Denver could become the first US city to decriminalize magic mushrooms

By Mallory Hughes and Jacqueline Howard, CNN

Updated at 4:02 PM ET, Wed January 9, 2019

A type of magic mushroom, or psilocybin mushroom.

(CNN) — The Mile High City might be getting a whole lot higher.
An advocacy group has collected nearly 9,500 signatures to get a measure on the ballot in May that would decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms in Denver.
On Monday, petitions were submitted to the city and county of Denver's Elections Division for the measure to appear on the upcoming ballot, and the division has 25 days to review.




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@DecriminalizeDenver (Psilocybin Initiative) has submitted petitions for an Initiated Ordinance. We have 25 days to review the petitions to see if they contain enough valid signatures for the ordinance to appear on the May ballot.

While the Denver Elections Division has yet to verify the signatures, the issue is sure to sprout some debate.

"We want people kept out of prison, families kept together," said Kevin Matthews, the campaign director of Decriminalize Denver. "That was the main motivation for this."

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