·      “The promise was that taxpayers wouldn’t be on the hook for this,” says Dr. Mason Marks, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation. “That was the promise to voters.”…Marks knows the Oregon system because he served on the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board for a year, and he’s pessimistic. “I don’t think this is ever going to be funded by fees,” he says…In short, it’s easy to do an end run around the regulated system…the budget shortfall will have to be filled by taxpayers who were promised otherwise.
·      Link: https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/08/30/oregons-legal-psilocybin-program-gets-taxpayer-funds-despite-promise-to-pay-its-own-way/