The Growing Legalisation of Marijuana in the US
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
As more states legalise marijuana, the team explore how America's relationship with the drug has changed. They interview a drug historian and a former adviser to Clinton, Bush Jnr and Obama on drug policy.
Americast is presented by North America editor Sarah Smith, Today host Justin Webb, the BBC's Social Media and Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring, and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher.
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This episode was made by Phil Marzouk, Alix Pickles, Cordelia Hemming and Paige Neal-Holder. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham. The senior news editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | So, did you see Donald Trump throwing a dinner party for his friend, |
| 0:09.3 | the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, now known as Ye, |
| 0:12.8 | we think that's how you say it, at his Mar-a-Largo resort for dinner? |
| 0:16.2 | I did, and we've all been there, haven't you? |
| 0:17.7 | You invite a kind of international superstar or former international superstars |
| 0:21.8 | falling on hard times around, and they bring someone with them, |
| 0:26.1 | and the someone is often rather unwelcome. |
| 0:29.6 | Yes, it wasn't a problem that they didn't have enough place settings at Mar-a-Largo. |
| 0:32.7 | The problem was that Ye brought with him Nick Fuente, |
| 0:35.4 | he's a YouTuber who is also a very well-known, |
| 0:38.4 | prominent white nationalist and holocaust denier, |
| 0:41.0 | not the kind of person you regularly would have rendered in a table. |
| 0:43.6 | So, what was the response to Donald Trump to all of this? |
| 0:46.5 | Trump actually posted about it on True Social, not Twitter, |
| 0:50.0 | saying that Ye had unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, |
| 0:53.9 | whom I knew nothing about. |
| 0:55.0 | We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. |
| 0:58.7 | The dinner was quick and unaventful. |
| 1:01.2 | But this put him not only odds with all of the left, |
| 1:06.2 | which you would expect, and indeed many middle ground thinkers, |
| 1:10.8 | it also put him really quite deeply at odds, didn't it, |
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