A Nevada Assembly committee has approved a Senate-passed bill that would create a new working group to study psychedelics and develop a plan to allow regulated access for therapeutic purposes.
The Assembly Health and Human Services Committee advanced the legislation from Sen. Rochelle Nguyen (D) in a voice vote on Friday, less than a week after it cleared the full Senate. It now heads to the floor, where members may take it up as early as this weekend before it’s potentially sent to the governor’s desk.
Nguyen told committee members that she first learned about the benefits of psychedelics from constituents who raised the issue with her.
“The people that come to you are not people that look like they’re out of a Woodstock video…but they are first responders,” she said. “They are firefighters, they are police officers, they are veterans and they are people that don’t traditionally fit the bill of someone that you would think of when we talk about mushrooms or psychedelics.”
Representatives of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the Nevada Sheriffs’ and Chiefs’ Association testified in support of the legislation before the Assembly panel.
“This is something that we need to
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