Psilocybin treatment comes to Oregon next year, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who needs it will be able to access treatment near where they live. For months, city and county governments have debated whether to recommend banning the treatment and referring the question to voters this November. The deadline expired last week, and as the dust settled, it became clear that about half of Oregonians will have access to treatment in their own communities—not only in the state’s most populous and progressive regions, but also in rural and conservative cities and counties.

Starting next year, licensed facilitators in Oregon will have the ability to provide psilocybin-assisted therapy. The Oregon Health Authority, guided by an expert advisory panel, will issue final regulations at the end of this year, but the most crucial components have already come into focus—both for how psilocybin-assisted therapy will work and the guardrails that will be imposed on these treatments.

California voters view legislators who support access to regulated psychedelic treatment more favorably. That’s the upshot of a recent poll — and it's a finding that holds in the Central Valley and among Republicans statewide, meaning that legislators can support it without serious political risk.