A nonprofit group has in recent months been lobbying city of Portland officials—with some success—to bring forward an ordinance that would tell the Portland Police Bureau to deprioritize any calls related to the personal use or cultivation of psychedelic mushrooms.
The 501(c)(4) nonprofit, called the Portland Psychedelic Society Action Fund, spent $18,000 in the last fiscal quarter of 2025 primarily lobbying Councilor Mitch Green on the ordinance, which the group has dubbed the “Portland Safety and Health Act.”
The ordinance as it currently stands resides with the City Attorney’s Office for further crafting. But a memo about the proposal shows that it would direct police officers to make enforcement of existing laws around growing of psychedelics, gifting psychedelics, and free psychedelic ceremonies “the lowest priority.”…