609. What Does It Take to Run a Cannabis Farm...

That’s what the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang wanted to learn. So he turned Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations into an oratorio. We tag along as Lang’s piece heads toward its world premiere with the New York Philharmonic. (Part one of a two-part series.) SOURCES: Fle ...  Show more

Epic Systems manages the electronic health records for hundreds of millions of people. This makes Faulkner a healthcare heavyweight and one of the most successful female entrepreneurs in history. So why haven’t we ever heard much from her? Stephen Dubner travels to Verona, Wisc., ...  Show more

In tonight's Classic episode, Ben, Matt and Noel dive into a decades-long, surprisingly disturbing conspiracy: with a growing number of Western countries decriminalizing or outright legalizing cannabis, the controversial plant seems set to become an acceptable alternative to some ...  Show more

Aaron Edelheit returns to the podcast to discuss all of the opportunities he's seeing in the cannabis world and why he's chosen now to launch a Cannabis focused fund. Aaron's Cannabis manifesto: https://mindsetvalue.substack.com/p/the-cannabis-manifesto Seth Rogen ...  Show more

En 2012, le Colorado devenait le premier État américain à légaliser le cannabis, ouvrant la voie à une transformation majeure de l’industrie. Depuis, 24 États ont suivi pour l'usage récréatif et 39 pour l'usage médical. Mais derrière ce succès commercial se cache une empreinte ...

In the state of Oregon, there is a glut of grass. A wealth of weed. A crisis of chronic. And, jokes aside, it's a real problem for people who work in the cannabis industry like Matt Ochoa. Ochoa runs the Jefferson Packing House in Medford, Oregon, which provides marijuana growers ...  Show more