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Boston, Massachusetts politics. Led by Mike Crawford AKA Mike Cann. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theyoungjurks/support
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Aug 24, 2020
Mike Crawford interviews Chelsea City Councilor at Large Damali Vidot discussing her campaign for MA State Rep, she's running in all of Charlestown and a section of Chelsea. We also discuss her wish to bring transparency to the Massachusetts State House, an Exxon Mobile lawsuit she's a part of, cannabis, COVID19, her past, police and drug reform, safe injection sites, and much more. https://www.votedamali.org --- 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
Aug 15, 2020
Why did a MA State Rep candidate call the Middleton Police Department on us? MA State Rep candidate Robert May didn’t want to answer questions about blocking a veteran from opening RiverRun Gardens, LLC, a microgrow in a Newburyport business park. May  wouldn’t speak and then called the police? First time anybody has ever called the police on us for asking questions. Bet his opponent Sally Kerans for State Representative won’t call the police on us for asking questions... Video: https://www.facebook.com/theyoungjurks/videos/877094396113308/ --- 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
Aug 10, 2020
Let's elect the first ever women of color to the Massachusetts Governor's Council! Helina Fontes for Massachusetts Governor's Council, she's running in District 6 and will be on the democratic primary ballot, September 1st.  https://www.helinafontes.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
Aug 5, 2020
Massachusetts CCC proposed changes, delivery only and caregivers with Janelle Goines, Dr. Marion McNabb, Dan Scotland, Grant Smith and Mike Crawford. midnightmass.substack.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
Aug 3, 2020
Grant  Smith interviews Morriss Partee, Aaron Goines, and Janelle Goines regarding their proposed changes to the CCC's delivery regulations for adult use operators. --- 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
Aug 1, 2020
Fabricio DaSilva, Vice President of UFCW 1445 gives us an update on NETA, New England Treatment Access union campaigns as well as the campaign to bring back COVID19 hazard pay for Stop & Shop workers and those employed in healthcare.  --- 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
Jul 24, 2020
Shekia Scott, the former Director of Community Outreach and Equity Programming at the state's Cannabis Control Commission. Within this position, she focused on promoting the inclusion  of communities disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs, marijuana prohibition, arrests and incarceration in the adult-use  marijuana industry. Shekia developed and introduced MA’s  first-in-the-nation, statewide, Social Equity Program, providing  technical assistance, training and opportunity for entry into the  industry across four areas with additional program benefits. Additionally, she co-founded the Boston Police Camera Action Team which successfully introduced community influenced policy and outfitted BPD with body cameras. This lead to her service as Policy Director and Neighborhood Liaison for Boston City Councilor and the first African American woman President of the City Council, Andrea Campbell. --- 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
Jul 20, 2020
Grant Smith with a panel of local experts Devin Alexander, Ed DeSousa, and Dr. Marion McNabb on Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission proposed regulation changes.  --- 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
Jul 19, 2020
NETA Parallel dispensary employee fired after discussing union organizing on a recent episode of The Young Jurks, an interview with that employee Jonathan Martins. We also discuss new proposed Mass CCC regulations that would lift medical cannabis caregiver limits. Email the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Comission to support lifting the caregiver to patient limit. This  is truly amazing news and it now becomes imperative that patients reach  out, starting July 20th 2020, to commission@cccmass.com in support of  this proposal.  --- 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
Jul 12, 2020
Interviews with attendees who participated in today's MassCann/NORML strawpoll on Bill Flynn, it was a landslide against the President.  Mike Crawford also gets Bill Flynn on the record, he threatens Crawford and continues to blame others.. --- 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
Jul 11, 2020
US Senator Ed Markey discussing Green New Deal, OSHA not protecting legal cannabis workers in Massachusetts, Stop & Shop supermarkets ending hazard pay, cannabis legalization 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
Jul 9, 2020
NETA, New England Treatment Access cannabis dispensary employees speak on the ongoing mail-in Brookline, Massachusetts union election & troubling work conditions in Franklin, fires, aphids, mold, and COVID19. We find out that NETA Franklin has started to have fire drills since our most recent episode with Rob Cawley who stated that most employees hadn't been through a fire drill. As Cawley stated, "More fires than fire drills". Two of the employees speak on what went down during the latest fire at the Franklin location. They were both there.  --- 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
Jul 7, 2020
Mike Crawford interviews Isaias Lopez, store manager at Canna Provisions dispensary, Holyoke on their opening day.  --- 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
Jul 1, 2020
MassCann/NORML emergency over Director's ties to Straight Pride and anti-BLM statements, we interview a number of former directors and members of the organization about the controversy, Noni Goldman, Shannon Jones, Rachel Donlan, Kate Steinberg, and Hope Marian. We all agree in wanting MassCann to ban chairman of the board, Samson Racioppi and President Bill Flynn.  --- 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
Jun 28, 2020
Grant Smith interviews Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commissioner Shaleen Title on social equity, new proposed regulations and bills she supports that would establish a cannabis social equity loan fund as well as another that would allow cities and towns to license social consumption business.  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
Jun 26, 2020
Mike Crawford & Grant Smith discuss corporate cannabis conspiracies, real ones and fakes too.  Revolutionary Clinics, Commissioner Shaleen Title, and Globe reporter, Dan Adams are also topics of discussion.  --- 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
Jun 24, 2020
Devin Alexander, co-founder/CEO at Rolling Releaf, LLC. This episode is sponsored by http://ufcwlocal1445.org --- 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
Jun 21, 2020
NETA employees fired for union organizing? An interview with three former NETA, Parallel cannabis dispensary workers who were fired after organizing for a union. Sponsored by http://ufcwlocal1445.org --- 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
Jun 20, 2020
Fire at NETA, Mass cannabis news, and responding to fan mail.  NETA has an upcoming union election, we are recording a special live episode tomorrow with NETA workers who were fired for union organizing. Sponsored by http://UFCWlocal.1445.org --- 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
Jun 11, 2020
What happened to expanding veterans access to medical cannabis in Massachusetts? Interview with Stephen Mandile --- 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
Jun 4, 2020
Interview with Kobie Evans, Co-owner of Pure Oasis, Boston's first black owned dispensary which was just this month featured on Netflix and then looted earlier this week. We discuss the robbery and the state of equity in the Massachusetts cannabis industry. --- 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
Jun 1, 2020

Audio from DA Rachael Rollins and Mayor of Boston, Martin Walsh on police brutality and the Boston riots.

"Police shoot us in the street as if we were animals"

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Jun 1, 2020
Interview with Eric and Scott hosts of Super Lemon Haze Podcast on why they took down their interview with Rev Clinics Dispensary Chief Marketing Officer, Tom Schneider. We also take a call from Chauncy Spencer reporting live from the Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Boston.  https://twitter.com/HazePodcast  --- 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
May 31, 2020
Stem Haverhill recreational woman owned dispensary opens and we are there interviewing supporters including Rep Andy Vargas, Cannabis Control Commissioner Shaleen Title, Haverhill City Council President Melinda Barrett, State Senator Diana DiZoglio and 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
May 29, 2020
Mike Crawford guests on "Ignorance Is No Excuse Potcast" with host, Edward "Lefty Grimes" discussing NETA cannabis dispensary worker safety issues in Massachusetts.  https://www.facebook.com/lefty.grimes/videos/3359591350739614/ --- 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
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