The Roll-Up features Leafly editors Bruce Barcott, Ben Adlin, and Dave Schmader in a Friday morning roundtable about the week’s top cannabis news.

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The Roll-Up

Episode 26: Trump Targets the Pusherman

This week: Trump calls for the death penalty for drug pushers in 1979 crime dramas; Ben finds a million-dollar NORML t-shirt; Canada wants repellent packaging; and guest Hayley Fox digs into women-owned cannabis companies in LA. 

What, are you not familiar with the show? Every Friday, Leafly editors Bruce Barcott, Ben Adlin, and Dave Schmader dissect the week’s top stories in cannabis with analysis, arguments, jokes, and obscure cultural references.

The Roll-Up: It’s a news and culture podcast that hits the sweet spot between stoned and scholarly.

Feedback? We love feedback. Tell us what you loved, what you hated, and what we should talk about next. Email us at therollup@yahoo.com.

News Stories Mentioned in Episode 26:

This Week’s Corrections & Confirmations

Corrections: None this week. We’re bleeping perfect.

Confirmations: Dave is correct; two of the founding members of Blue Oyster Cult, Sandy Pearlman and Richard Meltzer, were professional rock critics. They started the band in 1967, playing dances at Stony Brook College on Long Island. The band’s original name was Soft White Underbelly.

Podcasts We Love: Check out WeedWeek, Hayley Fox’s podcast with Alex Halperin, which drops every Monday on iTunes. Hayley and Alex cover the business, culture, health, science, and politics of cannabis, along with conversations with people who are shaping the industry.

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The theme song for The Roll-Up is “Turn Me On,” from the EP of the same name by The Shivas. Check out their music on iTunes. For more about the band, see their home page, theshivas.org.