Advocates have raised concerns about ballot measures filed in Massachusetts by a Washington-D.C. based super PAC, “New Approaches,” that would create a strictly regulated framework for use.
Now the city has moved to officially deprioritize arrests for possession and use of psilocybin and ayahuasca (see page 758), creating a new paradigm as dozens of cities across the United States move to recognize these naturally-occurring compounds’ mental health potential.
Salem just became the sixth Massachusetts city in the United States to end arrests for psilocybin mushrooms.
Three bills have been brought forward to legalize certain plants and fungi, facilitate the therapeutic use of psilocybin plus enable access to a prescription medicine containing MDMA.
Bay Staters for Natural Medicine, a grassroots community group with more than three thousand volunteers across New England, has worked with five city councils to pass measures decriminalizing psychedelic plants, including psilocybin mushrooms.
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