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Moms, not cops, are the biggest roadblock to California's new drug reform law * 1
    #28396049 - 07/15/23 06:54 AM (9 months, 30 days ago)

Moms, not cops, are the biggest roadblock to California's new drug reform law
July 15, 2023 - SFGATE

California is close to decriminalizing the use of drugs like magic mushrooms and mescaline, a historic move that would put the Golden State on the front lines of the global psychedelic reform movement. But a surprising roadblock in Sacramento could derail this latest drug reform law: moms.

A coalition led by a vocal group of mothers and other experts, calling themselves the California Coalition for Psychedelic Safety and Education, has quickly become the most vocal opponent of Senate Bill 58, a law that would legalize the use of some psychedelic drugs.

“These substances can lead people to very, very dark places, and it’s not unusual for people to have psychotic episodes,” Beth Parker, a lawyer and member of the coalition, told SFGATE.

The bill, proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, would decriminalize the use and possession of hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin mushrooms and mescaline.

If Wiener’s proposal becomes law, it would be a watershed moment for drug reform akin to California’s legalization of medical marijuana in 1996. California would become by far the largest state to remove criminal penalties for using psychedelic drugs like magic mushrooms, following the lead of Oregon and Colorado.

Wiener’s proposal comes as America at large reconsiders the use of psychedelic drugs. More than 60% of voters support the legal use of psychedelics as part of a newly regulated framework, according to a recent UC Berkeley poll, and the Food and Drug Administration is actively considering granting approval for the medical use of some psychedelics.

California is an early leader in this psychedelic reform movement, with four major cities, including San Francisco and Oakland, directing their law enforcement agencies to no longer enforce criminal laws against possessing small amounts of psychedelics and underground commercial sales of magic mushrooms happening across the state.

However, the California Coalition for Psychedelic Safety and Education is sounding the alarm that Wiener’s bill would have harmful consequences by expanding the use of these drugs without safeguards in place. Members say they do not oppose the idea of decriminalization but believe Wiener’s bill is a step too far, too fast.

Wiener said that the mom group has become even more effective at criticizing the law than the police groups, who also oppose the bill.

“There is law enforcement opposition, but it’s not aggressive opposition. It doesn’t seem to be a priority. I don’t want to speak for them — but they didn’t even show up to the hearing yesterday,” Wiener told SFGATE, referring to the July 11 meeting of the Assembly’s Committee on Health.

The bill passed the California Senate by a 21-16 vote in May and is now sitting in the state Assembly’s Appropriations Committee. If it moves forward, it could be headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for a signature before the end of the summer — but not if a group of California moms has its way.

‘Grief and sorrow’

Will Nash, a 21-year-old from the Bay Area, was just months away from graduating from Middlebury College in Vermont when he sat at home with a group of friends one Saturday night in March 2020. His mom, Kristin Nash, told SFGATE that Will and his friends had decided to take 2 grams of magic mushrooms that they had purchased in Oakland, where the substance is openly sold.

A few hours later, Will was dead.

Nash said her son had an adverse reaction to the drug and retreated to his room in a fit of psychosis. He reached for a jug of protein powder, believing it to be water, and poured the talcy substance into his mouth. The powder clogged his throat and entered his lungs, which caused him to suffocate.

“One thing I keep hearing from policymakers … is that these sorts of events are rare,” Nash said. “That’s sort of how advocates have been sweeping these stories to the side. But there are more and more of them … It’s sort of like, 'How many bodies need to pile up before we start taking this seriously?'”

The Coalition for Psychedelic Safety and Education includes several mothers who lost their sons under similar circumstances. At July 11’s Health Committee hearing, Lisa Hudson — another member of the coalition — told lawmakers about how her 16-year-old son had accidentally fallen to his death after taking psilocybin.

“Shane was a vibrant and ambitious young man, with a bright future ahead of him,” Hudson said. “But his experimentation with psychedelic drugs led to his untimely death. The grief and sorrow of losing my only child will stay with me forever, and I want to prevent other parents from experiencing the same pain.”

These types of tragic stories illustrate the thorny nature of psychedelic drugs. On one hand, these substances are surprisingly safe: Unlike alcohol or caffeine, there have been almost no reports of fatal overdoses on hallucinogenic drugs like magic mushrooms or DMT. And there’s growing evidence that some psychedelics can be used medically to treat mental disorders like severe depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.

But, as the moms’ stories represent, on rare occasions, people have been harmed after using psychedelic drugs. People have died by suicide while on psilocybin mushrooms or have attempted to kill themselves in the days following the use of the drug. These negative experiences occur in a small fraction of overall psychedelic drug users, according to multiple scientific studies.

Wiener’s bill

Wiener says he is sympathetic to the coalition’s concerns and admits that using psychedelics can have tragic outcomes like those experienced by members of the coalition, but he maintains that such instances are rare, and keeping these drugs illegal only makes them more dangerous.

“It’s a counter-productive strategy because when someone thinks that they’re doing something bad and criminal by having these drugs, they’re going to be less likely to seek out information from reliable sources because they think they’re going to get in trouble,” he said.

Wiener’s bill would remove criminal penalties for the use of psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, as well as DMT, the active drug in ayahuasca, ibogaine and mescaline. The proposed law would not apply to synthetic psychedelics like MDMA, the active compound in ecstasy, or LSD, commonly called acid.

The law would not legalize commercial sales of substances like magic mushrooms and DMT, but it would “make lawful” possessing, cultivating, harvesting, preparing, obtaining and transporting those drugs.

‘We’re pro safety’

Parker says her coalition supports decriminalization, just not the way Wiener is currently proposing it.

“We’re not opposed to psychedelics, and the decriminalization of psychedelics per se, but we’re pro-safety,” Parker said. “We’re very concerned about decriminalization without — at the same time — putting in place guardrails so that we won’t see further deaths and untoward consequences.”

Parker said the group ideally wants the legislature to create a task force to study the impacts of decriminalization before approving any bill. The group said if the legislature does move Wiener’s bill forward, it should include a sweeping public education campaign, specific psychedelics-based training for first responders, and a data collection system that would help experts better track and understand the health effects of the substances.

Nash said she thinks these safeguards, including better first responder training, could have saved her son.

“There were many moments where it could have gone a different way, and that’s why I want to tell this story,” she said. “All of the safety nets broke in the case of my son.”

‘This is part of human experience’

Wiener introduced a similar psychedelic decriminalization bill in 2021. That bill included synthetic drugs like MDMA and LSD, but it was heavily amended and eventually pared down to a simple study on psychedelic decriminalization. Even that stripped-down bill failed to become law.

This year’s attempt appears to have a better chance. It passed the Assembly’s Health Committee in a 9-2 vote July 11, with four members abstaining. The Legislature will reconvene from its summer recess on Aug. 14, which leaves the Assembly’s Appropriations Committee roughly three weeks to decide whether the bill should move to the full chamber for a floor vote.

There are still questions about whether the full Assembly will approve the law, and if Newsom would even sign the bill — he has yet to voice an opinion on the measure.

“A huge number of people are using psychedelics right now, and a huge number of people have been using psychedelics forever in cultures across the globe,” Wiener said. “This is part of human experience and human existence. The question for us is, should we be arresting, or threatening to arrest, people because they are using mushrooms or ayahuasca, or whatever the case may be? I think the answer is no.”

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Re: Moms, not cops, are the biggest roadblock to California's new drug reform law [Re: veggie]
    #28396162 - 07/15/23 09:07 AM (9 months, 30 days ago)

Very difficult to fight moms with dead picture of kids in frames. Its like there is no way you can win, the optics just look bad


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Re: Moms, not cops, are the biggest roadblock to California's new drug reform law [Re: viraldrome] * 2
    #28396309 - 07/15/23 10:51 AM (9 months, 29 days ago)

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viraldrome said:
Very difficult to fight moms with dead picture of kids in frames. Its like there is no way you can win, the optics just look bad




True, but ironic because none of these moms could actually produce a picture frame of someone who took mushrooms. Suicides from mushrooms are a very rare thing, and in such cases the person already has that ideation and already wanted to, so the mushrooms are never the sole cause.

The kids in picture frames usually die from fenatnyl these days. Mushrooms will help reduce the desire for them to use fenatnyl, if anything, potentially saving their life. Moms with drug-addicted kids should be pushing for this bill more than anyone. These drugs have some of the best safety profiles of any drug, and in the experience of many users serve as an aid to getting off more dangerous ones.

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