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Massachusetts Should Legalize Psychedelics To Support Veterans Struggling With Mental Health Issues, Lawmakers Say (Op-Ed)

“Mental health is worsening across the board, existing treatments are insufficient for many and delaying action comes at a heavy price.”

For too many veterans, the mental and emotional cost of their sacrifices is threatening to overwhelm them, even more than what they may face in combat, and even after they return home. Many people who’ve accessed the existing options feel trapped in an endless loop of suffering. They are taking a daily cocktail of pharmaceuticals and are participating in therapy without finding relief. Question 4 offers compassion and hope.

Passage of Question 4 would create a framework for therapeutic (not commercial) use of certain natural psychedelics, such as psilocybin, which is found in mushrooms, allowing veterans and others to legally access an alternative method of treatment that has shown enormous potential to treat post-traumatic stress, depression and other mental health ailments.

For American servicemembers, the

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