A California organization is hoping to gather enough signatures to place an initiative on the November 2024 ballot to let voters decide if magic mushrooms should be decriminalized.
If successful and voters approve it, psychedelic mushrooms could be sold anywhere, including such places as the local supermarket or yoga studios, to anyone over 21.
It would also allow adults to grow mushrooms for personal, medical, therapeutic, religious, spiritual, and dietary use, and for doctors to prescribe them.
The measure would also clear criminal records, in some cases, for previous convictions involving magic mushrooms.
This is the third attempt by the group Decriminalize California to pass the measure but this year’s effort is the most promising, according to campaign director Ryan Munevar….