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Denver becomes the first city in the United States of America to decriminalize the usage of psychedelic, hallucinogenic mushrooms.
What’s it?
On Tuesday, the Initiated Ordinance 301 or the Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Initiative was approved by 89,320 voters, while 87,341 voters voted against it. The results will officially be declared on May 16th.
This means that the personal use and possession of the mushrooms by any one in Denver who is 21 years old or older will be “Law enforcement’s lowest priority”. It does not legalize psilocybin or permit it’s sale by Denver’s Cannabis business.
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Federally illegal in the U.S., psilocybin is categorized as a Schedule I Drug along with drugs like heroin, marijuana, and LSD.
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What’s more?
In recent studies, medical researchers have found the substance can be used to help treat anxiety and depression in cancer patients. Those studies were small and closely supervised but the preliminary results gave researchers hope that psychedelic drugs could also be used to treat cancer, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.