Local officials in King County, Washington have approved a resolution calling on police to make enforcement of laws against possession and personal cultivation of psychedelics among the “lowest” priorities and requesting that they not use funds to arrest or prosecute people for using substances such as psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, mescaline and ibogaine.
The Metropolitan King County Council on Tuesday voted 6-2 to pass the legislation requesting that “investigation, arrest, and prosecution of any persons twenty-one years old or older engaging in the limited, noncommercial cultivation and possession of naturally occurring entheogens for religious, spiritual or individual personal use be designated as among King County’s lowest criminal enforcement priorities.”
The measure, sponsored by Councilmembers Teresa Mosqueda and Rod Dembowski, says it “further requests that county funds or resources not be used for investigation, prosecution, or arrest of persons twenty-one years old or older possessing or using entheogenic plants or fungi for religious, spiritual, healing, or personal use practices.”
It additionally notes that the council supports “full decriminalization of the limited, personal, noncommercial use and possession of naturally occurring entheogens by persons twenty-one years old or older in nonpublic places at the state and federal level” and that members back “continued research
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