Don't Trust the Same Authorities That Outlawed Weed To Justly Regulate It!

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Social equity programs designed to remediate the damage done by the War on Marijuana have all-too-often had the opposite effect. To find out why, Abdullah and Bean share a sesh with top-drawer cannabis journalist Amanda Chicago Lewis and discuss her new article in the New Republic: "Legalized Pot Was Supposed to Help Build Black Wealth in Los Angeles. It Failed." From shady politicians to venture capital d-bags, she explains what's gone wrong, and how those lessons can be applied to legalization laws in the rest of the country—and around the world. We also discuss how Amanda's 2014 Rolling Stone article about the Pamela Anderson / Tommy Lee sex tape was adopted into the Hulu series Pam & Tommy. Also mentioned in the episode, her 2017 GQ article that blew the whistle on a secret plan to patent cannabis. For more on that subject, check out Bean's subsequent investigative series for Leafly. And for more on social equity in Los Angeles, check out Abdullah's reporting for public radio station KCRW. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our Great Moments in Weed History podcast feed for 60+ episodes of our classic format, and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video versions of this podcast and private seshes, plus cool rewards like a signed book. And it truly helps us make the best show possible.

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean.
0:02.9	And welcome back for another episode of Moments in Weed, our companion series, to great moments in
0:10.2	weed history in which we talk about current events happening in the world of cannabis.
0:16.4	And today, we've got an interview with a very special guest, a fantastic cannabis journalist,
0:24.1	Amanda Chicago Lewis, isn't that right, Bean?
0:27.3	Yeah, somebody who has written really important, impactful, and in-depth articles about
0:34.1	cannabis.
0:34.9	We're talking to her today about an article she's written about social equity in
0:40.1	cannabis. The attempt to have the cannabis industry remediate some of the damage done by
0:46.1	cannabis prohibition. That's obviously a goal that we hugely support here. But as you're going to
0:52.4	hear, the reality of it has not always been as positive
0:58.2	as we would have liked. Yeah, that's right. In fact, the attempts at achieving social equity
1:04.1	in the cannabis industry have kind of done the opposite in a lot of ways. After fighting for so many years for legalization,
1:12.5	now we fight for it's just implementation. And it's thanks to voices like Amanda's that we know
1:18.6	what's going on in the social equity program, like the one in Los Angeles that you reported on.
1:24.8	In this fantastic article for the New Republic.
1:28.3	We'll put the link in the show notes.
1:30.7	Also, fun fact about Amanda Chicago-Louis,
1:34.3	if that name sounds familiar,
1:36.3	it might be because you've seen it on a card at the end of Pam and Tommy.
1:40.0	That's right.
1:41.1	The tremendous Hulu series was based on Amanda's reporting about the Pam and Tommy sex tape and, you know, how that ended up getting out.
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