Advocates for a world — or at least a state — where possessing and using certain plants, fungi or their psychedelic compounds isn’t illegal made headway in Michigan this Nov. 2 election.
Detroit became the latest city to “decriminalize nature,” as supporters call it. Proposal E, a ballot initiative passed with 61% of voters supporting a law that will, “to the fullest extent permitted under Michigan law,” make “the personal possession and therapeutic use of entheogenic plants by adults the city’s lowest law-enforcement priority.”
The proposal instructs Detroit police not to enforce laws related to adult possession or use of entheogenic substances, which according to the Decriminalize Michigan website, include: “mushrooms, cacti, iboga containing plants and/or extracted combinations of plants similar to Ayahuasca; and limited to those containing the following types of compounds: indole amines, tryptamines, phenethylamines.”
“Obviously, we are excited by the amazing turnout of Detroit voters last night and we’re overwhelmed by the support for prop E,” said Decriminalize Nature Michigan co-Director Myc Williams. “This is the momentum we needed to keep going,”
Story published in MLive