Legal weed’s half-baked promise

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Pro-pot Californians said legalizing marijuana would end the state’s black market for reefer. Instead, says LA Times investigative reporter Paige St. John, the illegal market is bigger than ever. This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Marijuana is being decriminalized all up and down these United States.
0:04.6	The presidents rethink in marijuana crimes at the federal level.
0:08.4	The federal government currently classifies marijuana as a schedule one substance.
0:12.9	The same as heroin and LSD and more serious than fentanyl.
0:16.5	It makes no sense.
0:18.0	States are legalizing and creating hugely profitable markets.
0:21.8	Marijuana is already legal in about 20 states across the United States.
0:26.6	And polling data suggests that the American people are increasingly okay with it.
0:30.8	71% of Democrats, 61% of independents say that marijuana should be legalized across the
0:37.4	United States.
0:38.4	And it's not just the liberals.
0:39.4	A lot of Republicans are on board.
0:41.2	47% are in favor of legalization across the United States and 41% in opposition.
0:48.6	But all this legal marijuana was supposed to replace illegal markets.
0:53.0	That was the promise of legalization and it's not going according to plan.
0:57.4	That's ahead on today's explained.
0:59.6	Support for the program today comes from the financial times better known by their friends
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