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Should people be rewarded for doing their civic duty? Many ideas have been floated in an attempt to stem declining voter turnout. This fall, Arizona voters decide whether a plan to pay one lucky voter one million dollars is a brilliant strategy to encourage voter participation or a bad idea helping erode democracy.
Curtis Gans, Director, Center for the Study of the American Electorate, American University
Rob Richie, Executive Director, Center for Voting and Democracy
Mark Osterloh, Chairman, Arizonans for Voter Rewards; former gubernatorial candidate (2002); opthamologist and attorney
It's been four decades since Timothy Leary urged Americans to explore the spiritual side of drugs like LSD and mushrooms. Now, after years of neglect, hallucinogens are attracting the interest of a growing number of researchers. Join Kojo for a look at hallucinogenic drugs and their therapeutic potential.
Dr. Roland Griffiths, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Charles Grob, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine; Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Robert Greenfield, Author, "Timothy Leary: A Biography" (Harcourt)
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