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Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Sfini.

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My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hadasfininy, and we're coming to you from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, Narcotics and Vice at 1203 Western Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

You know, that's not far from where I went to college at Duquesne University.

That's right, and they're always busting basketball players from Duquesne for marijuana.

Is that right? Yes, I've heard about this several times. Marijuana is not legal in Pennsylvania yet. Pennsylvania, no. Pennsylvania will probably be one of the last states to legalize marijuana because Pennsylvania has some extremely backward laws in general. I mean, they're only second to Utah for their crazy alcohol laws. We've discussed this on the show many times. Oh, we've discussed this on the show so many times. No, no, no, no. I think not as much as you think. Because to me, again, this is a completely foreign idea. When you told me, I didn't understand. In the state of Pennsylvania, the liquor stores. If you're an adult, you will not be treated as such. You are still treated as a child in the state of Pennsylvania.

Yes.

Where you cannot buy alcohol except where the state allows when it comes to liquor or wine.

And when you want to buy beer, you can't get a six pack of beer.

You just can't go to the store and get a six packs of beer.

You have to go through a distributor and then you have to buy 24 beers. So the alcohol, the laws are so skewed. It seems,

now I think things have been changing a little bit and that there is alcohol available in regular

grocery stores now, but it's still so very well controlled. I think it might be three-two beer or something.

On Sundays, of course, there's no alcohol anywhere. I think some of this is the fact that

Pennsylvania is so large physically that there's a gigantic rural population simply by virtue of

the fact that it's so big and that it stays very conservative for a long time. Does that make sense? Yeah, I know what you mean. Because like Philadelphia shouldn't be that conservative. Pittsburgh shouldn't, I mean, yeah. Philadelphia is more East Coast and Pittsburgh is more Midwest. Yes, we've had this discussion. Many times. As I say, Pennsylvania should be divided up into two states, much like California, which should probably be three states, let's face it.

All right. So we're talking tonight about marijuana smugglers because we have a really interesting guest here.

Yes, we didn't introduce our topic. Our topic is marijuana smugglers. That's why we're here at the narcotics division.

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