POR 2024 #94 : City Council support of the Massachusetts State Ballot Question to Decriminalize Natural

How it started

Jun 24, 2024 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Sobrinho-Wheeler, Vice Mayor Azeem, and Councillor Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 24, 2024 · Reconsideration filed the vote may be retaken (Rule 34)

Jun 24, 2024 · The motion to amend it carried 9–0. The minutes record the vote; they do not record who moved it.

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Voted yes (9)

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Joan Pickett
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
E. Denise Simmons

Aug 5, 2024 · The motion to reconsider carried 8–0. The minutes record the vote; they do not record who moved it.

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Voted yes (8)

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
E. Denise Simmons

Absent (1)

Joan Pickett

Aug 5, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted (unanimous · one absent)

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Voted yes (8), unanimous

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
E. Denise Simmons

Absent (1)

Joan Pickett

From the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

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MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION

SUBMITTED BY VICE MAYOR MCGOVERN

DATE: JULY 25, 2024

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 24, 2024

Psychedelics For Therapeutic Use

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2024-08-05). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.