After Denver became the first city in the US to legalize magic mushrooms, Oakland is following suit. Several speakers testified before the City Council claiming that psychedelics helped them overcome depression, drug addiction, and PTSD, and the council voted unanimously to decriminalize the adult use and possession of mushrooms.
The new law makes the investigation of adults possessing, growing, using, or distributing entheogenic plants one of the lowest priorities for police, and city funds are not to be used to enforce laws criminalizing the substance. There is also a provision directing the city administrator to return to the council within a year to give an assessment of how the law is impacting the community.
