Quick links that talk about the legality of the industry
A ballot measure was proposed in Washington state to decriminalize all drugs and direct $141M of funding per year toward substance use treatment and prevention.
A separate ballot measure to legalize psilocybin services was also proposed recently.
The measures will be added to the November ballot if enough signatures are gathered!
Attorney Jon Dennis submitted a proposal to Oregon’s advisory board that would allow spiritual and religious groups to become licensed as psilocybin service centers and hold group ceremonies.
Allowing these organizations to administer psilocybin therapy would make the treatment more accessible and affordable for those in need.
“It’s creating more space for these psilocybin [organizations] to exist without having to be in the underground,” says Rebecca Martinez, executive director of a psychedelic training program called Alma Institute.
The House rejected a Senate-passed measure that would have created a medical psilocybin program in Maine.
“The bill will certainly be back next session, or, if the legislature continues to refuse to act, perhaps in a peoples’ referendum,” says Senator Donna Bailey.
By denying Canadians access to psilocybin, the government is infringing on patients’ rights. According to TheraPsil, the decision to use psilocybin medically should be made between doctor and patient with no requirement for government approval (just like medical cannabis).
If you believe that access to psilocybin for medical purposes is a right, please help TheraPsil prove this in court by donating to their fundraiser.
Activists in Massachusetts are pushing for decriminalization of all illicit drugs (with a focus on psychedelics) in the city of Worceter and at the state level.
The Colorado House passed a bill to allow the prescription of MDMA if and when the federal government legalizes its use.
A Hawaii House committee approved a resolution to form a working group to study the therapeutic benefits of psilocybin.
David Bronner of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap is organizing a protest to demand that terminally ill patients get the right to try psilocybin.
Activists will come together outside the DEA headquarters on May 9.
Learn how you can join here. Travel stipends are available.
The bill, which was unanimously passed by the House, would allow institutions to research psilocybin for 10 different conditions. Decriminalization elements were removed from the legislation.
Both the Senate and the House of Delegates approved a Maryland bill that would provide veterans with free psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine treatments for PTSD or traumatic brain injury.
If approved by the governor, the state would devote $1M per year to funding the treatments.
