"Newsom, a Democrat who championed legalizing cannabis in 2016, said in a statement Saturday that more needs to be done before California decriminalizes the hallucinogens.
“California should immediately begin work to set up regulated treatment guidelines - replete with dosing information, therapeutic guidelines, rules to prevent against exploitation during guided treatments, and medical clearance of no underlying psychoses,” Newsom’s statement said. “Unfortunately, this bill would decriminalize possession prior to these guidelines going into place, and I cannot sign it.”"
At least there’s an attempt to have a reasonable explanation.
The whole premise of this veto is that the infrastructure isn’t set up for mushrooms to be used as a safe medicine. Which completely ignores the fact that most people who use mushrooms do so recreationally; who gives a shit if it can or can’t be used by the medical system? That would be great, but it has no bearing on whether mushrooms should be legalized.
If CA decriminalizes it, everyone would be looking toward the state to see its success or failure. Opponents would try to find any excuse to shut it down whether in CA or other states. So if we can set up guidelines and necessary infrastructure for safe use, both medically and recreationally, it would be better for long term success of psylocybin legalization.
Success or failure? It is already been and has been consumed by millions of people for thousands of years. Seems like it is a success to me.
So progressive! /s
Pisses me off. It’s California! C’mon!
Newsom dialing back the progressivism for his presidential run.
Sounds like the pharmaceutical companies are still investing in governments.
This just Newsom wanting to keep his chances for a future Presidential bid alive. Don’t want to see attack ads about him being on shrooms.
Damn, he’s just been vetoing everything lately. Gotta love that race toward the centre.
deleted by creator
Boo. Everyone boo this man.
HAVE YOU SUCKED DICK FOR COKE???
RIP Bob Saget
Newsom’s “centrist” tribute to the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Dammit
Signs a few good things, vetoes a few good things
Why can’t we just get a solidly good governor for a while and not one that oscillates between “ok enough” and “frustrating”
Gavin Newsom, corporate whore, wannabe esq
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Federal Drug Administration designated psilocybin as a “breakthrough therapy” for treatment-resistant depression in 2019 and recently published a draft guideline on using psychedelics in clinical trials.
“Psilocybin gave me my life back,” Joe McKay, a retired New York City firefighter who responded to the 9/11 attacks, said at an Assembly hearing in July.
“We’re grateful that Governor Newsom listened to some of the top medical experts, psychedelic researchers and psychiatrists in the country who all warned that legalization without guardrails was at best premature for both personal and therapeutic use,” the coalition said in a statement Saturday.
“This is a setback for the huge number of Californians — including combat veterans and first responders — who are safely using and benefiting from these non-addictive substances and who will now continue to be classified as criminals under California law,” Wiener said in a statement Saturday.
Two years later, Colorado voters also passed a ballot measure to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms and to create state-regulated centers where participants can experience the drug under supervision.
One would legalize the use and sale of mushrooms for people 21 and older, and the other would ask voters to approve borrowing $5 billion to establish a state agency tasked with researching psychedelic therapies.
The original article contains 789 words, the summary contains 207 words. Saved 74%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Oh yeah. What we clearly need to do is add interdimensionality to the nation with 1.1 firearms per person.
No thanks, War with the Machine Elves.
