HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1450        FILED ON: 1/18/2023

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1754

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Lindsay N. Sabadosa

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to plant medicine.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Lindsay N. Sabadosa

1st Hampshire

1/18/2023

Steven Owens

29th Middlesex

1/24/2023

Christine P. Barber

34th Middlesex

1/27/2023

David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf

17th Worcester

1/27/2023

Natalie M. Higgins

4th Worcester

2/22/2023

Dylan A. Fernandes

Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket

3/10/2023

Samantha Montaño

15th Suffolk

3/27/2023

Erika Uyterhoeven

27th Middlesex

4/24/2023

James C. Arena-DeRosa

8th Middlesex

6/8/2023

Joan B. Lovely

Second Essex

1/11/2024


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1450        FILED ON: 1/18/2023

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1754

By Representative Sabadosa of Northampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1754) of Lindsay N. Sabadosa and others relative to legalizing certain plant medicine.  The Judiciary.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)

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An Act relative to plant medicine.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 94C of the General Laws, as so appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 49 the following new section-:

Section 50: Entheogenic Plants and Fungi

Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, all of the following shall be lawful for a natural person 18 years of age or older and shall not be a violation of state or local law: the possession, ingestion, obtaining, growing, giving away without financial gain to natural persons 18 years of age or older, and transportation of no more than two grams of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine, ibogaine, and mescaline, excluding the weight of any material such as water, plant, and fungi material of which the substance is a part or to which the substance is added, dissolved, held in solution, or suspended.

“Financial gain” shall mean the receipt of money or other valuable consideration in exchange for the item being shared.