However, some lawmakers say Wiener`s approach goes too far. Among the drugs it would legalize is ketamine, which law enforcement officials say is sometimes used to facilitate sexual assault. Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) knows this all too well. It is currently trying to pass Senate Bill 519, which would decriminalize the possession of psychedelic drugs such as dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine (psychedelic substance), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline (psychedelic hallucinogen), psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy, molly). Other drugs such as ketamine were also present at one point, but their resistance forced them off the decriminalization list. Legislation to decriminalize certain psychedelic drugs such as “magic mushrooms,” MDMA and LSD was debunked by the California legislature on Thursday, though the legislature that backed the bill promised to reintroduce the measure next year. And this was due to Proposition 215 in 1996. California was the first state to allow medical marijuana, and in the early 2000s, seven other states, mostly Western states except Maine, were influenced by California to adopt their own. Despite a botched attempt to decriminalize it in 1972, California was a leader in drug legalization. But California quickly lost that distinction. As the 2000s progressed, some laws further toned down marijuana prosecutions.
But the movement suffered a blow in 2010 when Prop 19, which would legalize legalized recreational marijuana, failed. Instead, Washington and Colorado were the first states to legalize it for recreational use in 2012. The debate comes five years after California voters legalized cannabis and a year after Oregon voters legalized the use of psychedelic mushrooms in a therapeutic setting and decriminalized the possession of small amounts of all drugs. As part of a growing movement to fight drugs, California law would mean that a psychedelic trip would not lead to a trip to the police station. “When someone uses, the best way to deal with it is not to give them a crime or misdemeanor,” said Johnson, who teaches psychiatry and behavioral sciences. “I support the decriminalization of drugs in general, but that doesn`t mean I want to encourage their use.” “When people use psychedelics, it`s best for them to use them with someone else, because even though people use these drugs most of the time safely, anyone can have a bad reaction to any type of drug, legal or illegal,” he said. The bill, Senate Bill 519 — drafted by Sen. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco) — would legalize the possession of certain amounts of psychedelic drugs, including DMT and psilocybin mushrooms. August 11: Amid a last-minute vote on a powerful committee, a bill to legalize the possession of certain psychedelic drugs is introduced in the California State Assembly.
Denver launched the new trend of decriminalizing psilocybin “magic” mushrooms in 2019, with Oregon becoming the first state to do so successfully in 2020. In fact, they have decriminalized most recreational drugs, from heroin to cocaine. And here`s a strange problem that has resurfaced in California; Lawmakers don`t want to fall behind, as they did when they legalized marijuana, but they also know that Golden State voters sometimes avoid drug problems. They haven`t voted for drug advance laws in the past, even in their recent “Deep Blue” phase, and like David Bowie`s albums from the late `70s or the Chargers moving to Los Angeles just because you`re trying to say it`s good, that doesn`t mean people will buy it. The legalization movement that brought high-end marijuana stores to Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco is now focusing on psychedelic drugs. A voter initiative to decriminalize magic mushrooms was recently approved to collect signatures, and a bill is expected to be considered next year. The use of certain psychedelic drugs has been decriminalized in Washington, D.C., and Oregon, as well as in Santa Cruz and Oakland. Let`s go back to this D.A.R.E.class in the suburbs of Cleveland at the time of the Florida narrative, they were always vague about other drugs. Everyone knew what Pot was and, haha, californian jokes. But teaching other drugs that marijuana was supposed to be a door too was a mystery. In fact, we had to replace a D.A.R.E.
officer in the middle of the year after he told us what mushrooms and peyote could do to you. Many of us had apparently written stories about them as part of a mission in which they said nothing was wrong with them. Other things, like heroin, cocaine, crack, ecstasy – it was simply written as “don`t do it”, with no context or explanation as to why they were bad, except “they are addictive”. I thought it was just my school or a Catholic school, but when I talked to others who went to school in California, as well as in other states in D.A.R.E. classes, it was largely the same thing. Marijuana was that entry drug, but other things were a mystery. Most of the time, we didn`t even know what other drugs looked like. Californians have a habit of cutting drug bills when people think it`s going to happen, and then passing them on almost after the fact.