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  • Listen to the Trailer
    2021/08/16
    Preview this series to learn about the winners and losers of cannabis legalization in Canada.
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    2 分
  • Episode 1: Legalization Day
    2021/08/17
    We set the stage for weed legalization in Canada, zooming in on the sleepy, seaside town of St. John’s, Newfoundland, the first Canadian city to celebrate legal cannabis with late-night lineups and midnight grand openings of the nation’s first recreational cannabis retail outlets.
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    28 分
  • Episode 2: The Grey Market
    2021/08/17
    One of the government’s big promises was that legalizing weed would stamp out the black market. So…why did we see the illicit market explode after legalization was announced?
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    33 分
  • Episode 3: The Green Rush
    2021/08/17
    We meet the heads of two of Canada’s largest cannabis companies as they vie for control of the emerging market and draw in mom-and-pop investors looking to make money on the nation’s “green rush.” It’s a modern-day Cola Wars…but with weed.
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    37 分
  • Episode 4: Is Weed Good for You?
    2021/08/17
    Once upon a time, cannabis was a culture of activism. From Vancouver’s downtown eastside to the White House itself, we meet crusaders on both sides of the pro- and anti-weed divide who are still waging the war, even after legalization.
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    34 分
  • Episode 5: The Thin Green Line
    2021/08/17
    With legalization, Canada’s War on Drugs - or at least the weed part of it - effectively ended, leading to an overnight change in decades of policing policy. So why did this war’s ostensible winners feel left out? And why were tough-on-crime cops profiting in the legal market?
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    38 分
  • Episode 6: Wild Wild West
    2021/08/17
    Is Canada’s legal weed landscape a bit too, well, Canadian? We meet shop owners in two areas that have bucked the national trend toward government oversight and over-regulation - the Wildrose province of Alberta and the sovereign Mohawks of Tyendinaga Territory.
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    31 分
  • Episode 7: No Smiling
    2021/08/17
    Weed may be legal, but it’s still nearly impossible to market. We meet a lawmaker who bristled at federal rules forbidding smiling in cannabis advertising, and talk about branding with one of Canada’s most august, eminent stoners - Tommy Chong. We also chat about building a weed brand with Kevin Smith, veteran maker of “stoner movies,” who was himself a late-blooming stoner.
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    30 分