Massachusetts lawmakers have approved a bill to establish a pilot program for the regulated therapeutic use of psychedelics.
The pilot program proposal from Sen. Cindy Friedman (D) advanced through the legislature’s Joint Committee on Health Care Financing on Thursday. It’s now been referred to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing for further consideration.
The measure is one of two pieces of legislation on the issue that are set to be taken up at a hearing before a different committee in November.
The bill, S.1400, is light on specifics, leaving many details of the pilot program up to regulators with the Department of Public Health (DPH). But in general, it calls for a “pilot program to allow for the monitored mental health care of clinically appropriate patients using psychedelic materials.”
It would involve the “on-site administration by a multi-disciplinary care team in a supervised licensed mental health clinic setting.”
DPH could only issue licenses for up to three health facilities to administer and study the psychedelics in the state. They would be tasked with “establishing the best and safest clinical practices for psychedelic mental health treatment programs in the commonwealth and for the purposes of collecting patient outcomes data regarding
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