Boston Suburbs Look To Decriminalize Natural Psychedelics
That includes psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, the peyote cacti and the iboga plant.
On Wednesday, Cambridge, Massachusetts voted 8 to 1 in its City Council to decriminalize “all Entheogenic Plants and plant-based compounds,” making them a lowest law enforcement priority (h/t Marijuana Moment).
Three weeks earlier, Somerville passed a similar measure with unanimous votes from its City Council.
Cambridge and Somerville have a population of over 105,000 and 80,000, respectively.
The Cambridge resolution makes notice of the fact that the so-called War on Drugs “has historically led to unnecessary penalization, arrest, and incarceration of vulnerable people, particularly people of color and of limited financial means.”