Two more Oregon towns voted Tuesday to keep psilocybin businesses out. Joseph approved a new Oregon psilocybin ban, and Reedsport voters moved to make theirs permanent.

In Joseph, the measure barring psilocybin manufacturers and service centers from city limits passed 414 to 279, or roughly 60 percent to 40 percent, according to unofficial results reported by the Wallowa County Chieftain. It was the only local measure on the ballot in Wallowa County.

In Reedsport, on the southern Oregon coast, Measure 10-215 was passing with 66.5 percent of the vote in early returns. That is about two of every three voters.

Joseph closes a gap in the county’s psilocybin ban

Joseph’s vote fills a hole left four years ago. In 2022, Wallowa County voters banned psilocybin services in unincorporated areas, 2,743 to 1,684. None of the county’s four cities, Joseph included, sent a ban to voters in time, so they missed their chance to opt out that year.

Reedsport has been here before. Its voters approved a two-year ban in 2022, and the city council followed with a permanent ban ordinance in 2024. Tuesday’s measure put that ban back before voters, and 1,016 of them said yes in the first count.

A growing Oregon psilocybin ban map

Oregon voters approved Measure 109 in 2020 with roughly 56 percent of the vote. It made Oregon the first state to legalize supervised psilocybin use, but it let cities and counties opt out.

Many have. In 2022, a majority of Oregon counties and more than 100 cities voted to temporarily or permanently ban psilocybin, the Associated Press reported. In 2024, four more cities added bans and a dozen made their moratoriums permanent.

One of them was Lake Oswego, a Portland suburb where most residents had backed Measure 109. Its mayor, Joe Buck, said Oregon “really has not done a great job managing its drug policy.”

The local votes stand in contrast to the push for faster access in Washington, where nearly every speaker at FDA’s psychedelics hearing asked for it. And in Massachusetts, voters rejected psychedelics legalization in 2024, only for the state House to approve a pilot program anyway.

Six years after Oregon legalized psilocybin, its small towns keep voting to keep it out.

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