Decriminalize Santa Cruz

07/19/2025

I wanted to share something I think people in this group may like which is Matt Xavier’s new book available in Kindle, hard and softcover.

https://a.co/d/1q2s7xn

I learned about him listening to the Mr. Bill podcast, which is usually interviews with EDM producers and I guess this is no different but definitely had a remarkable psychedelic discussion that I found myself wanting to replay

Here’s the Apple podcast link but I’m sure it’s available on other RSS feeds:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mr-bill-podcast/id1480159954?i=1000712580239&r=1783

Matt’s on
https://www.instagram.com/mattxavierdj

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07/19/2025

sorry it’s been a while since there were any posts here. There hasn’t been any of new news in terms of the effort to Decriminalize in the county of Santa Cruz lately

I can tell you that we are looking for an opportunity with the supervisors to do this next leg of grass efforts and I will most definitely post about it here.

07/11/2024

I spoke in front of the county supervisors last month to promote the idea of opening some psychedelic treatment centers here in Santa Cruz county. There will be satellite facilities in San Francisco & San Diego if this goes through. This is the first step in hopefully Decriminalize for all of Santa Cruz County next. I’ll post a little bit more about that in the comments. But I also wanted to give a shout out to Jamie who has been working steadily on this YouTube channel that interviews people who have had breakthrough experiences with psychedelics and a batch of new videos were just released.

I urge subscribing and click the little bell so that you get updates
https://youtube.com/?si=9YI_X8C8l1_1OJQJ

Join Ariel on her incredible journey from despair to renewal. In this captivating video, she reveals how the Church of Ambrosia and microdosing DMT transform...

04/24/2024

was just interviewed last week regarding decriminalizing psychedelics in Santa Cruz. The whole article is entertaining and educational. It’s probably the most thorough writing on the topic of Santa Cruz efforts with entheogens yet. It’s a long one so you may want to have speechify or Siri read it to you if you were on the move and don’t have five minutes to absorb it through your eyeholes (see comment for a technique)

In recent years, interest in the potential mental health benefits of psychedelic substances has mushroomed. And Santa Cruz, politically and culturally, has played a leading role in the revolution.

10/14/2023

With the conversations I’ve seen after Governor Gavin Newsom struck down the psychedelics legislation here in California I feel that there is a lot of misunderstanding.

A friend wrote this comprehensive guide to plant and lab medicines that I urge everyone to read, and share.

spread it it far and wide on your gram, page in print (at festivals) or in email however you can.

it’s actually hard to find factual, historically accurate and concise writing like this.

Free Pamphlet: The Benefits Of Using Psychedelics Rising October 6, 2023 FREE PAMPHLET TO DOWNLOAD! Why take psychedelics? Nearly all cultures across the globe have used some type of psychedelic plant to alter their consciousness in order to gain knowledge helpful to their well-being. For example, s...

11/15/2022

Yes! This passage does not JUST decriminalize naturally occurring psychedelics but legalizes possession and growing too.

Quoting from Ma*****na Moment:

“Under the Colorado initiative, the possession, use, cultivation and sharing of psilocybin, ibogaine, mescaline (not derived from pe**te), DMT and psilocyn will be legalized for adults 21 and older, without an explicit possession limit.”

The governor of Colorado says he’s “excited” about the state’s historic vote last week to legalize psychedelics and create psilocybin healing centers, calling it a “promising” treatment option for certain mental health conditions. During an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Ma...

07/13/2022

A friend of the movement says: I sat down this morning to finish off the recently added Netflix limited series, “How to Change Your Mind” featuring Michael Pollan based on his marvelous book of the same name.

It’s an updated docu-series that revisits L*D and psilocybin and adds one episode on M**A and the 4th episode that we watched this morning that features mescaline/pe**te and much to our delight a bit about the decriminalization movement which showed Santa Cruz’s momentous decision in which you played a HUGE part!

And sure enough, we caught sight of your team applauding the decision.

Catch it here:

Author Michael Pollan leads the way in this docuseries exploring the history and uses of psychedelics, including L*D, psilocybin, M**A and mescaline.

06/15/2021

We’d like to ask the reporter to review the timeline. All in all, this is a thorough article and worth a few minutes of your time.

05/20/2021

Rio Theatre was one of my favorite music/performing arts venues already but now that they tipped their hat to our decriminalization measure passing Santa Cruz City Council on January 28th, 2020, I couldn't love 'em more.

They always have clever billboard signs but this is one is, well… "magic".

Note though that it was not just psilocybin mushrooms. It is ALL naturally occurring psychedelic (entheogenic) matter that were decriminalized.

That includes DMT, Ayahuasca, 5MEO-DMT Ibogaine and certain cacti (e.g. San Pedro). That's kinda big, and eclipses what was done in Denver, Colorado.

But what's more is that one our state senator, Scott Weiner, just introduced a bill to decriminalize entheogenic substances state-wide! There's fascinating details about all this, and the other cities that passed similar measures (e.g. Cambridge, MA) in the wikipedia article below.

Other cities, and states who are passing decriminalization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_decriminalization_in_the_United_States

It's been a while and this reminds me I need to thank those whom we received help from like Decriminalize Nature USA and the groundbreaking Oakland team Decriminalize Nature (Carlos Plazola and Larry and Larry Norris) They did it first!
If you're curious about the history, there's this:

http://goodtimes.sc/columns/using-psychedelics-as-treatment-for-mental-health

03/26/2020

Please help our team get digital signage (Docusign) so that people can express support for the proposed decriminalization ballot measure. We're trying to get this on the CA ballot for 2020 but can't do it with 625,000+ signatures. We have just ¼ of those due to Corona Virus scare. The only way to get necessary number of signatures is if the state recognized that Docusign signatures are valid. It doesn't cost you anything aside from about 4 min of your time. Thank you!

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