I could tell that he was on some sort of mind altering hallucinogenics. Her son used hallucinogenic sent in her world turned upside down. He passed away my husbands arms when i call 911. Others say is save them. Our goal is to bring them out of the shadows. We want them to be certified, not have to worry about getting arrested. We are looking at the potential benefits of mind altering drugs. It gave me a sense of self understanding and self forgiveness. The impacts could be profound, in terms of giving people another option to heal. And, if they outweigh the risks. My biggest concern is that we are going to get a lot more stories about kids like shane. This is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. Thank you for joining us on this friday. The talk about psychedelic drugs has changed over generations. As a state bill to allow regulated use through moves forward, arguments remain over how they are used and if they should be used at all. Are mushrooms really magic or are they a menace . We will dig into that conversation in just a few minutes. First, here is a look at todays news headlines. In pleasanton, police say speed may have been a factor in that car crash that killed a family of four including two adults and two children. The crash happened on foothill road, the site of several fatal crashes in recent years. The driver seems to have lost control of the car and collided with a large oak tree. Today in castro valley, a Memorial Service for opd officer jordan wingate. He died last week from injuries sustained five years earlier during an onduty traffic collision. Among the speakers, oaklands interim police chief, darren allison, who commended wingate fortitude during his longheld struggles. He also acknowledged the many people who rallied to support wingate and his family after that crash. A fire tore through a fourstory building in san francisco. It broke out just after 4 30 this morning in the presidio heights. Firefighters say six residential units were damaged. They were all vacant. No reports of any injuries. Students at Stanford University are on day two of their sit in protest on campus. They are calling on the school to divest from the israeli government. Standard says it supports peaceful protest but does not allow overnight camping or allow classes to be disrupted. Starting tonight, a stretch of southbound 680 will be closed through this we can. How trends will continue a repaving project in pleasanton and sunol. The stretch of 680 will be closed from the 580 connector to koopman road starting in 9 00 tonight and then reopening monday morning. The 49ers and their first day of the nfl draft with a new team member, wide receiver ricky pearsall. He caught 65 passes for 965 yards last season with the florida gators. He started his College Career at Arizona State where he was teammates with Brandon Aiyuk in 2019. The niners have nine picks left in the draft and they are expected to target needs at the offensive line and quarterback. Lets get to our first alert weather now. The winds are starting to pick up but not everywhere. Meteorologist darren peck is in our virtual view studio tracking the gusts and looking forward to the weekend. The bigger issue today, besides any light rain, will be the wind. If you look up the coast, you can see these 40 Miles Per Hour gusts moving along the coastline. Lets get specific. What does that mean for your part of the bay . 40 Miles Per Hour gusts are pretty much exclusive to the coastline and maybe the hill, through San Mateo County and marin. If you look inland, the rest of us have a 25 Miles Per Hour breeze. That, more importantly than anything else, will make the day feel cooler. It will give you a windchill factor. Temperatures today for daytime highs, which are going to warm up into the 60s with daytime highs and the virtual maps. There is a lot of low to mid 60s on here but the numbers are a little deceiving. If you have a 20 Miles Per Hour wind over here coming through the bay and even through the inland valleys, it will make these numbers feel lower. Probably more like the upper 50s for daytime highs today. The sky continues to look pretty dramatic throughout the afternoon today. You cant rule out a chance that maybe you get a stray isolated shower but it would not be much unless you are in those inland east bay like out by altamont pass. You might pick up on some of those isolated thunderstorms there and that would be a factor for the commute. It would be about that time through the Late Afternoon or early evening where we could see some of the showers over there. That covers friday. By saturday, there is much less wind, more blue sky. We start warming up a bit. By sunday, we turned the wind off and we really start warming up from there. We will see daytime highs approaching the 80 degree mark. Plenty of sunshine and daytime highs warm up tenure 80. We will take a look at how this will play out for our microclimates in the immediate bay. We maybe dont warm up 280 but we will be up into the mid70s with plenty of sunshine by the time we get to next week. We have a nice weekend. It will be a little breezy on saturday with daytime highs a few degrees warmer. A new bill to get psychedelic drugs legalized here in california is moving through the state senate right now. It is scaledback from a previous version, this time focusing on the use of those drugs in therapy. Our kenny choi shows us why it could make a huge difference for people with Mental Health struggles. Nina olmstead has struggled with anxiety most of her adult life. First ketamine assisted therapy session proved to be a breakthrough. It gave me a sense of self understanding and self forgiveness that is what i was trying to cultivate through therapy. Years of traditional therapy and taking antianxiety medication did not work for the resident. I just found that psychedelic therapies and alternative therapies are really powerful substitute for those kinds of medications. Lindsay olson is a train psychedelic assistant and founder of oneonone ketamine journeys. We are finding with the psychedelic approach, people are actually getting into the root cause of a lot of those symptoms and being able to process that fully so they are not requiring those medicines anymore. Olson has cultivated her practice for 20 years but it was only four years ago when she added psychedelic assisted therapy using ketamine. It just deepened peoples ability to feel. It enriched the process. It gave me a more passion for what i am doing because it really feels like i am moving the needle with people in a way that has been hard to do. Prescribed ketamine sessions are legal in california but the use of psychedelic drugs like hallucinogenic mushrooms and and dna mdma, commonly known as ecstasy, are not. It is all in the shadows. Our primary goal is to bring it out of the shadows. The yearlong push to decriminalize the drugs came to a abrupt halt with av to from Governor Newsom last fall. This revised bill would not make Recreational Use legal but rather open the doors for psychedelic assisted therapists. We want them to be able to be certified, be out in the sunlight, not have to worry about getting arrested and that is one of our goals here. The California Coalition for psychedelic safety and education, one of the most vocal critics of the last bill now supports this latest version. We found that the therapeutic regulated access should come first and then we should learn from that before decriminalizing for Recreational Use. I think the impacts could be profound, in terms of giving people another option to heal and to have that be done in a very regulated, safe environment. The combination of working with the ketamine and traditional therapy used things for me in a way that was really practical. For nina, the shift she has experienced is enough proof for her. If signed into law, the bill would create a licensing board and would require drug facilitators to hold at least one medical license. There are opponents who worry that making these drugs widely available could have a devastating consequence. They could fall into the wrong hands. Greg burke with the California Family council is one of the people fighting to shoot down this bill. Part of what it does is it makes you lose touch with reality. Sometimes people have good reactions with that but there are a lot of people that have terrible reactions. They think they can fly. They dont know where they are. They have violent reactions to this. We are also hearing from a mother on the forefront on the fight against this bill. She says psychedelics caused cost her her son. My biggest concern is that we will get a lot more stories about kids like shane. Her emotional story, coming up next. The author of the bill joins me like to talk about why he believes it could save lives. We will be right back. Next. Next. Stop. We got it . No. Keep going. Again. [ gasps ] next. If you dont pick one, i. Am i keeping you from your job . Next. Stop do we finally have it . Lets go back to the beginning. Are you. Your electric future. Customized. The fullyelectric audi q4 etron. Get exceptional offers at your local audi dealer. Lets get back to our conversation here at 3 00 today. California bill aiming to legalize the regulated use of psychedelic drugs like magic mushrooms for therapy. Supporters say it could provide breakthroughs against anxiety and other ailments but opponents say it is too dangerous and say the drugs could still get into the wrong hands. We met a mother who is fighting this bill after she lost her son in a fatal accident after he took psychedelics. She shared her emotional story with our lauren toms. As lisa hudson walks around her home, her son shane is celebrated. Shane was, is, an amazing, sparkly soul. He had 1000 friends. He was everybodys best friend. Today she is speaking out against legislation that could decriminalize certain hallucinogenics including mushrooms, the drug her son took that led to her fatal accident in 2020. I could tell that he was on some sort of mind altering hallucinogenic. Now i have him in my arms. He said, i am talking to god and it is all about love and love is life and life is love and i know it is easy. It is right in front of me. Shane all of a sudden stands upright and runs down our stairs and runs out on the deck. I run after him down the stairs. I see him running off the deck with his arms straight out saying ive got this, ive got this and he plunged 40 feet into our backyard and passed away in my husbands arms while i was calling 911. Studies have shown that controlled use of psychedelics can help treat depression, anxiety and other Mental Health disorders. Research by a group of doctors at stanford show hallucinogenic related hospitalizations spiked 74 between 2016 and 2021. Adverse effects can include psychological trauma, erratic behavior, accidental injuries and even death. My biggest concern is that we are going to get a lot more stories about kids like shane. She says she is happy to see the drugs decriminalized but safeguards like Public Education and First ResponderTraining Need to come first. Something needs to happen to make sure that our community, our kids are safe, as safe as they possibly can. And, others will look to her son as a source of light and learning. Joining me this afternoon now is author of the bill, state senator scott weiner. Thank you for being here. Lets get your response to the opponents who worry that psychedelics could potentially end up in the wrong hands. That story is incredibly horrific and tragic and no mother or parent should ever have to go through that. We want to make sure that does not happen in the future because we know people, including young people, are using these drugs now. Lets bring it into the sunlight so that people can use it under the supervision of someone who is trained and licensed to be able to provide this therapy. That is what this bill does. We have a group of mothers who also lost their children after a bad psychedelic experience who are strongly supporting our bill because it will allow for supervised use. The bill creates an Education Fund so that we can get better education to the public. Who do you think this bill benefits the most . Is at the doctors . Is it patients . Is it people use it recreationally . It benefits people who are having Mental Health or addiction struggles, which we know that these substances can help people turn their lives around. It helps people who want to use substances to get better. Instead of using in secret because it is criminalized, they can go to someone who knows what theyre doing and get that kind of supervised use and get better. Do you think that the perspective around psychedelics is changing . Do you think 20 years ago you thought of psychedelics as something that people really did do in the shadows, something you do a musical festivals or raves . It was not mainstream. Now you are hearing more and more about it. It is a little bit like what marijuana was 20 years ago. We need to be clear. People have been using psychedelics for thousands of years in many cultures and religions. People have been using it recreationally for many, many years and they are going to continue to do so. What we know this research started in the 60s and then it got shut down by the war on drugs and now it is restarted. These substances have huge promise for treating Mental Health and addiction disorders. That research , it is incredibly promising and we think the fda at some point in the near future will approve some specific medication but we also know that an enormous number of people are using these substances. Lets give them a path to be able to use with someone who is a trained confessional and to be as safe as possible. What in your mind what ideal regulations beyond psychedelics here in california . Ideally, if you were if you are someone who is struggling with Mental Health challenge, you will be able to go to someone and you will be able to obtain a substance that is not adulterated. You are not buying at off the street. You are getting it in a more professional way. Then, you can use it with someone and have them guide you through it, help you do it as safely as possible. If there is an issue, they will know what to do so you are safe. That is what we want, people to be able to have safe access. That is why our coalition is a group of mothers, as i mentioned, who lost kids, but also a group of combat veterans and firefighters who suffered from extreme ptsd and other Mental Health problems because of the trauma from their rules, who literally, psychedelics saved their lives. They would have committed suicide and they are alive today and healthy because of psychedelics. Why would we want to deprive people of that access . Real quick, where does the bill stand right now . The bill has passed through its first two committees. It is a long road in the California Legislature but we have a pass. The governor vetoed a broader bill that we put on his desk last year and he asked us to send him a bill focused on therapeutics and that is what we are doing. We will be watching. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. We look toward the future of psychedelics. Researchers exploring how to use or even alter the drugs to use as treatments in years to come. You can you can watch us anytime, anywhere on our streaming service, cbs news bay area. Catch all of our live newscasts, plus news and weather updates throughout the day. You can find us on the free cbs news app or on pluto tv. California sky todos alcanzamos Las Estrellas sunny state of mind flexin all the time todo es dorado y nos gusta picante cause this place is caliente tamos enchilado feels so golden livin in the golden state with you feels so golden vive en el Estado Dorado oooh we got that drip, drip, drip come take a sip, sip, sip feels so golden vive en el Estado DoradoNorthern California researchers are looking into the future of psychedelics with an effort to bring chemistry, neuroscience and modernday medicine together under one roof. Reporter dena kupfer tells us about the institute at uc davis that is studying these once taboo drugs. Psychedelics have some pretty profound effects on brain structure and function. There is nothing distorted about this new reality for Psychedelic Research at uc davis. The Prestigious University launched an entire institute for psychedelics and narrow therapeutics. They also support the growth of critical neurons in the brains. Spectacle, according to the founding director david olson, is to further understand how psychedelics impact the brain and how the drugs can treat a wide variety of brain conditions. The accuracy of neurons in parts of the brain, laws lost of synapses , it can lead to diseases like depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, Substance Use disorder and even neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers studied a broad range of compounds that alter perception, mood and cognitive behavior including psilocybin or magic mushrooms, lsd, mdma, commonly known as ecstasy or molly, and ketamine, a powerful antistatic just to name a few. A single dose of the compound can rapidly change behavior for a long period of time, even after the drugs have been cleared from the system. They are not cures but they are getting us one step closer in that direction. Wouldnt it be great if a patient only had to take a drug once a week, once a month, or once a year instead of every day . Eventually, the team will conduct human Clinical Trials but the institute plans to take the research a step further, taking a deep dive into the chemistry of these drugs and engineer the next generation of psychedelics. It may be possible to separate some of the beneficial effects of psychedelics from their effects on perception. If you can remove the hallucinogenic effect of the drug, you might be able to create a more scalable alternative that can impact a larger percentage of patients. The institute for psychedelics and narrow therapeutics is a 5 million project and it is funded in part i the college of letters and science at the school of medicine at uc davis. We will be right back. Temperatures cooling down as we head into the weekend and stronger onshore. Ah, i stepped off the coast again. The winds are really picking up. Fog spreading farther inland. And in the north bay, youre gonna get soaked. water splashing [narrator] presenting the bay areas only virtual weather studio. 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Coming up tonight here at 5 00, as birds across north america face challenges of habitat loss and climate change, we look at cuttingedge technology right here in the bay area that is helping scientists find better ways to help the animals. That story and much more with Ryan Yamamoto and myself coming up 5 00. Thank you for joining us for todays conversation on psychedelics. We would love to hear what you think. Should adults be allowed to use them under supervision . You can post your thoughts using the hashtag kpix. The cbs evening news is next. Local news continues on our streaming service , cbs news bay area. I will see you at 5 00. Margaret tonight, Severe Weather outbreak. Thats a strong tornado. Lots of debris in the air. I have never seen so much hail. Margaret hail and tornadoes slammed the middle of the country as the threat of dangerous weather stretches into the weekend. Wow