<story><title>California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate</title><url>https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB519/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beepbooptheory</author><text>As someone whose life was very much thrown into turmoil and difficulty for getting caught with a relatively small amount of mushrooms in Texas, to the point that it will soon be a decade and I have not really completely recovered financially or emotionally, and also still blocked from a lot of jobs, news like this is so good but hard to hear on a personal level.</text></comment>
<story><title>California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate</title><url>https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB519/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ttul</author><text>A very significant result for drug policy modernization efforts everywhere. California is larger than many countries. Policymakers and politicians will be looking at the results of this change with great interest as they contemplate the risks and benefits of such a move in their own jurisdictions. If things goes broadly without incident (as I bet they will), then Prohibitionists will have less ammunition against policy modernization.</text></comment>