The Roll-Up

Bruce tries an Alaskan palm joint, Dave friends John Boehner, Ben unpacks the Cory Gardner deal, and Canadian banking gets sexy.

Dave offers Coachella cannabis tips, Cynthia Nixon unleashes a tweet storm on NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Ben and Dave wrestle with the future of 4/20.

With Ben lost in Idaho, Ed Murrieta joins the show to discuss Cheech & Chong and cinematic history. Also: Sneakerheads rob a dispensary and Oregon finally demands to see some ID. 

Bruce Barcott interviews Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance and author of There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia. 

This week we discuss a Canadian cannabis producer that did not hire Gene Simmons for his celebrity value, Ben visits The Goodship, and Dave investigates charges of story thievery circling High Times.

Trump calls for the death penalty for drug pushers in 1979 crime dramas; Ben finds a million-dollar NORML t-shirt; Canada bans non-ugly packaging; and guest Hayley Fox digs into women-owned cannabis companies in LA. 

This week: Arizona allows California med cards, Ben rules on the federal-state preemption clause, Dave lands one of those sweet arm-and-leg jobs (there's a lot of limb talk, oddly), and Bruce gets worked up over the new Ontario Cannabis Stores logo.

IHOP turns away hungry weed-funk diners, Jamaica's first dispensary opens, Kentucky considers medical, NYC gets fed up with cannabis busts, and Dave prepares for his mother's visit.

Trump compares Jeff Sessions to a cartoon bumbler, Bruce visits an SFO cannabis lounge, High Times lifts content from the wrong reporter, and Dave explains Quebec's canna-phobic Frenchiness.

Bruce spends the week in Phoenix, Ben applauds the Las Vegas airport's cannabis amnesty boxes, and Dave explains why Canadian cops shouldn't teach health class. 

The advice columnist dishes good counsel to a medical cannabis patient shunned by her in-laws. Also, St. Rick Steves advises Congress, Berkeley declares itself a cannabis sanctuary, licensing wars erupt in LA, and Ben offers tips to Olympic snowboarders.

The new drug czar is not the author of The Basketball Diaries, sadly. In other news: BC Bud is going legal, Bernard Noble gets paroled, Don Cheadle hacks Washington's track-n-trace system, and 'Chuck the Sniffer' gets caught holding 60 pounds. 

This week: Two Toronto cops nosh some edibles and freak out; we remember the late great Dennis Peron; Dave dishes about cannabis in Palm Springs; San Francisco moves to clear cannabis records; Ecuador has cheap grams and Japan does not; and Dave doesn't hallucinate often but when he does there are pirates.

Vermont goes legal, Vancouver cops bust street sellers, Trump's 24-year-old drug czar resigns, and Erykah Badu explains the utility of the classic album cover. 

Ben brings us the story of the world's worst cannabis lawyer, while Dave debriefs us on Canada's Lift Conference and Bruce gets stuck watching the federal budget debacle. Also, we salute Hawaii's cannabis security cows.