Massachusetts voters will have a chance to decide on a measure to legalize psychedelics on the November ballot, state officials have announced.
Last week, the campaign behind the initiative turned in a final batch of signatures to qualify the proposal after lawmakers declined to enact the reform legislatively. On Wednesday, Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin certified that that activists collected more than enough valid petitions for the proposal to go before voters.
After previously turning in an initial round of signatures that forced legislators to consider the reform, and they declined to advance it, the campaign Massachusetts for Mental Health Options (MMHO) has submitted another 14,000 signatures to secure ballot placement.
Of those, 13,073 were valid, Galvin announced.
“The support from Massachusetts residents has been overwhelming, we are thrilled to be on the ballot this year,” Emily Oneschuk, a veteran and grassroots outreach director for MMHO, said in a press release last week. “Massachusetts veterans have been advocating for this type of care for years, it’s time to make it accessible and affordable for them and other struggling Massachusetts residents.”
This comes about a month after the legislature’s Special Joint Committee on Ballot Initiatives issued a majority report
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