does not allow a well-participants stage.
Mentoring: 10 hours after graduation and after the practicum.
If the committee recommendation is adoptedRemoved as a separate step: the recommendation closes the practicum with an 18-hour case presentation and consultation group inside the practicum total, with sign-off requiring two presented cases the permittee personally provided. The August 25 text keeps the mentoring and adds its own two-case evaluation inside the practicum.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 20 hours every 2 years. Keep BLS or CPR/AED current.
Open. No license is required of the applicant, and holding one adds nothing to this application.
No license, training, or examination is required of the applicant. The healing center is the one certification in this rule that any person may apply for. “Person” is defined to include a natural person as well as a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, so an individual may hold it. The center itself is certified; the people who work in it are certified separately.
Compare the practitioner and facilitator applications at 7.35.3.9, which require a professional license, completed practicum, life support certification, and HIPAA training. None of that attaches here.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A), p.5 · 7.35.2.7 definition of person
Stand up the business. Register with the New Mexico secretary of state and with taxation and revenue, and obtain any business licenses your city or county requires.
Secure the premises. A certificate of occupancy for each New Mexico location where you will operate, and either proof that you own the property or a signed written statement from the owner acknowledging that people will be participating in the medical psilocybin program there and what they are authorized to do.
◆ ContestedThe same owner-statement instrument governs treatment at a patient's home under Subsection B, where it means a renting patient needs the landlord's signature before being treated at home. Landlord approval and patient privacy were raised at the August 21 committee meeting and the chair called it a subject to be discussed further. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
Make the location safe and reachable. Proof of compliance with disability access law, proof of a working communication device that reliably reaches emergency medical services, a plan for secured storage of the psilocybin, and a plan for wastage of what is not used.
Write the operating plans. Record retention; patient confidentiality, which the list asks for twice at items (13) and (18); a safety and emergency response plan covering adverse health event response and reporting; written complaint and grievance procedures available to patients; and a plan for transparency and disclosure of fees to patients.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(12) to (15), (18), (19), pp.5-6
If sessions will happen outdoors, add a detailed description of the outdoor area identifying safe entrances and exits and verifying it is free of hazards, an emergency safety and response plan, and proof that emergency medical services can be contacted from the location and can respond to it.
A separate operating duty applies once you are running: a natural-environment setting 15 minutes or more from emergency services needs a first aid kit, an AED, and two people present holding wilderness first aid, wilderness first responder, or New Mexico emergency medical technician credentials.
Name everyone. An organizational chart of governance and operations, a list of all owners or board members with contact information, the primary program contact, a list of all employees by legal name, and the contact details of any affiliated practitioners or facilitators.
The employee list matters twice over: 7.35.3.14 (C) grants medicine-handling authority to owners and employees “who are registered with the department,” and no section of the rule creates that registration. The application list is the nearest thing the rule has to one.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(2), (3), (10), (11), (22), pp.5-6
Sign the affirmations. Consent to publication of the center's contact information if certified, an affirmation that everything submitted is true and accurate, an attestation that no person associated with the applicant is registered as a sex offender in any jurisdiction, and the authorized representative's signature and date.
Submit and wait. The whole application goes through the department's electronic system. The rule sets no application or certification fee, here or for any other certification; the only fees it names are the ones a center discloses to patients and the ones an educational program charges students. Certification takes effect the day the department issues it and runs two years.
If the application is denied the department gives notice within 30 calendar days, and you may re-apply after six months. A second denial means another six months. A denial may be appealed.
You cannot run a session alone. The center holds the certification, but an administration session needs certified people in the room: at least one practitioner and one facilitator for an individual session, and for a group session one practitioner for every eight patients and one facilitator or qualified student for every two.
◆ OpenRead literally the individual-session rule requires exactly one of each, so two practitioners would not satisfy it. The department may waive or decrease the ratio if it finds the ratio is a barrier for patients and safety concerns are otherwise alleviated.
Then the operating duties begin, and they are in a different section from the application. Fourteen of them: keep a list of qualified patients and a daily log, no firearms on the premises, consumption only on the premises, limit who may be present, display the certification publicly, give patients specified information, maintain the safety plan and provide it to everyone who uses the location, storage rules, adverse health event reporting, and record access for the department.
An applicant reading only 7.35.3.11 would not meet most of this. The obligations that decide how the center actually runs live at 7.35.3.20.
Renew every two years, filing the renewal packet no more than 60 and no less than 30 calendar days before the certification expires.
One ownership rule, and one silence. A certificant, or a person who owns part of one, may not hold an ownership interest in a permittee, which means a psilocybin producer or a testing laboratory. The rule says nothing about whether a certifying clinician, practitioner, or facilitator may own a healing center.
◆ UnresolvedThe wall the rule builds runs between treatment and supply, not inside treatment. No provision permits a provider to own a center and none forbids it, so a person deciding whether to invest has nothing in the text to rely on. Nothing in the rule addresses a certifying clinician certifying a patient into a center the clinician holds an interest in.
Starting license
These verdicts summarize the rows for this group in the eligibility tables.
Enter by reciprocity, as practitioner or facilitator.
Trained and licensed outside New Mexico. Your program must be on NMDOH's approved reciprocity list, which names Oregon and Colorado programs, or you must show your program has other governmental approval and a curriculum substantially equivalent to New Mexico's.
Complete the New Mexico Module.
Apply by the waiver deadline for a reduced practicum: at least 40 hours of contact time instead of the full practicum.
The published rule sets this deadline at December 31, 2027, unchanged since July 23. The July 9 draft still read December 31, 2026; the board moved it without objection that day. Board chair Ian Dunn noted that date is a legislative backstop, not the target date.
published rule 7.35.3.10 (D), p.5 · July 9 meeting transcript
NMDOH may further reduce the practicum requirement at its discretion, to build the program's initial infrastructure.
The published rule sets no end date for this discretion, at 7.35.3.19 (G). The related waiver deadline is December 31, 2027. The August 25 text adds the same discretion for the didactic requirements, at 7.35.3.18 (H).
published rule 7.35.3.10 (D), p.5 · July 9 meeting transcript
Apply as practitioner or facilitator. The reciprocity application packet lists items for those two permits only.
◆ UnresolvedThe published rule is inconsistent here, unchanged in the August 25 text. Reciprocity sits inside 7.35.3.10, which names certifying clinicians as eligible to apply on the basis of a program from another jurisdiction, while the application items listed there are for practitioners and facilitators.
The published rule names certifying clinicians as eligible under 7.35.3.10, but the application items listed there are for practitioners and facilitators. Unresolved in the draft.
Hold a current NM professional license that permits diagnosing the qualifying conditions (for example MD, NP).
New in the August 25 text: the license must permit diagnosis of the qualifying conditions. The July 23 text gave examples without describing a scope.
Approved certifying clinician training: an 8-hour module covering pharmacology, 42 CFR Part 2, diagnosis of qualifying conditions, medical clearance, monitoring, and data-collection requirements.
Hold a New Mexico Controlled Substance number (state number, not the federal DEA number).
Contested through June and July, and kept by the department on July 17. It stands in the August 25 text, and the amended definition of certifying clinician in 7.35.2.7 carries the number inside it.
No practicum.
The practicum section applies to practitioners and facilitators only; the certifying clinician's packet lists no practicum item.
Apply to NMDOH. Certification is valid 2 years from approval.
Continuing education: 8 CME hours every 2 years.
Open. No New Mexico license is required of the applicant, but the location itself must be in New Mexico and carry a certificate of occupancy.
No license, training, or examination is required of the applicant. The healing center is the one certification in this rule that any person may apply for. “Person” is defined to include a natural person as well as a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, so an individual may hold it. The center itself is certified; the people who work in it are certified separately.
Compare the practitioner and facilitator applications at 7.35.3.9, which require a professional license, completed practicum, life support certification, and HIPAA training. None of that attaches here.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A), p.5 · 7.35.2.7 definition of person
Stand up the business. Register with the New Mexico secretary of state and with taxation and revenue, and obtain any business licenses your city or county requires.
Secure the premises. A certificate of occupancy for each New Mexico location where you will operate, and either proof that you own the property or a signed written statement from the owner acknowledging that people will be participating in the medical psilocybin program there and what they are authorized to do.
◆ ContestedThe same owner-statement instrument governs treatment at a patient's home under Subsection B, where it means a renting patient needs the landlord's signature before being treated at home. Landlord approval and patient privacy were raised at the August 21 committee meeting and the chair called it a subject to be discussed further. Public comment continues through the October 2 hearing.
Make the location safe and reachable. Proof of compliance with disability access law, proof of a working communication device that reliably reaches emergency medical services, a plan for secured storage of the psilocybin, and a plan for wastage of what is not used.
Write the operating plans. Record retention; patient confidentiality, which the list asks for twice at items (13) and (18); a safety and emergency response plan covering adverse health event response and reporting; written complaint and grievance procedures available to patients; and a plan for transparency and disclosure of fees to patients.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(12) to (15), (18), (19), pp.5-6
If sessions will happen outdoors, add a detailed description of the outdoor area identifying safe entrances and exits and verifying it is free of hazards, an emergency safety and response plan, and proof that emergency medical services can be contacted from the location and can respond to it.
A separate operating duty applies once you are running: a natural-environment setting 15 minutes or more from emergency services needs a first aid kit, an AED, and two people present holding wilderness first aid, wilderness first responder, or New Mexico emergency medical technician credentials.
Name everyone. An organizational chart of governance and operations, a list of all owners or board members with contact information, the primary program contact, a list of all employees by legal name, and the contact details of any affiliated practitioners or facilitators.
The employee list matters twice over: 7.35.3.14 (C) grants medicine-handling authority to owners and employees “who are registered with the department,” and no section of the rule creates that registration. The application list is the nearest thing the rule has to one.
published rule 7.35.3.11 (A)(2), (3), (10), (11), (22), pp.5-6
Sign the affirmations. Consent to publication of the center's contact information if certified, an affirmation that everything submitted is true and accurate, an attestation that no person associated with the applicant is registered as a sex offender in any jurisdiction, and the authorized representative's signature and date.
Submit and wait. The whole application goes through the department's electronic system. The rule sets no application or certification fee, here or for any other certification; the only fees it names are the ones a center discloses to patients and the ones an educational program charges students. Certification takes effect the day the department issues it and runs two years.
If the application is denied the department gives notice within 30 calendar days, and you may re-apply after six months. A second denial means another six months. A denial may be appealed.
You cannot run a session alone. The center holds the certification, but an administration session needs certified people in the room: at least one practitioner and one facilitator for an individual session, and for a group session one practitioner for every eight patients and one facilitator or qualified student for every two.
◆ OpenRead literally the individual-session rule requires exactly one of each, so two practitioners would not satisfy it. The department may waive or decrease the ratio if it finds the ratio is a barrier for patients and safety concerns are otherwise alleviated.
Then the operating duties begin, and they are in a different section from the application. Fourteen of them: keep a list of qualified patients and a daily log, no firearms on the premises, consumption only on the premises, limit who may be present, display the certification publicly, give patients specified information, maintain the safety plan and provide it to everyone who uses the location, storage rules, adverse health event reporting, and record access for the department.
An applicant reading only 7.35.3.11 would not meet most of this. The obligations that decide how the center actually runs live at 7.35.3.20.
Renew every two years, filing the renewal packet no more than 60 and no less than 30 calendar days before the certification expires.
One ownership rule, and one silence. A certificant, or a person who owns part of one, may not hold an ownership interest in a permittee, which means a psilocybin producer or a testing laboratory. The rule says nothing about whether a certifying clinician, practitioner, or facilitator may own a healing center.
◆ UnresolvedThe wall the rule builds runs between treatment and supply, not inside treatment. No provision permits a provider to own a center and none forbids it, so a person deciding whether to invest has nothing in the text to rely on. Nothing in the rule addresses a certifying clinician certifying a patient into a center the clinician holds an interest in.