{"id":1303176,"date":"2019-02-02T10:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T17:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=445804"},"modified":"2019-02-02T10:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T17:54:22","slug":"its-official-psychedelic-mushrooms-are-on-a-trip-to-denvers-2019-election-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/its-official-psychedelic-mushrooms-are-on-a-trip-to-denvers-2019-election-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: Psychedelic mushrooms are on a trip to Denver\u2019s 2019 election ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver voters will decide this year whether to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. Organizers collected more than 5,000 valid signatures, enough to put the initiative on the municipal ballot this May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be pretty big,&#8221; said Kevin Matthews, campaign director for Decriminalize Denver. &#8220;There are a lot of people throughout our country that want to see the drug policy laws change around psychedelics and psilocybin in particular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the change &#8220;would not increase access at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The measure would not allow people to buy or sell &#8220;magic&#8221; mushrooms, which contain the drug psilocybin. In fact, they would remain illegal under local, state and federal law.<\/p>\n<p>But it would make possession of the fungus the &#8220;lowest law-enforcement priority&#8221; for Denver police, and it would prohibit the city from spending public money to impose related criminal penalties. It would only apply to people over 21 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/02\/01\/psychedelic-mushrooms-make-denver-2019-ballot\/?fbclid=IwAR2e0E4t5912l2DpxSsmnJEeHFsW3mKyi5mUX9xc9Sl4d6V-40F-i0YQoMc\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/its-official-psychedelic-mushrooms-are-on-a-trip-to-denvers-2019-election-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver voters will decide this year whether to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. Organizers collected more than 5,000 valid signatures, enough to put the initiative on the municipal ballot this May. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be pretty big,&#8221; said Kevin Matthews, campaign director for Decriminalize Denver. &#8220;There are a lot of people throughout our country that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1303176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 19:25:42","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}