Psychedelic State(s) of America

Oregon Trying to Dodge Lawsuit on Dying Patients' Psilocybin Access A legal battle between the state of Oregon and a group of psilocybin facilitators has escalated.

"The group originally sued the Oregon Health Authority in 2024, to enable homebound disabled and dying Oregonians to access psilocybin under the state's Psilocybin Services Act."

"[T]he state sought for a second time to get their lawsuit thrown out."
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TODAY!

Tune in LIVE from 3:00-4:00 PM EST / 12:00-1:00 PM PST for the latest iteration of The Psychedelic State(s) of America Advocacy Spotlight Initiative… featuring some of the leadership team behind New Yorkers for Mental Health Alternatives!

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Psychedelic Policy at PS2025 Psychedelic Science 2025 featured presentations about state policy initiatives for psychedelic therapies, including the Texas Ibogaine Initiative, bipartisan support for psychedelic legal reform in Ne...

“Panel moderator @dianemgoldstein.bsky.social, Executive Director of Law Enforcement for Action Partnership (LEAP), opened the discussion by commending the psychedelic advocacy community in Texas for its ability to foster bipartisan action”

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My latest, via @filtermag.bsky.social:

How (Not) To Win A Campaign: Lessons From Question 4 As new psychedelic reform bills and ballot initiatives sweep the nation, the failure of the Question 4 ballot initiative in Massachusetts last year offers an instructive case study.

My latest, co-authored by Noah Daly — Co-Director of Psychedelic State(s) of America via Lucid News and The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism

“How (Not) to Win a Campaign: Lessons from Question 4”

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DOJ Seeks to Extend Stay on Cannabis Rescheduling to January 2026 The proposal, amid an ongoing lawsuit, would push back the timeline for this stalled process far longer than Trump suggested.

"A document viewed by Filter indicates that the Department of Justice will formally request an extension of a court-ordered 'stay' on marijuana rescheduling proceedings until at least January 27, 2026," reports @jackgorsline.bsky.social, as a lawsuit continues:

Now these two 18 year old kids could potentially be facing up to 5 years in state prison for possession of a Class C Substance with intent to distribute.

Had Question 4 passed, they’d have paid at MAX a $150 fine.

While the details of the arrest are pretty scant so far - looking closer at the seized stash that sure looks a lot like at least a few Ziplock bags-worth of dried mushrooms...

2 teens arrested in large drug bust at two separate homes in Massachusetts town, police say Two 18-year-old teens are facing charges after police raided a Grafton home on Thursday, police said.

Welp, it looks like we have our first psychedelic-related arrest here in MA following Q4’s failure, which would have prevented at least some of the pending charges here.

The worst part? Both of the suspects/drug war victims in question are only 18 years old.

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Minnesota Task Force Backs Psilocybin Decrim, Legal Therapeutic Use Minnesota’s Psychedelic Medicine Task Force has released a long-awaited legislative report. It recommends that the state move toward decriminalizing psilocybin ...

Minnesota's state-appointed task force backs psilocybin decrim & legal therapeutic use, plus MDMA & LSD research.

How will lawmakers respond? "I hope a bill could be a unifying issue that helps give people hope for healing,” the task force chair tells @jackgorsline.bsky.social:

This is why psychedelics won’t ever make it as they are in the field.

They are not profitable if you can give something once every 6 months, or just once, period.

We need to be fighting to change our healthcare system, our drug policy, our regulatory agencies.

This is not us... If you could not tell by the posts.
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I’ve spoken with dozens of MA Voters who have said the same thing — the Q4 campaign had nearly $8 million to work with and reached less than 60% of the electorate prior to Election Day.

The voters didn’t get the best of the argument on either side of the political equation here — really a bummer.

Definitely both a bit of column A and Column B, so to speak!

The bill itself was poorly written in a way that made it easy to fear monger about the Q4’s home grow and Decrim provisions — but that could have been counteracted with a robust public education campaign, which the Q4 team beefed imo.

I say “almost-laughably” because the campaign’s failure is a tragedy for those who remain desperate for legally-protected access to psychedelics for healing/treatment.

I think the entire Yes on 4 operation was almost-laughably sloppy and a near-perfect microcosm of the glaring ineptitude and general incompetence of the Democratic establishment at large.

Tomorrow night, tune into @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social LIVE at 8 PM on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and/or LinkedIn for an engaging and exclusive discussion on what really went wrong for the Question 4 Campaign on Election Day.

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YouTube video by MSNBC Profit not care: Journalist on how the healthcare industry sees 'efficiency'

I tried to outline a simple truth as clearly as possible: for-profit healthcare doesn't work, and can't work, and nearly all of America is in agreement on this.

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My latest, via @filtermag.bsky.social !!

Honored to be able to expand my coverage back to my home state — I grew up less than an hour from Louisa County and hope to interview Dawn Morris in person before she’s sentenced in February.

Advocates, Lawmakers Urge Biden to Expand Cannabis Clemency Now On November 20, advocates, formerly incarcerated people, their families and congressmembers gathered at the United States Capitol, urging President Joe ...

“My son can only get that type of clemency relief by the president taking the pen.”

At the US Capitol, advocates, impacted people and Democratic lawmakers urged Biden to expand cannabis clemency before Jan. 20.

@jackgorsline.bsky.social reports:

Dispatch From the DEA: DOI and DOC on Trial As Scientists Challenge Psychedelic Scheduling Bid - Psychedelic Alpha In a quiet courtroom housed on the second floor of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) Museum and Visitors Center in Arlington, Virginia, a legal battle is unfolding over the status of two key…

Dispatch From the DEA: DOI and DOC on Trial As Scientists Challenge Psychedelic Scheduling Bid

Here, @jackgorsline.bsky.social and I provide the latest from hearings over DEA’s plan to place these two psychedelics in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.

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