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Psychedelic Therapies Show Promise. Is California Ready to Bring Them into the Mainstream? 

Psychedelics Like Mushrooms and Mescaline Could Be Decriminalized in California as Advocates Tout Their Therapeutic Potential

By Ana B. Ibarra, CalMatters
Thu Aug 31, 2023 | 1:14pm
A bag of psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles on May 6, 2019. | Credit: Richard Vogel, AP Photo

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Psychedelics are having a moment. A nationwide push to bring magic mushrooms and other psychedelics into the mainstream is gaining traction, and some Californians want in.

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