Bipartisan Washington State lawmakers prefiled a Senate bill last week that would allow nonprofits to provide psilocybin services to clients 21 and older so long as the organizations “have an explicit goal of promoting wellness for and assisting military veterans or first responders.”
Sponsored by Sens. Jesse Salomon (D) and Ann Rivers (R), SB 5977 appears to build on the state’s limited psychedelics pilot program signed into law last year, which is also aimed at serving veterans and first responders, including law enforcement, firefighters, coroners, medical examiners and emergency medical personnel.
The new limited measure would require nonprofits to use psychedelics facilitators licensed “by the state of Oregon, or another state with with a state facilitator license and licensure requirements that meet or exceed the Oregon state requirements with regard to required training, background checks, and licensing examination.”
Participants, the bill says explicitly, must be “21 years of age or older and a military veteran or first responder.”
Certain safety precautions would also need to be taken under the bill. Providers would need to develop transportation plans for each participant, for example, and “make reasonable efforts to prevent participants from operating a motor vehicle at the conclusion of an administration
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