Denver, Colorado, Psilocybin Mushroom Initiative (November 2018)
| Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Initiative |
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| The basics |
| Election date: |
| November 6, 2018 |
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 Not on the ballot
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| Local law enforcement |
| Related articles |
| Local law enforcement on the ballot November 6, 2018 ballot measures in Colorado Denver County, Colorado ballot measures |
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| Denver, Colorado |
An initiative to decriminalize the use, possession, and cultivation of mushrooms containing psychedelic compounds did not make the ballot for November 6, 2018, in Denver, Colorado. The group behind the initiative, Denver for Psilocybin (later Decriminalize Denver), successfully placed a similar initiative on the May 2019 ballot.[1][2]
Initiative design
The initiative was designed to decriminalize the use, possession, and cultivation of mushrooms that produce psilocybin, psilocin, baeocystin, and nor-baeocystin, which are hallucinogenic compounds. The petition stated the following:[3]
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The purpose and intent of this article is to: 1) deprioritize, to the greatest extent possible, imposition of criminal penalties on persons twenty-one (21) years of age and older for the personal use and personal possession of psilocybin mushrooms; and 2) prohibit the City and County of Denver from spending resources on imposing criminal penalties on persons twenty-one (21) years of age and older for the personal use and personal possession of psilocybin mushrooms.[4] |
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Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for the initiative was as follows:[3]
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Shall the voters of the City and County of Denver adopt an ordinance to the Denver Revised Municipal Code that would make the personal use and personal possession of psilocybin mushrooms by persons twenty-one (21) years of age and older the city’s lowest law-enforcement priority, prohibit the city from spending resources to impose criminal penalties for the personal use and personal possession of psilocybin mushrooms by persons twenty-one (21) years of age and older, and establish the psilocybin mushroom policy review panel to assess and report on the effects of the ordinance?[4] |
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Full text of petition
The full text of the petition is available here.
Path to the ballot
The group Denver for Psilocybin filed two petitions in 2018 to place the initiative on the November ballot. The elections division denied both petitions.
Related measures
Local
Denver, Colorado, Psilocybin Mushroom Initiative (May 2019)
Statewide
California Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Initiative (2018) Oregon Measure 109, Psilocybin Mushroom Services Program Initiative (2020)
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ KHN, "First, Marijuana. Are Magic Mushrooms Next?," May 14, 2018
- ↑ 9 News, "Denver group wants to legalize magic mushrooms," July 24, 2018
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Decriminalize Denver, "Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Initiative," accessed January 7, 2019
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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