Under the federal system, states and cities are laboratories of democracy. And on Tuesday, citizens in Denver are voting on a unique ballot initiative: decriminalizing “magic mushrooms.” That’s great. Even for those who aren’t on board with the idea that adults should generally be free to ingest what they please, there’s plenty of reasons to cheer on Denver’s democratic experiment.

First a bit about the bill. The initiative, Initiated Ordinance 301 or the Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Initiative, “ would make the personal use and personal possession of psilocybin mushrooms by persons twenty-one (21) years of age and older the city’s lowest law-enforcement priority.” The ordinance, if passed, would also bar the city from spending money on criminal enforcement for those adults and establish and “psilocybin mushroom policy review panel.”