Vote Yes on Question 4 to bring healing to Massachusetts
Compassion is on the ballot
Question 4 will create regulated therapeutic access to natural psychedelic medicines to help veterans with PTSD, patients with end-of-life anxiety, and others who are suffering.
Question 4 is a citizen-led ballot question supported by military veterans, doctors, caregivers, and others who are affected by our mental health crisis. The measure will create a carefully regulated therapeutic program for adults to access natural psychedelic medicines that show promise for treating serious mental health conditions.
Under Question 4, natural psychedelic medicine therapy will be administered under the supervision and guidance of a trained, licensed professional at regulated therapy centers. Retail sales of psychedelic medicines will not be permitted.
Voting Yes on Question 4 will give veterans, patients with end-of-life distress, and people who are suffering access to this life-saving mental health tool.
Thousands of Americans—including military veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors—have been helped by natural psychedelic medicines.
One in three adults in Massachusetts is experiencing symptoms of an anxiety and/or depressive disorder.
Deaths of despair are on the rise, and there’s a suicide epidemic among veteran, first responders, and health care workers.
Daily medications, talk therapy, and other coping mechanisms help some people get by—but for many, these tools aren’t working.
Natural psychedelic medicine is a breakthrough therapy for mental health.
Pioneering research from the nation’s top medical institutions shows that natural psychedelic therapies can be effective for helping people with PTSD, depressive disorders, severe anxiety, and many other difficult-to-treat conditions.
Major depressive disorder:Research from Johns Hopkins found that 75% of patients with MDD treated with psilocybin therapy showed a significant positive response to the treatment, and 58% were in remission after a 12-month assessment.
End of life anxiety:A study involving psilocybin-assisted therapy for cancer patients found that 80% of participants reported moderate to greatly increased well-being and life satisfaction.
Alcohol use disorder:A study from New York University found that participants given psilocybin-assisted therapy reduced heavy drinking by 83%.
This fall we can bring hope and healing to Massachusetts
Question 4 will establish a program overseen by a state agency with oversight and guidance of an expert advisory board.
Following a two-year rulemaking process, adults 21 and older will be able to visit licensed and approved psychedelic therapy centers in 2026.
Psychedelic therapy will be administered and supervised only by trained and licensed professionals. The program will require pre-screenings, preparation sessions, and safety plans.
The initiative does not permit stores or retail salesfor for psychedelic medicines.
Veterans with PTSD, patients with end-of-life anxiety, and people struggling with difficult to treat mental health conditions deserve compassion.
Our campaign is building a coalition across the Commonwealth. Join us and support Question 4 by sharing stories of healing and educating voters about the scientific research demonstrating the promise of natural psychedelic medicines.
"Psychological and existential distress associated with life-threatening illnesses including cancer represent unique and highly burdensome forms of suffering, for which available treatment options demonstrate limited efficacy. Recent clinical trials using rigorous methods have suggested a very promising potential role of psychedelic-assisted therapy in this clinical setting."
"When surveyed about their symptoms after treatment, participants reported significant and large reductions in PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms, suicidal ideation, and cognitive impairment."
"Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that two doses of the psychedelic substance psilocybin, given with supportive psychotherapy, produced rapid and large reductions in depressive symptoms, with most participants showing improvement and half of study participants achieving remission through the four-week follow-up."
"The entire process helped me weave the disparate and difficult pieces of my life together in a way that I couldn’t access in traditional talk therapy and the profound effects of that retreat stay with me to this day. I’m incredibly grateful for the support I received and wish I could grant the many other people I know struggling with their own battles the same opportunity I was afforded."
Emily Oneschuk
US Navy Veteran, Wakefield Native, MMHO Grassroots Campaign Director
"As a peace officer and mental health counselor, I see the toll of our mental health crisis every day. People are suffering because we lack effective mental health options, and natural psychedelic medicines are the breakthrough we need. Question 4 will make therapeutic access to natural psychedelics a reality for residents of Massachusetts.
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Lt. Sarko Gergerian, MS, MHC, CARC
"When I thought I had exhausted all options and thinking I had nothing left in the tank, a fellow Veteran mentioned psychedelic-assisted therapy. It was through the combination of commitment, plant-based medicine (through a local clinical trial), and therapy that I have been able to heal and finally ‘return home’."
Ari W. Polivy
USMC Veteran, Massachusetts resident
"I support legalizing natural psychedelic therapies on behalf of long-suffering mental illness patients, like myself and surviving friends and family, who deserve legal, reliable access to life-saving treatments now."
“Providing legal access to natural psychedelic medicines can be the difference between life and death for many of the brave men and women who have served our country. We need to provide access to new treatment options to address the growing mental health crisis, not limit treatment for those who need it most.”
"After exhausting traditional treatment options and without access to psychedelic therapy, many patients have nowhere to turn, leading to an increased sense of hopelessness and desperation."