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junio 30, 2020
It’s not a hallucination — Oregon is now one step nearer to changing into the primary state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms.
Organizers say they’ve obtained over 164,000 signatures on Initiative Petition #34, which might legalize psilocybin — the energetic compound in psychedelic mushrooms — for therapeutic use.
This qualifies the measure to go on the poll in November, although the petitioners must wait till mid-July for affirmation that the measure will seem on this 12 months’s poll, according to the Oregonian.
Psilocybin is discovered in lots of species of mushrooms, however following the counterculture motion of the 1960s they’ve change into extra broadly referred to as “psychedelic” or “magic” mushrooms.
Current research have discovered promising outcomes for medical and therapeutic utilization of psilocybin. Based on IP 34’s website, “it’s uniquely efficient in treating despair, end-of-life anxiousness, and habit. A current research from NYU confirmed that psilocybin remedy decreased despair and anxiousness with most cancers sufferers with 80 p.c of sufferers, with few unintended effects.”
Other researchers have noted that psilocybin has helped sufferers combating habit to different substances like cigarettes.
If the measure passes in November, Oregon would change into the primary state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms, that are presently thought of a Schedule 1 narcotic by the Drug Enforcement Company.
Denver turned the primary metropolis to decriminalize the mushrooms in Could 2019, and was adopted shortly by Oakland, California, in June 2019 and Santa Cruz, California, in January 2020.
Oregon’s initiative was pushed by Sheri and Tom Eckert, two counselors who began the Oregon Psilocybin Society in 2017. The Eckerts hope to market an entire vary of “Psilocybin Companies” to sufferers sooner or later, in response to the Oregonian.
The Eckerts’ marketing campaign additionally acquired a significant increase from a $1 million donation from Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, an natural cleaning soap firm from San Diego.
The poll measure does place restrictions on the usage of the drug. It might arrange licensing necessities for psilocybin remedy suppliers and psilocybin farmers. It additionally restricts use to licensed remedy facilities, and requires sufferers undergo a “three-step remedy course of” earlier than therapy.
People would nonetheless not be allowed to develop or eat psychedelic mushrooms of their houses.
