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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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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

As the article mentioned, recreational sales is still illegal. You’re just not going to jail if you’re over 21 and get caught with few caps on you. It also kicks off some efforts to study the drugs for therapy.

It’s also following in the footsteps of major CA metros who have been piloting this for a while.

[-] Rootiest@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If California is anything like Massachusetts then it's a bit more complicated.

Over there several towns and cities have decriminalized and it's on the state ballot much like California, but cannabis dispensaries in those towns and cities are already "gifting" mushroom chocolates and such to customers.

The law says they can't sell it yet but they still manage to get it into the hands of paying customers

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Well it only makes sense when an upstanding adult donates to the shop that they receive a going home gift.

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