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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1450 FILED ON: 1/18/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1754 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Lindsay N. Sabadosa |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act relative to plant medicine. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Lindsay N. Sabadosa1st Hampshire1/18/2023Steven Owens29th Middlesex1/24/2023Christine P. Barber34th Middlesex1/27/2023David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf17th Worcester1/27/2023Natalie M. Higgins4th Worcester2/22/2023Dylan A. FernandesBarnstable, Dukes and Nantucket3/10/2023 1 of 1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1450 FILED ON: 1/18/2023 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1754 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Sabadosa of Northampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1754) |
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| 19 | 19 | | of Lindsay N. Sabadosa and others relative to legalizing certain plant medicine. The Judiciary. |
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| 20 | 20 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 21 | 21 | | _______________ |
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| 22 | 22 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | An Act relative to plant medicine. |
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| 26 | 26 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 27 | 27 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 28 | 28 | | 1 SECTION 1. Chapter 94C of the General Laws, as so appearing in the 2020 Official |
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| 29 | 29 | | 2Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 49 the following new section-: |
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| 30 | 30 | | 3 Section 50: Entheogenic Plants and Fungi |
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| 31 | 31 | | 4 Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, all of the following shall be |
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| 32 | 32 | | 5lawful for a natural person 18 years of age or older and shall not be a violation of state or local |
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| 33 | 33 | | 6law: the possession, ingestion, obtaining, growing, giving away without financial gain to natural |
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| 34 | 34 | | 7persons 18 years of age or older, and transportation of no more than two grams of psilocybin, |
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| 35 | 35 | | 8psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine, ibogaine, and mescaline, excluding the weight of any material |
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| 36 | 36 | | 9such as water, plant, and fungi material of which the substance is a part or to which the substance |
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| 37 | 37 | | 10is added, dissolved, held in solution, or suspended. |
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| 38 | 38 | | 11 “Financial gain” shall mean the receipt of money or other valuable consideration in |
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| 39 | 39 | | 12exchange for the item being shared. |
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