Decriminalize Nature Los Angeles (DNLA)
Driving entheogenic plant decriminalization in the nation's second-largest city — a municipal win in LA would be one of the biggest in the movement's history.
Type: Advocacy
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Membership: Open advocacy coalition
Venues: Los Angeles City Council chambers; community venues across LA
Activities: Ballot initiative advocacy, city council engagement, community education, coalition building with harm reduction orgs and Latino community groups. Advocating for LA municipal deprioritization of entheogenic plant enforcement.
About
Decriminalize Nature Los Angeles (DNLA) is the Los Angeles chapter of the national Decriminalize Nature network, working to pass municipal-level deprioritization of entheogenic plant enforcement in the second-largest city in the United States. The organization engages Los Angeles City Council members, builds coalitions with harm reduction organizations and Latino community groups, and runs community education campaigns across the city's sprawling geography.
LA's demographics make DNLA's work particularly significant: a successful LA resolution would represent a deprioritization win in a majority-Latino, majority-minority city — a political signal that psychedelic plant medicine policy reform is not only a concern of white progressive communities, but has broad cross-cultural relevance including within communities that have traditional relationships with plant medicines.
DNLA works in coordination with California statewide advocacy organizations and the national Decriminalize Nature network, and maintains close connections with the Oakland and Santa Cruz chapters that have already won local deprioritization.
Why It Matters
A municipal deprioritization win in Los Angeles — home to 3.9 million people — would be one of the largest single jurisdictional wins in the history of the entheogenic decriminalization movement, and would substantially change the political landscape in California for statewide legislation.
State Legal Context
See current psilocybin laws in California.