Oakland decriminalizes shrooms and other natural psychedelics

[Richard D]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The Oakland City Council passed a resolution Tuesday night that decriminalizes certain natural psychedelics, including mushrooms, a move that makes Oakland the second city in the nation to do so.

The resolution instructs law enforcement to stop investigating and prosecuting people using the drugs. It applies to psychedelics that come from plants or fungi, not synthetic drugs like LSD or MDMA, also known as ecstasy.

After the vote, nearly 100 supporters rose from their chairs, clapped and cheered loudly.

“I don’t have words, I could cry,” said Nicolle Greenheart, the co-founder of Decriminalize Nature Oakland. “I’m thrilled. I’m glad that our communities will now have access to the healing medicines and we can start working on healing our communities.”

Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-expected-to-vote-tonight-on-whether-to-13937792.php

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May it spread. Make nature legal.

[lunasun]

1. So will this be for possession or will sale / growing be allowed I wonder

I could see it helping with anxiety or trauma issues
I am not familiar with native healing uses
Wasn’t there a series of books years ago about a Mexican shaman using it ?

[mr_lebowski]

2. Cool, hopefully that means I can soon move back to O-town and grow a big field of opium poppies

in my yard, legally.

After all, we're legalizing 'nature' and it's 'remedies', right?

[Richard D]

3. If you can afford the land to buy

a big field, you don't need to grow poppies.

[Maxheader]

4. Peyote next?

[Richard D]

5. Decriminalized in Oakland

Mushrooms, Peyote, San Pedro, Iboga, Ayahuasca, Salvia are all decriminalized.
This is a good thing, IMNVHO.

But next they want to make it legal to sell these in stores. That's not a great idea.