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About a week after Colorado activists filed revised versions of 2022 ballot initiatives to legalize psilocybin and create "healing centers" in the state, a second campaign has submitted their own competing proposal to legalize psychedelics. Activists with Decriminalize Nature Boulder County filed the new, one-page initiative on Friday. It would allow adults 21 and older to possess, cultivate, gift and deliver psilocybin, psilocyn, ibogaine, mescaline and DMT. Further, the measure says that it would be lawful to conduct psychedelics services for guidance, therapy and harm reduction and spiritual purposes with or without accepting payment. It would not be legal to sell any of the psychedelics, however. The campaign is being headed by activists Nicole Foerster and Melanie Rodgers, a proponent of Denver's 2019 psilocybin decriminalization initiative who also petitioned for a successful Washington, D.C. decriminalization measure. "Without decriminalization and the security it allows for affected communities to more effectively organize, regulatory models will make it difficult for the most disadvantaged groups of our population to continue to access the natural medicines they safely use to heal," Foerster said in a press release. "To address this we are advocating for a simple change to existing laws around these controlled substances." The new filing is a sign of splintering between Colorado advocates who share the objective of ending psychedelics criminalization and ensuring access but who apparently disagree about the regulatory approach. The separate, recently revised initiatives filed by the well-funded national New Approach PAC and supported by people like philanthropist David Bronner of the soap company Dr. Bronner's is much more thorough and contains key differences from the simple adult-use legalization proposal that have now been introduced. Under the revised measures, which are titled the Natural Medicine Health Act, there would be a two-tiered regulatory model, where only psilocybin would be legalized…

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Source : Colorado Activists File Competing Psychedelics Legalization Ballot Initiative For 2022

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