Your Legal Weed is Full of Poison with Paige St. John

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Just because weed is legal doesn’t mean it’s safe. Despite its growing legalization across the country, a lack of regulation has led to alarming levels of pesticides and chemicals in cannabis products—posing serious health risks. This week, Adam talks with Los Angeles Times investigative reporter Paige St. John about her recent findings on contaminated products being sold in fully legal dispensaries and what it means for consumers.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:21.6	I don't know anything.
0:25.9	Hey, everybody.
0:26.9	Welcome to Factually.
0:27.8	I'm Adam Conover.
0:28.6	Thanks for joining me on the show again.
0:30.4	You know, one of the biggest changes in my lifetime in this country has been the legalization
0:34.9	of marijuana.
0:36.3	Along with gay marriage, it's the change to the country
0:38.9	that seemed the most unimaginable when I was in high school, but that seemed to progress more swiftly
0:45.0	than anyone anticipated. Now, it did take a couple decades, right? In the 90s and aughts, there was the
0:50.7	growth of medical marijuana legislation. The idea was that weed was something for
0:54.9	grandmas with glaucoma, people on chemo, and AIDS patients, and it was sold as serious medicine.
1:01.8	But starting in 2012, Oregon and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana.
1:07.9	Now, people had been using marijuana for fun for thousands of years, but now they
1:12.6	could do so legally in America in places like Bend, Oregon, the party capital of the Pacific
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