Drug War Chronicle, Issue #1178 -- 1/17/23 Table of Contents plus lead article.

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Drug War Chronicle, Issue #1178 -- 1/17/23
Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psm...@drcnet.org
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/1178

A Publication of StoptheDrugWar.org
David Borden, Executive Director, bor...@drcnet.org
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"

Table of Contents:

1. ELEVEN STATES WHERE PSYCHEDELIC REFORM BILLS ARE ON THE AGENDA THIS
YEAR [FEATURE]
It's only January, but the 2023 state legislative season is already
filling up with bills on psychedelics.
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2023/jan/12/eleven_states_where_psychedelic

2. SC MEDMJ BILLS, VIOLENCE ROCKS MEXICAN CITY AS EL CHAPO'S SON
ARRESTED, MORE... (1/6/23)
The Mexican cartel leader who escaped during Sunday's Tijuana prison
attack has been shot dead, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration rejects hair testing for drugs, and more.
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2023/jan/06/sc_medmj_bills_violence_rocks

3. CT LEGAL ADULT POT SALES BEGIN TOMORROW, OH GOVERNOR SIGNS FENTANYL
TEST STRIP DECRIM BILL, MORE... (1/9/23)
A Mexican judge has blocked the extradition of El Chapo's son to the US,
you can now get a license to grow your own marijuana in Missouri, and more.
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2023/jan/09/ct_legal_adult_pot_sales_begin

4. PSYCHEDELIC REFORM BILLS POPPING UP, NO FEDERAL POT POSSESSION
PRISONERS, MORE... (1/10/23)
The Wisconsin GOP may finally be ready to embrace medical marijuana, the
US Sentencing Commission says there are no more federal pot possession
prisoners, and more.
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2023/jan/10/psychedelic_reform_bills_popping

5. FL DOC GETS TWENTY YEARS IN UNNECESSARY DRUG TEST SCHEME, IN
MARIJUANA BILLS FILED, MORE... (1/11/23)
Legal adult marijuana sales have begun in Connecticut, a marijuana
legalization bill is filed in Tennessee, and more.
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2023/jan/11/fl_doc_gets_twenty_years

6. GOP REP WANTS TO USE MILITARY FORCE AGAINST MEXICAN CARTELS, MN LEGAL
POT BILL ADVANCES, MORE... (1/12/23)
A North Dakota bill would increase monthly THC limits for medical
marijuana patients, a South Dakota bill would bar pregnant or
breast-feeding women from getting medical marijuana cards, and more.
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2023/jan/12/gop_rep_wants_use_military_force

7. BOLIVIA CELEBRATES COCA LEAF CHEWING DAY, WA PSILOCYBIN LEGALIZATION
BILL FILED, MORE... (1/13/23)
An Ohio bill would revamp the state's medical marijuana program, New
York's governor signs a bill mandating that the state immediately re- or
deschedule Schedule I drugs if federal law changes, and more.
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2023/jan/13/bolivia_celebrates_coca_leaf_0

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1. ELEVEN STATES WHERE PSYCHEDELIC REFORM BILLS ARE ON THE AGENDA THIS
YEAR [FEATURE]
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2023/jan/12/eleven_states_where_psychedelic

This year's state legislative season is just beginning, and there is
already evidence that the psychedelic renaissance now underway is
reaching into statehouses across the land. In at least eleven states,
reform bills ranging from therapeutic psilocybin to the
decriminalization of natural psychedelics have already been filed, and
more states are likely to join the list as the year goes on.

What started with a successful local psilocybin decriminalization
initiative in Denver in 2019 has now spread to a number of cities,
including Oakland and Santa Cruz, California; Cambridge, Somerville, and
Northampton, Massachusetts; Seattle; and Washington, DC. At the state
level, Oregon led the way with the 2020 passage of Measure 109
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Oregon_Ballot_Measure_109), which
both decriminalized psilocybin and created a framework for its
therapeutic administration, and Measure 110
(https://www.oregon.gov/oha/hsd/amh/pages/measure110.aspx), which
decriminalized the possession of all drugs, including psychedelics. And
in November, Colorado voters passed Measure 122
(https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_122,_Decriminalization_and_Regulated_Access_Program_for_Certain_Psychedelic_Plants_and_Fungi_Initiative_(2022)),
which decriminalizes natural psychedelics and creates a framework for
psilocybin "healing centers."

Here (with a tip of the hat to Marijuana Moment
(https://www.marijuanamoment.net/lawmakers-are-already-pursuing-psychedelics-legislation-in-nearly-a-dozen-states-for-2023/))
is what could be coming this year:

California

Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has filed Senate Bill 58
(https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/SB58/2023), which would legalize the
possession of small amounts of DMT, ibogaine, mescaline, psilocybin, and
psilocyn, but not synthetic psychedelics such as LSD and MDMA. A
previous version of the bill included those synthetic psychedelics. That
bill passed the Senate only to die at the last minute in the Assembly.

Colorado

After voters approved the legalization of natural psychedelics and the
creation of psilocybin "healing centers," Gov. Jared Polis (D) is
calling for the legislature to pass enabling legislation "to set it up
in a way that prevents any negative consequences and honors the will of
the voters." It is unclear what Polis is seeking, but he has previously
said he was "excited
(https://www.marijuanamoment.net/colorado-governor-excited-about-psychedelics-legalization-vote-touting-promising-medical-benefits-despite-not-endorsing-before-election/)"
about the reforms and called psychedelics a "promising" treatment
possibility for some mental health conditions.

Connecticut

Rep. David Michel (D) has filed House Bill 5012
(https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=HB05102&which_year=2023),
"[t]o allow the use of psilocybin for medicinal and therapeutic
purposes, including, but not limited to, the provision of physical,
mental or behavioral health care." That bill has been referred to the
joint Public Health Committee. Michel told Marijuana Moment
(https://www.marijuanamoment.net/lawmakers-are-already-pursuing-psychedelics-legislation-in-nearly-a-dozen-states-for-2023/)
this week that he will also cosponsor a psychedelic decrim bill with
Rep. Josh Elliott (D).

Illinois

Rep. La Shawn Ford (D) has filed House Bill 1
(https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1499971), the Compassionate Use
and Research of Entheogens (CURE) Act, which would remove psilocybin
from the state's list of controlled substances, effectively legalizing
it. The measure would also allow expungement of certain
psilocybin-related convictions and create an advisory board for
psilocybin therapeutic services.

Missouri

Rep. Tony Lovasco (R) plans to file a revised psychedelics bill
(https://www.marijuanamoment.net/gop-missouri-lawmaker-revises-therapeutic-psilocybin-legalization-bill-for-2023-session/)
after a broader psychedelic reform bill he filed last year died in the
House Health and Mental Health Policy Committee. The new version will be
a narrowly tailored bill to allow people with serious mental health
conditions therapeutic access to psilocybin.

Minnesota

Rep. Andy Smith (D) has announced that he is "currently working on a
bill forming a psychedelic medicine task force so Minnesotans can have
access to these life affirming treatments. For decades scientific
research into the positive effects of psychedelic medicine has been
muzzled by the 'war on drugs,' but that is [starting] to change," he
said. The bill has not yet been filed and the text is not yet available.

Montana.

Two bills are currently being drafted by legislative staff at the
request of members. LC 1208
(http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0210w.ActionQuery?P_BILL_DFT_NO5=LC1208&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SESS=20231),
requested by Sen. Jill Cohenour (D)would "[l]egalize psilocybin use for
PTSD/mental health treatment," while LC 2311
(http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0210w.ActionQuery?P_BILL_DFT_NO5=LC2311&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SESS=20231),
requested by Rep. George Nikolakakos (R) would more incrementally
mandate an interim study on the use of psilocybin for the treatment of
mental illness.

New Jersey

Last year, Senate President Nicholas Scutari (D) filed Senate Bill 2934
(https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2022/S2934), which would
legalize the possession, home cultivation, and gifting of psilocybin
mushrooms by people 21 and over, as well as setting a system of licensed
psilocybin services in supervised settings. That bill has been carried
over into the current session and now has a companion version, Assembly
Bill 4911 (https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2022/A4911), in the
Assembly filed by three key lawmakers, including Judiciary Committee
Chairman Raj Mukherji (D) and Health Committee Chairman Herb Conaway (D).

New York

Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal (D) has pre-filed Assembly Bill 00114
(https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1505197), which would legalize
the "possession, use, cultivation, production, creation, analysis,
gifting, exchange, or sharing by or between natural persons of
twenty-one years of age or older of a natural plant or fungus-based
hallucinogen." That would include DMT, ibogaine, mescaline, psilocybin,
and psilocyn. The bill would also allow people to use such substances in
religious ceremonies or engage in psychedelic services "with or without
remuneration."

Oregon

State voters already approved both therapeutic psilocybin and broader
drug decriminalization, but legislators have filed a pair of bills aimed
at adjusting the psilocybin services program. Senate Bill 303
(https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1505197), filed by Sen.
Elizabeth Steiner (D), would mandate that psilocybin businesses and
therapists collect and report data such as average psilocybin doses and
demographics of their client base. Senate Bill 302
(https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Measures/Overview/SB302),
filed by Sen. Kim Thatcher (R), would mandate that psilocybin business
applicants provide certain information about ownership and location of
their operations.

Virginia

Last year, Del. Dawn Adams (D) filed House Bill 898
(https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB898), which
would decriminalize a broad array of psychedelics, but the House bumped
it to 2023. It's now 2023, and that bill is still alive. Adams has this
year also filed House Bill 1315
(https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1513), which
would legalize psilocybin possession for people who have an "order" from
a health care professional to treat "refractory depression or
post-traumatic stress disorder or to ameliorate end-of-life anxiety."
The bill would also reduce the penalty for non-medical possession of
psilocybin to a Class 2 misdemeanor punishable by no more than 30 days
in jail. Meanwhile Sen. Ghazala Hashmi (D) has pre-filed Senate Bill 932
(https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB932), which
would down-schedule psilocybin from Schedule I to Schedule III and
create a Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board to "develop a long-term
strategic plan for establishing therapeutic access to psilocybin
services and monitor and study federal laws, regulations, and policies
regarding psilocybin."

And this is only January.

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