Iowa Democrats Unveil Marijuana Resolution To Put Legalization On Ballot For Voters To Decide – Marijuana Moment

Iowa Democrats Unveil Marijuana Resolution To Put Legalization On Ballot For Voters To Decide – Marijuana Moment

A new global coalition announced a new campaign on Tuesday to get psilocybin mushrooms internationally rescheduled.

As the psychedelics reform movement continues to expand domestically in the U.S., the International Therapeutic Psilocybin Rescheduling Initiative (ITPRI) is seeking a worldwide policy change in order to facilitate research into the therapeutic potential of the substance.

Partners of the coalition include the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Beckley Foundation, Mind Medicine Australia, Drug Science and Open Foundation.

The initiative focuses on international drug scheduling under the United Nations’s 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, which currently places psilocybin in the most tightly restricted, Schedule I category, which is supposed to be reserved for drugs  that constitute “an especially serious risk” and have “limited” therapeutic uses.

Advocates say that psilocybin fits neither of those criteria.

Schedule I drugs like psilocybin are “subject to strict limits on their scientific and medical use,” the coalition said in a press release. “Schedule I licensing, safe custody, security, manufacturing, quantity, and import/export restrictions result in a level of regulatory control and oversight that is drastically more onerous than for the Convention’s other three schedules.”

Consequently, researchers interested in studying the controlled substance “face numerous regulatory hurdles which add significantly to the cost, complexity, and duration of research and can negatively impact ethical approvals, funding and collaboration.”

To reschedule psilocybin under international policy, the coalition says as a first step it will be engaging with member nations who are part of the treaty to initiate a formal review of the benefits and risks of the psychedelic. Only one country would need to request the review from UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) to get the process started.

“Given today’s scientific understanding of psilocybin’s high potential therapeutic value and low risk of dependence, a change of its status as a Schedule I drug is long overdue,” Christopher Koddermann, ITPRI co-founder and chair of the Board of Directors, said in a press release.

After the procedure is initiated either by a member nation or WHO itself, the international body’s Executive Committee on Drug Dependency (ECDD) would then launch a critical review into the matter and provide recommendations on a possible policy change. If the review results in …….

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