Straight to the People

<p>From restricting abortion to legalizing marijuana, voters are weighing in on a variety of significant state health policy questions this election. </p><p><br></p><p>(CORRECTION: An earlier version of this episode said Washington D.C. was considering “decriminalizing” psychoactive plants like mushrooms. They were in fact only considering&nbsp;<em>effectively</em>&nbsp;decriminalizing them by directing police to make enforcing laws related to this issue a low priority.)</p><p><br></p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.law.umaryland.edu/Directory/profile.asp?id=034" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kathleen Hoke, JD</a>, Professor, University of Maryland Carey School of Law</p><p><br></p><p>For complete a transcript of this conversation: <a href="https://tradeoffs.org/2020/11/03/straight-to-the-people" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tradeoffs.org/2020/11/03/straight-to-the-people</a></p><p><br></p><p>Support this type of journalism today, with a gift: <a href="https://tradeoffs.org/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tradeoffs.org/donate</a></p><p><br></p><p>Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: <a href="https://create.acast.com/episodes/723a3a91-aa98-4a64-91a9-ec3049cc20d7/bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter</a></p><p><br></p><p>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod</a></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>