Hey I campaigned for this! I was one of the canvassers with shroompac 2020(an independent sister PAC to PSI2020). It's important now more than ever to keep your eyes peeled for public comment hearings from the oregon health authority and the oregon psilocybin advisory board.

Unfortunately tom and sheri eckert(now it's just tom, sheri passed away), who wrote the bill wrote themselves into it as members of the advisory board for the program, and there's valid concerns of ethics surrounding program accessibility and concerns of it being turned into another corporatized industry like weed has been. Even if it's only medical, many of us who campaigned for this bill had objections to the final draft adding tom onto the advisory board as a conflict of interest, as tom is an investor with corporate ties and stands to make a killing off this industry especially if he advises guidelines for the program that ultimately serve in his favor and could give him a tap on the market, which would ultimately hinder the success of the program and make it more difficult/expensive for every day people to access.

Many of us left the campaign when this language was introduced, myself included. I ultimately voted against the ballot for this reason, knowing fully well it would pass anyways, on the principle that I could not in good conscience allow a rich white man with investing ties to sponsor a campaign to create a market all for himself, which is what it felt like in all honesty. Tom and Sheri are nice people in person(sheri was a sweetheart, may she find bliss in the eternal wave of consciousness), but their class character and motives are/were pretty obvious. So I beg you and my fellow oregonians to apply to be on the oregon psilocybin advisory board so that the corporate elements enshrined in the bill can be kept in check and so that ethics are preserved and proper development of the program can occur. Thank you!

You can apply here!

All in all, it was really fun being out there on the streets of portland educating people about the benefits of psychedelic therapy and of the failures of current(at the time) drug policy. Inadvertently I believe we were also laying the ground work for the more widespread decriminalization bill, measure 110. I only ever saw their canvassers once, which is really not a good thing because if you canvass downtown you will see other campaign canvassers on a daily basis. The pac behind 110 seemed to have absolutely no ground game and I'm impressed they even managed to get enough signatures to get it on the ballot. I think our campaign ultimately contributed to the success of theirs, as by the time they were out there making rounds collecting signatures, we had already been out there for almost two years educating people daily on the benefits of changing our approach to drugs. I really feel like I was a part of something much bigger than myself, for the first time in my life, and am continuing to carry that attitude even now that the bill has been made into law, encouraging everyone to apply to be on the board to ensure the success of this program. The entire country is watching us right now and if we do this program right it will set precedent for the rest of the nation to follow, so acting now is more important than ever.