The Board of Elections at Washington, DC, will hear the presentations on a proposed ballot measure to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms to decide whether the initiative can proceed to a city-wide vote.
The proposal seeks to make growing and selling psychedelics “among the lowest law enforcement priorities.” Specifically, it would apply to plants and fungus that contain ibogaine, mescaline, psilocybin and other chemicals. The authors of the proposals argued that psilocybin, a hallucinogen, has been shown to help with addiction, PTSD, depression and other mental health problems.
If approved by the board, the initiative will go to a DC-wide vote after a challenging period. Passing the vote would make DC the fourth city in the country to decriminalize the drug, joining Oakland and Santa Cruz in California as well as Denver.
The proposal was first laid out by DC Department of Energy and Environment budget officer Melissa Lavasani, who is also a spokeswoman for the advocacy group Decriminalize Nature DC, and originally was called the Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act of 2020. Lavasani told the Washington Post that she began micro-dosing on the hallucinogens in 2018 when she fell into a deep depression.
Lavasani said she doesn’t take these natural hallucinogens anymore but noted that the proposal can help ” getting people feeling comfortable enough to treat themselves.”
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