Anthropology

Psychedelic [social sharing Senate bill]

…would amend the state criminal code to specifically permit both the cultivation and distribution of certain psychedelics… the bill allows “social sharing” of psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, ibogaine, MDMA, mescaline, and DMT. Social sharing” is defined as the “giving away” or “consensual administering… not for financial gain.” The bill also declares that the “planting, cultivating, harvesting, or processing of plants” that produce certain psychedelics “shall not be a violation of local law.”

SEC. 8. Section 11364.7 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 11364.7. (a) (1) Except as authorized by law, any person who delivers, furnishes, or transfers, possesses with intent to deliver, furnish, or transfer, or manufactures with the intent to deliver, furnish, or transfer, drug paraphernalia, knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance, except as provided in subdivision (b), in violation of this division, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [HOWEVER] (3) This subdivision does not apply to any paraphernalia that is intended for use related to the personal possession or growing, sharing, or safe use of any of the following substances: (A) Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). (B) Ibogaine. (C) Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). (D) Mescaline. (E) Psilocybin. (F) Psilocyn [ie, Psilocin]. (G) Ketamine. (H) 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA).

Original Article (Forbes and Leginfo):
Proposed california law would legalize magic mushrooms, mdma, lsd, and other psychedelic drugs & Decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances
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