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New York is facing an epidemic of mental health, substance abuse, chronic pain, and suicide, all of which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Countless New Yorkers are suffering from mental health challenges and conditions, at least 1 in 5 New Yorkers live with chronic pain, and every year we lose thousands of New Yorkers to overdose and suicide. It is abundantly and tragically clear that the current approaches to treating these crises aren’t working well enough.
Psychedelic Medicine can help.
If you would like to see the New York State legislature act now to decriminalize the use of natural substances like psilocybin, please send a message like the one below to your state assemblymember, your state senator, and Governor Kathy Hochul. You can click on each of the links to find out how to identify who your representatives in Albany are, and how to communicate with them.
Thank you for taking action!
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New York is facing an epidemic of mental health, substance abuse, chronic pain, and suicide, all exacerbated by the pandemic. Countless New Yorkers are suffering from mental health challenges and conditions, at least 1 in 5 New Yorkers live with chronic pain, and every year we lose thousands of New Yorkers to overdose and suicide. It is abundantly and tragically clear that the current approaches to treating these crises aren’t working well enough.
Psychedelic Medicine can help. People are increasingly seeking this centuries-old alternative approach: psychedelic substances. Psychedelics include psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, ayahuasca, DMT, MDMA, ketamine, ibogaine, and others. A growing body of research from many of the top research institutions in the world, clearly indicate the benefits of psychedelic-assisted therapy for treating a wide range of mental health conditions including depression, substance abuse, end-of-life anxiety, PTSD, and eating disorders, as well as chronic pain conditions such as cluster headaches and migraines. A growing number of practitioners in the healthcare, therapy, and recovery fields are aware that they are unjustly prevented from accessing psychedelic medicines and treatment modalities by failed, unjust, and racist Drug War policies, including the Controlled Substances Act and Rockefeller Drug Laws.
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New York has an opportunity to help ensure that no one should go to jail because they are trying to heal. Three pieces of legislation are currently progressing in the New York State Assembly and Senate.
A114 (Rosenthal) would decriminalize the possession, cultivation, and non-commercial exchange of naturally-occurring psychedelics (including psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine, and mescaline), as well as providing protections for caretakers and providers.
A3581/S3520 (Burke/Fernandez) would legalize psilocybin-assisted therapy, religious and cultural use, and accessible programs for research and treatment at New York colleges and universities.
A8349/S7832 (Burke/Fernandez) would establishes the psilocybin assisted therapy pilot program; provides such program will be offered to ten thousand veterans and first responders from the western region of New York State.
I urge you to support these bills, and any others that may cross your desk, that would decriminalize the use of psilocybin and other natural substances that can help our veterans, first responders, those dealing with trauma and intractable pain and mental health problems to heal.
Sincerely,
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