From restricting abortion to legalizing marijuana, voters are weighing in on a variety of significant state health policy questions this election.
(CORRECTION: An earlier version of this episode said Washington D.C. was considering “decriminalizing” psychoactive plants like mushrooms. They were in fact only considering effectively decriminalizing them by directing police to make enforcing laws related to this issue a low priority.)
Guest: Kathleen Hoke, JD, Professor, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
For complete a transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/11/03/straight-to-the-people
Support this type of journalism today, with a gift: https://tradeoffs.org/donate
Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.