What’s next for psychedelic decriminalization?
The movement to decriminalize entheogenic plants—psychedelics—is young, but has already succeeded in three cities…
The force behind this tide is an organization called Decriminalize Nature (DN), who uses an open-source format to help communities all over the world start healing. Believing that entheogens should be legal and the exchange of them regulated, DN reverses the profit model completely: “Our process is really a bottom-up process that is focusing on compassion and healing as the main objective; a mission, so to speak,” said Plazola. “We encourage people to grow their own, gather their own, gift their own, and to build community that way as well.” Norris says, “We’re talking about a relationship that’s been severed for thousands of years for many people … for a long time across the world,” he said. He noted how such a long history speaks to the safety of these drugs, which is comparable to cannabis.
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What’s next for psychedelics decriminalization?
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