for medicinal use and cleared the way for healing centers to open and offer natural medical services.— which also decriminalized the personal use, sharing or growing of certain substances — by clarifying parts of the ballot measure and ensuring it makes sense in the state’s existing regulatory framework.
The bill also makes it a petty drug offense for someone under the age of 21 to possess or use the substances or for anyone “who openly and publicly displaces or consumes” them. Fenberg has said he had concerns about Prop 122 facilitating black market growth and sales in other states, where the substances remain illegal.
Duffy at SPORE said he was encouraged that lawmakers are inviting indigenous perspectives into the policy process and that the bill does not set limits on personal possession. However, he feels many aspects surrounding decriminalization have been compromised.