Robin Goldstein, author of “Can Legal Weed Win'' joins the Bart Show to spark up a conversation about what really happens when you legalize marijuana. He walks us through California’s specific trajectory to legalization which started in 1996 with medical weed. In 2016, with Prop 64, recreational weed became legal, forcing vendors—aka ‘bud tenders’---to operate like traditional businesses. This meant dealing with California’s notoriously difficult tax regulations in addition to cannabis-specific taxes.
Further complicating the issue, this law included a loophole that ended up having the opposite effect than “Yes” voters likely intended. Bart compares the issue to the plight of cab drivers in New York City and raises questions about government overreach.
If, like Bart, pot isn’t really your thing, Robin also provides a wealth of knowledge about wine and beer, having earned a PhD in wine economics from University of Bordeaux in France. He has published a series of guides which explore the reason people pay for expensive labels when they can’t tell the difference between the two in blind taste tests.
Learn about the prank he played on Wine Spectator Magazine that got the industry talking and even made the news. Bart explains why these prestigious organizations are easier to fool than one might think. You’ll also learn how college students ruined good beer, why the drink is so much better in Europe versus the U.S., and the incident in Amsterdam that turned Bart into a beer snob which is decidedly different from being a beer geek, as Robin explains.
Join as the two pull the curtain back on the vices that so many people partake of yet remain largely mysterious.
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