Legislative Toolkit 🧰

Email your local legislators! 📧

Email your local legislators and make sure they know how you feel, either through direct emails or even better, schedule a meeting with them virtually or in person. 

  • Find out who your local legislators are via this site 

  • Review our 2026 press release, which provides suggested points for discussion.

  • Tip: It’s also often most successful to schedule a meeting via calling their legislative assistants directly and asking for one. And if you achieve a meeting, let us know and we are happy to join the meeting in support!

How to talk to your legislators 🗣️

For REACH’s bill to move forward this session, we need legislators willing to sponsor it. A sponsor is a lawmaker who introduces the bill, advocates for it in committee, and helps navigate it through the legislative process. Without a sponsor, a bill cannot be heard or voted on.

You can help make REACH WA’s Washington Natural Psychedelics Safe Access Act move forward by sending your local legislators a personalized message of support using the ✨How to Talk to Your Legislators✨ document for examples and guidance—sharing a short story about why safe, community-based access to natural psychedelics matters to you.

📢 How to testify in person or via Zoom

🏛️ In person/remote testimony instructions

1. Go to the SB 5921 (medical psilocybin program), SB 5201, and HB 1433 (companion bills for the state-regulated access model) by clicking the respective underlined bill numbers to open the links, then click “Sign Up to Testify / Submit Written Testimony.”

2. Select SB 5921 (medical psilocybin program), SB 5201, or HB 1433 (companion bills for the state-regulated access model) and click “I would like to testify in person at the hearing” OR “I would like to testify remotely” (via zoom).

3. You will be required to take a stance on the bills. Please choose “CON” or “OTHER”, as we are not in favor of the bills as they are currently written.

4. Sign up to testify. You will receive an email that will contain instructions for what to expect on the day of the public hearing. 

Practice your testimonial talk at home before the hearing day. Dress to impress. Aim to communicate in respectful, informative, and authentic ways. Sharing personal experiences can be especially powerful in letting your leaders know what is important to you as a Washington citizen. Your courage is valuable and your voice matters.

Written testimony instructions 📋

1. Go to the SB 5921 (medical psilocybin program), SB 5201, and HB 1433 (companion bills for the state-regulated access model) by clicking the respective underlined bill numbers to open the links, then click “Sign Up to Testify / Submit Written Testimony.”

2. Click on SB 5921 (medical psilocybin program), SB 5201, or HB 1433 (companion bills for the state-regulated access model) and select “I would like to submit written testimony”.

Copy and paste from the REACH Written Testimony Template (click the underlined text to open this link) into your entry. Make any changes you feel necessary, add personal stories, and make it your own if you’d like to. Sign the bottom of the letter with your name.

3. You will be required to take a stance on the bills. Please choose “CON” or “OTHER”, as we are not in favor of the bills as they are currently written.

You are participating in democracy! Thank you!!