Since it's unlikely their own measure will make the ballot, they've moved on to fighting Initiative 58.
Early yesterday afternoon, thecampaign submitted the signatures it had collected to land a statewide initiative on the November ballot to the Colorado Secretary of State's Office. However, those leading the campaign, which aims to decriminalize a handful of natural psychedelics, had already accepted the probable fate of the initiative before the official signature count even began.
"You need millions of dollars to make statewide change," said Rodgers, a primary proponent of the successful Decriminalize Denver psychedelics mushroom campaign in 2019."We have small groups of people making decisions for everyone else." "The Natural Medicine Health Act would provide critical medicine to Coloradans suffering from PTSD, depression, anxiety and other challenging mental health conditions in a way that successfully balances their access and safety in a regulated, therapeutic setting," says Kevin Matthews, who has been co-running the New Approach PAC-funded campaign.
Foerster and Rodgers believe that the state should decriminalize natural psychedelics before even considering a legal-access model. That would be the best way to ensure that equity concerns remain top of mind and that the Colorado psychedelics field doesn't become a capitalist's playground, as recreational marijuana has, they suggest.
At their press conference, Foerster and Rodgers announced the formation of a new"education campaign," Colorado for Community Healing."We are starting a campaign. We want to make sure that our values of keeping community first for an equitable, democratic process, a localized effort, will remain, no matter what happens this November election," Rodgers said.
While psychedelics such as psilocybin mushrooms have shown that they can have positive effects on people dealing with anxiety, depression and PTSD, in a July statement the"There is currently inadequate scientific evidence for endorsing the use of psychedelics to treat any psychiatric disorder except within the context of approved investigational studies.
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