This is Search Engine. I'm PJ Vote. No question too big, no question too small.

A year ago when I was about 10 years younger, the team at Search Engine

foolishly began to ask ourselves what seemed like a simple question? How, seemingly overnight, had

thousands of illegal weed stores sprouted in New York? Couldn't be too complicated

to answer. Turns out, there's a story behind all this, a story

behind all this, a story that's not just about New York.

There are, as you may already know, 50 states in America.

As each one legalizes, each one runs its own experiment in how to do this correctly.

But many of these experiments end up being botched in weirdly similar ways.

This week we'll bring you the story of how New York

malfunctioned and we'll ask whether it can still be fixed. That's after these

pre-rolls.

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that smokes weed and say hey if you need weed just give me a call. One day in March he was giving me a ride.

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