The deadline to submit proposed summary language and\/or explanatory material to the Board of State Canvassers is February 8. Then the board will meet to discuss the summary on February 11 and must either formally approve or reject it by March 3.<\/p>\n
Michigan might not seem like the obvious choice for such bold psychedelics reform, but it\u2019s become something of a hub for advancing the issue at the local level. Most recently, Detroit voters approved a ballot initiative to widely decriminalize psychedelics in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Ann Arbor City Council previously elected to make enforcement of laws prohibition psychedelics like psilocybin, ayahuasca and DMT among the city\u2019s lowest priorities<\/a>\u2014and lawmakers then followed up by declaring September Entheogenic Plants and Fungi Awareness Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n After local legislators passed that decriminalization resolution in 2020, the Washtenaw County prosecutor announced that his office will not be pursuing charges<\/a> over possessing entheogenic plants and fungi, \u201cregardless of the amount at issue.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 In September, the Grand Rapids City Council approved a resolution supporting the decriminalization of a wide range of psychedelics<\/a>. However, the measure fell short of what activists had hoped, in that it doesn\u2019t actually change any city enforcement practices and merely expresses support for future reforms.<\/p>\n A pair of state senators also introduced a bill in September to legalize the possession, cultivation and delivery<\/a> of an array of plant- and fungi-derived psychedelics like psilocybin and mescaline.<\/p>\n Outside of Michigan, activists in Colorado recently filed revised versions of 2022 ballot initiatives<\/a> to similarly legalize psilocybin and establish \u201chealing centers\u201d in the state. A competing campaign filed a different psychedelics legalization last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n A bill to decriminalize a wide array of psychedelics in Virginia was taken up by a House of Delegates panel last week, only to be pushed off until 2023<\/a>. A separate Senate proposal to decriminalize psilocybin alone was defeated in a key committee on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Oregon, where voters approved a historic 2020 initiative to legalize therapeutic psilocybin program, as well as another to broadly decriminalize currently illicit drugs, lawmakers introduced a bill last week meant to promote equity into the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two Republican Oklahoma lawmakers recently filed bills meant to promote research into the therapeutic potential of psilocybin, and one of the measures would further decriminalize low-level possession of the psychedelic<\/a>.<\/p>\n A GOP Utah lawmaker also introduced a bill last week that would set up a task force to study and make recommendations on the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs<\/a> and possible regulations for their lawful use.<\/p>\n In Kansas, A lawmaker also recently filed a bill to legalize the low-level possession and cultivation<\/a> of psilocybin mushrooms.<\/p>\n A Republican Missouri lawmaker introduced a bill this month to give residents with serious illnesses legal access to a range of psychedelic drugs<\/a> like psilocybin, ibogaine and LSD through an expanded version of the state\u2019s existing right-to-try law.<\/p>\n California Sen. Scott Wiener (D) told Marijuana Moment in a recent interview that his bill to legalize psychedelics possession<\/a> stands a 50\/50 chance of reaching the governor\u2019s desk this year. It already cleared the full Senate and two Assembly committees during the first half of the two-year session.<\/p>\n Washington State lawmakers also introduced legislation this month<\/a> that would legalize what the bill calls \u201csupported psilocybin experiences\u201d by adults 21 and older.<\/p>\n In Vermont, a broad coalition of lawmakers representing nearly a third of the House introduced a bill to decriminalize drug possession<\/a>.<\/p>\n New Hampshire lawmakers filed measures to decriminalize psilocybin and all drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last year, the governor of Connecticut signed legislation that includes language requiring the state to carry out a study into the therapeutic potential<\/a> of psilocybin mushrooms.<\/p>\n At the congressional level, bipartisan lawmakers sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) this month, urging that the agency allow terminally ill patients to use psilocybin<\/a> as an investigational treatment without the fear of federal prosecution.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, activists announced a major national partnership as the reform movement continues to spread in cities and states across the country.<\/p>\n Decriminalize Nature, which has been behind numerous successful psychedelics decriminalization campaigns at the local level, is teaming up with SSDP to push for drug policy reform.<\/p>\n \u201cA national alliance of these two organizations is a unique opportunity to tackle the harms of the drug war from all sides\u201d Myc Williams, SSDP board member and co-director of Decriminalize Nature Michigan, said<\/a> in a press release. \u201cWe are paving a path of unity that addresses both the injustices of current drug policy and provides accessible avenues for healing from the traumas that have occurred as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n Ortiz, the SSDP executive director, said that the groups are \u201cuniting today to build the power needed to correct the profit driven framing being forced on us by corporations and their countless lobbyists.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis alliance will pair youth leaders with community practitioners to ensure that decriminalization and reparations are the priority for the drug policy movement as we end the disastrous and malicious war on drugs,\u201d he said. \u201cWherever they have a lobbyist, we will have an organized community ready to meet them.\u201d<\/p>\n Climate Workforce Would Be Protected From Marijuana Employment Testing Under New Congressional Bill<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Photo elements courtesy of carlosemmaskype<\/a> and Apollo<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
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