Provincetown became Massachusetts's seventh municipality to effectively decriminalize psychadelic drugs, including magic mushrooms, this week.
The town's board of selectmen voted 3-1-1 to approve a resolution at its meeting Monday, December 11 meeting instructing police officers to de-prioritize cases involving psilocybin. The resolution also calls for statewide decriminalization and for the Cape and Island District Attorney to stop prosecuting people for possessing, distributing, or cultivating psychadelic plants.
Supporters of the failed federal Equal Rights Amendment are calling on Congress to remove the deadline it set for the states to approve it.
U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) held a press conference with other supporters designed to try to resuscitate the proposed amendment on Wednesday, December 13, the 100th anniversary of the initial introduction of a version of the amendment in the U.S. House of Representatives, her office said.
