Bills to allow some, regulated access to psilocybin unlikely to move forward

Gymnopilus luteofolius, a type of mushroom which contains the psychoactive component psilocybin growing in Port Orchard, Washington. A group is Washington is drafting a state ballot measure to legalize a number of plant- and fungi-based psychedelics for personal use, including psilocybin mushrooms. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Alan Rockefeller.

Washington state lawmakers still can’t pass bills to allow for some legal access to psychedelics.
With Feb. 21 as the cutoff for bills to move out of policy committees, two pieces of legislation that would have allowed regulated and supervised access to psilocybin for adults won’t be moving forward — Senate Bill 5201 and House Bill 1433. The bills faced opposition from state psychiatric and medical groups, as well as advocates for psychedelics.