The Weeds’ weed episode

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Let’s be blunt: Weed policy is complicated. As with many elections in the past decade, recreational marijuana was on the ballot again during the 2022 midterm elections. After Colorado and Washington voted to legalize recreational use in 2012, more and more states have decided to ride the green wave. And recent moves by the Biden administration signal the federal government may finally come around to decriminalizing marijuana. But do these policies have any power? References: Marijuana election results: Maryland and Missouri vote to legalize cannabis by ballot measure President Biden’s pardons for marijuana possession, explained Federal marijuana legalization is stopped in its tracks Hosts: Jonquilyn Hill (@jonquilynhill) Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer Cristian Ayala, engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser A.M. Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Marijuana is referred to as Mary Jane, pot, weed or tea.
0:06.4	They never say to each other, let's smoke a marijuana cigarette.
0:10.4	They say, let's turn on or let's blast a joint.
0:15.3	Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weeds.
0:20.5	I'm John Glynhill.
0:22.6	Last week, voters came out for the midterms.
0:25.6	At the time of this recording, there are things that we know.
0:29.3	But that Democrats have kept their control of the Senate.
0:32.2	And there are also things we don't know.
0:34.6	Like who will control the House?
0:37.2	Once all the votes are counted, we'll get a sense of what the country's policy priorities
0:41.1	will be over the next two years.
0:43.2	But we did get a peek into how voters feel about one issue in particular.
0:49.0	Marijuana.
0:50.0	What's the attraction of this movie Marijuana?
0:51.7	What kind of sensation does it give you?
0:53.8	It really makes me feel very nice.
0:56.8	Very warm.
0:58.6	Five states put cannabis on their belts this year.
1:00.8	And the results are mixed.
1:03.5	So we decided it's time for the weed's weed episode.
1:07.9	It also gives me a sort of, I didn't know, a sort of piece of mind.
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