A California campaign to put psilocybin legalization on the state’s November ballot says it did not secure enough signature to qualify in time for a deadline last week.
This is the third election cycle that Decriminalize California has made a play for the ballot, only to fall short amid what organizers say is a variety of complicating factors, including voter confusion over a failed legislative push for psychedelics decriminalization and separate reform campaigns also seeking to put their measures before voters.
In the end, the psilocybin campaign touted that its grassroots volunteers did secure a sizable collection of signatures, which they estimate to be 67 percent of what was required for ballot placement. However, the state did not formally verify the raw total of petitions so it’s not clear exactly how close to qualifying activists got this time around.
Ryan Munevar, campaign director of Decriminalize California, told Marijuana Moment in a phone interview that a future push is still possible, though he conceded that he feels “exhausted” after running the effort over multiple years, at points during a pandemic and always operating on a minimal budget for a statewide ballot campaign.
“As exhausting as this process has been, we’ve learned
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