The legislation would amend existing state law by allowing the use of psilocybin for adults over the age of 21. The bill would establish an advisory board for the purposes of a 2-year program development period, ultimately leading to the licensing and regulation of psilocybin manufacturing and sales.
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The legislation would amend existing state law by allowing the use of psilocybin for medicinal and therapeutic purposes, including, but not limited to, the provision of physical, mental, or behavioral health care.
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A bill filed in the New York Assembly would legalize the personal possession and use of “magic mushrooms,” and ban state and local enforcement of the ongoing federal prohibition of the same. Passage would set the stage to nullify federal prohibition in practice and effect.
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the legislation would remove psilocybin from the state's list of control substances, in effect making it fully legal under state law for personal possession and consumption. Passage of the bill would also set up a state psilocybin advisory board within the Department of Public Health that would oversee a legal and regulatory structure to establish psilocybin service centers for treating patients and for the commercial production of psilocybin.
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Titled the "Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Services Act," the legislation would legalize the possession and distribution of up to 4 grams of psilocybin for adults 21 and over. The bill would also allow adults to cultivate mushrooms capable of producing psilocybin for personal use as long as they keep them away from minors.
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The legislation would legalize the “possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation" of prescribed amounts of natural psychedelic compounds including psilocybin, psilocyn, DMT, ibogaine and mescaline for personal or facilitated use."
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Colorado voters passed a ballot measure decriminalizing several naturally occurring psychedelic substances including “magic mushrooms” despite the ongoing federal prohibition of the same.
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Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution calling for the decriminalization of psychedelics including psilocybin and ayahuasca. While not legally binding, resolutions can serve as an important first step and build a foundation for further action in the future.
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Last year, SB519 cleared the Senate by a vote of 21-16. It has also passed the Assembly Public Safety and Health Committees. It's up for a final committee hearing and possible vote in early August.
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The proposed law would exempt people from criminal penalties for the possession, cultivation and delivery of plants and fungi that naturally produce DMT, ibogaine, mescaline, psilocybin and psilocin as long as the individual is not “receiving money or other valuable consideration for the entheogenic plant or fungus.”
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