Andrew Lewis doesn’t give off radical vibes. Baby-faced and earnest, the Seattle City Council member was an assistant city attorney before he began repping District 7 in 2020. He’ll rotate a beer glass just so to show off his constituents’ communities mapped on its surface. Imbibing a frothy beverage or two might be as wild as this wonk gets.
So when a group of activists approached Lewis about decriminalizing psychedelics early in 2021, all their talk of psychoactive substances went way over his head. He’d never used magic mushrooms let alone studied the science and policy surrounding substances that, the advocates stressed, were more than just party drugs.
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