Some Colorado communities don’t want psychedelic healing centers — but can they stop them?
Cokedale, a tiny hamlet of 150 hardscrabble residents seven miles west of Trinidad with 350 defunct coke ovens signifying its legacy as a one-time coal mining hub, isn’t jazzed about psilocybin healing centers coming in.
COKEDALE — Jack Van Heesch experimented hard with all sorts of psychedelics back in the day.
“It was a party,” said the full-bearded, 66-year-old resident of this former Colorado mining town perched…