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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — The question on this year’s ballot about whether to legalize psychedelics has a high-profile supporter — "Bring It On" actress Eliza Dushku Palandjian.
Question 4 would expand therapeutic access to psychedelics and allow those 21 years and older to grow, possess and use a personal amount of psychedelic substances.
Boston-native Dushku Palandjian, who also starred in hits like "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," is now training to be a mental health clinician. She said she used psychedelics to heal from trauma.
“I would be remiss if I didn’t share both my experience as a patient or a client with psychedelic assisted therapy,” Dushku Palandjian said.
Massachusetts would join a small group of states — Oregon and Colorado — that have similar legislatures around psychedelics.
“People should not be going to jail for trying to use psychedelic substances that can help them,” Dushku Palandjian said. ““Equity comes once this becomes regulated and once we can start working with this and we can start working it into the healthcare system.”
Those who oppose the ballot measure say they’re worried about the use of psychedelics in the home.
“It would allow for growth in a 12 foot by 12 foot area in your home and that is the size of the average bedroom, it's a massive area,” said Caroline Cunningham, general consultant for No on Question 4.
Cunningham said those against the ballot measure don’t approve of the ability to share the psychedelics with others.
“It would also allow for people to give away those psychedelics, which clearly opens the door for an unregulated and unsafe gray market”
WBZ NewsRadio’s James Rojas (@JamesRojasMMJ) reports.
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