Supporters of legalizing psychedelics in Massachusetts say they hope to maintain some access to hallucinogens after the vote fails.

Nate Clifford, co-owner of the Cornucopia health food store in Northampton, was an active supporter of the measure to legalize five types of psychedelics.

Clifford said he plans to continue taking microdoses of psilocybin to help with depression and alcoholism, using psychedelics grown and distributed by a local informal network.

But he remains very disappointed that the electoral question was not adopted.

“It’s a defeat and it hurts and, in my opinion, people are going to be hurt,” he said. “Veterans are going to go without the (PTSD) help they need.”

He said advocates would urge state lawmakers to eventually draft a new bill from scratch, similar to the voting issue. But he acknowledged that given the measure’s defeat — by 56 percent of voters — it would be difficult.

State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, D-Northampton, who supported legalization, agreed.

“Massachusetts voters strongly rejected the idea of ​​psychedelics for medical use and the idea of ​​decriminalization for personal use,” Sabadosa wrote in an email. “While I believe we should keep the conversation alive in the Legislature and will likely introduce a bill to do so, the defeat of the election issue by voters will make it extremely difficult to pass anything similar to the election issue for many years to come.”

State rules require a six-year delay before a similar ballot question can be introduced. Clifford said he wouldn’t rule out the possibility, and in the meantime he hopes to iron out some of the more controversial aspects of the ballot question, including the large amount of psychedelics people would be allowed to grow at home and confusion over who. would be eligible to become licensed psychedelic guides.

“I think we continue to work with therapists, psychiatrists and other people in the mental health field who are already very open about this to make sure they are part of the conversation,” Clifford said.

Meanwhile, Clifford says advocates will also push more cities and towns to decriminalize psychedelics so people can use them without fear of arrest, as Northampton and Easthampton have done.

“There are many more cities and towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that are open to decriminalization just to manage their own resources and meet the cost of policing,” he said.

The Massachusetts Psychiatric Society publicly came out against the vote “because its supporters claimed that hallucinogenic substances would solve the mental health crisis,” said the society’s president, Nassir Ghaemi. “And we felt we needed to provide factual statements about the limited benefits and known harms of these substances.”

But Ghaemi said his group was not opposed to decriminalization.

“It’s a legal question. It’s not a medical question,” he said. “And we can support that without having to pretend that these drugs are proven for psychiatric disorders where they are not.”