Drugs
Six Feet Apart with Alex Wagner
Six Feet Apart with Alex Wagner
4.8 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
As the lockdown enters its fifth week, people across the country are looking to escape the chaos, fear and anxiety of a global pandemic. Anything that can offer comfort or relief is in high demand—and that includes drugs. In this episode, Alex examines how people are buying drugs in social isolation, and the ways in which their dealers are managing the supply and demand of both regulated and unregulated substances. First up is the marijuana industry: Alex talks to Dean Arbit, CEO of bud.com, about skyrocketing demand and the specific highs his customers are looking for during COVID-19. Then she talks to "B," a dealer in Los Angeles selling cocaine, mushrooms and MDMA and learns how you move illegal drugs from six feet apart. This is an episode that will shed new light on the most intimate—and illegal—dimensions of human fear and loneliness.
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| 0:00.0 | The deep fear about what's happening and how this ends. |
| 0:07.6 | The grief and sorrow over losing someone. |
| 0:11.0 | The endless hours under lockdown. |
| 0:14.1 | The social isolation. |
| 0:16.1 | The boredom. |
| 0:17.3 | The anxiety. |
| 0:18.9 | The pandemic is driving us to find ways to soothe ourselves, to calm our nerves, |
| 0:23.9 | to try and sleep better or easier or longer, and maybe just simply to feel less. So we're |
| 0:32.3 | eating donuts and we're drinking wine. Okay, we're drinking a lot more wine. And we are, |
| 0:36.8 | in many cases, getting high. |
| 0:39.9 | That's the focus of our episode today, drugs. Welcome to six feet apart. I'm Alex Wagner. |
| 0:49.3 | How do you get recreational drugs in the middle of a pandemic? For legal drugs in states like California, |
| 0:56.7 | how do businesses manage the infrastructure of drug use, the supply and delivery of smokeable, |
| 1:02.6 | vapable, edible goods with a quarantine in place and crazy demand? For illegal drugs in the same |
| 1:10.2 | state, how does a dealer stay safe, legally and |
| 1:13.6 | physically, in a moment where everyone is supposed to stay six feet apart from everyone else? |
| 1:19.5 | Who is buying the drugs and what drugs are they buying? And most urgently, are the drugs working? |
| 1:27.1 | Is anybody out there feeling better? |
| 1:30.2 | We want to know. |
| 1:31.5 | I want to know. |
| 1:33.4 | First, we're going to hear from Dean Arbitt, the CEO of bud.com, a legal online retailer for cannabis dispensaries in Northern California. |
| 1:42.9 | And then we're going to hear from a dealer who |
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