Community members denounced California Senate Bill 58, which seeks to legalize psychedelic drugs, in a virtual press conference on March 28.
Opponents said this bill is “the pivotal first step to legalize all drugs.”
This bill would allow people age 21 or older to possess and transfer certain amounts of psychedelic drugs, including psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline for personal use or facilitated or supported use.
Psilocybin, a hallucinogen, is also known as “magic mushrooms.” Mescaline comes from peyote, a type of cactus.
Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), author of SB 58, said it’s the first step to “implementing a regime of full legalization and access to regulated usage of these promising treatments,” in a press release on March 21 when the bill passed the Senate Public Safety Committee….