Pot Legalization Hits an Unlikely Snag: ‘Magic’ Mushrooms
Many of the pitfalls were anticipated.
A battle over psychedelic mushrooms was not.
On Monday, the Senate voted to amend a decriminalization bill to include psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound in so-called magic mushrooms, or “shrooms,” snarling the time-sensitive negotiations over a separate legalization bill. That bill creates a framework for the constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana, which takes effect Jan. 1.