609. What Does It Take to Run a Cannabis Farm?

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Chris Weld worked for years in emergency rooms, then ditched that career and bought an old farm in Massachusetts. He set up a distillery and started making prize-winning spirits. When cannabis was legalized, he jumped into that too — and the first few years were lucrative. But now? It turns out that growing, processing, and selling weed is more complicated than it looks. He gave us the grand tour. (Part three of a four-part series.)

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1:00.1	And here now is today's episode. So I was asked to be part of a panel that went to a retirement center to talk about
1:12.3	cannabis because a lot of those people are what we call canicurious.
1:17.0	My discussion was sort of how it works generally what it does to the body.
1:22.0	Some of the claims that are made around cannabis in medicine
1:25.5	and then how to dose low and slow. I said listen it's been what 80 years you
1:32.4	haven't tried it before don't try one
1:34.1	gummy the first night to a quarter of a gummy you can afford to take a week to find out if it works
1:39.8	that is Chris Weld he is a cannabis farmer in Western Massachusetts.
1:44.6	In case you hadn't noticed, cannabis is in a very different place than it was even just a decade ago.
1:49.8	This is our third episode in a four-part series called Is America Switching From Booze to Weed.
1:57.2	If you missed the first two, here's a recap.
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