…with so many cities and counties voting on the issue in November [2022], it could lead to bans across large portions of the state. …psilocybin has become hotly-contested across the state. Some counties that voted for it in 2020 are now voting on it again, like Clackamas, Tillamook and Deschutes. It’s not on the ballot…
This time it’s local: Two-thirds of Oregon counties will decide whether to allow or ban… psilocybin. The state’s psilocybin opt-out policy is consistent with most states’ cannabis legalization laws: Residents can vote to ban sales, but not re-criminalize possession… opt-out votes can have unintended consequences… localities that prohibit state-regulated cannabis retail stores tend to protect…
…it will be up to local groups and individuals willing to participate in the… process to ensure that the personal use… isn’t weakened during implementation… Ultimately, we recognize that all reforms are a push-and-pull of what people who think about policy all day want to see and what legislators, donors, drafters, lobbyists, opposition blocks, funders…
…the most important reason to have insurers onboard isn’t just to save society money on treating costly mental ailments – it’s to make sure the benefits are distributed to more than just affluent individuals who can afford hours long psychedelic journeys integrated by therapy. “Governments and corporations are selfish. Our job is to fight the bastards…
One, the measure to get psilocybin… legalized and one for decriminalization, both just in one state in Oregon. Let’s say even together it was something on the order of 10 million dollars. And so, calling this out to say… the amount of money that is raised by all these companies, say, GH Pharma, ATAI, Compass,…
There is a growing belief that whatever Canada decides will have a direct impact on the U.S. and this country’s psilocybin legalization efforts. The challenge also noted a precedent to change how the government could work with psilocybin by citing two landmark cannabis cases, where Canadian courts ruled that the absolute prohibition of cannabis by the…
Federal legalization… means a psychedelic substance has been removed from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of scheduled substances… the DEA can choose to de-schedule a substance at any time. …federal legalization doesn’t mean state-level legalization. Most states have a “trigger” system that follows DEA decisions, but others will decide for themselves whether to legalize after DEA…
Personal use means the personal ingestion or use of a natural medicine… adopting a public health and harm reduction approach to natural medicines by removing criminal penalties for personal use for adults twenty-one years of age and older… It would also sanction home cultivation and the sharing of medicines, but prohibit private sales… defines [sharing]…
…while Oregon voters in 2020 approved the supervised use of psychedelic mushrooms, the citizen initiative on the Colorado ballot in November [2022] goes further… would allow the personal use of psilocybin mushrooms and certain plant-based psychedelic substances by adults 21. As of June [2022], 15 cities and other local U.S. jurisdictions have decriminalized… psilocybin or…
In late January 2022, the Oregon state legislature filed a pre-session, psilocybin social equity bill to supplement the state’s groundbreaking Measure 109 program. That legislation is new Senate Bill 1580, sponsored by ten Democratic state lawmakers… a critical time, as Oregon’s new legal psilocybin program serves to transition psilocybin from an illegal substance into a…
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