April 20, 2018 • 32 mins
This 4/20, Anney and B give an overview of the country's changing weed laws and B shares an unpopular opinion on the stoner holiday.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Bridget and this is Annie, and you're
listening the stuff mom never told you. Now today it's
four twenty. Yeah, actually not for twenty, but by the
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time you listen to this, it will be that's true.
And we can't say for sure when you're listening to this,
but it came out debuted on Thank You of the Year.
If you're listening to this in the year on what
a congratulations by being a time traveler, you're probably like,
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am I high? I don't know. So we wanted to
do an episode commemorating the day Annie, did you happen
to catch the viral gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon's video about marijuana?
I did not, Bridget Actually, so basically, if you don't
know Cynthia Nixon, a k a. Miranda from Sexmicity, Redhead,
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fiery mother to Brady, wife to Steve, who watched the
show religiously in case he can't tell, she's running for
governor of New York. She actually seems like she's doing
a great job. A friend of mine, Nicole Arrow, is
running her campaign. Shout out to Nicole Um and she
put out a video about marijuana. Here's what she had
to say, I believe it's time for New York to
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follow the lead of eight other states and d C
and legalized recreational marijuana. There are a lot of good
reasons for legalizing marijuana, but for me, it comes down
to this, we have to stop putting people of color
in jail for something that white people do with impunity.
Of the New Yorkers who are arrested for marijuana are
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black or Latino, despite the fact that whites and people
of color use marijuana and roughly the same rights. So
that's what she had to say. People are pretty excited
about her campaign. They were already pretty excited, but now
they're even more excited that she came out as pro
legalization of marijuana for New York. And it's actually kind
of interesting, right in New York is a pretty liberal state.
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You would think that um, it would already be legalized,
but's not. Yeah. Um Over on my other podcast, food Stuff,
we also have a four episode on edibles, and I
was trying to research, um, all the laws in the
United States verse recreational versus medicinal and WHOA did I
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get confused? And it sounds like nobody's really sure what's
going on. Exactly. So let's back up a little bit.
So it turns out that about six and ten Americans
say that the use of marijuana should be legalize. Now,
this is data from the Pew Research Center, and it
is actually pretty confusing about where it's legal, in what
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way it's legal, how it's enforced across the country. It's
a little bit abusing. So here are some baseline facts
that even us as non legal scholars can agree are
the facts. Earlier this year, recreational marijuana became legal in California,
which is the most populous state in the country. In
Colorado and Washington State became the first state to legalize
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marijuana for recreational purposes. So I means you could just
go to a store by a joint and smoking on
the street just for funzies. Wow. Yeah, imagine. Since then,
seven more states in Washington, d C have followed, although
Vermont in DC, while allowing marijuana possession and growing, continue
to bar sales for recreational purposes. Now, as someone who
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lives in d C, I can tell you it kind
of goes back to what you were saying earlier. Annie,
do you see kind of operates in this kind of
I guess you would call it a weird legal logistical
gray area. Technically, it is legal to possess marijuana in Washington,
d C. It is not technically legal to smoke it
in public, although if you are smoking in public, the
worst that can happen to you is a ticket. Um,
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police have to actually see you smoking. If they see
smoke and they assume you're smoking, they can't do anything.
But if they have to like actually see you smoking
to um, you know, stop you. Also, it's still technically
illegal to buy it, but what that means is DC
now operates on this kind of wink wink nudge nudge
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system where you can buy it, but it's like, you know,
it's it's like a gift, like, oh, you're actually buying
the lighter, but we're doing our promotion right now, and
with the lighter comes a free joint. You know. It's
like so it's a little bit like you know, I mean,
it's it's basically legal. UM. I should also point out that, um,
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it's still legal on federal land, and so in d
C a lot of land is federal. So sometimes you
you know, from one part of the sidewalk, you're not
on federal land. Or another part of the sidewalk you
are on federal lands, that can be a little bit tricky,
but for the most part, in d C it is legal,
even though it's exactly what you were talking about earlier,
where it's that kind of tricky confusing, Like people I
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know who smoke weed and live in d C still
don't know the specifics of how the legislation works because
it is confusing. Yeah, and I mean not to mention
it's still illegal on the federal level. So there's the
whole problem of how do these legal businesses in their
state operate. I mean, it's tax season as well, and
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they from what I understand, um, all the profit has
to be in cash or something like. It's just very concluded, complicated.
I've also read that in some states, um, it is
illegal to smoke it in public. And that's why edibles
are so popular is because it's hard to say if
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someone's eating a brownie. UM, I don't know. It's one
of the reasons that that industry in particular seeing exponential growth.
That is interesting. You know a little something about edibles,
don't you, Annie? What are you all right? We'll move on,
will move on, will move on. So Interestingly enough, there's
been new legislation introduced in two states, Utah and Oklahoma,
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to legalize marijuana. Now, those are two of the most
conservative states in the country, which really seems to indicate
that as a country, we are moving more toward legislation
and less toward cracking down on people for smoking weed.
Right and going back to the federal level, the Trump
administration has been if he on the issue. In January,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions just sended an Obama era memo
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that effectively protected states that had legalized marijuana from federal intervention.
Since marijuana remains illegal at the federal level for any purpose,
the Obama memos signaled to states that they could proceed
with reforms without the constant threat of the FEDS rating
state legal businesses. Sessions move, however, revived the possibility of
federal intervention telling prosecutors they had cracked down a marijuana
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even if it's legal under state law. But over the
past week, Trump promised not to go after marijuana suppliers
and users who are baying their state laws. So it's like,
I know, it's hard to say, and I'm someone who
I don't trust Trump. As you all know, and so
I'm like, oh, you said this, we'll see exactly exactly.
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I'm like, I'll give that, I'll give that out. We'll
see how where how it goes in my book. But
something to know is that even John Bayner, remember him well,
the former Speaker of the House, who once said that
he was quote unalterably opposed legalization, has recently quote evolved
on the issue. And he announced that he'd be joining
Acreage Holding, a group that cultivates and distributes cannabis across
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eleven states and hopes to roll back federal restrictions on
the drug. So even him, even old stick in the
mud Byner, is coming around on the issue. Yeah, he
evolved to seeing there's money to be made. I mean, listen,
the only color that matters is great. Well that works
on two levels. I just got it. Well, you're really
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really slow reaction time. I don't appreciate the implications. Listen, y'all,
I got a level with you. If you listen to
earlier iterations of the show, you know that sometimes you
have episodes that are all around somebody's unpopular opinion. And
I don't think I ever really waited into the unpopular
opinion territory. I hope that we'll get some good any
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unpopular opinions going forward, but today is a bridget unpopular opinion,
and that opinion is I hate We're twenty and I'll
tell you why. After this quick break and we're back,
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and I just revealed my unpopular opinion. You're probably a
lot of you are probably surprised by this. I'm a
pretty um chill person, obviously. I I have no problem
with may I wanna or a drug use at all.
I'm very pro But I hate for twenty. And let
me tell you, I don't just hate for twenty. I
hate shows that glorify weed. I don't like anything on Vice.
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It's like, hey, let's make a trucky dinner, but then
like put weed in it. I hate that. I hate
that so much. Like it when I see commercial sport
it makes me cringe. I hate sort of trend articles
that are like, oh, look at these moms who are
driving the car pool but also smoke weed. I hate that.
I mean, you know what I'm talking about. It like
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boils my blood. Basically, I hate almost anything to do
with weed and popular culture. That are exceptions most music.
Um probably the second season of that show Weeds, which
I did enjoy. Specifically, if you watched Weeds, do you
know what like went off the rails? I really did.
Did you watch it? I did. I couldn't tell you
which season is the second season, but I remember when
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that like her kids shot that person, yeah, Pollar, and
they go to Mexico and there's that weird underground tunnel,
Like this is kind of going off the rails, but
it is related kind of the series finale of the show. Yeah,
it's I've never seen a worst series finale. It's so
bad where it's like, well spoiler, look, if you haven't
seen Feeds, that was like twelve years ago. It fasts
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forward twenty years into the future, so they're they're like
they're like a hover pars and it's you know, it's
the future. And Nancy Botwin basically opens the Starbucks of Weed,
you know, like the weirdest and the episode before that
ends with her in one of the show's typical sort
of oh How's Nancy gonna get out of this? One
likes being held up at gunpoint by gangsters, and then
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the next episode they don't address how she dealt with that.
It's just the future and everything's fine and she's rich
and it's flying cars the worst. Man. I watched every
episode that show, and I don't remember that, so I
must have. It's clearly meant to be like, oh, it's
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the future that we have, we have like wild technology
you've never seen because it's the year thirty or whatever.
It's so bad if if you haven't seen it, if
you've seen, if you basically is one of those shows
that I watched all the way through and I was like,
I am owed a series finale. I know it's a
bad show, but I dedicated a lot of my times
when I'm owed. I'm owed. Some wrap up wasn't It
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was not a good choice. I would like to point
out this is the second time you've mentioned the year one,
So whoever is listening to this and it's high, it's
freaking out right now. Thinks you're trying to communicate to
him or if you're high right now, please get in
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touch with me. If you're high, I'm trying to You're right,
it's not it is a pattern. You're right, I'm speaking
to you. He's this person is going to try to
travel back in time. Oh man, oh, this is getting
like trippy in meta it is. I didn't know it
was going to go this way. Yeah, we've like, we've
gone into some interesting I like it. Okay, so you're
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probably thinking, wow, Bridge is the biggest buzz skill of
all time and only thing on the serious finale of
Weeds it doesn't even like. And here's why. So I
have no problem with smoking weed, obviously, but let me
hit you all with some truth. As the resident for
twenty buzzkill. According to the Drug Policy Alliance, women are
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now the fastest growing segment in the US prison population,
largely because of crappy drug laws. Two thirds of women
doing time in federal prison right now are there because
of non violent drug offenses. And so, you know, I
love I I think drugs are cool. I mean, I'll
say it. I think like, as long as you like
use it responsibly, like I'm you know, but it's hard
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for me to see stats like that and kind of
take part in the four twenty hoop law right like,
it just doesn't feel right for me. Um. Further, there
are all these I mean, I don't need to tell y'all,
but there are all these heartbreaking stories. There was one
that release ticks with me. This woman Patricia Spotted Cow.
She's an Indigenous mama four who got a felony charge
for a thirty one dollar marijuana sale during a sting
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operation and it resulted in a twelve year prison sentence
when she was only twenty five. And so you know
these stories, I hear that. I'm sure that a lot
of y'all hear them. If if you're someone who pays
attention to this issue at all, it's probably not surprising
to hear that people who are marginalized are the ones
who are locked up more, the ones who have their
families destroyed, more deported more. There is this author, Ellen
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comp She wrote Token Women, a four thousand year History.
She's also the current deputy director of California Normal And
one of the things that she writes about is how
for a long time, women and smoking was sort of
a stigmatized thing. And I would argue it still is.
And one of the reasons that women face stigma or
maybe worry about using mirror wanna is because they worry
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about the government interfering with their parenting. And so if
you get busted smoking weed, the concern is that you
might have your kids taken away from you by top
protective services, and so you know, I I obviously don't
have a problem with drug use in and of itself,
but it's like when I see things like, oh, yoga,
moms do yoga between bob ribs, it's so difficult for
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me to see that and be like, oh, that's cool,
celebrate that and not think about the disparities. Think about
all the people whose lives have been ruined because they
wanted to do this, do the same thing that everybody
else does. Right, Like, we love smoking weed in America.
We are a very weed smoking country. Black people and
white people use marijuana at the same rates, and yet
the people who are locked up for it are are
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people who look like me. I do find that there's
an interesting dynamic or I don't know if that's the
right word with weed that is not there with alcohol,
which you can I like to use as that helpful comparison,
they're different, but they are you can use it in
kind of the same way. Um, where with alcohol you
don't have there's not I'm sober and completely wasted and
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those are your two only two options. You can be
like lightly buzzed or tipsy, are wasted. But with I
feel like with weed, it's you're either sober are you're
like stoned out of your mind. There's no we don't
really talk about those in between spaces. Um and Yeah.
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When I was doing the research on edibles, I guess
I've always I'm kind of been mature in the sense
that I've always thought of like, you know, your college,
your college pot brownie that you did, you'd take two. Well,
don't take two, but that's what I did, and you
get stoned out of your mind, and that's your goal.
Like that, there's no in between, and that comes from
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I think the stigmatization and the fact that it is legal,
and there's this whole cycle of recreational marijuana was brought
to the US by Mexican immigrants, and it was around
the time of the Great Depression. So who do Americans
lame but the incoming immigrants. And so that's why they
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called it marijuana, was to like, that's scary sounding Mexican. Yeah,
And they capitalized on the fear of it, and because
of that, it became almost a total black market thing,
and we lost all of the how to use it,
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just basic knowledge of what it is and how to
use it safely. And yeah, and when in the sixties,
the Swinging sixties, and when white people discovered it and
they're like, oh, I actually liked this thing. Then the
laws eased back and they're like, okay, well, oh well,
we'll let people do this more. And then the War
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on drugs with Ronald Reagan and everything reversed. Then they
became even worse than it was before then. And uh
so I get what you're saying. It's it's it's a
real shame. And we should think, I mean, you should
think about these things. We should think about these things.
You should be aware of what I'm a big proponent
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of that, and like everything. You should know where your
food comes from and the people that got it to
you and how it got to you, and maybe why
is it only twenty cents? You know, these are questions
you should ask. I just went on a tangent kind
of I don't think it's it's it's not a tangent
because I think that's true. I think the larger point
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one that I am hopefully I am like saying like savings,
the last few cool points that I have. I think
the larger point that you just made is is where
my anxiety around this comes from. Is that We love
closing our eyes to this, whether it's fast fashion, like
why is this shirt three dollars? Whether it's you know,
why are avocado is not grown in this date? But
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I have avocados here and they're very cheap? Why is
you know? We we like we as a as a society,
we like to not ask those questions because it's easier.
And of course, like who wants to ask those questions?
You want your cheap shirt, you want your cheap you
want you know, like getting highest fun, right, Like, part
of it is understandable because we who wouldn't want to
close their eyes to that? But I also think because
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of that very understandable kind of almost natural inclination, we
then don't even ask, you know, who was being arrested
for this and why? And what do they look like?
Or what is the environmental impact of this? Right? Like
you know, when I was living in New York, I
all of my super lefty woke friends all were big
cocaine users and like you know, also very big environmentalists.
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And if you know anything about the k production, that's
a tough squared circle. And we you know what we do,
we don't circle that square. We just keep doing okay,
and we move on. We don't deal with it. And
I think with marijuana because it is so glorified and
pop culture, it's one of those things that like I
can't I can't not see it. I can't I see
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I feel like I see it everywhere, Like when I
see those pop mom stories, you know, like oh, yoga
pop mom. It just feels so isolating because I know
people who personally had their children taken away were the
exact same thing. And so it's like for me because
marijuana comes along with this sort of like fun, freewheel
in cool pop culture thing, which I also really hate
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it just it just it's like a glance, like I
can't do the thing that feels good, which is not
asked those questions. It's like those questions are like in
my face, right yeah. And it's another unfortunate thing that
I I myself am guilty of that I kind of
always like chuckle and like make marijuana jokes. I'm really
bad about it. I love puns anyway, but marijuana has
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so many it does associated with it, so I make
them and it's part of the immaturity around the whole
thing that's in part because of pop culture, and in
part because it is so stigmatized and we don't talk
about it, and there is that image of like you
kind of mentioned earlier, women are afraid to be seen
of like the stoner because in our head that's like
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a dropout or somebody who is on the fast track
to prison, like someone who should their kids taken away. Exactly. Yeah,
we can't even have a serious conversation about it, and
luckily we are sort of moving that way. But slogoings yeah,
and I don't want to. I don't want to. I mean,
I'm sounding like such a buzz skill, but I'm not
wanna say no, actually making marijuana is not funny, like
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don't watch Super Super that's awful, you know, No, I'm
gonna say that. I was saying, like, I don't know.
I just think that we because of what you just
mentioned stigma. You know, I don't think anybody should have
their kids taken away because they smoke that. And I
think that obviously some people have to worry about that
more than others. But I think large our inability to
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talk about marijuana in a way that's I guess, like
what you said like adult, well, also lazing it's fun
it's right for humor, certainly, I you know, I'm I'm
as guilty of it as anybody. Um, But I think
that it's like this, It's it's like either one or
the other. Either you get to live in a world
where marijuana is this funny, fun free wheel and thing,
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or you get to live in a world where people
have their kids taken away and you get deported. And
it's like, I want, I want us all to live
in the same world where, which is we're dealing with
it in a realistic way, not have part of our
citizen we live in one world and part of us
live in another. But I guess that's not true because
there's How High, which is also a funny movie, and
they're black, So I don't know, I don't know what
I'm saying. Well, this is your own popular opinion. You
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get to just have it, and that's that's the beauty. Yeah,
thank you, Annie. This is as good I mean I
I people who know me know that this is a
weird hang up of mine, even as someone who is
fine with marijuana use and drug use. But this is
a weird hang up of mine. And every four twenty,
I'm like, vice is gonna do a week week and
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I'm gonna watch every episode. You know, I gotta I
gotta start watching. No, I want you to live tweet
it please getting anger. Um over on food stuff, we
got to talk to um Becka Graham from Dope Girls,
which is a local zene like gets published and um,
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it's all about the intersection of feminism and marginalized people
and cannabis culture, and um, if you're interested in any
of this, I would go check it out because she
had such good things to say, and she was just
much more well spoken on it than I am, because
I am kind of on the fringe of like being
high oh you know generally no on I guess I've
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always kind of I'm still in that college mindset unfortunately
of like it happens to be at this party or whatever,
so I don't I'm not very well informed about the
goings on, but she was very well spoken, and UM,
if you're in Atlanta, totally look them up. If you're
not in Atlanta, look them up. But in Atlanta they
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do events and fundraisers and stuff. Well checking out their stuff.
One of the things I love that they're doing, and
I'm I think this is really rad is they're working
to kind of bridge that intersection I was talking about earlier.
So my anxiety about how we celebrate marijuana comes from
what I feel like is a disparity. Clearly, they are
people who are you know, intersectional and you know, multicultural
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and working to bridge that gap. That that leaves a
lot of people feeling a little bit alienated about weed
culture because we called like weed can be feminists or
also there's we'll talk more about sort of the women
who are doing pioneering work in weed. It can be
something that helps, you know, bridge cultures. And I think
all of that is really really red. So I'm happy
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to see organizations like Dope Girls really being intentional about
saying like, no, you're not going to paint a portrait
that fun marijuana youth means white white people. We're going
to show you the actual basis of people who know
smoke marijuana and use marijuana, and we're gonna do the
work to de stigmatize it, and we're going to show
the reality. We're not going to paint it as this
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illicit thing, but we're not going to paint it as
quote unquote sanitized just white people having a good time.
Even we're gonna show you what it looks like, right.
And one of the things I love about it UM
the zine is they get a lot of UM authors,
well known authors to contribute to it, and not all
of them smoke or have edibles. They just it's just
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an issue that they think should be decriminalized because it
is impacting marginalized people at such higher rates. And I
love that that you can. I feel like we just
assume if someone's for it, it means that they secretly
want to get higher, they secretly do get high, which
is not always the case at all. And we're just
painting again with this big brush a multitude of people,
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uh that we shouldn't there. There's a lot there's a
lot of experiences out there that gets ignored when you
do that. Absolutely absolutely, So let's talk more about some
of the women, like the Dope Girls who are really
pioneering in weed. After this quick break and we're back
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and he was just sharing some really cool work done
by the Dope Girls here in Atlanta. Women are pretty
involved in this booming legal weed industry, though it is
lagged a bit recently in the pot industry. The shareff
startups owned by women is shrinking, even as female entrepreneurs
thrive in small businesses. Overall. Two years ago, women made
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up of executives in cannabis related companies, about average for
small businesses on a whole. This year, the percentage of
women entrepreneurs was unchanged, but female executives in the cannabis
industry dropped now. This is according to information from the
Marijuana Business Daily. But even though the number have lagged
a little bit, there are still some really really rad
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women who are rock in the cannabis industry. Yeah. Um,
You've got women like doctor the Kesha Jenkins, who has
a doctorate in naturopathy and is a member of the
American Herbalist Guild and is a Master irbalist and founding
board member of the California Cannabis Industry Association. She helped
draft the legalization laws that passed in the state of California.
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I love hearing about her because we often forget about
the hard sciences. I feel like we talk about marijuana
and she's a doctor, so that was really cool. Yeah. Um.
Also there's Wanda James. She became the first black woman
to own a pot dispensary. She's a former Navy lieutenant
who served on Barack Obama's two thousand and eight Finance Committee.
Her and her husband Scott, a renowned shaft, opened the
Apothecary of Colorado, and they became the first black couple
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to open a participansary. I love the name of Papecary
of Colorado. You've got Lynn Lyman, the California state director
of the nonprofit organization Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization
advancing drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health, and human rights.
Along with working to fund cannabis research. A Lineman's biggest
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passion is making marijuana and marijuana advocacy communities more inclusive,
especially by creating space for those who were a vital
part of the weed industry before sanctioned by mainstream society.
So I kind of give it up for her, because
you know, when I mean bridge at the buzz Kill.
When these you know, new marijuana laws passed, which I
thought were great, part of me was like, yeah, but
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what about the people who were arrested before? And what
about the people who got in trouble because they were
trying to take part of this economy? And oh now
it's fine. So I'm happy that people are out there
working to bridge that gap and say, listen, if you
were a foundational part of this industry before it was cool,
I want to work with you. I want to talk
to you. I want to I want to see what
you're up to, because I just too often I feel
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like we, you know, we put a switch and it's like, Okay,
it's cool now. And the people who are often kind
of at the gates, like ready to go with their
business license and the money in the capital to start
a business are often white folks and often men as well.
And so I like that there are people who are
kind of acknowledging that and working to make sure that
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it's an economy that everyone can take part in, and
that if you were punished for taking part in the
economy before that you can still be you know, welcomed
in now because it just for me, it just doesn't
seem right that folks should you know. It's like people
who are foundational to the industry, you know, getting locked up,
losing their businesses whatever, or just shut out of it
now that it's a free for all. Yeah. Um, That's
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another thing we talked about with Dope Girls is that
some of the fundraisers fundraisers. They do is bailout funds,
and um, I just talked to them, so it's fresh
on the brain. We're not like being sponsored by them
or anything. Uh they seem then I don't. I don't
think they even do sponsorships. But just just to be clear,
transparentent Um. Jessica Peters of maxim Eds, a c B
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women by women, available in a variety of combinations to
heal what ails you from anxiety to PTSD to period
cramps in pain. Moxi Meds grows their CBD rich flowers
following organic standards to create what is known as f
E c O Full Extract cannabis oil using organic ethanol
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to extract the cannabinoids and turpenes. You did it. That
was a mouthful. I'm so glad I did the research
for this at a time. Wow you for someone else
a delayed response time? You really mail that five? I
(29:44):
like reading it. Come on, that was like watching an
Olympic athlete like do a flip. It's like will she
stick that landing? Podcast judges say she did it? Are
gonna this. People are gonna be like, what is wrong
with any and bridget In this episode of they Okay,
(30:04):
Are they all right? They were almost there homestretch, home stretch.
We got this. So the last person I wanted to
shout out in terms of women who are pioneering the
cannabis industry is m J Freeway. Now, Freeway is kind
of bridging the gap between two very heavily male dominated industries,
tech and cannabis. M J pioneer systems that track inventory
(30:26):
for growers. Her partner founded a company in twenty ten
that provides tools for growing legal cannabis businesses and governments
to regulate the industry. So again, you can be a
woman involved in the industry and be a doctor, be
someone who makes a strain of cannabis. You can be
a software engineer. There are all different kinds of ways
to be involved, and I'm as happy that sort of
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show the diverse arrays of how folks were involved, whether
you own a dispensary, or you're a doctor, or you're
a lawyer, or you're drafting legislation or you're running a nonprofit. Right,
it is not the stereotypical image that most of us
probably think of when you think of people who are
perhaps enjoying cannabis on four twenty what do you think
of people wearing a sweatshirt today? On and I happen
(31:10):
to be honest, I've never even seen Wayne's World, but
it's Wayne's world like that. Look, that's what it is.
Well that brings us to the end of this installment
of Bridgets unpopular opinion. We're gonna get an anti unpopular
opinions but everyone can hate you for a while. Oh boy,
I'm really excited about that one. Don't worry. That's some
(31:31):
That's some very calming stuff that will help you, you know,
deal with this. Very intrigued to find out more about
that and Bridge and I would love to hear from
you if you've got any unpopular opinions listeners, or if
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Hey, this is Bridget and this is Annie, and you're
listening the stuff mom never told you. Now today it's
four twenty. Yeah, actually not for twenty, but by the
(00:25):
time you listen to this, it will be that's true.
And we can't say for sure when you're listening to this,
but it came out debuted on Thank You of the Year.
If you're listening to this in the year on what
a congratulations by being a time traveler, you're probably like,
(00:47):
am I high? I don't know. So we wanted to
do an episode commemorating the day Annie, did you happen
to catch the viral gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon's video about marijuana?
I did not, Bridget Actually, so basically, if you don't
know Cynthia Nixon, a k a. Miranda from Sexmicity, Redhead,
(01:10):
fiery mother to Brady, wife to Steve, who watched the
show religiously in case he can't tell, she's running for
governor of New York. She actually seems like she's doing
a great job. A friend of mine, Nicole Arrow, is
running her campaign. Shout out to Nicole Um and she
put out a video about marijuana. Here's what she had
to say, I believe it's time for New York to
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follow the lead of eight other states and d C
and legalized recreational marijuana. There are a lot of good
reasons for legalizing marijuana, but for me, it comes down
to this, we have to stop putting people of color
in jail for something that white people do with impunity.
Of the New Yorkers who are arrested for marijuana are
(01:53):
black or Latino, despite the fact that whites and people
of color use marijuana and roughly the same rights. So
that's what she had to say. People are pretty excited
about her campaign. They were already pretty excited, but now
they're even more excited that she came out as pro
legalization of marijuana for New York. And it's actually kind
of interesting, right in New York is a pretty liberal state.
(02:14):
You would think that um, it would already be legalized,
but's not. Yeah. Um Over on my other podcast, food Stuff,
we also have a four episode on edibles, and I
was trying to research, um, all the laws in the
United States verse recreational versus medicinal and WHOA did I
(02:39):
get confused? And it sounds like nobody's really sure what's
going on. Exactly. So let's back up a little bit.
So it turns out that about six and ten Americans
say that the use of marijuana should be legalize. Now,
this is data from the Pew Research Center, and it
is actually pretty confusing about where it's legal, in what
(03:00):
way it's legal, how it's enforced across the country. It's
a little bit abusing. So here are some baseline facts
that even us as non legal scholars can agree are
the facts. Earlier this year, recreational marijuana became legal in California,
which is the most populous state in the country. In
Colorado and Washington State became the first state to legalize
(03:21):
marijuana for recreational purposes. So I means you could just
go to a store by a joint and smoking on
the street just for funzies. Wow. Yeah, imagine. Since then,
seven more states in Washington, d C have followed, although
Vermont in DC, while allowing marijuana possession and growing, continue
to bar sales for recreational purposes. Now, as someone who
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lives in d C, I can tell you it kind
of goes back to what you were saying earlier. Annie,
do you see kind of operates in this kind of
I guess you would call it a weird legal logistical
gray area. Technically, it is legal to possess marijuana in Washington,
d C. It is not technically legal to smoke it
in public, although if you are smoking in public, the
worst that can happen to you is a ticket. Um,
(04:06):
police have to actually see you smoking. If they see
smoke and they assume you're smoking, they can't do anything.
But if they have to like actually see you smoking
to um, you know, stop you. Also, it's still technically
illegal to buy it, but what that means is DC
now operates on this kind of wink wink nudge nudge
(04:27):
system where you can buy it, but it's like, you know,
it's it's like a gift, like, oh, you're actually buying
the lighter, but we're doing our promotion right now, and
with the lighter comes a free joint. You know. It's
like so it's a little bit like you know, I mean,
it's it's basically legal. UM. I should also point out that, um,
(04:49):
it's still legal on federal land, and so in d
C a lot of land is federal. So sometimes you
you know, from one part of the sidewalk, you're not
on federal land. Or another part of the sidewalk you
are on federal lands, that can be a little bit tricky,
but for the most part, in d C it is legal,
even though it's exactly what you were talking about earlier,
where it's that kind of tricky confusing, Like people I
(05:10):
know who smoke weed and live in d C still
don't know the specifics of how the legislation works because
it is confusing. Yeah, and I mean not to mention
it's still illegal on the federal level. So there's the
whole problem of how do these legal businesses in their
state operate. I mean, it's tax season as well, and
(05:32):
they from what I understand, um, all the profit has
to be in cash or something like. It's just very concluded, complicated.
I've also read that in some states, um, it is
illegal to smoke it in public. And that's why edibles
are so popular is because it's hard to say if
(05:53):
someone's eating a brownie. UM, I don't know. It's one
of the reasons that that industry in particular seeing exponential growth.
That is interesting. You know a little something about edibles,
don't you, Annie? What are you all right? We'll move on,
will move on, will move on. So Interestingly enough, there's
been new legislation introduced in two states, Utah and Oklahoma,
(06:15):
to legalize marijuana. Now, those are two of the most
conservative states in the country, which really seems to indicate
that as a country, we are moving more toward legislation
and less toward cracking down on people for smoking weed.
Right and going back to the federal level, the Trump
administration has been if he on the issue. In January,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions just sended an Obama era memo
(06:38):
that effectively protected states that had legalized marijuana from federal intervention.
Since marijuana remains illegal at the federal level for any purpose,
the Obama memos signaled to states that they could proceed
with reforms without the constant threat of the FEDS rating
state legal businesses. Sessions move, however, revived the possibility of
federal intervention telling prosecutors they had cracked down a marijuana
(07:01):
even if it's legal under state law. But over the
past week, Trump promised not to go after marijuana suppliers
and users who are baying their state laws. So it's like,
I know, it's hard to say, and I'm someone who
I don't trust Trump. As you all know, and so
I'm like, oh, you said this, we'll see exactly exactly.
(07:23):
I'm like, I'll give that, I'll give that out. We'll
see how where how it goes in my book. But
something to know is that even John Bayner, remember him well,
the former Speaker of the House, who once said that
he was quote unalterably opposed legalization, has recently quote evolved
on the issue. And he announced that he'd be joining
Acreage Holding, a group that cultivates and distributes cannabis across
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eleven states and hopes to roll back federal restrictions on
the drug. So even him, even old stick in the
mud Byner, is coming around on the issue. Yeah, he
evolved to seeing there's money to be made. I mean, listen,
the only color that matters is great. Well that works
on two levels. I just got it. Well, you're really
(08:05):
really slow reaction time. I don't appreciate the implications. Listen, y'all,
I got a level with you. If you listen to
earlier iterations of the show, you know that sometimes you
have episodes that are all around somebody's unpopular opinion. And
I don't think I ever really waited into the unpopular
opinion territory. I hope that we'll get some good any
(08:26):
unpopular opinions going forward, but today is a bridget unpopular opinion,
and that opinion is I hate We're twenty and I'll
tell you why. After this quick break and we're back,
(08:48):
and I just revealed my unpopular opinion. You're probably a
lot of you are probably surprised by this. I'm a
pretty um chill person, obviously. I I have no problem
with may I wanna or a drug use at all.
I'm very pro But I hate for twenty. And let
me tell you, I don't just hate for twenty. I
hate shows that glorify weed. I don't like anything on Vice.
(09:12):
It's like, hey, let's make a trucky dinner, but then
like put weed in it. I hate that. I hate
that so much. Like it when I see commercial sport
it makes me cringe. I hate sort of trend articles
that are like, oh, look at these moms who are
driving the car pool but also smoke weed. I hate that.
I mean, you know what I'm talking about. It like
(09:35):
boils my blood. Basically, I hate almost anything to do
with weed and popular culture. That are exceptions most music.
Um probably the second season of that show Weeds, which
I did enjoy. Specifically, if you watched Weeds, do you
know what like went off the rails? I really did.
Did you watch it? I did. I couldn't tell you
which season is the second season, but I remember when
(09:57):
that like her kids shot that person, yeah, Pollar, and
they go to Mexico and there's that weird underground tunnel,
Like this is kind of going off the rails, but
it is related kind of the series finale of the show. Yeah,
it's I've never seen a worst series finale. It's so
bad where it's like, well spoiler, look, if you haven't
seen Feeds, that was like twelve years ago. It fasts
(10:18):
forward twenty years into the future, so they're they're like
they're like a hover pars and it's you know, it's
the future. And Nancy Botwin basically opens the Starbucks of Weed,
you know, like the weirdest and the episode before that
ends with her in one of the show's typical sort
of oh How's Nancy gonna get out of this? One
likes being held up at gunpoint by gangsters, and then
(10:41):
the next episode they don't address how she dealt with that.
It's just the future and everything's fine and she's rich
and it's flying cars the worst. Man. I watched every
episode that show, and I don't remember that, so I
must have. It's clearly meant to be like, oh, it's
(11:03):
the future that we have, we have like wild technology
you've never seen because it's the year thirty or whatever.
It's so bad if if you haven't seen it, if
you've seen, if you basically is one of those shows
that I watched all the way through and I was like,
I am owed a series finale. I know it's a
bad show, but I dedicated a lot of my times
when I'm owed. I'm owed. Some wrap up wasn't It
(11:25):
was not a good choice. I would like to point
out this is the second time you've mentioned the year one,
So whoever is listening to this and it's high, it's
freaking out right now. Thinks you're trying to communicate to
him or if you're high right now, please get in
(11:46):
touch with me. If you're high, I'm trying to You're right,
it's not it is a pattern. You're right, I'm speaking
to you. He's this person is going to try to
travel back in time. Oh man, oh, this is getting
like trippy in meta it is. I didn't know it
was going to go this way. Yeah, we've like, we've
gone into some interesting I like it. Okay, so you're
(12:10):
probably thinking, wow, Bridge is the biggest buzz skill of
all time and only thing on the serious finale of
Weeds it doesn't even like. And here's why. So I
have no problem with smoking weed, obviously, but let me
hit you all with some truth. As the resident for
twenty buzzkill. According to the Drug Policy Alliance, women are
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now the fastest growing segment in the US prison population,
largely because of crappy drug laws. Two thirds of women
doing time in federal prison right now are there because
of non violent drug offenses. And so, you know, I
love I I think drugs are cool. I mean, I'll
say it. I think like, as long as you like
use it responsibly, like I'm you know, but it's hard
(12:54):
for me to see stats like that and kind of
take part in the four twenty hoop law right like,
it just doesn't feel right for me. Um. Further, there
are all these I mean, I don't need to tell y'all,
but there are all these heartbreaking stories. There was one
that release ticks with me. This woman Patricia Spotted Cow.
She's an Indigenous mama four who got a felony charge
for a thirty one dollar marijuana sale during a sting
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operation and it resulted in a twelve year prison sentence
when she was only twenty five. And so you know
these stories, I hear that. I'm sure that a lot
of y'all hear them. If if you're someone who pays
attention to this issue at all, it's probably not surprising
to hear that people who are marginalized are the ones
who are locked up more, the ones who have their
families destroyed, more deported more. There is this author, Ellen
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comp She wrote Token Women, a four thousand year History.
She's also the current deputy director of California Normal And
one of the things that she writes about is how
for a long time, women and smoking was sort of
a stigmatized thing. And I would argue it still is.
And one of the reasons that women face stigma or
maybe worry about using mirror wanna is because they worry
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about the government interfering with their parenting. And so if
you get busted smoking weed, the concern is that you
might have your kids taken away from you by top
protective services, and so you know, I I obviously don't
have a problem with drug use in and of itself,
but it's like when I see things like, oh, yoga,
moms do yoga between bob ribs, it's so difficult for
(14:25):
me to see that and be like, oh, that's cool,
celebrate that and not think about the disparities. Think about
all the people whose lives have been ruined because they
wanted to do this, do the same thing that everybody
else does. Right, Like, we love smoking weed in America.
We are a very weed smoking country. Black people and
white people use marijuana at the same rates, and yet
the people who are locked up for it are are
(14:46):
people who look like me. I do find that there's
an interesting dynamic or I don't know if that's the
right word with weed that is not there with alcohol,
which you can I like to use as that helpful comparison,
they're different, but they are you can use it in
kind of the same way. Um, where with alcohol you
don't have there's not I'm sober and completely wasted and
(15:08):
those are your two only two options. You can be
like lightly buzzed or tipsy, are wasted. But with I
feel like with weed, it's you're either sober are you're
like stoned out of your mind. There's no we don't
really talk about those in between spaces. Um and Yeah.
(15:29):
When I was doing the research on edibles, I guess
I've always I'm kind of been mature in the sense
that I've always thought of like, you know, your college,
your college pot brownie that you did, you'd take two. Well,
don't take two, but that's what I did, and you
get stoned out of your mind, and that's your goal.
Like that, there's no in between, and that comes from
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I think the stigmatization and the fact that it is legal,
and there's this whole cycle of recreational marijuana was brought
to the US by Mexican immigrants, and it was around
the time of the Great Depression. So who do Americans
lame but the incoming immigrants. And so that's why they
(16:13):
called it marijuana, was to like, that's scary sounding Mexican. Yeah,
And they capitalized on the fear of it, and because
of that, it became almost a total black market thing,
and we lost all of the how to use it,
(16:33):
just basic knowledge of what it is and how to
use it safely. And yeah, and when in the sixties,
the Swinging sixties, and when white people discovered it and
they're like, oh, I actually liked this thing. Then the
laws eased back and they're like, okay, well, oh well,
we'll let people do this more. And then the War
(16:54):
on drugs with Ronald Reagan and everything reversed. Then they
became even worse than it was before then. And uh
so I get what you're saying. It's it's it's a
real shame. And we should think, I mean, you should
think about these things. We should think about these things.
You should be aware of what I'm a big proponent
(17:16):
of that, and like everything. You should know where your
food comes from and the people that got it to
you and how it got to you, and maybe why
is it only twenty cents? You know, these are questions
you should ask. I just went on a tangent kind
of I don't think it's it's it's not a tangent
because I think that's true. I think the larger point
(17:38):
one that I am hopefully I am like saying like savings,
the last few cool points that I have. I think
the larger point that you just made is is where
my anxiety around this comes from. Is that We love
closing our eyes to this, whether it's fast fashion, like
why is this shirt three dollars? Whether it's you know,
why are avocado is not grown in this date? But
(18:00):
I have avocados here and they're very cheap? Why is
you know? We we like we as a as a society,
we like to not ask those questions because it's easier.
And of course, like who wants to ask those questions?
You want your cheap shirt, you want your cheap you
want you know, like getting highest fun, right, Like, part
of it is understandable because we who wouldn't want to
close their eyes to that? But I also think because
(18:23):
of that very understandable kind of almost natural inclination, we
then don't even ask, you know, who was being arrested
for this and why? And what do they look like?
Or what is the environmental impact of this? Right? Like
you know, when I was living in New York, I
all of my super lefty woke friends all were big
cocaine users and like you know, also very big environmentalists.
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And if you know anything about the k production, that's
a tough squared circle. And we you know what we do,
we don't circle that square. We just keep doing okay,
and we move on. We don't deal with it. And
I think with marijuana because it is so glorified and
pop culture, it's one of those things that like I
can't I can't not see it. I can't I see
(19:05):
I feel like I see it everywhere, Like when I
see those pop mom stories, you know, like oh, yoga
pop mom. It just feels so isolating because I know
people who personally had their children taken away were the
exact same thing. And so it's like for me because
marijuana comes along with this sort of like fun, freewheel
in cool pop culture thing, which I also really hate
(19:28):
it just it just it's like a glance, like I
can't do the thing that feels good, which is not
asked those questions. It's like those questions are like in
my face, right yeah. And it's another unfortunate thing that
I I myself am guilty of that I kind of
always like chuckle and like make marijuana jokes. I'm really
bad about it. I love puns anyway, but marijuana has
(19:49):
so many it does associated with it, so I make
them and it's part of the immaturity around the whole
thing that's in part because of pop culture, and in
part because it is so stigmatized and we don't talk
about it, and there is that image of like you
kind of mentioned earlier, women are afraid to be seen
of like the stoner because in our head that's like
(20:11):
a dropout or somebody who is on the fast track
to prison, like someone who should their kids taken away. Exactly. Yeah,
we can't even have a serious conversation about it, and
luckily we are sort of moving that way. But slogoings yeah,
and I don't want to. I don't want to. I mean,
I'm sounding like such a buzz skill, but I'm not
wanna say no, actually making marijuana is not funny, like
(20:34):
don't watch Super Super that's awful, you know, No, I'm
gonna say that. I was saying, like, I don't know.
I just think that we because of what you just
mentioned stigma. You know, I don't think anybody should have
their kids taken away because they smoke that. And I
think that obviously some people have to worry about that
more than others. But I think large our inability to
(20:55):
talk about marijuana in a way that's I guess, like
what you said like adult, well, also lazing it's fun
it's right for humor, certainly, I you know, I'm I'm
as guilty of it as anybody. Um, But I think
that it's like this, It's it's like either one or
the other. Either you get to live in a world
where marijuana is this funny, fun free wheel and thing,
(21:16):
or you get to live in a world where people
have their kids taken away and you get deported. And
it's like, I want, I want us all to live
in the same world where, which is we're dealing with
it in a realistic way, not have part of our
citizen we live in one world and part of us
live in another. But I guess that's not true because
there's How High, which is also a funny movie, and
they're black, So I don't know, I don't know what
I'm saying. Well, this is your own popular opinion. You
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get to just have it, and that's that's the beauty. Yeah,
thank you, Annie. This is as good I mean I
I people who know me know that this is a
weird hang up of mine, even as someone who is
fine with marijuana use and drug use. But this is
a weird hang up of mine. And every four twenty,
I'm like, vice is gonna do a week week and
(21:57):
I'm gonna watch every episode. You know, I gotta I
gotta start watching. No, I want you to live tweet
it please getting anger. Um over on food stuff, we
got to talk to um Becka Graham from Dope Girls,
which is a local zene like gets published and um,
(22:22):
it's all about the intersection of feminism and marginalized people
and cannabis culture, and um, if you're interested in any
of this, I would go check it out because she
had such good things to say, and she was just
much more well spoken on it than I am, because
I am kind of on the fringe of like being
high oh you know generally no on I guess I've
(22:45):
always kind of I'm still in that college mindset unfortunately
of like it happens to be at this party or whatever,
so I don't I'm not very well informed about the
goings on, but she was very well spoken, and UM,
if you're in Atlanta, totally look them up. If you're
not in Atlanta, look them up. But in Atlanta they
(23:05):
do events and fundraisers and stuff. Well checking out their stuff.
One of the things I love that they're doing, and
I'm I think this is really rad is they're working
to kind of bridge that intersection I was talking about earlier.
So my anxiety about how we celebrate marijuana comes from
what I feel like is a disparity. Clearly, they are
people who are you know, intersectional and you know, multicultural
(23:26):
and working to bridge that gap. That that leaves a
lot of people feeling a little bit alienated about weed
culture because we called like weed can be feminists or
also there's we'll talk more about sort of the women
who are doing pioneering work in weed. It can be
something that helps, you know, bridge cultures. And I think
all of that is really really red. So I'm happy
(23:47):
to see organizations like Dope Girls really being intentional about
saying like, no, you're not going to paint a portrait
that fun marijuana youth means white white people. We're going
to show you the actual basis of people who know
smoke marijuana and use marijuana, and we're gonna do the
work to de stigmatize it, and we're going to show
the reality. We're not going to paint it as this
(24:11):
illicit thing, but we're not going to paint it as
quote unquote sanitized just white people having a good time.
Even we're gonna show you what it looks like, right.
And one of the things I love about it UM
the zine is they get a lot of UM authors,
well known authors to contribute to it, and not all
of them smoke or have edibles. They just it's just
(24:32):
an issue that they think should be decriminalized because it
is impacting marginalized people at such higher rates. And I
love that that you can. I feel like we just
assume if someone's for it, it means that they secretly
want to get higher, they secretly do get high, which
is not always the case at all. And we're just
painting again with this big brush a multitude of people,
(24:55):
uh that we shouldn't there. There's a lot there's a
lot of experiences out there that gets ignored when you
do that. Absolutely absolutely, So let's talk more about some
of the women, like the Dope Girls who are really
pioneering in weed. After this quick break and we're back
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and he was just sharing some really cool work done
by the Dope Girls here in Atlanta. Women are pretty
involved in this booming legal weed industry, though it is
lagged a bit recently in the pot industry. The shareff
startups owned by women is shrinking, even as female entrepreneurs
thrive in small businesses. Overall. Two years ago, women made
(25:42):
up of executives in cannabis related companies, about average for
small businesses on a whole. This year, the percentage of
women entrepreneurs was unchanged, but female executives in the cannabis
industry dropped now. This is according to information from the
Marijuana Business Daily. But even though the number have lagged
a little bit, there are still some really really rad
(26:03):
women who are rock in the cannabis industry. Yeah. Um,
You've got women like doctor the Kesha Jenkins, who has
a doctorate in naturopathy and is a member of the
American Herbalist Guild and is a Master irbalist and founding
board member of the California Cannabis Industry Association. She helped
draft the legalization laws that passed in the state of California.
(26:26):
I love hearing about her because we often forget about
the hard sciences. I feel like we talk about marijuana
and she's a doctor, so that was really cool. Yeah. Um.
Also there's Wanda James. She became the first black woman
to own a pot dispensary. She's a former Navy lieutenant
who served on Barack Obama's two thousand and eight Finance Committee.
Her and her husband Scott, a renowned shaft, opened the
Apothecary of Colorado, and they became the first black couple
(26:50):
to open a participansary. I love the name of Papecary
of Colorado. You've got Lynn Lyman, the California state director
of the nonprofit organization Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization
advancing drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health, and human rights.
Along with working to fund cannabis research. A Lineman's biggest
(27:12):
passion is making marijuana and marijuana advocacy communities more inclusive,
especially by creating space for those who were a vital
part of the weed industry before sanctioned by mainstream society.
So I kind of give it up for her, because
you know, when I mean bridge at the buzz Kill.
When these you know, new marijuana laws passed, which I
thought were great, part of me was like, yeah, but
(27:33):
what about the people who were arrested before? And what
about the people who got in trouble because they were
trying to take part of this economy? And oh now
it's fine. So I'm happy that people are out there
working to bridge that gap and say, listen, if you
were a foundational part of this industry before it was cool,
I want to work with you. I want to talk
to you. I want to I want to see what
you're up to, because I just too often I feel
(27:54):
like we, you know, we put a switch and it's like, Okay,
it's cool now. And the people who are often kind
of at the gates, like ready to go with their
business license and the money in the capital to start
a business are often white folks and often men as well.
And so I like that there are people who are
kind of acknowledging that and working to make sure that
(28:14):
it's an economy that everyone can take part in, and
that if you were punished for taking part in the
economy before that you can still be you know, welcomed
in now because it just for me, it just doesn't
seem right that folks should you know. It's like people
who are foundational to the industry, you know, getting locked up,
losing their businesses whatever, or just shut out of it
now that it's a free for all. Yeah. Um, That's
(28:37):
another thing we talked about with Dope Girls is that
some of the fundraisers fundraisers. They do is bailout funds,
and um, I just talked to them, so it's fresh
on the brain. We're not like being sponsored by them
or anything. Uh they seem then I don't. I don't
think they even do sponsorships. But just just to be clear,
transparentent Um. Jessica Peters of maxim Eds, a c B
(29:01):
D rich line of cannabis tinctures, is a medicine for
women by women, available in a variety of combinations to
heal what ails you from anxiety to PTSD to period
cramps in pain. Moxi Meds grows their CBD rich flowers
following organic standards to create what is known as f
E c O Full Extract cannabis oil using organic ethanol
(29:22):
to extract the cannabinoids and turpenes. You did it. That
was a mouthful. I'm so glad I did the research
for this at a time. Wow you for someone else
a delayed response time? You really mail that five? I
(29:44):
like reading it. Come on, that was like watching an
Olympic athlete like do a flip. It's like will she
stick that landing? Podcast judges say she did it? Are
gonna this. People are gonna be like, what is wrong
with any and bridget In this episode of they Okay,
(30:04):
Are they all right? They were almost there homestretch, home stretch.
We got this. So the last person I wanted to
shout out in terms of women who are pioneering the
cannabis industry is m J Freeway. Now, Freeway is kind
of bridging the gap between two very heavily male dominated industries,
tech and cannabis. M J pioneer systems that track inventory
(30:26):
for growers. Her partner founded a company in twenty ten
that provides tools for growing legal cannabis businesses and governments
to regulate the industry. So again, you can be a
woman involved in the industry and be a doctor, be
someone who makes a strain of cannabis. You can be
a software engineer. There are all different kinds of ways
to be involved, and I'm as happy that sort of
(30:46):
show the diverse arrays of how folks were involved, whether
you own a dispensary, or you're a doctor, or you're
a lawyer, or you're drafting legislation or you're running a nonprofit. Right,
it is not the stereotypical image that most of us
probably think of when you think of people who are
perhaps enjoying cannabis on four twenty what do you think
of people wearing a sweatshirt today? On and I happen
(31:10):
to be honest, I've never even seen Wayne's World, but
it's Wayne's world like that. Look, that's what it is.
Well that brings us to the end of this installment
of Bridgets unpopular opinion. We're gonna get an anti unpopular
opinions but everyone can hate you for a while. Oh boy,
I'm really excited about that one. Don't worry. That's some
(31:31):
That's some very calming stuff that will help you, you know,
deal with this. Very intrigued to find out more about
that and Bridge and I would love to hear from
you if you've got any unpopular opinions listeners, or if
how are you celebrating or not celebrating for twenty You
can find us on Twitter at twitter dot com slash
(31:53):
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