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Oregon voters passed a 2020 ballot measure making it the first state to both decriminalize psilocybin and also legalize its supervised use. [1] [2] Colorado followed with a similar measure in 2022. [3] The use, sale, and possession of psilocybin in the United States is illegal under federal law.
The new law came into effect on 1 February 2021. [22] On the same day Washington, D.C. passed an initiative to decriminalize the cultivation and possession of "entheogenic plants and fungi". [ 122 ] [ 123 ] [ 124 ] In 2021, the City Councils of Somerville , Northampton , Cambridge, Massachusetts , and Seattle, Washington , voted for ...
This list of U.S. states by Alford plea usage documents usage of the form of guilty plea known as the Alford plea in each of the U.S. states in the United States. An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine [4] [5] [6]) in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and ...
New York City, New York: January 5, 2018 May 5, 2018 Ordinance In June 2017, a bill to ban conversion therapy was introduced to the New York City Council. [201] The City Council passed (43–2) the ban on November 30. Mayor Bill de Blasio returned the bill unsigned on January 5, thus allowing it to become law. It went into effect 120 days later ...
Prostitution is not illegal when performed by a person acting alone in private, but public solicitation, brothels and pimping are. The Policing and Crime Act 2009 makes it illegal to pay for sex with a prostitute who has been "subjected to force" and this is a strict liability offence (clients can be prosecuted even if they did not know the ...
At least a dozen Illinois schools received fake threats of violence Wednesday.
State Sen. Julie Morrison, D-Lake Forest, said some e-cigarettes are designed to look like school supplies, like highlighters, erasers and pencil sharpeners. “Th New Illinois laws affecting ...
Illinois state troopers may issue a $164 citation to drivers who violate this law, Illinois State Police spokesperson Melissa Albert-Lopez said in a recent email to the News-Democrat.