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MAPS: “California Psychedelic Decriminalization Bill Slated for 2023 Reintroduction”

Cannabis Law Report

Senate Bill 519 would have decriminalized the personal possession of certain psychedelic substances, legalized life-saving public health interventions, and studied future approaches to increasing use of psychedelics. However, the Assembly Appropriations Committee stripped the primary intention from the bill.

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Harvard Is Launching America’s First Psychedelics Law and Policy Center

SpeedWeed

Harvard Law School is planning to open the first US policy center focused on the legalization and regulation of psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, and LSD. . Harvard’s new center will be the first to focus solely on psychedelics policy and laws rather than research, though. View original article.

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Harvard Law School Announces the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics

Cannabis Law Report

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is engaged in a three-year initiative to examine the ethical, legal, and social implications of psychedelics research, commerce, and therapeutics. Here’s the press release. The Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR).

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Which States Are Voting on Psychedelics?

Veriheal

Psilocybin Policies Around the Nation Let’s explore where psilocybin is legal, decriminalized, and on the ballot across U.S. Decriminalized Decriminalization does not mean psilocybin is legal. Smith cited results from clinical trials showing that MDMA holds promise in the treatment of PTSD.

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Researchers Concerned About Whitewashing of Psychedelic-Assisted Mental Health Research

Cannabis Law Report

As psychedelic therapy trials approach FDA approval, researchers express the urgent need to ensure effectiveness and accessibility to communities of color. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy , 28 (3), 211–214. Madison Natarajan, MS. – August 5, 2021. Thrul, J., & Garcia-Romeu, A. link] (Link). Source: [link].

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AIMS v. Garland: A Disappointment for Psilocybin Advocates, but Progressive Policy May Still be on the Horizon

Cannabis Law Report

Psilocybin’s therapeutic benefits are so promising that Denver, Colorado became the first city to decriminalize psilocybin in May 2019, and in 2020, Oregon passed Measure 109, which paved the road for a program allowing for legal manufacture, delivery, and administration of psilocybin to clients at supervised, licensed facilities in the state.

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Cannabis laws in Japan: Is weed legal?

The Cannigma

Japan has some of the harshest drug policies on Earth, including for cannabis — and is one of the worst places on Earth to get arrested on marijuana possession charges. The government has a zero tolerance policy on cannabis, but this approach doesn’t apply to investments, it appears. The future of weed legalization in Japan.

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