1126: How Marijuana Went Mainstream with Heather Cabot, Author of The New Chardonnay

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

From Snoop Dogg to Martha Stewart and suburbia, marijuana has entered the mainstream. What drove this movement? It's a story about business, race, politics and of course, money. Our guest is Heather Cabot, award-winning journalist and author of The New Chardonnay: The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream. More about Heather: Her book was named a Good Morning America “must-read” and has earned praise from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist and Katie Couric for the book’s deep reporting and entertaining storytelling. Heather also hosts The New Chardonnay podcast and is a former ABC News correspondent and anchor. Cabot serves on the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni board and is a contributor to Forbes. She is also the co-author of the WSJ-acclaimed book Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech (St. Martin’s Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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