Looks like Michiganders won’t be voting on legalizing psychedelics that year after all.
Activist groups Decriminalize Nature Michigan and Students for Sensible Drug Policy announced they are withdrawing their efforts to get an initiative legalizing psychedelics on the Michigan November ballot. They had been gathering signatures for the ballot proposal since March.
The proposed bill, the Michigan Initiative for Community Healing, would have decriminalized the possession of magic mushrooms and other plant-based medicine, reduced penalties, and allowed hospitals and religious organizations to host psychedelic-assisted ceremonial and mental health services.
When the groups got approval to start collecting signatures at the end of March, they only had two months to get the required 340,000 signatures. The deadline was June 1, but now they are shooting for 2024 instead.
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