California Activists Cleared To Collect Signatures For Psilocybin Legalization Ballot Initiative

California Activists Cleared To Collect Signatures For Psilocybin Legalization Ballot Initiative
California Activists Cleared To Collect Signatures For Psilocybin Legalization Ballot Initiative
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California activists are now cleared to begin collecting signatures for an initiative to legalize psilocybin mushrooms in the state.

On Thursday, the state attorney general’s office issued an official title and summary for the proposal, which advocates are aiming to place on the 2022 ballot. Decriminalize California, the group behind the initiative, has a steep task ahead of it to gather enough signatures to qualify—but they’ve been gearing up for the push.

The measure—titled the California Psilocybin Initiative—would allow the “personal, medical, therapeutic, religious, spiritual, and dietary use of Psilocybin Mushrooms” for adults 21 and older. Further, the initiative would allow for the cultivation, retail sale, social sharing and on-site consumption of the psychedelic.
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