assembly Bill A114

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Legalizes adult possession and use of certain natural plant or fungus-based hallucinogens

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Jan 04, 2023 referred to health

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A114 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 223 §§223.00 - 223.15, amd §220.00, Pen L; amd §3306, Pub Health L; amd §201-d, Lab L; amd §114-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10299
2021-2022: A6065

A114 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Legalizes adult possession and use of certain natural plant or fungus-based hallucinogens; grants certain protections for individuals lawfully using such hallucinogens; removes such hallucinogens from the list of schedule I controlled substances; makes related provisions.

A114 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    114
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  L. ROSENTHAL,  SIMON, REYES -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, the public health law, the labor law, and
   the  vehicle  and  traffic  law,  in  relation  to  legalizing   adult
   possession and use of certain natural plant or fungus-based hallucino-
   gens
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a  new  article  223  to
 read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 223
                NATURAL PLANT OR FUNGUS-BASED HALLUCINOGENS
 SECTION 223.00 DEFINITIONS.
         223.05 AUTHORIZED  USE OF NATURAL PLANT OR FUNGUS-BASED HALLUCI-
                  NOGENS.
         223.10 PROTECTIONS.
         223.15 LOCAL AUTHORIZATION.
 § 223.00 DEFINITIONS.
   FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL  HAVE  THE
 FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1. "NATURAL PLANT OR FUNGUS-BASED HALLUCINOGEN" MEANS A PLANT, FUNGUS,
 MATERIAL, COMPOUND, MIXTURE, OR PREPARATION, WHICH CONTAINS ANY QUANTITY
 OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SUBSTANCES, OR WHICH CONTAINS ANY OF THE FOLLOW-
 ING  SUBSTANCES  SALTS, ISOMERS, OR SALTS OF ISOMERS WHENEVER THE EXIST-
 ENCE OF SUCH SALTS, ISOMERS, OR SALTS OF ISOMERS IS POSSIBLE WITHIN  THE
 SPECIFIC  CHEMICAL  DESIGNATION  (FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION ONLY,
 THE TERM "ISOMER" INCLUDES THE OPTICAL, POSITION AND GEOMETRIC ISOMERS):
   (A) DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE (SOME TRADE OR OTHER NAMES: DMT);
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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