{"id":61292,"date":"2023-01-27T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2023\/01\/27\/mexican-senator-to-file-psychedelics-legalization-bill-with-u-s-congressman-backing-international-reform-push\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T01:45:46","slug":"mexican-senator-to-file-psychedelics-legalization-bill-with-u-s-congressman-backing-international-reform-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2023\/01\/27\/mexican-senator-to-file-psychedelics-legalization-bill-with-u-s-congressman-backing-international-reform-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Senator To File Psychedelics Legalization Bill, With U.S. Congressman Backing International Reform Push"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Mexican senator announced on Wednesday that she will be introducing a bill to legalize and regulate psychedelics nationwide to give people an alternative treatment option for serious mental health conditions.<\/p>\n

At an Intercultural Forum on Entheogenic Medicine that took place in the Senate, Sen. Alejandra Lagunes of the Ecologist Green Party said that substances like psilocybin and ayahuasca have \u201chigh therapeutic potential, low toxicity and don\u2019t create physical dependence or abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) also made remarks in a video recording that was played at the forum, applauding lawmakers in the neighboring country for taking initial steps to further dismantle prohibition and unlock the potential of psychedelics.<\/p>\n

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Ismail Ali @sage_izzy<\/a>, Zara Snapp @zarasnapp<\/a>, Earl Blumenauer @repblumenauer<\/a>, Angela Allbee, Directora de la Secci\u00f3n de Servicios de Psilocibina en @OHAOregon<\/a>, Armando Loizaga, V\u00edctor \u00c1ngel-Mosti @vanmosti<\/a>, Jes\u00fas Olamendi, Santiago Ortela y al Dr Paul Hersch Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Alejandra Lagunes (@alelagunes) January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The congressman, who has promoted psychedelics reform domestically<\/a> while continuing to champion marijuana legalization, said that Mexico is moving in the \u201cright direction,\u201d and he looks \u201cforward to being your American partner\u201d in the push for reform. Blumenauer was separately part of a congressional delegation to Colombia last year where he discussed to need to move on from the drug war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lagunes hasn\u2019t formally filed the psychedelics bill yet, so it\u2019s unclear what a therapeutic program might look like or what substances will be involved. But it could take notes from Blumenauer\u2019s home state, where voters approved a ballot initiative in 2020 to legalize supervised psilocybin services centers.<\/p>\n

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\"📷\" #HoyEnElSenado<\/a> se realiza el segundo d\u00eda del Foro intercultural de medicina ente\u00f3gena. https:\/\/t.co\/GG7lVd0Vl1<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8hvPtf9JNl<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Senado de M\u00e9xico (@senadomexicano) January 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cMexico has in its native peoples an infinite wisdom and knowledge of psilocybin mushrooms and what they can do for the mental health of the population,\u201d the senator said<\/a>, according to a translation. \u201cWe are doing something that does not exist anywhere else in the world, because we want to consider ancestral knowledge, the original peoples\u2014but we also want to take into account what is happening in the world and not be left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hoy tenemos la posibilidad de innovar en #saludmental<\/a> y, la informaci\u00f3n y educaci\u00f3n ser\u00e1n claves para poder avanzar con una regulaci\u00f3n eficaz. Por eso, debemos preguntarnos: \u00bfCu\u00e1les son las pol\u00edticas p\u00fablicas que mejor respondan a las necesidades de la mayor\u00eda, al bien com\u00fan?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Alejandra Lagunes (@alelagunes) January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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She added that the forthcoming legislation must be informed by \u201cknowing how we integrate ancestral knowledge with the reality of biomedicine, what are the public policies that best respond to the needs of the majority, how to avoid extractivism and guarantee access, among others.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Concluy\u00f3 el foro, pero inicia el trabajo para regular el uso de terapias alternativas con grandes beneficios para la salud mental con el uso de \"🍄\" y #psilocibina<\/a>. #SaludMental<\/a> #InnovacionParaSaludMental<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/QKxNzWxh8A<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alejandra Lagunes (@alelagunes) January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s unclear whether there\u2019s strong enough appetite for psychedelics reform to advance the pending bill. Mexican lawmakers have struggled to enact legislation to legalize recreational marijuana, despite a Supreme Court mandate to end prohibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Late last year, the presidents of Colombia and Mexico announced that they would be bringing together other Latin American leaders for an international conference focused on on \u201credesigning and rethinking drug policy\u201d<\/a> given the \u201cfailure\u201d of prohibition.<\/p>\n

A top Mexican Senate official recently said that she\u2019s heard from a colleague who visited leaders in several Latin American countries, and they\u2019re consistently asking about the status of Mexico\u2019s efforts<\/a>\u00a0to legislatively end prohibition and set up a regulated marijuana market.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been more than four years since the nation\u2019s highest court deemed prohibition unconstitutional, leaving it up to Congress to follow up with a policy change, accordingly. But lawmakers have so far been unable to reach a consensus on legislation to put in place regulations for a cannabis program even as various bills have moved forward in the legislative process.<\/p>\n

At the request of lawmakers, the court agreed to extend its deadline for Congress to formally end prohibition on multiple occasions. But because of the repeated failed attempts to meet those deadlines<\/a>, justices ultimately voted to end criminalization on their own<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s president said in late 2020 that a vote on legalization legislation was\u00a0delayed due to minor \u201cmistakes\u201d in the proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A top Mexican senator separately said in 2021 that \u201cthere is no longer room for the prohibitionist policy.\u00a0<\/a>\u201d And she also said that the influence of the\u00a0U.S .is to blame for failed marijuana criminalization laws<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0in her country.<\/p>\n

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Massachusetts Recreational Marijuana Sales Have Officially Exceeded $4 Billion, State Regulators Announce<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Photo courtesy of Dick Culbert<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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