What It’s Like When Monty Python Runs Your Town
One of the first California desert communities to welcome large scale cannabis cultivation, the comedy of errors that ensues (including failing to collect the taxes that were supposed to save the town) is an object lesson in what NOT to do if you’re counting on cannabis to save the day. Told with a mixture of in-person interviews with elected officials charged with cleaning up the mess of the previous administration and residents who are understandably disgruntled this podcast just never disappoints. It’s also a fascinating meditation on what happens to citizens when circumstances compel them to take up the role of legislator because the previous regime has screwed up so monumentally as to be beyond inept. Highly recommended.
AllTheGoodNicknamesAre Taken via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 10/12/23
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Before I listened to this podcast I always dreamed of moving to California to start my own utopian weed farm paradise. David Weinberg’s nuanced storytelling pulled the wool from my eyes and disabused me of my naivety. I don’t want to get yelled at by people in clown suits and feel all itchy after...Read full review »
Curbs10009 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 07/20/23
Fabulously and objectively told.
Hisoccermom via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 08/02/23
As someone who tried to maneuver in the cannabis space in Adelanto a few years back, I can. not. wait to hear what this podcast unearths. It’s no surprise to me that there’s a story here; it was mind-boggling attempting to deal with “professionals” — city and not — in this space.
StateofBrie via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 05/15/23
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