With California Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent veto of a bill to legalize psychedelics, the city of Eureka is taking action of their own.
Dried magic mushrooms.
The Eureka, California City Council has voted unanimously to pass a resolution to essentially decriminalize the personal possession of certain psychedelics by making it the lowest enforcement priority. This is similar to what Seattle did with marijuana back in 2003, nearly a decade prior to Washington State legalize the plant.
Eureka is now the fifth city in California to decriminalize psychedelics, joining Oakland, Santa Cruz, Arcata and San Francisco. Eureka is located in Northern California with a population of around 26,000.
The ordinance states that the planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with, or possessing “Entheogenic Plants and Fungi or their extracted compounds that are on the Federal Schedule I list” will “not be a public safety priority for the City of Eureka.”
The ordinance would apply to magic mushrooms as well as other psychedelics such as peyote.
The ordinance also encourages the Humboldt County district attorney to “to consider the spirit and intent of this resolution when evaluating whether to prosecute persons” charged with possession psychedelic drugs.
In January the Eureka City Council voted unanimously to support the psychedelic legalization bill that Governor Newsom vetoed.
