Bill Process Roadmap

Summary of Objectives

ADAPT-WA is exploring a therapeutic psilocybin bill for the 2025 Legislative Session in Washington State. Groundwork has been laid by legalization advocates (led by Senator Salomon) already, and a key takeaway is that a therapeutic approach is more likely to be successful and than a legislative effort for full legalization and recreational markets.

September – October 2024

• Survey the entheogenic community on priorities in the context of why a therapeutic bill is preferred to full legalization (odds of passing).
• Communicate the costs and risks of going the popular initiative route.
• Build a coalition focused on therapeutic practitioners, doctors, academics, scientists, patients who can speak about their experiences, and entheogenic community leaders.
• Begin drafting language internally for a bill and focus on main benefits and lessons from Oregon Measure 109 failures.
• Identify sample bill and begin discussions with legislators in both the House and Senate.
• Begin meetings with legislators in their respective districts and seek sponsors.
• Find Bill SPONSORS, focusing on key decision makers.

November – December 2024

• Finalize bill language, secure bill sponsors.
• Legislative strategy

January 2025 (SESSION BEGINS) – April 2025

• Working Bill in Session: bill hearings, public testimony, outreach from community and key opinion leaders
• Community advocacy

ADAPT-WA’s goal is to craft and support a bill that can pass the legislature that
legalizes psilocybin for medical use as a checkpoint on the way to full legalization.