This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, September 27th, 2023.

I'm Caleb Brown.

California is the latest state poised to legalize the possession of some small amounts of psychedelic drugs.

Left out of the process are the physicians who might want to prescribe and supervise the use

of these drugs in a therapeutic setting.

And the federal government is well behind the curve in allowing practicing

physicians to help patients in this way.

Cato's Jeff Singer and I discussed the issue last week.

Multiple Cities. and now California

is looking potentially to be the latest state to, I don't know if you call it, end prohibition

on psychedelics or legalize them for specific purposes.

Now Oregon did seem to be so very careful about how it has legalized

the therapeutic use of at least mushrooms.

What is California looking to do?

Yeah, by the way, you also not, you don't want to not mention Colorado. Colorado recently

decriminalized still a cybin, DMT, I booogane, and Mesklin. But Oregon set up a process whereby they will license facilitators who want to

facilitate people who are using some of these naturally occurring psychedelics to deal with a whole host of

mental health disorders that the psychedelics have been shown to be very helpful with, particularly

such problems as PTSD major depressive

disorders even addiction there been evidence that for example so elisibin

has been helpful or MDMA which is not a naturally occurring psychedelic, they've been helpful in treating addiction to nicotine, alcohol, and perhaps illicit drugs.

Now in California the after multiple tries it looks like

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