Gavin Newsom Does it Again

Once again, Gavin Newsom fabricates an an excuse to veto a progressive initiative.

This time, it's a veto of the legalization of psychedelic drugs. 

Newsom is pandering to the right wing because he thinks that this is a stepping stone to higher office.

California will have to put more work into decriminalizing hallucinogens before Governor Gavin Newsom will sign a bill, said a statement from the governor on Saturday, announcing that the bill had been vetoed.

The rejected law, which was anticipated to take effect in 2025, would have done away with criminal penalties for people possessing natural psychedelics for personal use. It also would have required the state to form a group to study and make recommendations about the drugs’ therapeutic use.

Newsom, a Democrat who championed legalizing cannabis in 2016, said in a statement on Saturday that more needed to be done before California decriminalized the hallucinogens.

“California should immediately begin work to set up regulated treatment guidelines – replete with dosing information, therapeutic guidelines, rules to prevent against exploitation during guided treatments, and medical clearance of no underlying psychoses,” Newsom’s statement said. “Unfortunately, this bill would decriminalize possession prior to these guidelines going into place, and I cannot sign it.”

This is not about additional studies, this is about sucking up to conservatives for a future Senate or Presidential run.

I saw this with Clinton in the 1990s, and Obama in the oughts, and I am NOT interested in a refun.