California lawmakers approve psychedelics decriminalization bill

California lawmakers approve psychedelics decriminalization bill

How do you make people forget about the homeless, the crime, the mentally ill and gangs running our streets, failed education, high taxes and racism from the government that matches the goals of the KKK?  You get them high on drugs, so they do not care.  That appears to be the strategy of the Sacramento Democrats.  They pushed through the legalization of marijuana—now a majority of high school and college student use the weed on a regular basis.  But, as we all know, pot is the entry level drug to get folks ready for the hard stuff—now the Democrats have legalized mind altering, brain frying drugs.

“California is on its way to becoming the third state in the country to decriminalize psychedelics after the state Assembly passed a bill that would allow adults 21 and older to possess and use small amounts of plant and mushroom psychedelics.

Senate Bill 58, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) in 2021, was passed in a 42-11 vote Wednesday and would make several naturally occurring psychedelic substances —including psilocybin and psilocin, the psychoactive ingredients in hallucinogenic mushrooms, dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and mescaline (excluding peyote) — legal within the state. “

The next step is the legalization of cocaine and heroin—to kill off the drug addicts.  California is a death State.


California lawmakers approve psychedelics decriminalization bill

BY TIAH SHEPHERD, The Hill, 09/07/23 https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4192350-california-lawmakers-approve-psychedelics-decriminalization-bill/

California is on its way to becoming the third state in the country to decriminalize psychedelics after the state Assembly passed a bill that would allow adults 21 and older to possess and use small amounts of plant and mushroom psychedelics.

Senate Bill 58, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) in 2021, was passed in a 42-11 vote Wednesday and would make several naturally occurring psychedelic substances —including psilocybin and psilocin, the psychoactive ingredients in hallucinogenic mushrooms, dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and mescaline (excluding peyote) — legal within the state. 

In addition to decriminalizing personal possession and cultivation, the bill also aims to establish “community-based healing” practices that promote group therapeutic use of psychedelics.  

In a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Wiener celebrated the legislation passing. The senator’s first attempt previously failed when an earlier version of the bill that also passed the Senate stalled out in the Assembly last year. 

“The Assembly just passed our psychedelics decriminalization bill (SB 58),” Wiener wrote. “It’s supported by veterans, 1st responders, and health professionals.”

Backers of the push to decriminalize psychedelic drugs have drawn attention to the promising mental health benefits offered by certain entheogenic plants and fungi. Preliminary data from The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research has shown psilocybin therapy can reduce major depressive disorder symptoms for up to a year. 

“California’s veterans, first responders, and others struggling with PTSD, depression, and addiction deserve access to these promising plant medicines,” Wiener said in a press release.

“We know these substances are not addictive, and they show tremendous promise in treating many of the most intractable conditions driving our nation’s mental health crisis. It’s time to stop criminalizing people who use psychedelics for healing or personal well-being.”

Meanwhile, recent surveys show there is growing nationwide support for reforming psychedelic drug use. According to the results of the first UC Berkeley Psychedelics Survey, 61 percent of registered voters support legalizing regulated therapeutic access to psychedelics, while nearly half said they were in favor of removing criminal penalties for personal use and possession.

The passage of S.B. 58 in California comes after two other states made history by enacting legislation to decriminalize psychedelics. In 2020, Oregon voters approved The Oregon Psilocybin Services Act, otherwise known as Measure 109, which was the first law in the U.S. to establish a regulatory framework for receiving psilocybin. Two years later, Colorado followed suit by legalizing five natural psychedelic substances. 

The bill will return to the Senate for approval before it makes its way to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). If Newsom signs it, S.B. 58 is set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.

2 thoughts on “California lawmakers approve psychedelics decriminalization bill

  1. Scott Wiener is at the forefront of every idiotic new bill destined to make life in our State WORSE. We already have hordes of drug addicts clogging our sidewalks. Let’s add high school and college students to the drug-infested streets, sitting there looking happy and seeing music drip down the walls. And some whose minds will not recover from a bad “trip.” Parents especially ought to be fighting this.
    Wiener should be standing on a podium in the digital town square, holding a book with the title of “Rules for Radicals” prominently visible, and brutally exposed as a man who is utterly drunk on power, who wants to make the State collapse into chaos and nihilism followed by a totalitarian and brutal control of the people. He is working hard to separate kids from their parents, private property owners from their property, and the State from the free market. Voters please, wake up!

  2. More of the insanity emitting from the insane asylum. I’m telling you now is the time to be reregistering Democrats to new Republicans. Take action!

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