D.C. voters approve ballot question to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms

Voters approved a D.C. ballot initiative to decriminalize the use of magic mushrooms and other psychedelic substances Tuesday after a months-long campaign in which supporters collected signatures during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Voters were deciding whether the nation’s capital would join a handful of cities moving to decriminalize certain psychedelic plants and fungi. The measure states it would make prosecution of those who use and sell the substances “among the Metropolitan Police Department’s lowest law enforcement priorities.”