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The original story is from Double Blind
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Breaking News: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics
Shelby Hartman
Sept. 21, 2020
Tonight (September 21), Ann Arbor became the third city in the United States to decriminalize all-naturally occurring psychedelic plants and fungi. The city follows in the footsteps of Oakland, which became the first city in the United States to pass a resolution like it, in June of last year—and Santa Cruz, which followed in January of this year.
The resolution, which was passed by Ann Arbor’s city council, does not legalize psychedelics, but, rather, makes them “the lowest law enforcement priority” and blocks city funds or resources from being used to investigate, detain, arrest, or prosecute people in the city for using “entheogenic plants.” (This includes plants and fungi, from psilocybin-containing mushrooms to san pedro and ayahuasca.) In addition to possession, the resolution makes planting, cultivating, purchasing, distributing and “engaging in practices with” these plants the lowest law enforcement priority. This means people in the city of Ann Arbor can now use naturally-occurring entheogens with relatively low risk, but that they remain illegal both in the city, state, and federally. The resolution also explicitly excludes the protection of “commercial sales or manufacturing of these plants and fungi, possessing or distributing these materials in schools, driving under the influence of these materials, or public disturbance.”
“Decriminalization of naturally occurring medicines is necessary for progress,” said one Ann Arbor city councilmember in a statement. “We can no longer turn a blind eye towards the wisdom of indigenous peoples, and the bounty the earth provides. I have been moved by the testimonies of those who have found profound relief from the use of entheogenic plants.”
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The resolution passed in Ann Arbor is a part of a much larger movement to decriminalize psychedelic plants and fungi across the United States. After a group called Decriminalize Nature successfully drafted and passed a decriminalization measure through Oakland’s city council last year, they started a campaign to assist people in other cities who were interested in doing the same thing. There’s now psychedelic activists in more than 100 cities and counties across the United States aiming to pass a resolution, similar to the ones passed in Oakland, Santa Cruz, and Ann Arbor. Activists in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Berkeley, in particular, have picked up quite a bit of momentum around their initiatives. D.C. residents will be deciding at the ballot box in November whether they want to decriminalize psychedelic plants in the nation’s capitol. share
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MLive.com story
Ann Arbor OKs move to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, plants
Updated Sep 22, 2020; Posted Sep 21, 2020
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Psilocybin mushrooms are seen in a grow room at the Procare farm in Hazerswoude, central Netherlands, on Aug. 3, 2007. (AP file photo) By Ryan Stanton | ryanstanton@mlive.com
ANN ARBOR, MI — Magic mushrooms and other psychedelic plants and fungi are now effectively decriminalized in Ann Arbor, at least in terms of city police enforcement priority.
City Council voted unanimously Monday night, Sept. 21, in favor of a resolution declaring it’s the city’s lowest law enforcement priority to investigate and arrest anyone for planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with or possessing entheogenic plants or plant compounds.
That includes ayahuasca, ibogaine, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin mushrooms and other substances with hallucinogenic properties deemed illegal under state and federal law.
Council also called upon the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office to cease prosecution of people involved in the use of entheogenic plants and plant compounds.
A grassroots group called Decriminalize Nature Ann Arbor, or DNA2, has been lobbying city officials to take up the issue.
Earlier this year, council members weren’t eager to sponsor the group’s proposal, but some said they’ve been swayed by arguments about medical and spiritual benefits of using psychedelics, including for mental health treatment.
Council Member Zachary Ackerman, D-3rd Ward, noted Johns Hopkins Medicine has launched a $17 million center dedicated to psychedelic and consciousness research, seeing what he called “the tremendous potential of these future medicines.”
Council Member Jack Eaton, D-4th Ward, compared the council’s move Monday night to the city’s efforts in the 1970s to decriminalize marijuana at the local level when it was still illegal under state and federal law.
The resolution does not authorize or enable the commission of any crimes, council members said, and any significant violation of state or federal law or any use of entheogenic plants that poses a threat to public health, safety and welfare still could result in city law enforcement involvement.
Council Member Anne Bannister, D-1st Ward, was credited by colleagues for bringing forward the proposal, with co-sponsorship by Jeff Hayner, D-1st Ward.
Council Members Kathy Griswold, D-2nd Ward, and Ali Ramlawi, D-5th Ward, joined as co-sponsors Monday night, followed by council’s 11-0 vote in favor.
The resolution defines “entheogenic plants” as the full spectrum of plants and fungi that contain indole amines, tryptamines and phenethylamines “that can benefit psychological and physical wellness, support and enhance religious and spiritual practices, and can reestablish human’s inalienable and direct relationship to nature.”
Psychedelic substances can be used to help address substance abuse problems, addiction, recidivism, trauma, post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, grief, cluster headaches and other debilitating conditions, the resolution states.
“The use of entheogenic plants, which can catalyze profound experiences of personal and spiritual growth, have been shown by scientific and clinical studies and traditional practices to be beneficial to the health and well-being of individuals and communities in addressing these conditions,” it states.
Practices with entheogenic plants have been sacred to human cultures for thousands of years, yet those seeking them today to improve their health and wellbeing have feared arrest and prosecution, the resolution states.
Denver became the first U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms last year, followed by Oakland and Santa Cruz in California, which decriminalized all entheogenic plants.
Advocates argue non-addictive psychedelics can, for example, provide a pathway out of opioid addiction.
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: sonoramo]
#26949683 - 09/22/20 04:15 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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YAY!!!
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26949936 - 09/22/20 06:58 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I feel like police would solve more murders if they weren't wasting so much time on stoners.
Laws need to change so police can solve ACTUAL crimes.
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: PsilyZee]
#26950550 - 09/23/20 06:29 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Very nice, Michigan! First non California City!!
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: polaritymind]
#26950625 - 09/23/20 07:54 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Legalize worldwide <3
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: sonoramo] 1
#26950992 - 09/23/20 12:26 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Glad to hear!
Decriminalizing nature is the way it should be done! Keep the plants in the hands of the people.
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In addition to possession, the resolution makes planting, cultivating, purchasing, distributing and “engaging in practices with” these plants the lowest law enforcement priority. This means people in the city of Ann Arbor can now use naturally-occurring entheogens with relatively low risk, but that they remain illegal both in the city, state, and federally. The resolution also explicitly excludes the protection of “commercial sales or manufacturing of these plants and fungi, possessing or distributing these materials in schools, driving under the influence of these materials, or public disturbance.”
Good! To me, this is the ideal way these plants should be "freed". I hope to never see these plants involved in commercial/corporate sales and become part of capitalism. I hope to never see a government agency that "regulates" these plants.
So as long as a human being is allowed to possess, grow, trade/gift, and consume these plants/fungi with out fear or threat of the "law"...Nothing else needs to be changed as far as I'm concerned.
I expect to see this happening in more municipalities across the nation in the near future.
Rather than trying to change and dismantle things from the top down/federal & state gov level, I see things like this within cities/counties is where the real changes & movement to free these plants are going to start and expand from.
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: openmind] 1
#26951020 - 09/23/20 12:51 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I completely agree!
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26951068 - 09/23/20 01:19 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have to look up annarbor but good news!
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: LosTresOjos]
#26951090 - 09/23/20 01:28 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's a notorious party place/college town.
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26951133 - 09/23/20 02:01 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well, if it could technically grow in your front yard, legalize it. Shit is like tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes. It was here long before us, SHUN IT WE MUST!!!!   
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: openmind]
#26951318 - 09/23/20 03:32 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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openmind said: ... I hope to never see these plants involved in commercial/corporate sales and become part of capitalism. I hope to never see a government agency that "regulates" these plants...
When you swim in a capitalist ocean, you're gonna get wet. If "natural" entheogens really take off, capitalism will respond by supplying ever easier-to-use home-grow kits. Or maybe by selling high-priced tickets for access to "pick your own" meadows and fields. Or maybe, and this has actually been done, they will use their psychic powers to help you "find" your lost mushrooms and cacti.
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: sonoramo]
#26951376 - 09/23/20 03:58 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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wow this is great news, now we should see a trend.
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: growmore]
#26952379 - 09/24/20 09:11 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is hype for Michigan. Fuck yeah
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: sonoramo]
#26952791 - 09/24/20 01:40 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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sonoramo said:
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openmind said: ... I hope to never see these plants involved in commercial/corporate sales and become part of capitalism. I hope to never see a government agency that "regulates" these plants...
When you swim in a capitalist ocean, you're gonna get wet. If "natural" entheogens really take off, capitalism will respond by supplying ever easier-to-use home-grow kits. Or maybe by selling high-priced tickets for access to "pick your own" meadows and fields. Or maybe, and this has actually been done, they will use their psychic powers to help you "find" your lost mushrooms and cacti.
I'm fine with things like grow kits being sold. I just don't want to see doses of active material or extracts being sold. I'm fine with mushroom grow kits, just don't want to see dried or fresh mushrooms packaged and labeled and taxed for sale. I'm fine with caapi plants or dried vines being sold, I don't want to see pre-mixed/pre-brewed bottles of ayahuasca being sold. I'm fine with cuttings of cactus being sold, I don't want to see mescaline crystals or cactus-tea reductions being sold. I'm fine with mimosa hostilis cuttings or even dried root bark being sold, I don't want to see "changa" or DMT crystals being packaged and sold.
I'm totally OK with there being stores where people can purchase seeds, cuttings, and entheogenic plants in their "whole" form (cactus cuttings, mimosa & acacia plants/seeds/cuttings, caapi vine, chacruna, iboga, salvia, etc etc etc). A place where people can purchase spore prints, substrate material, pre-made mushroom grow kits, etc. A place that offers "work shops" that teaches people how to grow mushrooms and other various entheogenic plants. A place that offers "discussions"/presentations centered around various aspects of the psychedelic experience.
I just don't want to ever see packaged doses of active material being sold, and taxed and regulated by some government agency.
Let the people grow their own...
And for folks that are unable to grow their own for various reasons (if someone is handicapped, or if they don't have the space to do so, etc etc)...allow "programs"/certain "groups" to provide entheogens to those that are in need free of charge. Just like in the days of "real" medical cannabis there were certain "groups"/programs that would provide cannabis to those that were in need of the herb that couldn't afford it and/or couldn't grow it themselves. (now with "legalization", that no longer happens and some people no longer have access to and/or can't afford their herb/medicine, many of those programs are now "illegal").
Most entheogens are incredibly cheap and easy to grow, it wouldn't take much for a small group of people to provide to those in their community that are in need (and free of charge).
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Re: Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics [Re: openmind]
#26955330 - 09/26/20 12:28 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm fine with things like grow kits being sold. I just don't want to see doses of active material or extracts being sold. I'm fine with mushroom grow kits, just don't want to see dried or fresh mushrooms packaged and labeled and taxed for sale. I'm fine with caapi plants or dried vines being sold, I don't want to see pre-mixed/pre-brewed bottles of ayahuasca being sold. I'm fine with cuttings of cactus being sold, I don't want to see mescaline crystals or cactus-tea reductions being sold. I'm fine with mimosa hostilis cuttings or even dried root bark being sold, I don't want to see "changa" or DMT crystals being packaged and sold.
This is very similar to the movement of eating real whole foods versus the processed foods that are freaking awful for people in the long run. In general, as humans we need to be eating foods that are as unprocessed by the commercial food industry as possible. Hell, raw organic milk is a lot healthier for people, but its illegal in most states to sell to people.
I definitely agree with you openmind, but at the same time I know a lot of corporations are still going to try to sell overly processed versions of psychedelics. But I have a feeling that more and more people will want the natural thing, just as more and more people are aware of what a good diet is now. So there's hope.
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