An Arizona House panel has approved a Senate-passed bill to legalize psilocybin service centers where people could receive the psychedelic in a medically supervised setting.
The House Health & Human Services Committee advanced the legislation from from Sen. T. J. Shope (R) in an 8-2 vote on Monday, a move that comes less than two weeks after the measure cleared the full Senate.
If enacted into law, the Department of Human Services (DHS) would be authorized to license psilocybin-assisted therapy centers in the state, where trained facilitators could administer the psychedelic.
The legislation would significantly expand on Arizona’s existing research-focused psychedelics law that provides $5 million in annual funding to support studies into psilocybin therapy.
Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy and the Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation, testified at the hearing about his experience with post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing multiple disturbing events during his military combat service—and the transformative therapeutic effects of taking psychedelics including psilocybin and LSD years later.
“I was a different person. I was a completely different person,” he said. “People that knew me could not believe that change.”
Dale Crogan, a firefighter at Mesa Fire who works in peer support with first responders, said the
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