More steps in the process before it can begin operating
LAKEWOOD - April 2, 2025 - The Colorado Department of Revenue’s Natural Medicine Division issued the state’s first healing center business license to The Center Origin on March 31. Several factors will determine when a healing center may begin providing natural medicine services:
- Local jurisdiction processes and approvals of the time, place and manner in which they operate.
- The Natural Medicine Division’s approval of cultivation licenses to provide regulated natural medicine.
- The Natural Medicine Division’s approval of a natural medicine testing facility to provide required testing.
“While there is a lot of excitement around the issuance of the first natural medicine healing center license, it doesn’t guarantee a specified timeline for when the licensee can begin operations,” said Dominique Mendiola, senior director of the Natural Medicine Division and the Marijuana Enforcement Division. “It’s important for the Division to continue its focus on processing applications for other license types to ensure regulated natural medicine is available to healing centers and facilitators.”
The Division updates its website homepage every Friday afternoon with the latest pending and approved application numbers. In addition, the public information we can share about the applicants can be found in the Licensee Look-up Tool, also found on the NMD homepage.
The NMD does not license or regulate facilitators of natural medicine services. Answers to questions about facilitators can be found on the Department of Regulatory Agencies website.
Definitions of each license type are included on the six license type application pages that are found on the Division’s applications page. Additional resources are found on the Resources page of the website, and all final rules and recordings of rulemaking hearings are found on the Rulemaking page.
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