It was inevitable that local governments would make way for Colorado’s terribly misguided experiment with newly legalized hallucinogens, enabling the dangerous drugs to be dispensed in communities across the state. After all, cities and counties have no choice.

Unlike with legalized retail marijuana, local entities aren’t allowed to ban distribution of the mind-bending “magic mushrooms.” Only minor considerations are left to local lawmaking bodies, like setting land-use rules on how far the so-called healing centers that will administer the mushrooms can be from schools.

Which means implementation of Proposition 122 from the 2022 ballot is moving forward at full speed following state authorities’ adoption in August of lax regulations for carrying out the presumed will of the voters.

But, really, do local officials have to come across quite so gullible and craven as did some Arapahoe County commissioners this week in approving new zoning rules to accommodate the centers, where state-licensed “facilitators” will hand out the hallucinogens?

The accompanying claptrap from a couple of commissioners, as reported by The Gazette, made us wince. It could have been scripted by the pro-122 campaign.

“We think about psilocybin or ‘shrooms as ‘magic mushrooms’ and the Grateful Dead and that’s all well and good … but the therapeutic properties of this medicine, one of these sessions, can actually heal or address PTSD for the effects of an entire year,” Commissioner Jessica Campbell gushed. She noted she was “proud” of the county for leading on the issue.

Commissioner Bill Holen seconded Campbell’s ill-informed notion, claiming the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been using the therapy for years on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and have found the treatment method “very, very helpful.”

The commissioners purport to know something even leading-edge research in the world of medical science has yet to establish — whether hallucinogens are of much value at all in treating PTSD or other disorders.

The therapeutic value of hallucinogens is in fact speculative and dubious at that. A major development earlier this year cast further doubt. A key advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that the proposed use of the hallucinogen MDMA, pitched by pharmaceutical giant Lykos Therapeutics, is not an effective PTSD treatment.

We’ll say it again: Proposition 122 hoodwinked Colorado voters. The measure was backed by big money from the national legalization lobby and sold as a miracle cure for mental-health issues. Veterans and other sympathetic figures were propped up like puppets by the slick campaign to offer testimonials to treatment using hallucinogens. It was a sham.

If the interests behind Proposition 122 really had believed in hallucinogens’ therapeutic value, the proposal would have allowed only medical professionals, not bogus “facilitators,” to administer them.

In reality, the ballot issue was little more than a scheme bankrolled by ventures like Lykos to launch yet another lucrative recreational drug industry in Colorado alongside retail marijuana.

All of which speaks to the underlying danger — that Mom’s or Dad’s psilocybin or mescaline will end up in the backpacks of their school-age kids.

The commissioners can be forgiven their naiveté, perhaps — but not their poor judgment. Sure, their hands are tied in allowing the phony healing centers, as well as permitting possession and cultivation of psychedelic mushrooms under the new state law. But they at least could have tried to use their limited powers creatively to protect children.

Instead, Campbell glibly shrugged it off.

“Obviously parents and adults who are cultivating this stuff in their homes, I hope they make responsible choices,” she said. “But that is part of where we are in America is people have guns in their homes, people have medicines in their homes, people have alcohol in their homes. I don’t know that this poses any greater threat and actually poses less threat than some of those other things.”

Oh, well!

Parents, you’re on your own.