Rec’d: The other side of legalization is a weekly podcast where we explore what actually happened when California legalized weed.
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Hosts: Brandi Moody, weed, wine, and food consultant; Reena Karia, Design Director and CoFounder of The Grass Agency; and Christopher Trout, Creative Director and CoFounder of The Grass Agency.
Producer / Editor: Kyle Maack
Guests: Steve DeAngelo of Harborside; Lori Ajax of the Bureau Of Cannabis Control; Amber Senter of Supernova Women, Jennifer Lujan of Eaze, Tracy Ryan of Cannakids, Matt Shotwell of Weed Country and many more.
Theme Music: Inferno by Raaginder
Rec'd Episode 6: Law and Disorder
There may be a lot of cash changing hands in the cannabis industry but it isn’t the growers or manufacturers making bank. Weed people like to joke that the only people making money in the Green Rush are the lawyers.
Rec'd Episode 5: The equity lottery
In Oakland, social justice in the legal weed industry is a game of chance and some believe the cards are stacked against the very people the city’s equity program was built to serve.
Rec'd Episode 4: The sudden death of Compassionate Care
For the last two years, Tracy Ryan, Wayne Justmann, and other activists and organizers have railed against the state’s treatment of medical marijuana patients. In October, nearly three years after California voted to legalize, Governor Gavin Newsom gave new life to Compassionate Care when he signed Senate Bill 34. The donation of medical marijuana to the terminally ill is now legal and tax exempt. But is the spirit of compassion still alive?
Rec'd Episode 3: Weed Country renegade Matt Shotwell on Craigslist trapping and reality TV
In the new world of weed only the strong survive and Matt Shotwell, the merchant marine turned reality TV star with a 28-toed cat and a gold chrome tour bus, isn’t giving up yet.
Rec'd Episode 2: Whose responsibility is it anyway?
Corporate oversight? Accountability? Ethics? When California flipped the switch on legal weed, cannabis businesses found themselves grappling with issues largely foreign to the illicit market.