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Explain It to Me

Lie back, light up, and enjoy some executive time

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

German Lopez joins Matt and Sarah to talk about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' most recent move on marijuana, how Trump spends his time, and child mortality in the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What time is it, Matt?

0:01.2

It's policy time.

0:02.2

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:15.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:19.6

I'm Matthew with Laceyus.

0:20.8

With me today, we have Sarah Cliff, as usual, and also the great Hermann Lopez sitting

0:26.0

in for Ezra Klein.

0:27.2

Good great show coming.

0:28.8

We're going to talk about Americans dying and talk about policy time.

0:32.7

It's very unbranded for the Weeds.

0:35.0

But we are going to have some policy time.

0:37.5

This is policy time.

0:38.5

This is policy time.

0:39.5

This is the app of policy time.

0:41.5

All the time is policy time.

0:43.5

Yes.

0:44.5

But we asked Hermann to join us because there was some significant news this week on marijuana

0:49.8

policy, which is a specialty of his and something that we wanted to talk about.

0:56.1

It seemed like a somewhat surprising move.

0:58.4

It really said it came as a surprise to me.

1:00.8

Can you just explain what happened?

1:03.6

Yeah, it is a little surprising because essentially what the attorney general did, and he could

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