{"id":23290,"date":"2019-05-09T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/denver-the-first-u-s-city-to-decriminalize-magic-mushrooms\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:56:00","slug":"denver-the-first-u-s-city-to-decriminalize-magic-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/denver-the-first-u-s-city-to-decriminalize-magic-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize \u2018magic mushrooms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Magic_Mushrooms-Denver_Vote_66618-402e32.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Magic_Mushrooms-Denver_Vote_66618-402e32.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Magic_Mushrooms-Denver_Vote_66618-402e32-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>A vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles on Monday, May 6, 2019. Voters decide this week whether Denver will become the first U.S. city to decriminalize the use of psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in &#8220;magic mushrooms.&#8221; (AP Photo\/Richard Vogel)<\/strong><br \/><em>AP | AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">DENVER \u2014 Voters have made Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in \u201cmagic mushrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Preliminary results show that the citizen-led initiative narrowly passed Tuesday. It makes the use or possession of psilocybin by people 21 and older the lowest enforcement priority for police and prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Psilocybin has been federally outlawed since the 1960s, when it was widely known as a recreational drug. The ban stymied medical research, but small studies in recent years have found the substance had positive effects on anxiety and depression for cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Supporters say it\u2019s wrong to jail an adult for using a substance they believe helps with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and other conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Denver\u2019s mayor and top prosecutor opposed the initiative, but there was no organized campaign against decriminalization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/denver-the-first-u-s-city-to-decriminalize-magic-mushrooms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles on Monday, May 6, 2019. Voters decide this week whether Denver will become the first U.S. city to decriminalize the use of psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in &#8220;magic mushrooms.&#8221; (AP Photo\/Richard Vogel)AP | AP DENVER \u2014 Voters have made Denver the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 16:58:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}