The Young Jurks

The Young Jurks live from the Verilife medical and recreational cannabis dispensary in Wareham, Massachusetts with guests, Jim Borghesani, who was part of the campaign that legalized cannabis in the bay state and two Wareham selectmen, Peter Teitelbaum and Alan Slavin. Slavin also additionally serves with the Mass Municipal Association.

We're live with guests, Ben Echevarria of The Welcome Project and Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, candidate for Cambridge City Council discussing Cambridge's battle over cannabis economic empowerment, housing, immigration and much more.

Testimony from the Cambridge Cannabis Economic Empowerment Ordinance Hearing with Chauncey Spencer, Joseph Gilmore, Joanna Varney, Grant Smith, Ed DeSousa, and other supporting economic empowerment and Nichole Snow and the CEO’s of the RMD’s pretending that letting their existing medical dispensaries go recreational first is both good for the patients and the economic empowerment applicants. Are you buying this?

Cambridge battles for economic empowerment against well funded existing registered medical dispensaries, Sira Naturals and Revolutionary Clinics. The EE proposal passed the ordinance committee and will next be debated with public testimony before the entire Cambridge City Council. This podcast features interviews with Grant Smith, Chandra Batra on Cambridge, & Ed DeSousa of RiverRun Gardens.

Why does it take three months and two MD’s to approve my child’s medical cannabis card? We asked this to the state cannabis control commission and yesterday in response, the state announced changes to how and when they certify medical cannabis patients. What’s new? Initial Access Certification slated to begin on July 1st, will give patients immediate access to their medication.

After a Somerville showdown with Kirk Minihane & Steve Robinson, Brian Riccio joins us for a conversation on his past week. We play audio from Riccio's interviews of Minihane and Robinson this week, two cowards who didn't handle it very well. This podcast also features audio from WGBH's Beat the Press, 98.5 The Sports Hub, Toucher & Rich show, The Breakfast Club as well as from WEEI. 

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Does Brian Riccio need an intervention in his feud with trashy Kirk Minihane? 

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Stem receives special permit to open cannabis dispensary at heated Haverhill City hall hearing. Background info on LLoyd Jennings. The guy worried about the children. https://www.hgazette.com/news/local_news/police-log/article_5b48b986-f294-52d0-8308-da298e4bba76.html MONDAY, SEPT. 3

Lloyd Jennings, 45, 6 Lancaster St., assault and battery on a police officer, defacing property, resisting arrest, disorderly, 6 Lancaster St., 12:22 a.m.

For too long patients in Massachusetts have been priced out of medical cannabis dispensaries. Following up on our last month of podcasts we ask listeners to call in. Here are their messages. We hear from disabled and working patients in Massachusetts who offer some possible solutions as well. And a single mom that pays too much for her child’s certifications. With Sherri Tutkus, RN of GreenNurse Group, Donna Hackett, Grant Smith, Peter Bernard, Joanna Varner, Johnny Sim, Heidi Lilley, and many more. With Michael L Malta opening from 2010 showing us how little has changed since then. Expect future coverage lots more on this issue. Subscribe and rate us on iTunes! How can we have social equity when we aren’t talking about ever truly helping patients on low incomes in Massachusetts? Veterans, homeless, recovering addicts, disabled, on social security or disability, working poor many of them who are POC, LGBTQ, patients often working in poverty and in pain who can’t afford to pay a doctor to get certified every 10 months? Social equity means nothing if patients don’t get affordable medication. Nobody in power in Massachusetts is talking about this but that’s all we are hearing about from patients.

Interview with a homeless Salem, Massachusetts man on why dispensaries aren’t serving the homeless and other vulnerable patient populations. The cost is too high!