New Jersey Quietly Started a Hospital-Based Psilocybin Pilot Back in January
We missed this one when outgoing Governor Phil Murphy signed it on January 20, 2026, days before leaving office. S2283 creates the Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Therapy Pilot Program — a narrow, hospital-based research program supervised by the state Department of Health, with $6 million appropriated to run it. Worth being precise about what this actually is: despite headlines at the time suggesting New Jersey had "legalized" psilocybin, it hasn't. This creates no public access — it's a state-sanctioned clinical research pathway, similar in shape to Connecticut's expanded pilot and Louisiana's opioid-settlement-funded program, joining a growing list of states building this kind of infrastructure ahead of any federal approval rather than waiting for one.
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