The proposals come after voters rejected a ballot question last year that would have legalized several psychedelics.

A veteran advocating for the bill said psilocybin improved his PTSD symptoms after VA therapies failed to provide relief.

In 2023, the federal government included funding to study psychedelic-assisted therapy treatments for veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder in its annual defense budget, marking the ...

The post The push to legalize psychedelics is back. Here’s what to know ... Rather than Question 4’s sweeping push to legalize therapeutic centers and decriminalize personal use, the ...

Psychedelics did not enter Western culture until the creation of LSD in 1938, which spawned both scientific interest and a cultural revolution, culminating in the 1960s hippie movement. Then, in 1971, ...

Though far less ambitious than Democrats’ attempts in recent years to decriminalize psychedelics or legalize their use in supervised settings — like Oregon’s model — the bill has support ...

Currently, only one ballot measure — proposing new limits on financial contributions to candidates for public office — has ...

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Medical Psilocybin Act into law this week, making New Mexico the third state in the U.S. to decriminalize so-called “magic mushrooms.” But advocates say ...

A bill before the Connecticut legislature would decriminalize possession of certain amounts of a substance known as a “psychedelic drug.” The bill refers to psilocybin, often called “magic ...

Connecticut lawmakers recently advanced a bill to decriminalize small amounts of psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in “magic mushrooms.” The bill, HB 7065, was celebrated by some as ...