Melissa Lavasani hesitated last December as she prepared to submit the paperwork for a ballot initiative that would decriminalize natural psychedelics like magic mushrooms, mescaline, and ayahuasca. “What are the moms at school going to say about this?” she remembers thinking.  Lavasani’s neighbors in the H Street, Northeast, neighborhood were likely to know her as … Continue reading How the “Most Normal Person Ever” Became the Face of a Movement to Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms