New Hampshire lawmakers on Wednesday took up a pair of bipartisan bills to legalize the regulated use of psilocybin for medical purposes.
At a hearing before the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee, members heard public testimony on the proposals: HB 1809 from Rep. Buzz Scherr (D) and HB 1796 from Rep. Michael Moffett (R).
Both measures seek to create a regulatory pathway for patients with certain conditions to access the psychedelic for therapeutic use through a program overseen by the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). But Moffett’s legislation is more prescriptive about the proposed regulatory framework.
“I am an unlikely prime sponsor for a measure such as this,” Moffett told fellow lawmakers at the hearing, saying he’s “always been very wary and skeptical of” psychedelics and has “always been a hard no on marijuana for many reasons, to include the fact that I was constantly drug tested myself for many years in the Marine Corps, where I developed a zero tolerance for illegal drug use.”
He said that he changed his mid after seeing a presentation on psychedelic therapies at a national veterans conference last summer, where he learned that “a psilocybin treatment option
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