With less than two months before Colorado voters decide on a historic ballot initiative to legalize psychedelics for adults, a coalition of activists in Aspen is collecting signatures for a local measure to decriminalize entheogenic substances like psilocybin, ayahuasca and ibogaine.
The Right to Heal initiative is the brainchild of a working group that was formed last year after the Aspen City Council met to discuss possible psychedelics reform before ultimately deciding that more research was needed.
While local lawmakers declined to take action, advocates drew lessons from other cities across the U.S. that have decriminalized psychedelics and created their own ballot measure that was certified for signature gathering earlier this year. Now they need to submit at least 925 valid signatures from registered voters by October 8 to qualify for the city’s March 2023 election, unless a special election is called before then.
Under the proposal, the possession or therapeutic use of natural plant medicine—including ayahuasca, ibogaine, DMT, mescaline, psilocybin and psilocin—by adults 21 and older would be made among the city’s lowest law enforcement priorities.
With certain exceptions, “no department, agency, board, commission, officer or employee of the city shall use any city resources to assist in the
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