Posted on 01/22/2023 4:18:50 AM PST by fluorescence
PHOENIX - A bipartisan group of Arizona lawmakers have introduced legislation to study the possible benefits of psychedelic mushrooms for mental health and various other disorders.
If House Bill 2486 is passed, a research advisory council would be established to study the impacts of the drug. The bill would not legalize mushrooms for recreational use.
Clinical trials would be conducted to evaluate the effects of mushrooms on PTSD, depression, long-term symptoms of COVID-19 and other conditions.
Lawmakers would seek $30 million for a three-year study.
Read the bill here: https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/1R/bills/HB2486P.htm
And the woke liberal funding priority grab begins... Of course this is much more important than fixing the roads that are falling apart. Or Schools, Or Police Officer’s pensions.
Well that would explain the midterm results in Arizona.
The Queen had those tapes exorcised...
Thing is... This could be done without one tax dollar spent. Let the organizations who are proponents of legalizing Shrooms, and I’m sure there are several, privately fund a study themselves and then present it to the State for review.
But they cannot skim dollars from the taxpayers this way. These organizations will still do the study, but they want to steal tax dollars to pay for their own activism goal. If they care that much about the issue then let them pay for it themselves.
This is how Ca operates. Hire and pay a review board to oversee and pay private organizations, who subcontract to other 3rd parties, who subcontract to 4th parties to actually do the study.
Yet from the top legislatures down through the chain to the bottom they are all connected friends and family. When there is actually no middle men needed at all to accomplish the same.
Maybe they should just spike the lunches of Congress for a few weeks and see what happens?
Know what? It might actually help...
Well if it helps treat mental illness it would be a good test case...
Problem is they’re illegal. And they’re Schedule 1. Which means the government says there’s no legitimate medical use and coming out with such a study would basically be admitting you’re a felon. So no you can’t actually do this without the government being involved on some level.
So hire just one person to research the data from Oregon where it is legal for therapeutic uses. I’m sure in three years he/she could produce all the information they need. No reason for a whole board and chain of contractors and 30 million dollars.
Hey, I would be happy to do it from home here for 100K over a three year period plus expenses for any travel needed.
Nobody is going to publish research that had to break the law to get done. That could get you charged with abetting after the fact.
The problem is the whole scheduling system. Marijuana has managed to slip through because even ardent supporters of the WOD recognize that making MJ schedule 1 next to heroin is kinda silly. And there’s big momentum on legalization, so blind eyeing the whole thing is easy. Mushrooms don’t have that momentum. If they got rescheduled down to 2 or 3 private research would be legally safish. Not entirely because they’re still illegal but those levels admit to possible therapeutic use and are open to research (still supposed to work it out with the government). Schedule 1 isn’t, the ONLY organization allowed to do much of anything with schedule 1 is the government.
It’s the great catch 22. The government has declared mushrooms so dangerous you can’t even research doing safe things with them, unless the government decides to fund said research. So literally the reason this has to be funded by the government is because the government said so.
You volunteering to do 20 years in jail for illegal and “dangerous” research into schedule 1 narcotics?
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Not if the physical research is done in Oregon where it is legal. And it is not illegal to use the internet to communicate and share data about shrooms back and forth like we are now.
But this would never happen because I am not a friend or family member.
There is also a significant group of folks traveling for psychedelics and tons of data already. They probably want to synthesize it.
DEA scheduling doesn’t give a damn about local ordinance, there’s a reason why MJ dispensers have such a hard time with banks, eventually you’re always dealing with the feds. It’s not illegal to communicate BUT that communication can be considered evidence. If somebody goes and publishes a study saying mushrooms have therapeutic value and it gets legs and becomes a big deal unless they did all that research outside of America the DEA will get them. And even if it all happened outside America the DEA will still be watching them very closely any time the researchers are in America. They let stuff slide on marijuana, they ain’t making mistake again.
“You volunteering to do 20 years in jail for illegal and “dangerous” research into schedule 1 narcotics?”
Where did you get the idea it is illegal to research it? Is it then illegal to even discuss it or share data about it as we are now?
A thought crime? Guilt of use and possession through simple associated research without touching any at all in the state of Az?
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