Measure on the ballot in the 2020 District of Columbia General Election in District of Columbia.
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Get StartedThis Initiative would make the investigation and arrest of adults for non-commercial planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, possessing, and/or engaging in practices with entheogenic plants and fungi among the Metropolitan Police Department’s lowest law enforcement priorities. It would also codify that the people of the District of Columbia call upon the Attorney General for the District of Columbia and the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia to cease prosecution of residents of the District of Columbia for these activities.
A "YES" vote on Initiative 81 is a vote to support reducing the police enforcement of laws against entheogenic plants and fungi to be among the lowest law enforcement priorities and halting the prosecution of D.C. residents for engaging in these activities.
A "NO" vote on Initiative 81 is a vote against reducing the police enforcement of laws against entheogenic plants and fungi to be among the lowest law enforcement priorities and halting the prosecution of D.C. residents for engaging in these activities.
"D.C. is an important place for us to start dismantling the war on drugs. People need to have access to any healing modality without fear of arrest.", in support of Initiative Measure No. 81 (Learn more)
“This is a bald-faced attempt to just make these very serious, very potent, very dangerous — both short-term and long-term — hallucinogenic drugs broadly available, public health has to be maintained. We know, of course, once you make it a very low enforcement level and encourage prosecutors not to prosecute it, what would prevent people from using hallucinogens, getting behind the wheel of a car and killing people?”, in opposition to Initiative Measure No. 81 (Learn more)
If enacted, this Initiative would make the investigation and arrest of adults for non-commercial planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, possessing, and/or engaging in practices with entheogenic plants and fungi among the Metropolitan Police Department's lowest law enforcement priorities. It would also codify that the people of the District of Columbia call upon the Attorney General for D.C., and the U.S. Attorney for D.C., to cease prosecution of residents of the District of Columbia for these activities.
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