The conversation sometimes gets like weed good, weed bad, and it can be legal and there can

be problems with it and abuses.

That's something that I think needs to be talked about.

It seems like the decision here is either between making money off of the tax revenue

or spending billions on locking people up for it.

So I'm definitely for the former there.

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta.

I'm Corey Brayford. And I'm Rakey Shlott. Well, audience, if my audio sounds a little weird,

I am abroad for a wedding. So I apologize. There may be a little bit of an echo, but I'm super pumped to tackle

the issues of the week. You may have noticed that we didn't have an episode on Tuesday, but we'll

be back to our regular schedule of two episodes, at least for next week. A couple of quick

announcements, we have our newsletter out, and in that newsletter, I reviewed my friend Jason

Kander's book all about overcoming post-traumatic stress

disorder from his time in Afghanistan. And Corey has a new episode of Stitch This where he interviews

Evan the counselor, who's a guy who's just built a tremendous audience on TikTok talking about

mental health issues. So I guess this is our mental health content week at Lost

Debate. But Corey, I know we have some other stories to tackle. Where are we going to start?

On today's show, weed, pot, chronic, jazz cigarettes, the devil's lettuce, Zah, whatever you

or your parents want to call it, much of the nation is moving toward legalizing marijuana.

We'll debate the high stakes.

The Biden White House is locked in a fight with charter schools over new funding rules. We'll talk about

that showdown. And the war in Ukraine may be shifting in Russia's favor. We'll bring you an

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