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ποΈ 18 September 2017
β±οΈ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to CODE's witch, more than 40 million Americans speak Spanish and |
| 0:03.8 | millions more are learning. |
| 0:05.3 | For all of you, I'd like to recommend NPR's Radyo Ambulante. |
| 0:08.9 | It's the podcast to hear incredible stories from all over Latin America and across the |
| 0:13.4 | U.S. |
| 0:14.4 | Hosted by novelist Danielle Alarcon, Radyo Ambulante covers the region like no one else, reporting |
| 0:19.9 | and storytelling in Espanyol. |
| 0:22.5 | Radyo Ambulante is on NPR1 or wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:27.2 | Linda Grant has been in the weed game in Oakland for a long time, like practically her |
| 0:32.9 | whole life. |
| 0:33.9 | At the end of the elementary, it says, great, I started selling weed at 11 years old. |
| 0:37.8 | So like, we didn't go to school. |
| 0:39.6 | We saw weed. |
| 0:40.6 | We stayed on the football field all day selling dollar joints selling five dollar bags of weed. |
| 0:45.5 | Since Linda's been selling weed for so long, she's middle age now. |
| 0:48.9 | She's had a lot of run-ins with the law. |
| 0:51.7 | Her story comes to us by the way through Alyssa John Perry's reporting for KQED. |
| 0:56.8 | Now the first time Linda was arrested, she was a teenager. |
| 0:59.9 | But there have been so many more arrests over the decades. |
| 1:04.0 | There is that one time in the early 90s. |
| 1:06.3 | I sold them the weed and then the police pulled up and started flashing the light on me |
| 1:11.0 | and stuff and I was like, what is going on? |
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