The Case for Legalizing Psychedelics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : In November 2012, Washington State and Colorado, through initiatives, became the first two states to legalize personal use of marijuana for adults twenty-one and over.
58% : In addition, this year, the Harvard Law School launched the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) to inform legislation and help clinicians promote safety, innovation, and therapeutics in the medicinal use of psychedelics.
42% : Even in liberal California, after forty years of anti-cannabis laws, Black people were imprisoned ten times more often for possessing marijuana than other racial groups.
40% : Such skepticism also greeted the advocacy for legalizing marijuana, renamed more accurately as cannabis.
36% : It directs police via ordinance to treat enforcement of laws against the possession of psilocybin mushrooms as their lowest priority.

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