Michou Olivera stepped into her home office on a recent afternoon and pulled out about a dozen amber Mason jars. She held them to the light: inside each was a clump of dried psilocybin mushrooms. “We have some leftover Jedi. This is a very popular strain that’s very heart opening,” she said.

Olivera grows these mushrooms at home and administers them to people who often suffer with severe or treatment-resistant depression… Question 4 allows home growers to have a cultivation area up to 12 feet by 12 feet… “People are already doing this. It’s already happening,” she said. Mason Marks, a law professor at Florida State University who studies psychedelics law… “These funders and campaign organizers are the same people that brought marijuana legalization to Massachusetts and many other U.S. states,” Marks said. “And they’re basically trying to pass these laws for psychedelics in as many states as quickly as possible.” … Lieutenant Sarko Gergerian of the Winthrop, Mass., Police Department is a vocal proponent of Question 4, not as a spokesperson for his department, but as a citizen. It’s legal for residents to make wine at home in Massachusetts, he says, and to serve it to their children at the dinner table. He doesn’t deny that people might make mistakes with psychedelics they consume or grow. “But we’re talking individual situations,” he says. More than 100,000 people die each year after properly taking prescribed medication… the legislative and regulatory frameworks necessary to a national commercial market for these kinds of drugs and therapies are being developed in a “rapid, patchwork fashion,” according to a survey of state legalization efforts published in JAMA Psychiatry. It predicts that psychedelic drugs will be legalized in the majority of states by 2037…

Original Article (Saskatoon StarPheonix):
Mass. could soon legalize natural psychedelics, but not everyone is waiting & Is Massachusetts the next beachhead for psychedelic drugs?
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