A group seeking to legalize psilocybin has been given approval by the state to begin collecting signatures on their initiative.
Decriminalize California is seeking to place their psilocybin initiative on the 2024 general election ballot. The group has until January 10th, 2024 to submit at least 546,651 valid signatures. This is almost 80,000 signatures less than was required in previous election cycles because there was roughly 2 million less voters in the recent gubernatorial election.
The proposed law would legalize, for those 21+, the possession, cultivation and distribution of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms.
In an e-mail the group says they plane to “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.”
The group says that “After a long night of playing Tetris to fit the language on the initiative sheets we have the following two pdf versions:
-8.5×11 Single Spot Sheet
-11×17 Eleven Spot Sheet
You can download them and other helpful documents from our google drive folder: Volunteer Packet”
They say that the first signature you should get “is your own so download, print, sign, and mail it in so we can start verifying them”. You can “Sign-Up for our Discord to communicate with the other volunteers out there.”
Earlier this month the Assembly Health Committee voted 9 to 2 to pass Senate Bill 58, which had already been approved by the Assembly Public Safety Committee and the full Senate. The proposal would legalize the possession of up to two grams of DMT, 15 grams of ibogaine, two grams of psilocybin (or up to four ounces of “a plant or fungi containing psilocybin”) and two grams of psilocyn (or up to four ounces of “a plant or fungi containing psilocybin”), while also allow for “group counseling and community-based healing” and it would legalize “any spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms or other material which contain psilocybin or psilocyn.”
Senate Bill 58 currently sits in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, the last stop before the full Assembly can vote.
