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    California bill paves way for psychedelic therapy after failure to legalize 'magic mushrooms'

    by Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times Jan 14, 2024 2 minutes
    A bill expected to be introduced in the California Senate in the coming weeks will call for legalizing psychedelic-assisted therapy, while a bill that passed the California Assembly health committee last week would fund a work group to study the benefits and dangers of psychedelic therapy.

    The movement to legalize psychedelics in California appears to be entering a new phase, with a focus on incremental steps to permit the drugs in therapeutic settings following failed efforts to pass more sweeping change.

    An initiative that sought to ask voters to decriminalize so-called magic mushrooms and products containing psilocybin failed to qualify for the 2024 ballot when itof a bill that would have decriminalized a short list of natural psychedelics, including "magic mushrooms."

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