The Massachusetts attorney general’s office has determined that a pair of 2024 psychedelics legalization ballot initiatives have met state constitutional requirements, and it’s now releasing final summaries of the measures and allowing activists to begin collecting signatures to qualify them to go before voters next year.
In a press release on Wednesday, the office said that it vetted 42 initiative petitions and approved 34 of them, including that psychedelics reform measures that were first submitted to the state last month.
The proposals from the Massachusetts for Mental Health Options campaign are nearly identical, except that one would give adults a home grow option and the other would not. Accordingly, the final summaries largely mirror each other with that one policy distinction.
“We appreciate the Attorney General’s decision to certify both of our petitions,” the campaign said in a statement shared with Marijuana Moment on Wednesday. “We believe that Massachusetts voters should have the opportunity to expand mental health access to natural psychedelics.”
“Research from top health care organizations like Johns Hopkins and Harvard Medical School show promising results that natural psychedelics can be successful in treating anxiety, depression and PTSD. In particular, we know veterans and first responders who suffer
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