Vermont’s House of Representatives has passed a bill that would create a psychedelic-assisted therapy working group to make recommendations on whether and how the state should regulate legal access to substances like psilocybin and MDMA.
House lawmakers passed the measure, S.114, on a voice vote Wednesday, a day after adopting an amendment discussed in an earlier committee hearing. That change directs the Vermont Psychological Association to collaborate with the state Department of Health to help staff and provide technical assistance to the working group.
The Senate, for its part, passed an earlier version of the legislation in March, but there have been a number of changes since the legislation landed in the House—so the measure will require a concurrence vote in the originating body before it can head to the governor’s desk.
In its current form, the proposal would not itself change the legal status of any substances. Rather, the eight-person task force would “review the latest research and evidence of the public health benefits and risks of clinical psychedelic assisted treatments” and “examine the laws and programs of other states that have authorized the use of psychedelics by health care providers in a therapeutic setting,” according to the latest
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