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Signature Gathering Training Online

The signature gathering training is a must for anyone who will be helping to gather signatures for our ballot language.

Please take the time to watch the training video so you can help us collect signatures. We are constantly updating the training doc with all of the latest hubs and contact info.

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Next Volunteer Meeting: July 11th, 2022 at 7:00pm

At this meeting we’ll be creating a committee to help steer the next several months of volunteering – if you want input in how that will be structured, want to vote on who should be on that committee, or want to volunteer for that committee, we’ll need you there!

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Michigan Initiative for Community Healing

The Michigan Initiative for Community Healing will decriminalize the possession and cultivation of “Natural plants and mushrooms”, reduce penalties for controlled substances that currently include life sentences and lifetime probation, legalize drug testing kits helping to preventing overdoses, and creates pathways for religious organizations and hospitals to develop psychedelic assisted mental health and ceremonial services.

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News

Ballot Initiative

Michigan Activists Begin Signature Gathering For Psychedelics Legalization Ballot Initiative Following State Certification

Please take the time to watch the training video so you can help us collect signatures. We are constantly updating the training doc with all of the latest hubs and contact info.

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Scientific Reports Journal

Associations between classic psychedelics and opioid use disorder in a nationally-representative U.S. adult sample

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Hazel Park City Council Decriminalizes Entheogens

The Hazel Park City Council tonight passed a resolution that decriminalizes what’s commonly known as “entheogenic plants,” or the full spectrum of “plants, fungi, and natural materials that can benefit psychological and physical wellness, support and enhance religious and spiritual practices and can reestablish human’s inalienable and direct relationship to nature.”

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Mission

To improve human health and well-being by decriminalizing and expanding access to entheogenic plants and fungi through political and community organizing, education and advocacy.

Vision

We envision happier, healthier individuals and communities reconnected to nature and entheogenic plant and fungi traditions and practices.

Purpose Statement

To decriminalize entheogenic plants, restore our root connection to nature, and improve human health and well-being.

The Entheofest is a free speech event celebrating sacred plant medicine. This will be an annual event commemorating the anniversary of Ann Arbor’s resolution to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi. Stay tuned for details on the next Entheofest.

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Entheofest 2021 All-Stars Panel

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In the Media

Michigan lawmaker introduces psychedelics decriminalization bill

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Detroit mushroom vote adds momentum to Michigan efforts to decriminalize psychedelics

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Grand Rapids, MI supports psychedelic decriminalization

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GOP bill would ease cannabis & psilocybin research

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What is an entheogen?

A class of psychoactive substances that, when ingested, induces a non-ordinary state of consciousness for therapeutic, medicinal, spiritual, or religious purposes.

Iboga

Beneficial for treatment-resistant opiate and methamphetamine addiction

From Central Africa through Gabon, iboga is revered for initiatory rites of passage involving encounters with ancestors from the spirit realm

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Ayahuasca

Beneficial for depression, addiction, anxiety, and PTSD

Ayahuasca treatment in Brazilian prison population reduces recidivism

Benefits creativity, openness, and spiritual growth

Over 75 indigenous groups in the Amazonian basin respect ayahuasca as a sacred “plant teacher”

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Cacti

Beneficial for the treatment of alcoholism

Central to traditional religious and healing practices

Considered a sacrament by many

Honored as sacred plants for thousands of years throughout the Americas

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Psilocybe Mushrooms

Beneficial for depression & recidivism

UCLA & NYU: Treating end-of-life anxiety

Encourages openness, creativity, and spiritual growth

John Hopkins: Top 5 most meaningful experiences

Respected as a safe & natural healing sacrament for millennia throughout Mexico, Central America and the world.

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Map of Decriminaliation Efforts in the United States

"I support the decriminalization of entheogenic plants. I believe the War on Drugs has been an abject failure, and I see no reason to criminalize–or prosecute–people for their use of such plants. That was my position before the Ann Arbor City Council resolution, and it’s true with even greater force afterwards.
The truth of the matter is, the vast majority of people who engage in substance use are able to do so without criminal consequences. But for an unlucky few, their decision to use substances results in harsh, life-changing penalties. The War on Drugs has thus created a cruel roulette wheel of sorts. And it’s a weighted wheel, as the data clearly shows that Black people and people of color are far more likely to face criminal consequences related to drug use than white people.
The Ann Arbor City Council resolution of course applies only in Ann Arbor. But, consistent with the resolution, I do not plan to prosecute the use or possession of entheogenic plants in any other part of the county."
– Eli Savit, Washtenaw County Prosecutor