Reefer Madness (w/Amanda Chicago Lewis)

Tell your children! 

Host Sandy Allen is joined by reporter Amanda Chicago Lewis (Rolling Stone's cannabis columnist) to discuss Reefer Madness — the old movie, the less old spoof movie musical, a recent scientifically spurious but appallingly popular book, and the idea that reefer causes madness. They unpack how these arguments rely on fear, racism, and the flattening of science (both to do with cannabis and psychiatric diagnoses like schizophrenia). As prohibition of cannabis slowly comes to an end, it’s more important than ever to sort out: what’s truth and what’s myth?

Read Amanda Chicago Lewis’ Rolling Stone column responding to THAT TROLL Alex Berenson and his bad book.

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