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

A ruthless (and ruthlessly efficient) industry is using digital tools to supercharge one of the world’s oldest behaviors. We look at how the industry works, and ask the scam-fighters what they’re doing about it. SOURCES: Kati Daffan, former assistant director at the Federal Trade ...  Show more

Economists don’t usually talk about “culture.” But Joel Mokyr argues that it’s the engine of innovation — and the Nobel Prize committee agreed. Stephen Dubner sits down for a thousand-year conversation (including advice!) with the new Nobel laureate. SOURCES: Joel Mokyr, economic ...  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 ...

Cannabis is legal in some form or another in over half of US states. But federally, it’s illegal and has no accepted medical use. However, the Biden administration is <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cannavan-lab-cannabis-study/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcas ...