Local Psychedelics Reform: Michigan City Passes Decriminalization Measure, Fourth In State So Far

The Ferndale City Council has unanimously approved a resolution decriminalizing psychedelic plants and fungi, joining three other Michigan cities Detroit, Ann Arbor and Hazel Park’s similar reform policies.

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Sponsored by the city’s Mayor Kat Bruner James, the measure states that investigations and arrests on possessing, growing, buying, transporting, distributing and generally being engaged in practices with entheogenic plants and fungi will now be a low law enforcement priority.

Possession or consumption of psychedelics in schools or their use by minors, as well as commercial sales, driving under the influence or public disturbances, will not be permitted under the new policy.

The resolution is a result of the council’s research on the traditional use of psychedelics and the scientific and clinical potential shown by entheogenic plants to benefit the health and well-being of both individuals and communities, especially recalling the positive outcomes for the treatment of addictions, trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety and grief.

Michigan is certainly one of the most advanced places for the psychedelics reform movement. That said, not all of its cities have passed decriminalization proposals East Lansing’s city council rejected. At a state level, a recent legalization proposal that was finally dropped by activists who decided to try their chances on the 2024 polls.

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