Voters in Denver, Colorado made their city the first in the U.S. to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms by approving a ballot measure on the issue on Tuesday. In Oakland, California, for example, advocates said last month that they've secured a City Council sponsor for a measure to decriminalize not only magic mushrooms but also plant-based psychedelics such as mescaline cacti, ayahuasca and ibogaine. Also in California, activists took an initial step last week toward drafting a ballot measure to decriminalize psilocybin statewide. He opposed marijuana legalization prior to the voters of his state enacting it via a 2012 ballot measure. Polling ahead of the vote was limited, with just one known survey from last year showing 45 percent of Denver voters in favor of psilocybin decriminalization and 35 percent against.

Source: Forbes May 08, 2019 22:18 UTC