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Crude Conversations

EP 010 with Jana Weltzin

Crude Conversations

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Society & Culture

4.9152 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we have a conversation with Jana Weltzin, an Alaskan attorney with a focus on recreational marijuana business law and regulation compliance. We talk about moving back to Alaska and her newfound, intimate relationship with the community, the importance of independently owned businesses, and the Alaska weed industry—licensing, permits and regulations. Crude weed columnist Whitney Branshaw sat in on the conversation.

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0:00.0

In this podcast, Janna Weltzen talks about the exploding lakes.

0:05.8

And so she's talking about methane gas in the lakes

0:10.2

and how it's exploding them. Yeah, and that's like climate change, right?

0:14.0

Yeah, yeah, methane's a pretty serious greenhouse gas.

0:17.0

You know, I think it might be the permafrost now that I think about it.

0:20.0

So it might be, maybe it's methane and the permafrost, like the combination.

0:24.7

Well, no, that's a big deal. It is permafrost. It's like this permanently frozen ground.

0:30.7

And methane gases have been trapped in there for eons or whatever. But now that

0:36.6

we're seeing this like average temperature rising those methane gases are

0:40.8

being released into the atmosphere and it's causing like more of a

0:45.0

greenhouse effect right so it's like the warming temperatures are causing things

0:49.1

to happen that are going to create like increasingly warmer temperatures it's like what do you call that like a

0:53.8

snowball effect? Yeah it's exacerbating it for sure. Oh dude. Yeah man so but anyway

0:59.1

back to Jana I grew up with her actually. Yeah we all went to the same college. Yep and then yeah we

1:03.3

she was my roommate in college. Yeah. For like a year probably and you know it was funny because she was

1:09.4

always like I think she was studying political science she was like I'm gonna go to

1:12.2

law school and she was studying political science, she was like, I'm going to go to law school.

1:13.4

And she was always working so hard.

1:15.1

And then, you know, then she's in law school in Arizona.

1:18.4

And I'm like friends with her in Facebook and I'm seeing her start to kill it.

1:21.0

And then all of a sudden she's like involved with the cannabis

1:23.1

industry here in Alaska yeah I mean I think she actually started a little bit down in

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