Canadian Officials Respond To Psychedelics Decriminalization Petition, Saying No Legal Changes Needed
Marijuana Stocks, Finance, & InvestingUncategorized November 20, 2020 MJ Shareholders
Top officials in the Canadian government have issued a formal response to a petition calling for the nationwide decriminalization of psychedelics, emphasizing in their reply that while the drugs remain illegal for most Canadians there are ways for some people to gain exemptions to legally consume them.
The substances must be studied further before sweeping reforms can be made, however, the government ministers said.
Nearly 15,000 Canadians signed onto an official petition on the House of Commons’s website this summer calling on lawmakers to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi“when used for therapeutic practices, as adjuncts to medical care, for healing ceremonies or solitary spiritual growth and self-development.”
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