A wide range of psychedelics such as psilocybin and ayahuasca are now officially the lowest local law enforcement in the nation’s capital as of Monday.
That’s the result of a ballot measure that Washington, D.C. voters approved in November to decriminalize plant- and fungi-based entheogens.
But some activists who were behind the voter initiative aren’t stopping now that their initial policy reform has gone into effect. The Plant Medicine Coalition (PMC) is now pushing the District Council to enact additional legislation to provide worker and child protections related to the use of plant- and fungi-based substances.
And they’re asking the city to issue guidance to law enforcement about the implications of the new current policy.
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D.C. Psychedelics Decriminalization Initiative Officially Takes Effect
Growing psychedelic mushrooms by Talakay Pakay is licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)