The Fight to Save Mom & Pop Weed Farms

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Whenever cannabis and capitalism collide, legacy weed farmers find themselves caught in the crossfire—trapped between hyper-capitalized mega-grows with corporate lobbyists and the corrupt government bureaucrats who do their bidding. In a just-published article for Rolling Stone, ace cannabis reporter and longtime friend of the podcast Mary Jane Gibson details how a shady backroom deal pulled the nug out from under California's old-school weed growers. As a result, a confluence of extinction-level-events now threatens to bring down the state's entire legal weed system via an impending market crash. But fret not—the Hempire has only begun to strike back. Mary Jane Gibson joins us for this episode of Moment in Weed, which includes a ceremonial smoke sesh. Here's a link to Mary Jane's original article in Rolling Stone. Find Mary Jane on Instagram here. And connect with Weed + Grub, her podcast with brilliantly blazed stand up comedian Mike Glazer. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video versions of this podcast and private seshes, plus cool rewards like a signed book or signature lighter. And it truly helps us make the best show possible.

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome back for another episode of
0:05.0	Moments in Weed, our companion series to great moments in weed history in which we talk about
0:10.8	weed issues of today. We have a guest on Moments in Weed. We're very excited to welcome an OG
0:18.4	cannabis journalist who, Bean, you've known for many, many years and worked alongside.
0:23.2	Mary Jane Gibson and I met while working at high times back when it was cool and have been
0:29.9	friends and colleagues, I would say, for more than a decade now. And yes, Mary Jane is her real name.
0:38.0	Yeah, that's right.
0:38.6	She gets asked that all the time.
0:41.0	I've seen her get asked this almost every time we've hung out in a group setting.
0:45.3	But yes, she's very cannabis enthusiastic.
0:47.8	Her name happens to be Mary Jane.
0:49.7	And she's also just a killer journalist.
0:51.8	As we see in this article, she just wrote for Rolling Stone inside California's
0:57.8	cannabis crisis.
0:59.5	So if you live in California, you've probably noticed that weed is really, really expensive.
1:04.1	And there's all this hoopla about the industry being unfair for various reasons.
1:09.1	Mary Jane really goes in depth and uncovers some of those reasons
1:12.8	in this fantastic piece. Yes, and this is an issue not just in California, but anywhere that
1:20.3	legalizes cannabis is going to face this conflict with capitalism. I wrote in my book five, six years ago,
1:30.9	cannabis should transform capitalism, not the other way around. Unfortunately, we're going to
1:36.4	hear about an aspect of this where capitalism seems to be kicking cannabis's ass, but I guarantee
1:43.3	you the empire is starting to fight back.
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