The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the high stakes negotiations edition of Slate Money, your Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I am not just parenting corporate cliches in this episode title because this is actually Jordan Weisman's pun.

It's not my well, okay, I lifted it from a news article we were all just sharing around the table.

Hi everyone, I'm back.

Jordan, why is it back?

Hello, Jordan.

Hi.

Jordan has been delving into the business of cannabis.

Yes, I have been. For those who've been

wondering what I've been up to I'm now hosting a podcast for like called

Working where I talk to people about what it is they do with their jobs all day.

It's been going for a while and I have a new season. It's all about people about

working for a while, and I have a new season. It's all about working with weed.

And I went and visited Colorado and interviewed a bunch of people

and everyone from Trimmers to Bud Tenders.

Yes, that's a job, Bud Tender. You can actually find applications for that.

Did you go to the Toronto Stock Exchange because that seems to be where it's all going down?

I have not gone to the Toronto Stock Exchange yet, but we are going to talk about that on this issue.

On this episode. We're going to talk all about the business of cannabis, which has gone from being a criminal enterprise to a quasi criminal enterprise.

I say like a financially criminal.

We are going to talk about Labor Day because for those of you in the USA, this weekend is Labor Day weekend.

In the rest of the world we have this thing called May Day, but the Americans don't approve of that.

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