<story><title>California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate</title><url>https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB519/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluepanda928752</author><text>I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine called war on drugs</text></item><item><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></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>I know of a police chief who just retired with a $250k&amp;#x2F;year pension whose primary contribution to the community was arresting high school kids for smoking joints.</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><item><author>bluepanda928752</author><text>I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine called war on drugs</text></item><item><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></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aerostable_slug</author><text>How does that address those who voted for many of those men and women, knowing their policies and completely agreeing with them?&lt;p&gt;I am acquainted with people who firmly believe the Devil&amp;#x27;s Plant is terrible and shouldn&amp;#x27;t be legal anywhere — what then?</text></comment>