Newsom vetoes bill to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms

[YoshidaYui]

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Friday that would have decriminalized psilocybin, aka magic mushrooms — but left the door open for California to reconsider it next year.

Newsom, in his veto message, said the measure proposed by San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would have decriminalized possession before therapeutic protections are in place.

“California should immediately begin work to set up regulated treatment guidelines — replete with dosing information, therapeutic guidelines, rules to

prevent against exploitation during guided treatments, and medical clearance of no underlying psychoses,” he said.

Wiener’s bill would have decriminalized possession of psilocybin for personal use. That means it would still be illegal to sell it. It also would have orderedthe California Health and Human Services Agency to create a work group to “study and make recommendations” on how psychedelics could be used for therapeutic use and present its findings to the Legislature by the end of 2024.

Wiener called Newsom’s veto “a setback for the huge number of Californians — including combat veterans and first responders — who are safely using and benefiting from these non-addictive substances and who will now continue to be classified as criminals under California law.”



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