GreenhouseGreen
Well-Known Member
"California has moved a step closer to decriminalizing psychedelic drugs after legislation this week was advanced by the state Senate.
Introduced earlier this year, Senate Bill 519 would allow the possession and sharing of certain hallucinogenic substances such as magic mushrooms, MDMA, LSD, ketamine and ibogaine for those 21 years and older. Notably, however, the legislation does not decriminalize sales of such drugs.
In addition, the measure would create a task force through the California Department of Public Health that would study and produce recommendations on regulations of the newly decriminalized drugs to the state Legislature.
SB 519 was passed by a 21-16 vote.
While the legislation still needs to be OK’d by the California Assembly, one of the bill’s authors, state Sen. Scott Wiener, lauded its passage Tuesday by the legislative body."
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-moves-closer-to-decriminalizing-psychedelic-drugs/
"This bill would make lawful the possession for personal use, as described, and the social sharing, as defined, of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), ketamine, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substance on school grounds, or possession by, or sharing with, persons under 21 years of age."
"(a) The War on Drugs has entailed overwhelming financial and societal costs, and the policy behind it does not reflect a modern understanding of substance use nor does it accurately reflect the potential therapeutic benefits or harms of various substances.
(b) Criminalization has not deterred drug use, and has instead made drug use less safe. It has created an unregulated underground market in which difficult-to-verify dosages and the presence of adulterants, including fentanyl, make the illicit drug supply dangerous.
(c) Lack of honest drug education has laid the groundwork for decades of misinformation, stigma, and cultural appropriation, which have all contributed to increasing the dangers of drug use.
(d) Harm reduction tools including drug-checking kits, gas chromatography mass spectrometry machines, milligram scales, and capsules allow users to make more accurate, safer, evidence-based decisions about their personal use. Allowing such paraphernalia can increase public health and safety.
(e) Research is advancing to support the use of psychedelic compounds with psychotherapy to treat mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder.
(f) Measure 109 in Oregon, which passed in November 2020 with a 56 percent vote of the state population, will establish a regulated psilocybin therapy system in Oregon to provide people therapeutic access to psilocybin.
(g) Measure 110 in Oregon, which passed in November 2020 with a 58 percent vote of the state population, decriminalized the personal possession of all drugs, and almost 20 countries around the world including Portugal, Czech Republic, and Spain have expressly or effectively decriminalized the personal use of all substances.
(h) The City of Oakland and the City of Santa Cruz have both passed resolutions decriminalizing and deprioritizing the enforcement of the possession, use, and propagation of psychedelic plants and fungi. Since June 2019, the Cities of Ann Arbor, Michigan; Somerville, Massachusetts; and Cambridge, Massachusetts; have all decriminalized the possession, use, and propagation of psychedelic plants and fungi at the local level. Also, in 2020, Washington, D.C., passed Initiative 81 to decriminalize and deprioritize the possession and use of psychedelic plants and fungi with 76 percent voter approval.
(i) To responsibly transition away from criminalization, protect people who use or may use drugs, and avoid negative environmental or cultural impacts, it is necessary to review the full legal context in which these changes to the law are made, incorporate evidence-based policy, consult with experts, and maintain open discourse based in harm reduction, reciprocity, and human rights into the process of developing alternative regulatory systems.
(j) This act will allow for the noncommercial, personal use and sharing of specified controlled substances, including for the purposes of group counseling and community-based healing, or other related services.
(k) These changes in law will not affect any restrictions on the driving or operating a vehicle while impaired or an employer’s ability to restrict the use of controlled substance by its employees, or affect the legal standard for negligence.
(l) Peyote is specifically excluded from the list of substances to be decriminalized, and any cultivation, harvest, extraction, tincture or other product manufactured or derived therefrom, because of the nearly endangered status of the peyote plant and the special significance peyote holds in Native American spirituality. Section 11363 of the Health and Safety Code, which makes it a crime in California to cultivate, harvest, dry, or process any plant of the genus Lophophora, also known as Peyote, is not amended or repealed.
(m) The State of California fully respects and supports the continued Native American possession and use of peyote under federal law, 42 U.S.C. 1996a, understanding that Native Americans in the United States were persecuted and prosecuted for their ceremonial practices and use of peyote for more than a century and had to fight numerous legal and political battles to achieve the current protected status, and the enactment of this legislation does not intend to undermine explicitly or implicitly that status."
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB519
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First, a few cities relaxed on a few natural psychedelics. Then, Oregon relaxed on fucking everything. Now California is close to relaxing on shrooms, Mescaline, Ibogaine, DMT, E, L, and K.. It's coming.. We're on our way to undo-ing this fuckery we currently have.. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself but shit like this gets me kind of excited.
I'm not sure I had a point in making this post except to share this.
Introduced earlier this year, Senate Bill 519 would allow the possession and sharing of certain hallucinogenic substances such as magic mushrooms, MDMA, LSD, ketamine and ibogaine for those 21 years and older. Notably, however, the legislation does not decriminalize sales of such drugs.
In addition, the measure would create a task force through the California Department of Public Health that would study and produce recommendations on regulations of the newly decriminalized drugs to the state Legislature.
SB 519 was passed by a 21-16 vote.
While the legislation still needs to be OK’d by the California Assembly, one of the bill’s authors, state Sen. Scott Wiener, lauded its passage Tuesday by the legislative body."
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-moves-closer-to-decriminalizing-psychedelic-drugs/
"This bill would make lawful the possession for personal use, as described, and the social sharing, as defined, of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), ketamine, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substance on school grounds, or possession by, or sharing with, persons under 21 years of age."
"(a) The War on Drugs has entailed overwhelming financial and societal costs, and the policy behind it does not reflect a modern understanding of substance use nor does it accurately reflect the potential therapeutic benefits or harms of various substances.
(b) Criminalization has not deterred drug use, and has instead made drug use less safe. It has created an unregulated underground market in which difficult-to-verify dosages and the presence of adulterants, including fentanyl, make the illicit drug supply dangerous.
(c) Lack of honest drug education has laid the groundwork for decades of misinformation, stigma, and cultural appropriation, which have all contributed to increasing the dangers of drug use.
(d) Harm reduction tools including drug-checking kits, gas chromatography mass spectrometry machines, milligram scales, and capsules allow users to make more accurate, safer, evidence-based decisions about their personal use. Allowing such paraphernalia can increase public health and safety.
(e) Research is advancing to support the use of psychedelic compounds with psychotherapy to treat mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder.
(f) Measure 109 in Oregon, which passed in November 2020 with a 56 percent vote of the state population, will establish a regulated psilocybin therapy system in Oregon to provide people therapeutic access to psilocybin.
(g) Measure 110 in Oregon, which passed in November 2020 with a 58 percent vote of the state population, decriminalized the personal possession of all drugs, and almost 20 countries around the world including Portugal, Czech Republic, and Spain have expressly or effectively decriminalized the personal use of all substances.
(h) The City of Oakland and the City of Santa Cruz have both passed resolutions decriminalizing and deprioritizing the enforcement of the possession, use, and propagation of psychedelic plants and fungi. Since June 2019, the Cities of Ann Arbor, Michigan; Somerville, Massachusetts; and Cambridge, Massachusetts; have all decriminalized the possession, use, and propagation of psychedelic plants and fungi at the local level. Also, in 2020, Washington, D.C., passed Initiative 81 to decriminalize and deprioritize the possession and use of psychedelic plants and fungi with 76 percent voter approval.
(i) To responsibly transition away from criminalization, protect people who use or may use drugs, and avoid negative environmental or cultural impacts, it is necessary to review the full legal context in which these changes to the law are made, incorporate evidence-based policy, consult with experts, and maintain open discourse based in harm reduction, reciprocity, and human rights into the process of developing alternative regulatory systems.
(j) This act will allow for the noncommercial, personal use and sharing of specified controlled substances, including for the purposes of group counseling and community-based healing, or other related services.
(k) These changes in law will not affect any restrictions on the driving or operating a vehicle while impaired or an employer’s ability to restrict the use of controlled substance by its employees, or affect the legal standard for negligence.
(l) Peyote is specifically excluded from the list of substances to be decriminalized, and any cultivation, harvest, extraction, tincture or other product manufactured or derived therefrom, because of the nearly endangered status of the peyote plant and the special significance peyote holds in Native American spirituality. Section 11363 of the Health and Safety Code, which makes it a crime in California to cultivate, harvest, dry, or process any plant of the genus Lophophora, also known as Peyote, is not amended or repealed.
(m) The State of California fully respects and supports the continued Native American possession and use of peyote under federal law, 42 U.S.C. 1996a, understanding that Native Americans in the United States were persecuted and prosecuted for their ceremonial practices and use of peyote for more than a century and had to fight numerous legal and political battles to achieve the current protected status, and the enactment of this legislation does not intend to undermine explicitly or implicitly that status."
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB519
.
First, a few cities relaxed on a few natural psychedelics. Then, Oregon relaxed on fucking everything. Now California is close to relaxing on shrooms, Mescaline, Ibogaine, DMT, E, L, and K.. It's coming.. We're on our way to undo-ing this fuckery we currently have.. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself but shit like this gets me kind of excited.
I'm not sure I had a point in making this post except to share this.
