Ep 132 | We Should Absolutely Legalize Mushrooms | Guest: Mike Riggs
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Denver just became the first city in the U.S. to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms, and Oakland, CA, is eyeballing a similar measure. Heaton brings on psilocybin and drug policy expert Mike Riggs of Reason to talk about the concerns of legalizing psychotropic drugs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm |
| 0:02.0 | something's off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and I have the strongest hands and sharpest pocket squares in this whole county. |
| 0:21.0 | Today we're going to talk about decriminalizing mushrooms, by which I mean specifically hallucinogenic |
| 0:28.6 | mushrooms. |
| 0:29.6 | Nobody's outlawing portabella mushrooms, unless they're GMO, at which point probably some mouth breathers in |
| 0:35.2 | California are getting bent out of shape. |
| 0:38.0 | But we're talking about magic mushrooms, which the city of Denver just decriminalized, and Oakland, California will vote on it shortly, |
| 0:45.0 | which I think is great. You own your body. You do. Your body is not held in trust by the community. It's yours. You own it. |
| 0:57.0 | More to the point, you are the king of your own garage. That's one of the things I |
| 1:01.2 | friggin love about my home state of Oklahoma. |
| 1:03.2 | A man's garage is sacred. |
| 1:05.6 | He got arrested for smoking pot. |
| 1:07.4 | Where? |
| 1:08.4 | In his garage? |
| 1:10.0 | It's his garage. |
| 1:11.0 | He can do whatever the hell he wants. |
| 1:12.2 | You get a warrant, you stay out of his garage, you pink |
| 1:14.4 | old comic boomer sooner. |
| 1:16.4 | If you want to eat trippy fungus in your own backyard and get mesmerized by the grandeur of |
| 1:20.7 | Bermuda grass, go for it. |
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