Virginia\u2019s governor has signed a pair of bills that will legalize a form of psilocybin under state law if and when the psychedelic is approved by federal officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a formulation of psilocybin designed to be administered by a health care professional in a health care setting, the Board of Pharmacy shall reschedule such formulation of psilocybin consistent with federal scheduling changes and procedures\u201d under state law, the legislation signed on Monday by Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) says.<\/p>\n
Under HB 1347 from Del. Laura Jane Cohen (D) and SB 379 from Sen. Jennifer Boysko (D), the state action would need to occur at the board\u2019s \u201cnext quarterly meeting following the expiration of 30 days from publication in the Federal Register of a final or interim final order or rule designating any formulation of psilocybin that has been approved by the FDA as a controlled substance.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the federal level, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said recently that the Trump administration is \u201cvery anxious\u201d to create a pathway for access to psychedelics therapy<\/a> and that top officials across federal agencies want to \u201cget it out to the public as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview on the Joe Rogan Experience in February, Kennedy said he\u2019s confident \u201cwe\u2019re going to get it done,\u201d with plans to develop and finalize rules that would enable patients with conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression to access psychedelic substances like psilocybin and MDMA in a \u201cvery controlled setting.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody in my agency\u2026is very anxious to get a rule out there that will allow these kind of studies and will allow access under therapeutic settings, particularly [for] the military soldiers who have suffered these injuries to get access to these products,\u201d the HHS secretary said. \u201cWe\u2019re working through that process now. We\u2019re all working on it and trying to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think that we\u2019re going to get it done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Last June, Kennedy said his agency is\u00a0\u201cabsolutely committed\u201d to expanding research on the benefits of psychedelic therapy<\/a>\u00a0and, alongside of the head of FDA, is aiming to provide legal access to such substances for military veterans \u201cwithin 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n In Virginia, meanwhile, Spanberger\u2019s approval of the psychedelics<\/a> reform<\/a> comes as she faces a Monday deadline to take action on a number of cannabis-related bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those include measures to legalize recreational cannabis sales<\/a>, provide resentencing relief for people with past convictions<\/a>, protect the parental rights of consumers<\/a>, allow patients to access medical marijuana in hospitals<\/a>, change delivery and labeling rules and provide for enforcement against illegal sales of cannabis products.<\/p>\n In anticipation of the launch of recreational marijuana sales, which Spanberger endorsed during her election campaign last year, Virginia\u2019s government jobs site was recently updated with a list featuring nearly a dozen openings for cannabis regulatory positions<\/a>.<\/p>\n Image courtesy of CostaPPR<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Virginia Governor Signs Bills To Automatically Legalize Psilocybin Following Federal Approval Of The Psychedelic<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Virginia\u2019s governor has signed a pair of bills that will legalize a form of psilocybin under state law if and when the psychedelic is approved by federal officials. \u201cUpon approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a formulation of psilocybin designed to be administered by a healthContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":0,"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\/85754"}],"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\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85755,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85754\/revisions\/85755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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