Weed Wonks Podcast: Law professors Courtney Barnes and Scott Seder on the bottom-up movement to legalize psychedelics

The movement to reform psychedelics policy in the U.S. has picked up speed in recent years, and while it is still well behind the marijuana legalization movement, it is steadily gaining ground.

In the latest episode of Weed Wonks, host Jordan Wellington of Strategies 64 dives into the subject of psychedelics policy reform with attorneys Courtney Barnes and Scott Seder, who are adjunct professors teaching an elective course on psychedelics law at the University of Texas Law School.

The three discuss how the movement to legalize and regulate psilocybin and other psychedelics differs from cannabis legalization and why there is “less noise” around the cause, particularly when it comes to the subject of criminal justice reform.

They also highlight impacts being made at the local level and explore why psilocybin legalization may be more palatable than cannabis legalization for some people.