California lawmakers approved a bill to decriminalize possession and personal use of certain natural psychedelics, including psilocybin, or magic mushrooms.

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.

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      2 years ago

      We tried that already. For decades. And all we got was a disastrous war on drugs, millions of lives needlessly ruined, and the largest prison population on the planet.

    • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
      141·
      2 years ago

      Fr, crazy that people still drink coffee/soda, and that we literally have “drug stores”. What a world we live in…

      /s

    • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      Backwards take, attempting to ban substance use is the driving reason behind international drug running organizatons buttfucking the US market.

    • jay9@lemmy.world
      131·
      2 years ago

      You’re right. They absolutely need to ban coffee, tea, alcohol and tobacco. Can’t wait

      /s

    • 601error@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Fuck that. I’d be miserable without coffee, Benadryl, acetaminophen, and especially paroxetine.

    • TruelyAConservative@kbin.social
      82·
      2 years ago

      Damn that sucks, its really disheartening to see drugs getting legalized when they should be banned

      As a 🦅Conservative®🦅, I must say I agree! Banning drugs was how we got around The 13th Amendment not letting us have slaves.

    • Syrc@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      A drug is any chemical substance that causes a change in an organism’s physiology or psychology when consumed.

      Sure, let’s ban every medicine, why not

    • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Except this isn’t legalization and it’s still banned. Also who decides what drugs are bad and which are good?