When each state has “its own unique cannabis industry”
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Cannabis is now legal — for medical or recreational use — in 38 states, plus D.C. But marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, meaning there are stringent rules governing the transportation of cannabis. That can leave some parts of the industry stranded, sometimes on literal islands. Today, we travel to Martha’s Vineyard to hear how those hurdles have impacted one dispensary. Plus, a look at fossil fuel use and the effort to reopen a criminal case against Boeing.
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| 0:00.0 | The families of Boeing crash victims want the company to pay. |
| 0:05.0 | From Marketplace, I'm Nancy Marshall Genser in for David Barnaccio. |
| 0:10.0 | Families of some of the victims of the Boeing 737 Max crashes are asking the |
| 0:15.2 | Justice Department to prosecute the company and to seek a criminal fine of almost |
| 0:19.7 | $25 billion. This is the latest chapter in a years long effort to reopen the criminal case against Boeing. |
| 0:27.2 | Marketplace's Nova Safo has more. |
| 0:29.6 | In a letter to Justice Department prosecutors, a lawyer representing crash victims' families said Boeing had committed, quote, |
| 0:36.0 | the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history, when it failed to disclose the extent of a software flaw on its new 737 Max Plains and its associated |
| 0:45.8 | dangers. Because of that flaw, two Max Plains crashed just months apart in 2018 and 2019. Everyone on board |
| 0:53.7 | 346 people died. Boeing reached a deferred prosecution agreement |
| 0:58.5 | over the max crashes which the Justice Department now says the company violated. |
| 1:03.7 | Victims' families want Boeing prosecuted and fined $25 billion. |
| 1:08.0 | Much of that money could be deferred to safety and quality improvements. |
| 1:12.0 | Victims' families also want some of Boeing's leadership at the time |
| 1:14.9 | of the crashes prosecuted, that includes former CEO Dennis Muhlenburg. |
| 1:19.6 | The Justice Department is re-evaluating its options following an incident in January when a panel blew off |
| 1:24.8 | a max planes fuselage mid-flight. Since then, multiple whistleblowers have come forward with concerns |
| 1:30.2 | about cut corners and quality control lapses. |
| 1:33.7 | Prosecutors say they'll make a decision by July 7 on whether to criminally charge the company. |
| 1:39.2 | I'm Novisopho for Marketplace. |
| 1:42.2 | Global fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions reached record highs last year. |
| 1:47.6 | That's according to a new industry report from the Energy Institute. |
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