The New Jersey Senate has advanced the most progressive drug decriminalization bill in the country.

If signed into law, the legislation would reduce the criminal penalties associated with certain cannabis and hashish-related offenses. The bill would decriminalize possession of up to 6 ounces of marijuana. Distribution of up to 1 ounce would carry a civil penalty for the first offense.

The bill would also downgrade the possession of up to 1 ounce of so-called “magic mushrooms.”

"The voters approved legalizing adult-use marijuana last week, so now it is time we decriminalize it so that folks in Black and brown communities across the state do not continue to be disproportionately arrested for possession,” state Sen. Ronald Rice said in a statement. “Decriminalization is the long-sought remedy for rampant injustice in our state."

Lawmakers are still trying to work on legislation to set up New Jersey’s legal recreational marijuana industry.