Proposition 122 also authorizes state-licensed "healing centers" where adults 21 or older can obtain and use psychedelics. It represents the broadest loosening of legal restrictions on psychedelics the United States has ever seen.
The 2022 elections contributed to the ongoing collapse of marijuana prohibition.
Voters in Maryland and Missouri approved recreational legalization, raising to 21 the number of states that let adults consume cannabis without a medical justification. At the same time, voters in three red states that allow medical use-Arkansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota-declined to go further.
Despite those setbacks, recognizing marijuana as a medicine generally has paved the way to broader liberalization. Starting with California in 1996, 37 states have allowed patients to use marijuana for symptom relief, and most of them eventually legalized recreational consumption as well.
The Proposition 122 campaign built on that model by describing five psychedelics found in fungi and plants as "natural medicine." But that designation is inherently ambiguous, and the initiative goes far beyond allowing the use of psychedelics in drug-assisted psychotherapy.
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