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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1288 Decriminalize Mushrooms

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In recent years researchers have discovered therapeutic uses for psilocybin mushrooms where the results have been extraordinary. Kevin Matthews of Decriminalize Denver joins me to discuss these findings, current law, and what the law should be.

Show notes for Ep. 1288

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1288.

0:03.4

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.5

Hey, folks, it's my job to equip you with the strongest arguments for the libertarian position on issue after issue where you tend to get

0:22.9

cornered by your friends. Well, deregulation caused the financial crisis is still a big one

0:29.0

ten years later as people reflect on those terrible times. Very, very important to smash this one

0:36.3

with a baseball bat. And I've got just the baseball bat for you.

0:40.4

It's my free e-book, The Deregulation Boogieman. Grab it over at Regulation Myths.com.

0:48.2

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. I am joined today by Kevin Matthews, who is campaign director at Decriminalized Denver,

0:57.8

and their goal is to decriminalize the possession, use, and manufacture of psilocybin

1:05.3

mushrooms in the city and county of Denver. And this is a world that is completely unknown to me, but our friend Michael Heiss of the

1:15.3

Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party brought Kevin and this organization to my attention.

1:21.3

So I started reading about it and about what researchers are saying, and I became very interested

1:27.4

in the subject. So I thought, well,

1:29.0

you know what? I got a podcast here. I got a microphone. Why don't I get Kevin on? We'll talk.

1:33.7

So, Kevin, welcome. Hey, Tom. Thank you so much for the opportunity to share our work with your

1:38.4

audience. It's a pleasure. I'm really interested in this. My friend Michael Heiss brought it to my

1:43.5

attention, and he seems to be

1:45.6

right generally. So I listen when he makes a suggestion. So I've been looking through this,

1:51.8

and it looks like, to a layman like me, anyway, the results of various clinical studies are

1:59.4

very, very promising here.

2:01.1

But I'd like to start off actually with a little bit about you.

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