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Please Don’t Ruin Mushrooms
With incremental legalization and promising research, the speculative opportunities for plant-based medicine are ratcheting up. But will real help be delivered by, and to, the communities who deserve it most?
At least we can agree on drugs. If I had to sum up how I felt in the wake of the 2020 Election in one sentence — well, okay, it’d probably be something closer to, “The next two months are going to feel like 20 years” — that’d be it. If you’re a fierce advocate for plant legalization, 2020 was your year. (To be clear: 2020’s been no one’s year, but, we gotta find W’s where we can get ‘em.)
Prior to November 3, some 28 U.S. states had some affirmative cannabis measures in place. Marijuana could be used recreationally in 10 states, and medically in 18. After November 3, you can bump those figures to 15 and 36, respectively. Just six states — Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina — remain fully-illegal for personal and medical consumption.
I mean … take a look at this current map of cannabis legalization status, y’all:
