State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced a bill Tuesday to allow the therapeutic use of certain kinds of psychedelics.
Senate Bill 1012, co-authored by Assemblymember Marie Waldron, R-Valley Center, would allow people 21 years old and older to use “psychedelic substances in a therapeutic context, in a safe and controlled environment, and under the supervision of a licensed and trained facilitator,” according to a news release from Wiener’s office.
“The bill does not allow the sale, personal possession, or use of psychedelics outside of a regulated therapeutic context,” according to the release.
SB 1012 would allow the therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms; dimethyltryptamine, also called DMT, which is the active ingredient in ayahuasca; MDMA and mescaline, but not peyote.
“We know psychedelic therapy saves lives, and safe and controlled access to these innovative treatments will be transformative for so many Californians seeking relief from mental health and addiction challenges,” Wiener said.
Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed Wiener’s and Waldron’s previous bill to decriminalize the personal use of certain psychedelics.
SB 1012 attempts to address Newsom’s concerns over the earlier bill’s lack of therapeutic guidelines by creating “a professional licensing board to train facilitators, develop guidelines, and regulate the safe and responsible therapeutic use of psychedelics,” according to Wiener’s office.
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His name says it all! What a great idea? WTF!
Mr weiner should not be making decisions for anybody how he has a role in government is beyond me this man has some serious issues
Sorry, I don’t see the need to expand “therapeutic psychedelics” beyond what is already authorized for both health and/or personal use.
In my humble opinion.
Wiener does no good.
Wiener exemplifies wrong.
Natural medicines such as psilocybin date back thousands of years before big pharma started the “keep you an addicted customer for life” business model. People have been known to have just ONE experience with mushies, and overcome their addiction to eating, alcoholism, drug addiction, etc. As far as recreational use, to each their own.
Hmmmm
https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/ethnobotany/Mind_and_Spirit/ergot.shtml
https://nature.berkeley.edu/garbelottoat/?p=2236
Sounds like things like this were a great thing for society! (sarcasm)
This man is simply a stain on society. Instead of trying to fix things he is simply attempting to normalize his behavior with the population. Kind of like a psychiatrist self diagnosing their mental problems then convincing their patience that it ‘s “normal” to feel that way too. sick
“When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know”
You are spot on.
Of course this degenerate wants to legalize psychedelics, look into his perverted past that’s all you need. Why is this POS still representing us?
Could you be anymore condescending? How about you come down off that lofty perch & breathe the air with the rest of us peasants?
what’s this guys problem? The world is already a drugged up mess without people being in altered states driving and walking around like zombies.
people are already walking / driving around like zombies, with their pacifiers stuffed in their faces
Far better and safer than the big pharma drugs they put people on which are reputed to cause brain damage and why patients don’t want to take them because they dull the brain too much. There are other things that can help too but just not profitable for big pharma (you may have some of them already in your kitchen cabinet).
Capt, I think we may have entered the small mind zone on Claycord regarding ancient medicines. It’s all fun and games talking about topics people understand, but step outside the “it’s what I’ve been told to believe” box, and the herd turns on you. It just shows who took the time to actually study a subject, vs buying a book and putting it on their shelf in the study to look “learned” (pronounced – “Learnd – Ed”) I think all natural medicines have a place and time, but recreational use is like trying to listen to Biden talk about people he hung out with last week, that have been dead for years, a true waste of time and energy.
A San Francisco rump pumper!
“To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government
and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals”
—Mark Twain
Why do people care — let alone want the government restrict under threat of criminal penalty — what other adults choose to ingest? We rightly ban drunk driving and disorderly conduct but tolerate private alcohol consumption. Why apply different standards to other intoxicants?
Ostensible “conservatives” selectively make exceptions to the “don’t tread on me” doctrine with respect to prohibition. This is a peculiar departure from the small government principles that inform many core conservative tenants.
Similarly, contemporary self-avowed “liberals” inexplicably champion inherently illiberal infringements on private commercial decisions (e.g., efforts to ban natural gas appliances, non-electric vehicles, and impose racial strictures on private sector hiring are antithetical to liberalism).
The unprincipled hypocrisy is maddening.
Except that the psychedelic movement in the 60s was pushed by the CIA as part of their mind control experiments.
When Big Pharma gets theirs claws into the psychedelic industry, how will the safety and strength of psychedelics change? If they can push a fake vaccine on millions for a profit, why not push psychedelics on the mentally ill?
This is the guy that wears nail polish to his press conferences. Complete lunatic. CA deserves everything it’s getting because the citizens (and non-citizen mail in ballot thieves) of this once fabulous state are too stupid to see where this is all going.
Both my parents raised us successfully. They would never wish that on ANYONE. !!!!!!
Sounds like Wiener has an investment opportunity in Therapeutic Psychedelics. This is usually why they push such things. We all know what the legalization of Cannabis has done for us. More flavorful smells sitting in traffic. I think I got a contact high the other day on the Sunol grade. Really good ideas for the general public.
Another Wiener piece of garbage…. he doesn’t have enough to do if all he does is come up with this cxxp … does he get a copy of this? he should….
AHHH, the affects of DRUGS, legal or otherwise….
WHY DO YA THINK THEY CALL IT “DOPE” ?
I smell capitalism here.
are they still called Happy Caps?
MDMA and psilocybin are being used with very good results for treatment of severely wounded combat veterans. If this makes their life in anyway more bearable, sign it. 🇺🇸
What could possibly go wrong?
I don’t even need to read the article. This A hole has been proposing stupid legislation since he got into office in SF. He has no F ing clue what the hell is going on.
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