California lawmakers on Thursday narrowly approved a bill supported by veterans and criminal justice reform advocates to decriminalize the possession and personal use of a limited list of natural psychedelics, including “magic mushrooms.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom will now decide the fate of Senate Bill 58, which would remove criminal penalties for the possession and use of psilocybin and psilocin, the active ingredients in psychedelic mushrooms, mescaline and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, known as ayahuasca. The bill also would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to study the therapeutic use of psychedelics and submit a report with its findings and recommendations to the Legislature.
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We tried that already. For decades. And all we got was a disastrous war on drugs, millions of lives needlessly ruined, and the largest prison population on the planet.
Not all drugs are bad. There are some that are obviously terrible and ruin lives. There are also some that help with a wide variety of physical and mental health issues though.
Even if you’re just thinking all drugs are bad, dumping people in jail for drug use/possession doesn’t fix anything. Time and money would be better spent on rehabilitation in that scenario.
Decriminalizing possession helps keep people out of jail, opens the door for proper studies on effects, and can help people with chronic conditions. I have heard that microdosing shrooms is apparently helpful with treating depression. It would be nice to see more information on that.
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That’s interesting to read, thanks for sharing. I’m not particularly knowledgeable about the subject, I had just heard that about microdosing before.
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Fr, crazy that people still drink coffee/soda, and that we literally have “drug stores”. What a world we live in…
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You’re right. They absolutely need to ban coffee, tea, alcohol and tobacco. Can’t wait
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Backwards take, attempting to ban substance use is the driving reason behind international drug running organizatons buttfucking the US market.
Fuck that. I’d be miserable without coffee, Benadryl, acetaminophen, and especially paroxetine.
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As a 🦅Conservative®🦅, I must say I agree! Banning drugs was how we got around The 13th Amendment not letting us have slaves.
Sure, let’s ban every medicine, why not
Except this isn’t legalization and it’s still banned. Also who decides what drugs are bad and which are good?