The Young Jurks

Big cannabis runs Connecticut? With guests, Louis J. Rinaldi and Kristin Souza

Why is Maine medical cannabis the best? With guests: Dalton, owner of Grove Cannabis, a medical caregiver delivery service in Maine; and Derek Shirley, @gettinghighwithcats on Instagram.

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A cultural institution, the Sound Museum calls out the city of Boston, Mayor Wu, and the Mayors Office for Arts and Culture (MOAC) for stealing their business. Audio from Katherine Desmond's recent testimony before the Boston City Council, where she says the city empowered a competing group "to steal our life's work". https://www.boston.com/news/business/2023/01/17/brighton-sound-museum-bands-relocated/

Mike Crawford is live with a guest, Liz who is a health and safety professional, and an authorized OSHA outreach trainer. She has a background in industrial safety, including experience as a health & safety manager at a Massachusetts cannabis operating facility.    Liz joins us to discuss: hazards in the industry, safety resources that are available to workers now, other states' requirements; AND some initiatives that MA should adopt to improve worker safety in cannabis    We will discuss the Colorado department of public health's "Guide to worker safety and health in the marijuana industry." https://deohs.washington.edu/sites/de... A detailed, yet simple and straightforward resource on the topic of worker safety in cannabis. A must-have resource for leaders in the industry.

Trulieve buys social equity award from Minorities for Medical Marijuana? RSVP for our free organizing event on Tuesday night. Also discussion of the latest Leafly expose and audio from Edward "Lefty" Grimes in NJ vs a town government blocking the will of their voters on cannabis! RSVP for our free, Tuesday night organizing event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/state-of-our-health-consumers-workers-growers-virtual-town-hall-tickets-515318480447

Multi-state operator, Verano, a cannabis cultivator in Sharon, Massachusetts refuses voluntary recognition of UFCW Local 1445.

Michael Malta tribute, NECANN lifetime achievement award nomination! The best that there ever was! The KOP! “Best Buy, I’m the king of pot and you want me to take a drug test?” Vote here for Michael Malta and The Young Jurks: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpYLbhcc-zL32WgNtK0h4_yyBImei9njzAN75CwAXi1XJCkQ/viewform

Mass Cannabis Control Commission responds to our worker safety petition! Mike Crawford hosts with guests Danny Carson and Zactly @nhcannapatient on twitter, discussing the historic, first ever, a near hour of discussion on worker safety at a public Mass CCC hearing. We will play the audio and also discuss a new NH medical cannabis home-grow bill. We take a call from Sandy, the aunt of Lorna McMurrey, the Trulieve worker who passed a year ago after a workshift. Discussing Commissioner Chair Shannon O’Brien and CCC Exec Shawn Collins.

Sign our new cannabis worker safety petition! 

Thank you to those who have signed our petition! https://change.org/Lornamcmurrey Please sign and share to support cannabis worker safety!

NECANN Awards please consider nominating “The Young Jurks” for best podcast and best news source. Awards that we’ve won in the past, we would love your support once again to get more of our coverage heard. I’ve also been nominated for “lifetime achievement” several times in the past and never won it. Which is totally fine last year we suggested some others that won! You might want to consider nominating two who we lost for that one, “Lorna McMurrey” and/or “Michael Malta”! http://bit.ly/NECANN_CCA 

OSHA settles with Trulieve on Lorna McMurrey death. We read a statement from McMurrey's co-worker, Danny Carson and speak to a relative of Lorna McMurrey, Alisha Nichol.

Under the agreement, Trulieve will undertake a study to determine whether ground cannabis dust is required to be classified as a "hazardous chemical" in the occupational setting, according to OSHA regulations.  Work on the study is to be complete by May 29, 2023.

Pending the outcome of the study, Trulieve will design and implement a temporary information and training program that alerts employees to potential allergic reactions they might experience working with ground cannabis dust in an occupational setting.  The program will include information about steps employees should take if they experience symptoms of allergies related to ground cannabis dust.  Work on that program is already underway.