{"id":23320,"date":"2020-07-08T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/congressman-vows-vote-to-stop-dc-from-allowing-psychedelics\/"},"modified":"2020-07-08T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T17:13:00","slug":"congressman-vows-vote-to-stop-dc-from-allowing-psychedelics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/congressman-vows-vote-to-stop-dc-from-allowing-psychedelics\/","title":{"rendered":"#Congressman vows vote to stop DC from allowing psychedelics"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Congressman vows vote to stop DC from allowing psychedelics<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 8, 2020 |<\/span> 1:13pm |<\/span> Updated July 8, 2020 | 1:27pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris says Washington, DC won\u2019t decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, cacti and plants on his watch.<\/p>\n

Harris told The Post he\u2019s app<\/a>alled that drug reform activists submitted on Monday what they say is enough signatures to get an initiative on the November ballot making natural hallucinogens the lowest law enforcement priority.<\/p>\n

Harris said he will force a House Appropriations Committee vote next week to stop it, using the power of Congress over DC\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a bald-faced attempt to just make these very serious, very potent, very dangerous \u2014 both short term and long term \u2014 hallucinogenic drugs broadly available,\u201d Harris said in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic health has to be maintained. We know of course, once you make it a very low enforcement level and encourage prosecutors not to prosecute it, what would prevent people from using hallucinogens, getting behind the wheel of a car and killing people?\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris plans to force a vote on a budget rider to a financial services bill due for markup. Committee Chairwoman Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to a request for comment, nor did Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC).<\/p>\n

House Democrats last month voted overwhelmingly to make DC a state, and Harris admits that the statehood issue may cut against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Democrats may say, \u2018DC residents, if this is what they want, this is what they should get\u2019,\u201d Harris said. \u201c[But] I think there\u2019s probably a lot of Democrats who draw a very distinct line between potent hallucinogens and marijuana. And whereas the majority may support recreational use of marijuana, I doubt the majority supports the broad use of these potent hallucinogens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris, an anesthesiologist and top pharmaceutical industry donation recipient, represents Maryland\u2019s eastern shore and has battled local drug reform activists for years. After 65 percent of DC residents voted in 2014 to legalize marijuana, he wrote a budget rider that\u2019s still in effect preventing DC from regulating recreational pot stores.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 top donors, according to nonprofit, nonpartisan research group Open Secrets, are Emergent BioSolutions and US Anesthesia Partners.<\/p>\n

DC activist Adam Eidinger, who led the marijuana campaign and is working on the psychedelics initiative, fired back at Harris and predicted he will fail.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndy Harris needs to shut up \u2014 you can quote me on that. He needs to listen to what the people are saying and then make the policy. And he has a history of being a big mouth who doesn\u2019t listen,\u201d Eidinger said. \u201cAndy Harris is riding our coattails. He is trying to get in the news<\/a> media as a hater of drug policy reform and nothing more. He has no viable way of stopping this ballot initiative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Eidinger said \u201cthere would be hell to pay\u201d for Democrats if they back Harris.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s not going to happen. We are Democrats and they are not going to stop us from having an election here to determine an important policing policy,\u201d Eidinger said.<\/p>\n

The psychedelics initiative is among the first in the US. Denver residents narrowly approved a similar measure last year. In November, Oregon voters will consider a ballot measure on therapeutic use of the drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wider drug war needs to end. And this is the next step in doing that,\u201d Eidinger said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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