New California Bill Introduced To Decriminalize Plant-Based Psychedelics

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A new bill introduced in California could decriminalize the possession and personal use of plant-based psychedelics like mushrooms, ayahuasca, and DMT.

The legislation, entitled Senate Bill 58 (SB 58), was introduced Monday, December 19 as a narrowing of Senate Bill 519 that was shelved earlier this year. The new bill removed the non-plant-based psychedelics ecstasy, also known as MDMA, and LSD, in an attempt to focus on natural psychedelics used for therapies.

SB 58 would allow only plant-based hallucinogens, such as psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, which is found…