Portland Activists Call for Psychedelics to Be Decriminalized
Activists in Portland are calling for the city commission to approve a measure that would decriminalize the ceremonial use, gifting and growing of a number of psychedelics. This new measure would make community-based ceremonies and activities that involve entheogenic substances such as ibogaine and ayahuasca among the lowest law-enforcement priorities in Portland, Oregon. The activists, who are part of the PMHA (Plant Medicine Healing Alliance), worked with indigenous groups to draw up the initiative. This is why DMT extracted from toads and peyote were excluded from the initiative because of sustainability concerns. According to an overview, the draft initiative would…
