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Hello, welcome back to the Jack Fin Show. I'm Jen Pan. As always, thanks for watching. Please hit like and subscribe.

So on today's show, I will be talking to Professor Lillie Geissmer.

She has a new book out called Left Behind that looks at the legacy of the new Democrats,

which of course is the wing of the Democrats that took power in the 90s,

and famously includes former President Bill Clinton, among others.

And I'm talking to Lillie about how and why the new Democrats pushed policies

like free trade, micro lending, charter schools, and of course, welfare reform,

and how their particular brand of policymaking continues to shape the Democratic Party today.

So definitely stay tuned for that. For my segment, I'm going to be talking about weed.

Specifically, there have been a few new pushes to legalize weed at the federal level.

I should say, my state of New Mexico just legalized weed earlier this month.

And so all of that got me sort of thinking about how lots of states are now trying to roll out

these so-called cannabis social equity programs, which are programs that are theoretically

supposed to make sure that the same people who were harmed by past marijuana convictions

and the war on drugs are now in a position to open weed businesses

or otherwise benefit from the legal weed industry.

So obviously, I think that sounds like a nice idea, but I will be making some comments

in a little bit about why cannabis equity basically keeps falling short.

And before we get to all of that, I am very excited to be talking to an up-and-coming politician

who is running a very scrappy grassroots campaign in the state of Pennsylvania

with the backing of several labor unions. So let's dive in.

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