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    #28396626 - 07/15/23 03:13 PM (9 months, 29 days ago)

City of West Hollywood to Host a Free Community Educational Forum about the Possible State-Level Decriminalization of Mushrooms (Psilocybin) and Certain Hallucinogenic Drugs


July 13, 2023 3:16 PM
From the City of West Hollywood's official website.

[Not part of the article, but worth noting that decrimca.org is now gathering signatures for the 2024 California initiative. If that initiative gets on the ballot and passes, California will legalize possession without limits, commercial production and retail sales of psilocybin mushrooms.]

The City of West Hollywood will host a free Community Educational Forum about the possible state-level decriminalization of mushrooms (Psilocybin) and certain hallucinogenic drugs. The Forum will feature a moderated panel discussion with experts in mental health, legislation, and drug policy reform.

The Community Educational Forum will take place on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. at the City of West Hollywood’s Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard. The event is free and open to the public; no advance RSVP is required. There will be limited validated parking available in the adjacent Five-Story West Hollywood Park structure.

The Forum will also be available for viewing on WeHoTV. Broadcast will be provided in West Hollywood on Spectrum Channel 10; the Forum will be streamed on the City’s WeHoTV YouTube channel and on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Roku streaming platforms by searching for “WeHoTV” using search functions.

“Psilocybin has proven to have a number of positive effects to help the brain to ease depression, anxiety, and much more,” said City of West Hollywood Mayor Pro Tempore John M. Erickson. “This forum will highlight these positive impacts, look at new policies that can be implemented to help at the local, statewide, and federal levels, and – much like West Hollywood did prior to the legalization of cannabis – continue the City of West Hollywood’s longstanding tradition of being at the forefront of examining medicines and their future uses.”

Community Educational Forum panelists will include:

   
  • Eva Altobelli, M.D., Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology who specializes in psychedelic and addiction psychiatry, and founder & CEO of Home-LA, a clinician-run, transformational healing center committed to providing a safe and supportive environment, specializing in Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy, Pharmacology and Addiction Treatment.
  • Sgt. Terry Blevins, Board Member of Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP), a nonprofit including police, prosecutors, judges, corrections officials, and other law enforcement officials advocating for criminal justice and drug policy reforms that seek to make communities safer and more just.
  • Joshua Kappel, Esq., founding partner of Vicente LLP, where he has helped shaped cannabis and psychedelic policies while representing leading companies in these emerging fields. Kappel co-authored Colorado’s Natural Medicine Health Act ballot initiative, which was passed by the voters in 2022.


The panel discussion will be moderated by Jackie Subeck, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Hey Jackpot, a West Hollywood-based cannabis consulting firm with clients nationwide. Subeck played a role in the passage of 2016’s California Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, which legalized adult cannabis use in the state and has worked closely with cities including Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and West Hollywood to develop licensing and regulations that are fair, equitable, and inclusive of everyone. Subeck is also co-producer of this Community Educational Forum.

Psilocybin, commonly referred to as “magic mushrooms,” “mushrooms,” or “shrooms,” is a chemical obtained from certain types of fresh or dried mushrooms. Psilocybin is naturally occurring and is typically consumed for its hallucinogenic effects. It is part of a group of drugs known as psychedelics, which trigger changes in perception, mood, and thought.

Psilocybin, like some other psychedelics, has been used for centuries within certain indigenous cultures as a healing agent during rituals and religious ceremonies. In the 1950s and ’60s, there was some scientific research conducted into the benefits of psychedelics when administered in the context of psychotherapy. Political backlash and the onset of the government’s war on drugs in the 1970s forced much of this research to come to an end.

Modern research has reignited an interest in the use of psychedelics, including psilocybin, as an effective treatment for a broad range of health issues. It is believed that psilocybin has the potential to treat a range of psychiatric and behavioral disorders, including depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, smoking cessation and other addictions, cocaine addiction, and cancer-related or other end-of-life psychological distress.

Psilocybin, like cannabis, is a Schedule 1 substance under the 1970s federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This means that psilocybin is characterized by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” As a result, and like cannabis, its use is illegal under Federal law.

In 2019, Denver became the first city in the nation to pass an ordinance to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms for personal use. In 2020, voters in Oregon approved ballot measures to legalize and regulate psilocybin therapy and to decriminalize drug possession more broadly. Since then, voters in Oakland, California and Washington, D.C. have taken similar actions.

There have been attempts to bring similar decriminalization ballot measures forward in California. Decriminalize California is a group attempting to bring forward a state-level initiative in California. The effort failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for November 2022, but the group has said it will continue its efforts. On December 16, 2022, California State Senator Scott Wiener re-introduced a bill (SB 58, Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances) that would decriminalize the possession and personal use of certain psychedelic drugs. The following substances are included in SB 58: psilocybin, psilocyn, Dimethyltryptamine (“DMT”), mescaline (excluding peyote), and ibogaine. Prior, in 2021, Senator Wiener’s psychedelics decriminalization legislation (SB 519), passed the Senate and the two Assembly Committees but was held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

In August 2022, the West Hollywood City Council adopted a Resolution declaring offenses related to psilocybin mushrooms are a low enforcement priority. In the City of West Hollywood, the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station has not prioritized enforcing psilocybin mushroom-related offenses and there have been no recent arrests for these offenses locally.

For more information about the Community Educational Forum, please contact Hernan Molina, City of West Hollywood Governmental Affairs Liaison, at (323) 848-6364 or at hmolina@weho.org or. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496.

For up-to-date information about City of West Hollywood news and events, follow @wehocity on social media, sign-up for news updates at www.weho.org/email, and visit the City’s calendar of meetings and events at www.weho.org/calendar. West Hollywood City Hall is open for walk-in services at public counters or by appointment by visiting www.weho.org/appointments. City Hall services are accessible by phone at (323) 848-6400 and via website at www.weho.org. Receive text updates by texting “WeHo” to (323) 848-5000.

For reporters and members of the media seeking additional information about the City of West Hollywood, please contact the City of West Hollywood’s Public Information Officer, Sheri A. Lunn, at (323) 848-6391 or slunn@weho.org.

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Re: Educational Forum about the Possible State-Level Decriminalization of Mushrooms [Re: sonoramo] * 1
    #28396632 - 07/15/23 03:19 PM (9 months, 29 days ago)

I posted the article about the formu so I'd have an excuse to post an email I received from decrimca.org. You can get all the goodies linked in the email by visiting decrimca.org. Here's their email:

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California Psilocybin Initiative 2024 Signature Collection Begins Today!


Hello Troublemakers,


On May 10, 2023, we submitted our language for Title and Summary and received it yesterday, Friday, July 14th, 2023 at 5:31 p.m. meaning we have until January 10th, 2024 to submit at least 546,651 valid signatures.


The last two times we needed to submit 623,212 valid signatures but because of all the madness over the Gavin Newsom recall for once political apathy worked in our favor as roughly 2 million fewer voters turned out for the gubernatorial election saving us 76,561 valid signatures.


Now that the plague is over we can take advantage of all the summer festivals and fully activate our college teams for tabling days when they are back in session in late August and September.


However, the political climate is going to be even more insane this time around as we are facing an utterly surreal rematch of Biden vs Trump and the white noise from that is going to be epic as both parties continue to polarize the country.


All we have to do is stay focused, collect the signatures, and get it on the ballot.


If we do that we will win the majority of votes in the November 2024 election and it will become law.


After a long night of playing Tetris to fit the language on the initiative sheets we have the following two pdf versions:

-8.5x11 Single Spot Sheet

-11x17 Eleven Spot Sheet


You can download them and other helpful documents from our google drive folder: Volunteer Packet


The first signature you should get is your own so download, print, sign, and mail it in so we can start verifying them.


Also, I will personally be in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and Santa Rosa for at least one week each for the first two months as we get all the counties dialed in.


We are also looking for Volunteers to host more private potluck dinners to help grow their local communities so if you have a place that might work just let us know.


For those of you looking to become County Directors you will need to take a reading comprehension test of the California Psilocybin Initiative 2024 so start studying now.


Finally don’t forget to Sign-Up for our Discord to communicate with the other volunteers out there.


Good luck!



Peace,
-Ryan Munevar - Campaign Director/Los Angeles Team Director


ryan@decrimca.org


Linktr.ee/DecrimCA



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Re: Educational Forum about the Possible State-Level Decriminalization of Mushrooms [Re: sonoramo]
    #28396790 - 07/15/23 06:13 PM (9 months, 29 days ago)

CPI 2024 and SB 58 keep moving forward and it seems more likely that one or both of these will pass. :thumbup:

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Re: Educational Forum about the Possible State-Level Decriminalization of Mushrooms [Re: sonoramo]
    #28397039 - 07/15/23 11:54 PM (9 months, 29 days ago)

I support decrim/legalization of psilocybin/psilocin like what Denver has done.


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Re: Educational Forum about the Possible State-Level Decriminalization of Mushrooms [Re: sonoramo]
    #28519267 - 10/26/23 06:50 PM (6 months, 19 days ago)

Awsome info.  Joining their newslwtter promptly.  Thnx for the post.

I live in Vegas & u got me curious how close we are to that kind of enlightenment.  If at all, i have no clue.

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Re: Educational Forum about the Possible State-Level Decriminalization of Mushrooms [Re: AllDayJohn]
    #28519624 - 10/26/23 11:58 PM (6 months, 19 days ago)

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Awsome info.  Joining their newslwtter promptly.  Thnx for the post.

I live in Vegas & u got me curious how close we are to that kind of enlightenment.  If at all, i have no clue.




Three months have passed since the first post to this thread, yet it seems like an age ago! In California, a state decrim bill SB-58 made it through the legislature. SB-58 would have allowed possession and personal use of psilocybin, psilocin and DMT in moderate amounts, but Governor Newsom vetoed it. The fact that the bill made it as far as it did, and that it even picked up some support from Republicans, is still surprising.

I share your curiosity! In Oregon and Colorado, the path to decrim was by initiative. SB-58 demonstrated that, at least in California, legislation could succeed as well.

The OR initiative allows only Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms in state-licensed healing centers with insurance and all cost that brings. That's resulted in high costs. And it still isn't legal to grow and use your own medicine in your own house.

The CO initiative allows psilocybin home-grow, possession and personal use, with healing centers to follow.

The decrimca.org initiative in CA would legalize commercial sales, which goes even farther than SB-58. It is 22% to goal for signature gathering, and they only have until January 10 to get to 100% or it doesn't go on the ballot. I don't think it will make it onto the ballot and I don't think CA voters would pass it if it did. The governor and Big Pharma would come out against it.

Here are my personal confidence levels of what voters might support:

  • Licensed-only grow and medically supervised use or some kind of licensed therapy for people with PTSD and especially for veterans (Oregon model), 80% confidence.
  • Personal mushroom use for unsupervised medicinal use on a compassionate use basis, with physician recommendation and some kind of state limitation and control (like the 1996 CA medical cannabis initiative), 60% confidence.
  • Possession and home-grow (mushrooms, mescaline and DMT) for general personal use with some kind of license or state-issued "mushroom card," 50% confidence.
  • Make possession and home-grow for personal use plus giveaway legal without restriction, 40%.
  • Commercial availability of mushrooms (like decrimca.org initiative), 30%.


I listened to most of the testimony given before the legislature regarding SB-58. I think we need more motivating stories for decriminalization or legalization than what's on the table now. Right now, the selling points that resonate most seem to be:

  • We owe it to veterans with PTSD to let them have ayahuasca or mushrooms without leaving the USA.
  • Psychedelics can help alleviate suicidal ideation, but the experience needs supervision.
  • Hospice patients should be allowed to use whatever they want because soon they'll be dead anyway.
  • The state should be promoting psychedelic research and collecting data about efficacy and risks.
  • Mushrooms are already so available in CA that there's little point in keeping them criminalized (this is probably the weakest selling point)
  • Peyote should remain prohibited except for Native American Church members, to prevent poaching and extinction risk to Lophophora williamsii.


I've been surprised that cognitive freedom arguments or arguments about freedom to practice psychedelic religion don't seem to have much traction with most voters (except, of course, people who are already practitioners). The same people who think Christians should not have to pay for abortion care through insurance don't think psychedelic spirituality is legitimate. They seem to think it's the same thing as going on an alcohol bender.

Objections raised that seem to resonate for people who want to keep prohibition:

  • Mushrooms make you do crazy stuff that endangers other people (like the guy who tried to shut down engines on an airplane).
  • Kids will get them and get into trouble.
  • Too many people will "turn on, tune in and drop out." Just like in the 1960's.
  • Emergency rooms will be swamped with people having bad trips or psychic breaks.


Features or safeguards in an initiative or legislation that I think would make it more acceptable to general population of voters (but less acceptable to decrim supporters):

  • Possession limits by weight of medicine.
  • Require users to get a medical recommendation and go through some kind of psychiatric clearance process.
  • Require users to register with the state and get a mushroom card (like a medicinal-use cannabis card).
  • Justify loosening prohibition by encouraging (or requiring?) users to contribute their outcome info to research databases (like Fadiman's microdosing self-report study).

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