It didn’t have to end like this, but here we are. Our journey through the labyrinth of legalization is over, and today we’re taking a look back at what’s become of California’s pioneering weed industry. In the final episode of our first season

Silicon Valley Creep

Dec 11th, 2019 34m 29s

If you need any evidence that Silicon Valley has wiggled its way into weed, you need look no further than the nickname for Prop 64: The Sean Parker Initiative. The founder of Napster and first president of Facebook isn’t just the quintessential

All weed everything

Dec 4th, 2019 32m 39s

California opened the floodgates with legalization. Post-prohibition, pot is popping up everywhere: Yoga studios? Check. Nail salons? Yup. Japanese bathhouses? Mhmm. Your grandma’s nightstand? Look, that’s between you and Nana.Join our very hig

Dispatches from the Emerald Triangle

Nov 27th, 2019 35m 46s

The Emerald Triangle: 10,000 square miles of mountainous terrain stretching over three counties, where it’s estimated 60 percent of all of the country’s weed is grown. Keeping track is nearly impossible, but there are reportedly as many as 32,0

Law and Disorder

Nov 20th, 2019 27m 4s

Weed people love to talk about the Gold Rush. As was the case with the Gold Rush, the Green Rush has seen an obscene amount of money poured into a volatile industry, and as was the case in the mid-1800s, the people profiting from the potential

The equity lottery

Nov 13th, 2019 37m 27s

On January 31st, 2018 Oakland, California made history with a bunch of bingo balls and a crowd full of hopeful dispensary owners. The city had invited 36 equity applicants from over-policed communities to come and watch their fates unfold in a

The sudden death of Compassionate Care

Nov 6th, 2019 28m 39s

Wayne Justmann is a master shit talker. He also started the first medical marijuana ID program. Wayne was diagnosed with HIV in 1988. A few years later he met Dennis Peron, who founded the first cannabis dispensary in response to the AIDS epide

Weed Country renegade: Matt Shotwell on Craigslist trapping and reality TV

Oct 30th, 2019 29m 40s

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. When his Discovery Channel show Weed Country debuted in 2013, Sho

Whose responsibility is it anyway?

Oct 23rd, 2019 30m 14s

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. Enter Jennifer Lujan, director of social impact at

Lighting the fuse

Oct 14th, 2019 30m 14s

Lori Ajax, Chief of the newly minted Bureau of Cannabis Control, didn’t know what hit her when voters passed Prop 64, legalizing recreational marijuana in California. Overnight, she was thrown into an entirely new world. In the space of the nex

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