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

609. 经营大麻农场需要什么?

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2024-10-31

40 分钟
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Chris Weld worked for years in emergency rooms, then ditched that career and bought an old farm in Massachusetts. He set up a distillery and started making prize-winning spirits. When cannabis was legalized, he jumped into that too — and the first few years were lucrative. But now? It turns out that growing, processing, and selling weed is more complicated than it looks. He gave us the grand tour. (Part three of a four-part series.)
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  • So I was asked to be part of a panel that went to a retirement center to talk about cannabis because a lot of those people are what we call canacurious.

  • My discussion was sort of how it works generally, what it does to the body, some of the claims that are made around cannabis in medicine and then how to dose low and slow.

  • I said, listen, it's been what, 80 years?

  • You haven't tried it before?

  • Don't try one gummy the first night.

  • Do a quarter of a.