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MASSACHUSETTS LAWMAKERS APPROVE PSILOCYBIN BILL TO LEGALIZE FOR ‘THERAPEUTIC,
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With a psychedelics legalization initiative pending before lawmakers ahead of a
potential vote on the November ballot, a Massachusetts legislative committee has
advanced a separate bill that would legalize psilocybin therapy in the
commonwealth and set up a framework to license facilitators who would supervise
medical, therapeutic and spiritual applications of the drug.

The measure, H.3605 from Rep. Nicholas A. Boldyga (R), would require the state
Department of Public Health to establish a licensing process for both
facilitators themselves and “independent training schools” to instruct them.
Would-be facilitators would need to complete no less than 20 hours and no more
than 300 hours of training from a licensed school, of which a minimum of 20
would need to be in-person practical training.

The legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Health voted to advance the bill
with a favorable report on Wednesday.

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Facilitators would also need to be 21 or older, Massachusetts residents,
high-school graduates and free of felonies for the past five years prior to
applying for a license. They would be allowed to possess up to five grams of
psilocybin under the proposal. In psychedelic mushrooms, that weight would not
include the “water and fungi material that is part of the psilocybin.”

Participants 18 years or older, meanwhile, “may use psilocybin during
facilitated sessions, by a properly licensed psilocybin facilitator, for
therapeutic, spiritual and medicinal purposes,” the bill says.



Health regulators would make further rules and regulations around licensure.

Facilitators would need to pay a $155 biennial licensing fee, which the advocacy
group Bay Staters for Natural Medicine notes would be significantly less than
licensing costs in Oregon, the first U.S. state to legalize facilitated
psilocybin services.






Regulators in that Oregon licensed the country’s first state-regulated
psychedelic facilitator last April. Many have complained that the services can
cost thousands of dollars, however, which the Massachusetts bill’s low licensing
fees are designed to combat.

The measure advanced this week is one of three psychedelics reforms that sponsor
Boldyga filed last year, including others to reschedule MDMA pending federal
approval and set a price cap on therapeutic access.

The development comes on the heels of local leaders in the city of Medford
adopting a resolution to deprioritize arrests around psychedelic plants and
fungi and also urge county prosecutors to stop pursuing cases of possession,
cultivation or distribution of the substances.



Medford is the eighth Massachusetts city to adopt such a policy, along with
Salem, Somerville, Cambridge, Easthampton, Northampton, Amherst and
Provincetown.

The activist-backed legalization initiative now before state lawmakers,
meanwhile, would create a regulatory framework for lawful and supervised access
to psychedelics at licensed facilities. It would also legalize the possession
and gifting of psychedelics such as psilocybin and ayahuasca, but it would not
otherwise provide for commercial retail sales of the substances.



After activists collected an initial batch of signatures from voters, the
legislature now has the choice of enacting the reform, proposing a substitute or
declining to act entirely. If lawmakers decide not to legalize psychedelics by
May 1, activists would then have until July 3 to submit at least 12,429
additional valid signatures to put the proposal before voters on the November
2024 ballot.

Separately, Gov. Maura Healy (D) last month drew attention to testimony around a
veterans-focused bill that she’s introduced to create a psychedelics work group
that would study the therapeutic potential of substances such as psilocybin.

Another bill would authorize the Department of Public Health to conduct a
comprehensive study into the potential therapeutic effects of synthetic
psychedelics like MDMA.

Rep. Mike Connolly (D) also filed a bill in 2021 that received a Joint Judiciary
Committee hearing on studying the implications of legalizing entheogenic
substances like psilocybin and ayahuasca.



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