607. Is America Switching From Booze to Weed?

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🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We have always been a nation of drinkers — but now there are more daily users of cannabis than alcohol. Considering alcohol’s harms, maybe that’s a good thing. But some people worry that the legalization of cannabis has outpaced the research. (Part one of a four-part series.)

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0:00.0	On a recent Monday morning we found ourselves up in the Berkshire Mountains in the
0:08.0	town of Sheffield, Massachusetts. There is a dark gray building with a big
0:12.0	front porch right on Route 7.
0:14.1	It is home to a retail shop called the Pass.
0:18.4	It was pretty busy, especially for Monday morning,
0:21.0	and the customers were happy to tell us why they were buying what they were
0:24.7	buying. It helps me with pretty much everything. Get through the day, wake up, eat my anxiety.
0:31.7	This is pretty much the only way to get my brain to shut off to actually
0:36.4	fall asleep. There's so many different ways you can use it. This is my relaxation.
0:41.2	It just takes the edge off. For me it just makes everything a little bit better.
0:46.0	Everyone could benefit off of it in their own way. It's, you know, medicine without medicine.
0:52.2	What is this alleged elixir?
0:54.2	This medicine without medicine?
0:56.3	Weed.
0:57.3	I got some weed.
0:58.3	Weed.
0:59.3	It's all cannabis.
1:00.7	I absolutely love it.
1:02.1	It's just nice to know that it's legal now.
1:06.0	You may know it as weed or marijuana or hemp or pot. Or if you're old enough, maybe you know it as grass, or reefer, or herb.
1:18.0	It has gone by many names in many places and many times.
1:22.0	Mary Jane.
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