Lawmakers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, voted this week to adopt a resolution in support of decriminalizing the use, possession and noncommercial sharing of psychedelic plants and fungi. It’s the seventh municipality in the state to deprioritize arrests for entheogens.
The statement also calls on the county district attorney to cease prosecutions for psychedelics-related activity as well as for simple possession of all drugs. Further, it urges state lawmakers to amend a pending proposal that would legalize psychedelics in all of Massachusetts and could end up on the 2024 ballot.
The Provincetown Select Board passed the resolution on a 3–1 vote on Monday, with a fifth member of the board abstaining. The measure “requests that investigation and arrest of all adults for planting, cultivating, distributing, engaging in practices with and/or possessing psychedelic plants and fungi” be the town’s lowest law enforcement priority, according to a reading of the resolution by Boardmember Erik Borg before the vote.
It also “requests the use and possession of all controlled substances should be understood first and primarily as an issue of public health by all town entities” and asks that no municipal employee “use any town resources to assist in enforcement of laws criminalizing personal controlled
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