The Hazel Park, Michigan City Council has approved a resolution designating September as a month of awareness of the therapeutic potential of psychedelics—making it the second city to take the symbolic additional step after locally decriminalizing natural plants and fungi.
The measure, sponsored by Councilmember Luke Londo, passed without dissent at a meeting on Tuesday, officially putting “Entheogenic Plant and Fungi Awareness Month” on the city’s calendar. This comes about six months after Hazel Park lawmakers separately voted to make laws criminalizing psychedelics among the city’s lowest law enforcement priorities under a resolution championed by the same sponsor.
Life’s short.
Take mushrooms 🍄 and decriminalize nature.
— Luke Londo (@llondo) September 14, 2022
Michigan has stood out as especially active on the psychedelics reform front, with multiple cities, including Detroit, moving to deprioritize enforcement of laws against substances such as psilocybin and ayahuasca. Activists in the state also took steps to put psychedelics legalization on the statewide ballot this year—but they ultimately decided to delay the reform campaign and aim for 2024 instead.
The whereas section of the new Hazel Park resolution states that entheogenic plants and fungi have shown to be effective treatment options for a wide range
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