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A Republican Massachusetts lawmaker has filed three new psychedelics reform bills, including proposals to legalize substances like psilocybin and reschedule MDMA pending federal approval while setting a price cap on therapeutic access.<\/p>\n
The measures from Rep. Nicholas Boldyga (R), who describes himself as the \u201cmost conservative\u201d member of the legislature, are the latest examples of psychedelics reforms that lawmakers in the state are pursuing this session.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are suffering from debilitating mental health issues such as PTSD, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, and depression,\u201d Boldyga said in a press release on Tuesday. \u201cThese psychedelic compounds and plant medicines are offering hope and healing to those that were once hopeless.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPlant medicines have been used for thousands of years by various cultures around the world, they truly are revolutionizing how we approach mental health and wellbeing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what the lawmaker\u2019s psychedelics bills would accomplish:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The legislation<\/a> would legalize the possession, cultivation and gifting of up to two grams of psilocybin, ibogaine, DMT and mescaline for adults 21 and older.<\/p>\n Boldyga said that the reform is \u201cabout ending unjust laws and expanding legal access to lifesaving plant medicines,\u201d adding that it\u2019s important to take a non-commercial approach and not view legalization as a revenue generator.<\/p>\n This bill<\/a> would legalize psilocybin for adults 18 and older through a regulated model, similar to the system that Oregon is implementing. People could access the psychedelic at licensed facilities for \u201ctherapeutic, spiritual, and medicinal purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n Regulators would also be authorized to license independent schools to train facilitators on how to effectively administer psilocybin.<\/p>\n \u201cH3605 is once again about providing safe and legal access to a substance that is already saving lives and helping people heal from trauma and debilitating mental health issues throughout the world,\u201d Boldyga said.<\/p>\n Under this proposal<\/a>, MDMA would be automatically rescheduled and made available for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) if the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves it.<\/p>\n Further, it would set a cap of $5,000 per session using MDMA to prevent price gouging.<\/p>\n \u201cI share similar concerns among grassroots advocates about access, affordability, and the over-corporatization of psychedelic compounds and plant medicines,\u201d the sponsor said.<\/p>\n \u201cI look forward to working with advocates and others to do everything we can to deliver this lifesaving therapy to as many people as possible suffering from PTSD,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u2014 James Davis of the advocacy group Bay Staters for Natural Medicine, which assisted in crafting the legislation, said that the bill represents \u201ca huge win for affordability.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe must ensure this care is affordable and innovative, not exclusive,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n Boldyga said that it\u2019s \u201ctime we flip the script and end the insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLocking people away in jail for using plant medicines that have been used by other cultures for thousand of years, is a travesty of the failed medical and criminal justice system of this country,\u201d he said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t elected to serve the interests of \u2018Big Pharma\u2019 who have spent decades actively lobbying the government to keep these plant medicines illegal and using propaganda to spread misinformation to create dangerous stigmas around them.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, there are several other pieces of psychedelics legislation that have been introduced in Massachusetts for the session by other lawmakers, including separate<\/a> measures<\/a> to legalize certain entheogenic substances for adults.<\/p>\n Another bill<\/a> would authorize the Department of Public Health to conduct a comprehensive study into the potential therapeutic effects of synthetic psychedelics like MDMA.<\/p>\n Massachusetts has become a hotbed for psychedelics reform, both locally and at the state level, over recent years.<\/p>\n Several cities\u2014including Somerville<\/a>,\u00a0Cambridge<\/a>,\u00a0Easthampton<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Northampton<\/a>\u2014have moved to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi. An effort to enact the reform in Amherst stalled out<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n In the legislature, Rep. Mike Connolly (D) filed a bill in 2021 that received a Joint Judiciary Committee hearing<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0studying the implications of legalizing entheogenic substances like psilocybin and ayahuasca<\/a>.<\/p>\n Federal Sentencing Commission Approves New Marijuana Guidelines For Judges To Treat Past Convictions More Leniently<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n Photo elements courtesy of carlosemmaskype<\/a> and Apollo<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post The \u2018Most Conservative\u2019 Massachusetts GOP Lawmaker Files Three Psychedelics Reform Bills, Including Measure To Legalize<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
A Republican Massachusetts lawmaker has filed three new psychedelics reform bills, including proposals to legalize substances like psilocybin and reschedule MDMA pending federal approval while setting a price cap on therapeutic access. The measures from Rep. Nicholas Boldyga (R), who describes himself as the \u201cmost conservative\u201d member of the legislature,Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":63527,"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\/63526"}],"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=63526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63528,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63526\/revisions\/63528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}HB 3589<\/h2>\n
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