Today on The Cannabis Connection Show we welcome Alex Halperin! Alex Halperin’s work on the weed beat has appeared in Fast Company, Slate, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, California Sunday (R.I.P.) and the Guardian, where he wrote the High Time column, an adult’s guide to legalization. He’s written the newsletter WeedWeek since July 2015. Its 11,000+ subscribers include many influential figures in the cannabis world. His book The Cannabis Dictionary (Octopus Books, Hachette) was published in March 2020.

Before cannabis, Halperin reported on topics including tech, criminal justice, health care and finance for Fortune, The Washington Post Magazine, Mother Jones, The New Yorker and many other publications. 

The Dirty Secret of California’s Legal Weed, an investigation by Paige St. John and Alex Halperin, through WeedWeek . It looks into the presence of dangerous, sometimes banned, pesticides in California’s legal weed supply, and how state regulators have been unwilling and/or unable to address them.