New Jersey lawmakers have advanced a bill to provide regulated therapeutic access to psilocybin for adults with qualifying health conditions, with plans to continue to work toward enactment in the 2026 legislative session.
More than a year after the Assembly Health Committee first took up and amended the legislation—sponsored by Assemblymembers Herb Conaway (D), Clinton Calabrese (D) and Anthony Verrelli (D)—the panel reconvened on Monday, taking testimony and reporting it out favorably.
“We’re all broken in one way, shape or form,” Verrelli (D), one of the bill sponsors, said at Monday’s hearing. “This bill gives another option for people to heal and get better. And by getting them better, it gives them the opportunity to make their communities, their families and life in general better—to break that cycle of trauma, however it looks.”
The committee last year amended the legislation in a way that aligns in with a Senate version. To advocates’ disappointment, however, that meant removing provisions that would have more broadly legalized psilocybin for adult use.
Initially, the legislation was introduced in identical form to what lawmakers proposed in the 2024 session—a plan that included personal legalization provisions, which the recent amended versions takes out. Those components would have
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