Alaska Psychedelics Legalization Campaign Begins Gathering Signatures

Petitioners for an Alaska campaign to legalize psilocybin, psilocin, DMT, and non-peyote mescaline have started to collect signatures to pose the question to voters in next year’s election, Marijuana Moment reports.

The Alaska Natural Medicine campaign kicked off its signature collection effort last week, utilizing both paid and volunteer petitioners. The campaign, which has to collect 35,000 valid signatures to qualify for the 2026 ballot, is advocating for a “grow, gather, gift” model of legalization prioritizing the personal use, cultivation, and sharing of psychedelics.

If passed by voters, the measure would also establish “licensed healing centers where adults can receive supervised natural medicine services.”

David Karabelnikoff, a policy advisor and Alaska Natural Medicine steering committee member, said in the report that he’s personally encountered “support from, surprisingly, a wide variety of people.”

“We found support from both conservative people as well as progressives or liberals. Alaska has a unique balance — also with this really strong libertarian spirit up here, where, if you’re staying in your own lane and not hurting anyone, then we kind of feel like the government should stay out of our business.” — Karabelnikoff, via Marijuana Moment

Public consumption of the psychedelic substances would be prohibited under the measure.