About a month after Colorado officials certified a historic psychedelics legalization measure for the statewide 2022 ballot, activists with a separate campaign conceded on Monday that “it is very unlikely” that they will qualify their alternative entheogen reform initiative.
While the Decriminalize Nature Colorado campaign still plans to turn in signatures they have collected to the secretary of state’s office, activists said that the prospects of ballot qualification are dim. Instead, they will be turning their attention to a new campaign meant to help organize advocacy for “legacy communities” that they say could be impacted by the other campaign’s already-certified measure.
Nicole Foerster, co-proponent of Initiative 61 and founder of Decriminalize Nature Boulder County, said at a press conference on that the campaign does “not have an official count” for the signatures that they’ve collected. “We are officially announcing right now that it is very unlikely that we will make it onto the ballot in 2022,” they said.
The measure would have simply removed criminal penalties for the possession, cultivation, gifting and delivery of entheogens such as psilocybin, ibogaine, mescaline and DMT by adults 21 and older.
Further, the initiative would have made it lawful to conduct psychedelics
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