We're live with guests, Ben Echevarria of The Welcome Project and Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, candidate for Cambridge City Council discussing Cambridge's battle over cannabis economic empowerment, housing, immigration and much more.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Testimony from the Cambridge Cannabis Economic Empowerment Ordinance Hearing with Chauncey Spencer, Joseph Gilmore, Joanna Varney, Grant Smith, Ed DeSousa, and other supporting economic empowerment and Nichole Snow and the CEO’s of the RMD’s pretending that letting their existing medical dispensaries go recreational first is both good for the patients and the economic empowerment applicants. Are you buying this? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Cambridge battles for economic empowerment against well funded existing registered medical dispensaries, Sira Naturals and Revolutionary Clinics. The EE proposal passed the ordinance committee and will next be debated with public testimony before the entire Cambridge City Council. This podcast features interviews with Grant Smith, Chandra Batra on Cambridge, & Ed DeSousa of RiverRun Gardens. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Why does it take three months and two MD’s to approve my child’s medical cannabis card? We asked this to the state cannabis control commission and yesterday in response, the state announced changes to how and when they certify medical cannabis patients. What’s new? Initial Access Certification slated to begin on July 1st, will give patients immediate access to their medication. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

After a Somerville showdown with Kirk Minihane & Steve Robinson, Brian Riccio joins us for a conversation on his past week. We play audio from Riccio's interviews of Minihane and Robinson this week, two cowards who didn't handle it very well. This podcast also features audio from WGBH's Beat the Press, 98.5 The Sports Hub, Toucher & Rich show, The Breakfast Club as well as from WEEI.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Does Brian Riccio need an intervention in his feud with trashy Kirk Minihane?  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Stem receives special permit to open cannabis dispensary at heated Haverhill City hall hearing. Background info on LLoyd Jennings. The guy worried about the children. https://www.hgazette.com/news/local_news/police-log/article_5b48b986-f294-52d0-8308-da298e4bba76.html MONDAY, SEPT. 3 Lloyd Jennings, 45, 6 Lancaster St., assault and battery on a police officer, defacing property, resisting arrest, disorderly, 6 Lancaster St., 12:22 a.m. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

For too long patients in Massachusetts have been priced out of medical cannabis dispensaries. Following up on our last month of podcasts we ask listeners to call in. Here are their messages. We hear from disabled and working patients in Massachusetts who offer some possible solutions as well. And a single mom that pays too much for her child’s certifications. With Sherri Tutkus, RN of GreenNurse Group, Donna Hackett, Grant Smith, Peter Bernard, Joanna Varner, Johnny Sim, Heidi Lilley, and many more. With Michael L Malta opening from 2010 showing us how little has changed since then. Expect future coverage lots more on this issue. Subscribe and rate us on iTunes! How can we have social equity when we aren’t talking about ever truly helping patients on low incomes in Massachusetts? Veterans, homeless, recovering addicts, disabled, on social security or disability, working poor many of them who are POC, LGBTQ, patients often working in poverty and in pain who can’t afford to pay a doctor to get certified every 10 months? Social equity means nothing if patients don’t get affordable medication. Nobody in power in Massachusetts is talking about this but that’s all we are hearing about from patients. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Interview with a homeless Salem, Massachusetts man on why dispensaries aren’t serving the homeless and other vulnerable patient populations. The cost is too high! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Haverhill residents showed their support for our standout of Marc's Deli over the establishment's lawsuit which seeks to bar a dispensary from opening downtown. Contact your Haverhill City Council and plan to attend June 18th at 7pm, the special permit hearing for Stem at Haverhill City Hall! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

The Young Jurks welcome guest, Cambridge City Councilor Quinton Zondervan to discuss housing, cannabis licensing, safe injection sites, traffic, climate change and much more. https://votequinton.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Why we announced a protest scheduled for Saturday outside of Marc’s Deli in Haverhill, MA. No more will we put up with cannabis stigma and shame. Discussing The Eagle Tribune and WHAV coverage. This podcast opens with medical cannabis patient and pioneer, Michael Malta aka The King of Pot from 2010. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Interview with Andrew Kimmel. Lack of affordable mental health care for his daughter and later himself, pushed Kimmel’s father over the edge. With suicide currently on the rise, Kimmel has decided to share his family’s tragic loss to raise awareness and push for mental health to be funded on a national level . https://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1135034292382314497?s=21 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Nick Smart, CEO of CannaCon says some crazy shit. He’s not a fan of helping those who were disproportionally harmed by the war on cannabis (because he has money and opportunity by birth and others do not), nor does he support medical cannabis for PTSD, anxiety or back pain. He tells patients to stop being “p:@@-;@”. Warning: This episode features foul explicit language from CannaCon’a Nick Smart. Smart did not return our request for comment. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

An interview with Peter Bernard, Executive Director of Massachusetts Growers Advocacy Council, on why he and other patients plan to smoke up outside Thursday night’s Stanley Cup Boston Bruins game at TD Bank Garden.  A TD Bank Garden blanket ban of medical cannabis patients. We also discuss our next free cannabis gifting event in Boston and include a voice message from Mr . Sativa of The Cannabis Sativa podcast who suggests we take it right to the expensive dispensaries.  For more info on the patients protest this Thursday > https://www.facebook.com/events/722356274849669/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

The Young Jurks interview MA State Senator Sal DiDomenico on cannabis policy, wage theft, Safe Communities Act, safe injection sites, housing, breakfast for kids, alcohol licensing, and much more... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support

Conversation with a Salem, Massachusetts man, Jimi Migz, who is homeless and a recovering addict. Jimi shares problems with his recent hospital stay, being prescribed drugs without his knowledge, and gives criticism and feedback on his experience with Lifebridge and other homeless shelters showing “apathy” towards the homeless as well as being anti-medical cannabis. Support our work, subscribe and consider donating monthly! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support