{"id":183882,"date":"2021-02-19T21:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/california-bill-would-decriminalize-psychedelic-drugs-like-acid-and-magic-mushrooms\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T21:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:22:58","slug":"california-bill-would-decriminalize-psychedelic-drugs-like-acid-and-magic-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/california-bill-would-decriminalize-psychedelic-drugs-like-acid-and-magic-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"#California bill would decriminalize psychedelic drugs like acid and magic mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#California bill would decriminalize psychedelic drugs like acid and magic mushrooms<\/strong>”
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A bill was introduced in\u00a0California\u00a0Thursday that would\u00a0decriminalize the personal use of psychedelic\u00a0drugs\u00a0like psilocybin mushrooms, MDMA, LSD, ketamine, DMT, mescaline and ibogaine for all Californians over the age of 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It comes on the heels of\u00a0Oregon\u2019s blockbuster drug decriminalization bill<\/a>, which just went into effect earlier this month and aims to replace incarceration with a $100 fine and addiction counseling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Multiples cities have also decriminalized psychedelic drugs recently, including Oakland, Santa Cruz, Washington, DC, Ann Arbor and Denver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Under\u00a0the bill<\/a>\u00a0introduced Thursday by California State Senator Scott Weiner, a Democrat who represents parts of\u00a0San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County, possession of psychedelic drugs by people under 21 and possession on school grounds would still be illegal.\u00a0Previous convictions for possession of these drugs would\u00a0be expunged under the legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wiener\u2019s bill would also create a commission tasked with regulating the legal and therapeutic use of these drugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There has been a flurry of research into the potential therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs to treat depression, drug addiction, PTSD and a range of other\u00a0mental health\u00a0afflictions in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A\u00a02016 study<\/a>\u00a0in the Journal of Psychopharmacology found that a single dose of psilocybin mushrooms \u201cproduced substantial and enduring decreases in depressed mood and anxiety\u2026 in patients with a life-threatening cancer diagnosis.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than half, 54.2 percent, of participants with PTSD in a\u00a02019\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0no longer qualified as having PTSD after two doses of MDMA. The FDA classified MDMA as a \u201cbreakthrough therapy\u201d in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bill is co-sponsored by two veterans groups, Heroic Hearts Project and Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions, which work to provide veterans with effective mental health treatments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin have also shown promise in treating alcoholism, according to a\u00a02019 survey<\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0Journal of Psychopharmacology<\/p>\n

Weiner said he hopes this potential for\u00a0therapeutic benefits of psychedelics is what unites people on the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether you\u2019re living in\u00a0San Francisco\u00a0or you\u2019re living in rural Ohio, we all \u2014 every single one of us \u2014 have\u00a0experience with mental health and\u00a0addiction\u00a0trauma in our communities,\u201d Weiner told Fox News<\/a>. \u201cThe mental health and addiction crisis in this country is everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wiener also framed the bill as\u00a0\u201cpart of the larger<\/a>\u00a0movement to end the racist War on Drugs,\u201d which he described as\u00a0\u201ca failed set of racist policies starting in the early 20th century and accelerating in the 1970s and 1980s, established under the guise of addressing addiction and drug dealing.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is some evidence of racial disparities in the enforcement of drug laws. For instance, despite the fact that Black Americans and White Americans use marijuana at the same rate, Black people are 3.64 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than White people, according to an\u00a0American Civil Liberties Union report<\/a>\u00a0last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the push for decriminalization by some lawmakers, many Americans bristle at the idea of decriminalizing drugs like LSD and MDMA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Oregon voters were considering the state\u2019s drug decriminalization bill last year, two dozen district attorneys urged against it, saying it \u201crecklessly decriminalizes possession of the most dangerous types of drugs (and) will lead to an increase in acceptability of dangerous drugs.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#California bill would decriminalize psychedelic drugs like acid and magic mushrooms” A bill was introduced in\u00a0California\u00a0Thursday that would\u00a0decriminalize the personal use of psychedelic\u00a0drugs\u00a0like psilocybin mushrooms, MDMA, LSD, ketamine, DMT, mescaline and ibogaine for all Californians over the age of 21.\u00a0 It comes on the heels of\u00a0Oregon\u2019s blockbuster drug decriminalization bill, which just went into effect…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/psychedelic-mushrooms-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94145,13096,6864,71011,5047,70989,78765,8030,70579,70580],"class_list":["post-183882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-19-21","tag-california","tag-drugs","tag-experimental-drugs","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mushrooms","tag-oregon","tag-ptsd","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}