Live from the 2019 New England Cannabis Convention held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston with Sherri Tutkus of the GreenNurse Group interviewing Mike Crawford on The Young Jurks show/podcast winning a journalism award.
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--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/supportThe Young Jurks with host, Mike Crawford and guests, Boston City Councilor Kim Janey and friend of the program, Calvin Feliciano discussing equity in the new cannabis industry.
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--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/supportRicardo Arroyo for Boston City Council on The Young Jurks, 1/5/2019.
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Ricardo Arroyo, candidate for Boston City Council in District 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan, and Roslindale), is the son of the first Latino elected to the Council, Felix D. Arroyo and brother of Felix G. Arroyo, who has also served on the very same Council.
Interviewing Arroyo on my Disrupt Boston show, The Young Jurks, the 31 year old noted, “I come from a pretty great family.” and it goes beyond just the elected positions, his mother is a school teacher and his sister is employed as a Boston Public Schools educator. Another Arroyo brother, also came up in our discussion, Ernesto AKA Eroc, who I’ve known for decades, being a huge fan of his revolutionary hip hop, The Foundation Movement.
Arroyo until his recent campaign announcement, had been serving as a public defender attorney for the Committee for Public Counsel Services.
Unlike the incumbent District 5 Councilor Tim McCarthy, Arroyo supported the 2016 cannabis legalization initiative.
What follows are quotes from the broadcast.
Why are you running for City Council?
“The job I had as a public defender for me it was a calling…Being a public defender is so much of why I’m running. In the work that I did, we were dealing with the vast majority of clients having mental illness, dealing with addiction, with housing instability, and sometimes all three. And people who are generally not receiving the services they need. One of the things I loved about the job is we didn’t have to try to figure out where our next check was coming from, we were salaried, so I could help beyond the criminal cases, to help them with housing and getting treatment. Doing that work I would find the system could make a difference in their lives. I would make this impact on an individual basis... but every day at court there were new people showing up, everyday there is somebody else there so I could help one person but I couldn’t resolve the greater issues that are bringing people there, not without stepping outside of that role.”
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Massachusetts State Rep Elect Nika Elugardo has first hand knowledge of the dangerous nature of illegal drug markets. Her dad was a dealer. This was one of many interesting revelations in my recent sit down with Elugardo on my Disrupt Boston show, “The Young Jurks”.
How do we ensure that the spirit of our Mass cannabis law is implemented in regards to helping those most disproportionately harmed?
“What do we do in the cannabis area? So yes we can have funds, because if we simply say we are going to make a preference for those who have been disproportionately held back by the very system and we don’t provide any funds for that then it’s not going to be possible to overcome it.”
Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins interview from Sept. 1st 2018 when she was a candidate seeking the office.
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--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/supportRetired US Congressman Barney Frank joins The Young Jurks show as a guest to discuss local and national cannabis reform.
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