{
 "name": "Nevada psilocybin law and legislation timeline",
 "description": "Dated changes to Nevada law and regulation on psilocybin and related psychedelics: statutes, Board of Pharmacy schedule changes, bills and their outcomes, with links to the official record.",
 "publisher": "Mushrooms Las Vegas",
 "url": "https://mushroomslasvegas.com/nevada-psilocybin-law",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "updated": "2026-11-02",
 "record_count": 14,
 "source_note": "Compiled from the Nevada Legislature's NRS, NAC, NELIS and archive records. Votes are recorded only where the vote was on a version of the bill about psychedelics.",
 "records": [
  {
   "date": "2019-06-14",
   "kind": "law",
   "ref": "AB 236 (2019)",
   "title": "Criminal justice overhaul rewrites Nevada's drug possession penalties",
   "summary": "The Governor approved AB 236, a broad criminal law bill. Its section 113 sorted drug possession into possession, low-level, mid-level and high-level tiers by weight and schedule, and section 119 created low-level and high-level trafficking.",
   "outcome": "Approved by the Governor; Chapter 633, Statutes of Nevada 2019",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/6419/Overview",
   "source_label": "NELIS bill history, AB 236 (2019)"
  },
  {
   "date": "2020-07-01",
   "kind": "law",
   "ref": "AB 236 (2019)",
   "title": "Weight-based possession tiers take effect",
   "summary": "Most of AB 236 took effect, including the weight-based possession tiers in NRS 453.336 and the low-level and high-level trafficking tiers in NRS 453.3385, the framework that applies to psilocybin today.",
   "outcome": "In force",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/6419/Overview",
   "source_label": "NELIS bill history, AB 236 (2019)"
  },
  {
   "date": "2023-03-09",
   "kind": "bill",
   "ref": "SB 242 (2023)",
   "title": "SB 242 introduced to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms for adults",
   "summary": "As introduced, SB 242 would have removed state penalties for adults 18 and over for conduct involving a set amount of psilocybin mushrooms, and let approved research facilities study psilocybin and MDMA.",
   "outcome": "Referred to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/SB/SB242.pdf",
   "source_label": "SB 242 as introduced"
  },
  {
   "date": "2023-04-21",
   "kind": "bill",
   "ref": "SB 242 (2023)",
   "title": "Senate amendment strips decriminalization from SB 242",
   "summary": "Amendment No. 354 deleted the decriminalization and research sections and replaced them with a requirement that the health department set up a Psychedelic Medicines Working Group. Neither house ever voted on passing the decriminalization text.",
   "outcome": "Amended and re-referred to the Senate Finance Committee",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/Amendments/A_SB242_354.pdf",
   "source_label": "Amendment No. 354 to SB 242"
  },
  {
   "date": "2023-06-12",
   "kind": "bill",
   "ref": "SB 242 (2023)",
   "title": "Governor signs SB 242, creating the Psychedelic Medicines Working Group",
   "summary": "The enacted law required the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a working group to study the therapeutic use of entheogens, including psilocybin and psilocin, and report by December 31, 2024. It did not change any penalty.",
   "outcome": "Approved by the Governor; Chapter 377, effective June 12, 2023",
   "vote": "Senate 16-4, 1 excused (May 29, 2023); Assembly 40-0, 2 excused (June 4, 2023)",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/10067/Overview",
   "source_label": "NELIS bill history, SB 242 (2023)"
  },
  {
   "date": "2024-12-30",
   "kind": "report",
   "ref": "Psychedelic Medicines Working Group",
   "title": "Working Group report goes to the Legislature",
   "summary": "The report, approved at a December 13, 2024 meeting with one member present not supporting it, recommended 2025 legislation for a regulated psychedelic-assisted therapy program and said legislation may be needed to examine state statutes to reduce penalties for entheogenic plants and fungi.",
   "outcome": "Transmitted by DHHS for the 2025 session; its penalty appendix does not match the statutes",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/ExhibitDocument/OpenExhibitDocument?exhibitId=74076&fileDownloadName=AB378_0326_Dalton.J_PMWG_doc.pdf",
   "source_label": "Psychedelic Medicines Working Group report"
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-02-26",
   "kind": "resolution",
   "ref": "SJR 10 (2025)",
   "title": "SJR 10 introduced to urge Congress to act on psychedelic therapies",
   "summary": "The joint resolution asks Congress and federal agencies to fund research, streamline research approvals, allow Right to Try access, reschedule psilocybin and other psychedelics, and protect people following state and local law.",
   "outcome": "Referred to the Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12378/Overview",
   "source_label": "NELIS bill history, SJR 10 (2025)"
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-03-10",
   "kind": "bill",
   "ref": "AB 378 (2025)",
   "title": "AB 378 introduced to create a psychedelic therapy pilot program",
   "summary": "AB 378 would have created an Alternative Therapy Pilot Program, run by the Division of Public and Behavioral Health, giving certain patients with a mental health condition supervised treatment with psilocybin, psilocin, DMT, ibogaine or mescaline.",
   "outcome": "Referred to the Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12520/Overview",
   "source_label": "NELIS bill history, AB 378 (2025)"
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-04-16",
   "kind": "bill",
   "ref": "AB 378 (2025)",
   "title": "AB 378 amended and sent to Ways and Means",
   "summary": "The Assembly adopted Amendment No. 446, which let the Division charge clinic operators and producers for its inspection and certification costs, added an advisory committee and barred lawsuits claiming the state had guaranteed a treatment's success, safety or outcome, then re-referred the bill to the Committee on Ways and Means.",
   "outcome": "Re-referred to the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12520/Overview",
   "source_label": "NELIS bill history, AB 378 (2025)"
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-05-29",
   "kind": "resolution",
   "ref": "SJR 10 (2025)",
   "title": "Legislature adopts SJR 10",
   "summary": "The Senate concurred in the Assembly's amendment, completing passage of the resolution. It is non-binding and changes no Nevada law.",
   "outcome": "Adopted; effective May 29, 2025",
   "vote": "Senate 18-2, 1 absent (April 18, 2025); Assembly 36-6 (May 22, 2025)",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12378/Overview",
   "source_label": "NELIS bill history, SJR 10 (2025)"
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-06-01",
   "kind": "resolution",
   "ref": "SJR 10 (2025)",
   "title": "SJR 10 filed with the Secretary of State",
   "summary": "The enrolled resolution was delivered to the Secretary of State as File No. 28.",
   "outcome": "Enrolled; File No. 28",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SJR/SJR10_EN.pdf",
   "source_label": "SJR 10 enrolled text"
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-06-03",
   "kind": "bill",
   "ref": "AB 378 (2025)",
   "title": "AB 378 dies in committee",
   "summary": "The session ended with no further action on AB 378 in Ways and Means. No final passage vote was taken in either house.",
   "outcome": "Did not become law",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12520/Overview",
   "source_label": "NELIS bill history, AB 378 (2025)"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-03-17",
   "kind": "local",
   "ref": "Clark County Ordinance No. 5354 (Code chapter 7.220)",
   "title": "Clark County bars hemp stores from selling hallucinogenic products",
   "summary": "The County Commission passed Ordinance No. 5354, hemp retail rules for unincorporated Clark County, which took effect on July 15, 2026. Section 7.220.310(c) bars hemp retail stores from selling products intended to cause an intoxicating, narcotic or hallucinogenic effect. It does not name mushrooms.",
   "outcome": "Passed by the Board of County Commissioners; in force from July 15, 2026",
   "vote": "6-0 (March 17, 2026)",
   "url": "https://www.clarkcountynv.gov/adobe/assets/urn:aaid:aem:b1728050-0c9d-49c5-ad53-6cb60d290969/original/as/hemp-ordinance-signed.pdf",
   "source_label": "Ordinance No. 5354, signed copy (Clark County)"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-07-31",
   "kind": "bill draft",
   "ref": "BDR 329 (2027 session)",
   "title": "Bill draft requested on breakthrough therapies for 2027",
   "summary": "Assemblymember Max Carter, a primary sponsor of AB 378, requested a 2027 bill titled \"Establishes provisions relating to breakthrough therapies.\" No text exists yet, so whether it concerns psilocybin is not known.",
   "outcome": "Requested for the 84th Session, which begins February 1, 2027",
   "vote": "",
   "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/84th2027/Bdrs/List",
   "source_label": "NELIS bill draft request list, 2027"
  }
 ]
}