No, I don’t mean that Decriminalize Nature DC is doing anything to harm the psychedelic movement. I mean that by eliciting the first serious response from a prohibitionist it has taught an important lesson. See my commentary at Lucid News.   

A few days ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Courtney Barnes, Esq., an associate at the law firm Vicente Sederberg, about the draft ordinance she prepared on behalf of Decriminalize Nature Oakland. Everything happening now is an open-source uncontrolled policy experiment: federal intransigence continues to cause the drug control structure to crack as… Read More Keeping ahead of the corporate interests: attorney Courtney Barnes discusses Decriminalize Nature Oakland’s proposed new ordinance