Will California be the first state to legalize psilocybin mushrooms?

California activists are now looking for a new approach to launch a ballot initiative to legalize psilocybin mushrooms statewide in 2022. This will not be the first time a similar measure has been proposed, as it was originally attempted in November 2020. However, the initiative has faced complications related to the collection of signatures in the face of the Covid pandemic and the possible cessation of efforts. Current proponents also understand that they may face similar challenges after the campaign launches. However, they are very confident that their experience and resources will help them overcome these obstacles.

Now proponents are inviting volunteers to support revisions to the reform initiative the group hopes to come up with. Much of the reform draft still resembles the 2020 proposal, but three major changes were made to appeal to the typically more conservative and older midterm voters.

While the voting measure appears to be the face of the campaign, California activists have other efforts and ideas to bring the initiative to life. decriminalize California and have contacted a state senator’s office on several occasions to work on the campaign. The Senator has previously mentioned that he would introduce legislation to decriminalize certain psychedelics such as psilocybin.

At the moment, the content of Scott Weiner’s proposal has not been made public, but we believe it cannot go as far as the activist-led initiative. The initiative proposes legalizing psilocybin for spiritual, personal, dietary, medicinal and therapeutic uses.

The most recent draft of the voting initiative states that “ownership, distribution, storage, transportation, consumption, retail sales, on-site consumption, the farmer’s market, social consumption and public events, whether for profit or not, become magic mushrooms should be lawful in the state and an issue of concern nationally.

However, unlike Decriminalize California – the first psilocybin initiative – this latest draft allows such activities to be restricted to adults over the age of 21. The recent reform also updated the process for overturning previous psilocybin convictions.

While the previous proposal called for automatic deletion, the latest proposal calls for voluntary one. In this way, the total cost of the measure is reduced in the publicly available project summary. Eventually, specific definitions related to psychedelic therapeutic use were also redefined.

During an interview with Marijuana Moment, Ryan Munevar, Decriminalize California’s campaign director, commented on the issue. He reiterated that the current reform, with the legislative and dual voting approach, is simply a two-pronged strategy. He went on to say that if the reform comes with the support, he and Scott Weiner will carry it out. Munevar also claims they’re still pushing theirs behind the scenes, which is radically more progressive than what the public is seeing right now.

To get the 2022 ballot initiative going, California activists need at least 623,212 credible signatures from fully registered voters. Achieving this will take a combined effort of a huge group of volunteers and a well-funded campaign.

With more than 1,350 volunteers across the United States, Decriminalizing California has a great opportunity to change California history. California decriminalization will certainly be able to achieve this with strong drug reform terminologies. Those words were written in an email Munevar sent to his supporters, in which he explained the group’s latest strategy.

With Denver becoming the first city in the United States to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms through a citizens’ initiative in 2019, the trend has quickly spread nationwide. The California campaign is a good example of activists reforming psychedelic legislation at both the state and city levels.

By the looks of it, six different cities have decriminalized the possession of a major collection of mushroom- and plant-based psychedelics since Denver made such a big move. These other cities are Santa Cruz, Washington, DC, Oakland, Cambridge, Ann Arbor, and Somerville.

A very good example of legal psychedelics reform that California activists are trying to achieve is Oregon’s access to legal psychedelics. In Oregon, voters approved a remarkable initiative to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin and decriminalize several drugs.

On the legislative side, it’s good to note that Weiner isn’t the only state lawmaker following in activists’ footsteps. Most recently, a Republican legislature in Iowa introduced legislation to remove psilocybin from the controlled substance category. The bill also plans to allow critically ill patients to take LSD, psychedelic mushrooms, DMT and other drugs.

The bill states that patients who are terminally ill and those with life-threatening conditions would be eligible for alternative psychedelic treatments. Patients who qualify for these psychedelic alternative treatments must

• Attempted but unresponsive to conventional pharmaceutical treatment

• Obtain a prescription to use one of the controlled substances for medication

• Having evidence to back up claims

• have submitted a written declaration of consent.

A Texas state legislature also introduced a bill that would force the state to research psilocybin’s therapeutic abilities in treating various mental health problems. The bill also included the investigation of ketamine and MDMA in this regard.

Rep. Alex Dominguez proposed the bill to mandate the State Health Services Department to research the therapeutic properties of MDMA, ketamine and psilocybin. The research is scheduled to be conducted in partnership with the Medical Board of Texas and the report is scheduled for December 1, 2022.

The bill states that researchers should determine and evaluate whether alternative therapies are effective in treating mental health and various health conditions. These conditions include anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, migraines, chronic pain, and PTSD. This bill is known as HB 1802.

The study is also designed to compare the effectiveness of conventional medications with alternative therapies to determine which is best for treating mental health and other health conditions.

Conclusion

If the research and studies surrounding alternative psychedelic treatments are positive, we could see more psychedelic reform movements in the US. Right now, lawmakers in Florida, Connecticut, Kansas, Virginia and Washington State are also reviewing drug and psychedelics policy reform legislation to see if it could be passed.

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