California Bill To Legalize Psychedelics Possession And Facilitated Use Advances To Senate Floor After Skipping Committees

Marijuana Moment reports

Maybe Weiner’s bill has a chance on the floor?

 

A California bill to legalize the possession of certain psychedelics and facilitated use of the substances is heading to the Senate floor under an accelerated process that is allowing it to skip further committee consideration.

The legislation from Sen. Scott Wiener (D) cleared the Appropriations Committee without a hearing after the chairman invoked a rule to send it to the floor because it would have a negligible fiscal impact, the sponsor told Marijuana Moment on Monday.

The measure, which was previously approved by the Public Safety Committee in March, is a more narrowly tailored version of a bill that Wiener led last session that passed the Senate but was abandoned in the Assembly after members watered it down significantly.

SB 58 would legalize the “possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of” specific amounts of psilocybin, psilocyn, DMT, ibogaine and mescaline for personal or facilitated use. Notably, “synthetic” psychedelics like LSD and MDMA would not be legalized, unlike the provisions of the previous version of Wiener’s legislation.

Beside personal possession being legalized, the bill would also specifically provide for “group counseling and community-based healing” involving the entheogenic substances.

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California Bill To Legalize Psychedelics Possession And Facilitated Use Advances To Senate Floor After Skipping Committees

 

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