{"id":1303969,"date":"2019-02-20T06:14:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=448256"},"modified":"2019-02-20T06:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:14:27","slug":"psychedelic-mushrooms-just-put-denver-at-the-center-of-the-national-drug-debate-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/psychedelic-mushrooms-just-put-denver-at-the-center-of-the-national-drug-debate-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychedelic mushrooms just put Denver at the center of the national drug debate \u2014 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver is at\u00a0the forefront of America&#8217;s next drug reform movement \u2014 again.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of residents have signed on in an effort to loosen restrictions on psilocybin mushrooms. In three months, a question about decriminalizing the psychedelic drug will appear on the city&#8217;s elections ballots alongside the mayoral election and more mundane affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The campaigners behind the Decriminalize Denver measure already have made history: This is the first time U.S. voters will consider giving a second chance to the drug, which was the subject of great scientific interest before its reputation was annihilated in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the measure has raised the same fear and excitement as the marijuana liberalization effort: Will it cement the city&#8217;s reputation as a mecca for drugs, effective progressive policies, or both?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People from all over the world are getting in touch with us,&#8221; said Kevin Matthews, the 33-year-old, stay-at-home dad who is managing the campaign. &#8220;That&#8217;s what&#8217;s exciting about this: The fact that this is getting international attention, very positive attention, I think speaks to the movement overall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/priority\/main-headline\/psychedelic-mushrooms-just-put-denver-at-the-center-of-the-national-drug-debate-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver is at\u00a0the forefront of America&#8217;s next drug reform movement \u2014 again. Thousands of residents have signed on in an effort to loosen restrictions on psilocybin mushrooms. In three months, a question about decriminalizing the psychedelic drug will appear on the city&#8217;s elections ballots alongside the mayoral election and more mundane affairs. The campaigners behind [&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-1303969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:50:59","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\/1303969","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=1303969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}