No psilocybin legalization on the November 3 ballot. Here's what voters will see.

No state will vote on legalizing or decriminalizing psilocybin on November 3, 2026. An election tracker updated October 12 found no statewide psychedelics reform measure certified for the ballot anywhere.¹ The psychedelics questions voters will see would limit reform instead.

Idaho: HJR 4

Idaho voters will decide HJR 4, a constitutional amendment referred by the Legislature. It would give the Legislature alone the power to legalize marijuana, narcotics and other psychoactive substances, and would bar citizens from doing so by ballot initiative.² It passed the Idaho House 58 to 10 and the Senate 29 to 6 in March 2025.² Psilocybin is already illegal in Idaho; the amendment is about who could change that.

Oregon: three local measures

Oregon's psilocybin program lets cities and counties ban licensed psilocybin businesses, and three cities have the question on their November ballots:

• Redmond is asking whether to extend its temporary ban on psilocybin service centers by two years. Manufacturing is already permanently banned in the city. A yes vote keeps the ban in place; a no vote lets it expire at the end of 2026.³
• Joseph has a measure that would prohibit psilocybin-related businesses within city limits.⁴
• Reedsport is putting its 2024 permanent ban on psilocybin businesses to voters. A yes vote keeps the ban.⁵

Local votes on these bans can be close. In May 2026, Philomath's proposed permanent ban led by seven votes in early returns but was failing by 15 votes once all ballots were counted.⁸

What didn't make it

Ballotpedia counted several proposed marijuana and psychedelics initiatives for 2026 late last year.⁷ The Alaska Natural Medicine Act, which would have decriminalized and regulated psilocybin and some other natural psychedelics, fell short of the signatures it needed. Its backers are now aiming for 2028.⁶ The same tracker found no statewide psychedelics measure on any ballot, California included.¹

For context

Voters have approved statewide psilocybin measures twice, in Oregon in 2020 and Colorado in 2022, and rejected one, Massachusetts' Question 4, in 2024.⁶ Since then, most change has come through legislatures and city councils. Our state-by-state map shows where things stand.