A California Assembly committee has approved a Senate-passed bill to legalize the possession and facilitated use of certain psychedelics.
The Assembly Public Safety Committee advanced the legislation from Sen. Scott Wiener (D) in a 5-2 vote, with amendments, on Tuesday—about one month after it was approved by the full Senate. It now heads to the Assembly Health Committee before potentially moving to the floor.
“These substances have significant healing potential, and there’s growing research showing that potential,” Wiener said in opening remarks. “Had the war on drugs not started in the 60s and 70s, we would probably be in a dramatically more advanced state around psychedelics—but the war on drugs, which criminalizes possession and use among other things, shut everything down and we lost 40 or 50 years as a result. We’re trying to reverse some of that damage.”
“Let’s stop arresting people for possessing and using,” he said. “And then we can build from there.”
The Assembly Public Safety Committee just passed our legislation to decriminalize possession & use of plant/mushroom-based psychedelics, SB 58.
Thank you to my colleagues & also to the combat veterans who’ve benefited from psychedelics & are driving this important bill.
— Senator Scott
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