{"id":68273,"date":"2023-09-06T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/california-assembly-approves-psychedelics-legalization-bill-with-amendments-sending-it-back-to-the-senate-for-final-passage\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T19:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:46:04","slug":"california-assembly-approves-psychedelics-legalization-bill-with-amendments-sending-it-back-to-the-senate-for-final-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/california-assembly-approves-psychedelics-legalization-bill-with-amendments-sending-it-back-to-the-senate-for-final-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"California Assembly Approves Psychedelics Legalization Bill With Amendments, Sending It Back To The Senate For Final Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The California Assembly has approved a Senate-passed psychedelics legalization bill, sending it back to the opposite chamber for concurrence on recent amendments before the measure potentially heads to the governor\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

The Assembly cleared the legislation from Sen. Scott Wiener (D) in a 42-11 vote on Wednesday\u2014a significant victory for advocates after an earlier version of the psychedelics reform measure that also passed the Senate ultimately stalled out in the Assembly last year. The bill would legalize the possession and cultivation of small amounts of certain entheogenic plants and fungi for adults 21 and older.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia\u2019s veterans, first responders, and others struggling with PTSD, depression, and addiction deserve access to these promising plant medicines,\u201d Wiener said in a press release. \u201cSB 58 has prudent safeguards in place after we incorporated feedback from three years of deep engagement with a broad array of stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know these substances are not addictive, and they show tremendous promise in treating many of the most intractable conditions driving our nation\u2019s mental health crisis,\u201d he said. It\u2019s time to stop criminalizing people who use psychedelics for healing or personal well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n

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SB 58 previously passed the Senate & returns for a final sign-off.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Whether this latest version will be enacted is still an open question. Members of the Assembly adopted a number of amendments along its path to the floor, including removing ibogaine from the list of legalized substances, lowering possession limits, eliminating sharing provisions and pushing back the effective date for legalization to 2025 to give a work group time to submit recommendations on creating regulated access to psychedelics.<\/p>\n

Those latest changes were accepted during an Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

Under the bill as revised, the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA) would be responsible for forming the workgroup to \u201cstudy and make recommendations on the establishment of a framework governing the therapeutic use, including facilitated or supported use,\u201d of mescaline, ibogaine, DMT and psilocybin.<\/p>\n

While ibogaine would be included in the study, the legislation would no longer make personal use of the psychedelic legal for adults 21 and older as originally proposed. As revised, the possession limit for the remaining substances that would be legalized starting January 1, 2025 were reduced by at least half as compared to the original legislation.<\/p>\n

The \u201callowable amount\u201d section of the\u00a0bill<\/a> as amended allows for the following psychedelics possession limits:<\/strong><\/p>\n