On Tuesday. November 5, Massachusetts will vote on ballot Question 4. If voters approve it, the state will decriminalize sharing and home cultivation of several psychedelic plants and fungi. It will create a psychedelic agency like the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission and draft rules to govern the supervised use of psychedelics.
Speakers from Massachusetts, Oregon, and Colorado met Friday to discuss ballot Question 4, including:
Victoria Litman (Moderator), Roger Williams University School of Law
Ashley Troxell, Psyched 4, Colorado
Heidi Venture, Vital Reset Psilocybin Service Center, Hood River, Oregon
James Davis, Bay Staters for Natural Medicine
*The views expressed on Psychedelic Week do not represent the views of Harvard University, POPLAR or PULSE at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, Florida State University, or Yale University. Psychedelic Week is an independent project unaffiliated with these and other programs and institutions.
Mason Marks, MD, JD is a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is also the Florida Bar Health Law Section Professor of Law at Florida State University, senior fellowand project lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, and an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Marks teaches drug law, psychedelic law, constitutional law, and administrative law. Before moving to Florida, he served on the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board where he chaired its Licensing Subcommittee. Marks has drafted drug policies for state and local lawmakers. His forthcoming book on psychedelic law and politics will be published by Yale University Press. He tweets at @MasonMarksMD and @PsychedelicWeek.
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