And this is your brain on drugs...
California initiative would legalize psychedelic mushrooms
By Reid Wilson - 08/30/17 04:10 PM EDT
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-wa...elic-mushrooms
California would become the first state in the nation to legalize psychedelic mushrooms if a long-shot ballot initiative passes muster with voters next year.
The measure is backed by a legalization activist who says he kicked his heroin habit with the help of a mushroom trip in Death Valley. It would exempt Californians over the age of 21 from a state law that criminalizes mushrooms containing psilocybin, the compound that gives some mushrooms psychedelic properties.
"There is a cultural fascination with mushrooms that goes really deep," said Kevin Saunders, the activist behind the initiative. "The soccer moms are all pretty much, for lack of a better term, high now, and some of them are taking mushrooms."
Saunders filed his measure with the office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) on Friday....
...Saunders said he will solicit donations from Hollywood celebrities and wealthy Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs. The campaign is hiring organizers on California college campuses, and it plans to approach district attorneys from some more liberal jurisdictions for support.
Saunders, who is running for mayor of the small coastal community of Marina, said
he believes psilocybin-laced mushrooms could have been transported to earth by an asteroid.
"What I think we're dealing with possibly is alien contact," Saunders said in an interview.
"It may be some sort of communication from an advanced society, to reprogram us, to reprogram our souls or mind. I think this could be the next big awakening."...