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San Francisco lawmakers have unanimously approved a measure calling for the decriminalization of psychedelics like psilocybin and ayahuasca.<\/p>\n
The Board of Supervisors approved the measure, sponsored by Supervisors Dean Preston (D) and Hillary Ronen (D), on Wednesday. While it doesn\u2019t immediately enact changes to criminal justice policy in San Francisco, it urges police to deprioritize psychedelics as \u201camongst the lowest priority\u201d for enforcement and requests that \u201cCity resources not be used for any investigation, detention, arrest, or prosecution arising out of alleged violations of state and federal law regarding the use of Entheogenic Plants listed on the Federally Controlled Substances Schedule 1 list.\u201d<\/p>\n
Decriminalize Nature San Francisco helped advance the resolution, which also implores city officials to \u201cinstruct\u201d its state and federal lobbyists to push for psychedelics decriminalization in California and federally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The whereas section of the measure talks about emerging research that shows entheogenic substances have therapeutic potential to treat a wide range of mental health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance misuse disorder.<\/p>\n It further notes that the \u201cstate legislature has already started the conversation around the decriminalization of personal possession of small amounts of seven psychedelic substances,\u201d in the form of a bill from Sen. Scott Wiener (D) that passed the Senate and several Assembly committees before being significantly scaled back in a final panel<\/a> and ultimately pulled by the sponsor.<\/p>\n\n \u201cI am proud to work with Decrim Nature to put San Francisco on record in support of the decriminalization of psychedelics and entheogens,\u201d Preston said in a press release.\u00a0\u201cSan Francisco joins a growing list of cities and countries that are taking a fresh look at these plant-based medicines, following science and data, and destigmatizing their use and cultivation. Today\u2019s unanimous vote is an exciting step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n The resolution<\/a> says that a copy of the measure must be transmitted to local police, the district attorney\u2019s office, state lawmakers including Wiener, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).<\/p>\n San Francisco officials have been bullish on drug policy reform, including promoting harm reduction services. After Newsom controversially vetoed a bill<\/a> to create a safe drug consumption pilot program in the state last month, the mayor and city attorney signaled that San Francisco would push ahead with its plans to authorize the sites<\/a> regardless.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, numerous cities across the U.S. have enacted psychedelics decriminalization, starting in Denver in 2019<\/a> and also expanding to California cities like Oakland and Santa Cruz. Other major cities that have enacted the reform include Detroit and Seattle.<\/p>\n \u2014 More recently, a coalition of activists in Aspen, Colorado started collecting signatures for a local measure<\/a> to decriminalize entheogenic substances like psilocybin, ayahuasca and ibogaine.<\/p>\n The campaign manager of the historic Denver initiative is also spearheading the statewide legalization initiative, titled the \u201cNatural Medicine Health Act.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 The measure, which will appear on the November ballot, would legalize possession of certain psychedelics, establish a therapeutic model for supervised psilocybin treatment and provide a pathway for record sealing for prior convictions.<\/p>\n In March, California activists announced that they\u00a0came up short on collecting enough signatures<\/a>\u00a0to qualify a measure to legalize psilocybin mushrooms for the state\u2019s November ballot, though they aren\u2019t giving up on a future election cycle bid.<\/p>\n\n Meanwhile, Georgia lawmakers discussed the therapeutic potential of psychedelics<\/a> like psilocybin for serious mental health conditions at a hearing focused on military veterans last week.<\/p>\n Lawmakers on the panel discussed legislation enacted in Texas last year that requires the state to\u00a0study the therapeutic potential of psychedelics<\/a>.<\/p>\n The day after the Georgia committee held its psychedelics hearing last week, lawmakers in Missouri met to discuss possible solutions to the military veterans\u2019 mental health and suicide crisis, with several people testifying about\u00a0the possible therapeutic potential of psychedelics<\/a>\u00a0for the at-risk population.<\/p>\n Missouri Rep. Tony Lovasco (R)\u00a0introduced a psychedelics reform bill<\/a>\u00a0for the 2022 session. It\u00a0was addressed during a hearing<\/a>\u00a0in the House Health and Mental Health Policy Committee in March, but it did not advance.<\/p>\n Separately, a top federal health agency says it is actively \u201cexploring\u201d the possibility of creating a task force to investigate the therapeutic potential of certain psychedelics<\/a>\u00a0like psilocybin and MDMA in anticipation of federal approval of the substances for prescription use.<\/p>\n Military\u2019s Fake Press Conference Warns Against CBD-Infused Burritos And Cat Shampoo For Service Members<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n Photo elements courtesy of carlosemmaskype<\/a> and Apollo<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post San Francisco Lawmakers Unanimously Approve Psychedelics Decriminalization Resolution<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
San Francisco lawmakers have unanimously approved a measure calling for the decriminalization of psychedelics like psilocybin and ayahuasca. The Board of Supervisors approved the measure, sponsored by Supervisors Dean Preston (D) and Hillary Ronen (D), on Wednesday. While it doesn\u2019t immediately enact changes to criminal justice policy in San Francisco,Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":57033,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57034,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032\/revisions\/57034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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