California nixes a bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelics
“Should we be threatening people with arrest and incarceration for using mushrooms? Of course we should not,” says Scott Weiner [who introduced the bill] “If you want drugs to be unsafe, the most effective thing you can do is criminalize them and push everyone within the shadows where they’re where they’re less likely to ask for information and help.”
SB 58 would have allowed the cultivation of your own modest mushroom stash at home… the bill also would have allowed possession of related drug paraphernalia and the home cultivation of psilocybin-containing mushrooms for personal use… as it stands, the DEA can shut down state-run psychedelic treatment centers… today, many… sell their products – dried mushroom, capsules, psilocybin-infused chocolates -along existing cannabis delivery lines. “We know people are already breaking the law left and right,” says Ryan Munevar, the campaign director of Decriminalize California, which advocates for the legalization of psilocybin for adult recreational use. In 1996, California passed the Compassionate Use Act, allowing the medical use of cannabis. In 2016, California’s Proposition 64 legalized it for adult recreational use. But cannabis remains a Schedule 1 drug, creating roadblocks for government-funded research or loans and agricultural aid for growers, and risking conflicts with federal agencies.” Graham Pechenik says. This stepwise legalization process appears to be playing out again with plant-based psychedelics, “unfolding in the same pattern,” Pechenik says.
Original Article (Wired):
California nixes a bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelics
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