The Roll-Up #92: Ancient Bongs and One Billion Dollars

Leafly podcast The Roll-Up discusses the discovery of an ancient Chinese cannabis smoking device.

This is how the ancient Chinese enjoyed cannabis: a little wooden dugout, some fire-hot rocks, and away you go. (X. Wu/Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; arxichtu4ki/iStock)

The Roll-Up features co-hosts Bruce Barcott, Ben Adlin, and Alyssa Yeoman in a Friday morning roundtable about the week’s top cannabis news.

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Episode 92: Ancient Bongs and One Billion Dollars

This week in cannabis news: China uncovers a 2,500-year-old cannabis smoking tool, and Colorado passes the $1 billion mark in cannabis tax revenue. Coincidence? Yeah, probably so.

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Alyssa, Bruce, Ben. (Julia Sumpter/Leafly)

Every Friday the Roll-Up crew—Bruce Barcott, Ben Adlin, and Alyssa Yeoman—dissect the week’s top stories in cannabis with analysis, arguments, jokes, and obscure cultural references. It’s a news and culture podcast, slightly elevated.

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Commenter

You shouldn’t be surprised by New York’s vote. You aren’t allowed to do anything in New York. You can’t own a lot of firearms, at one time you couldn’t even have certain soft drinks in some parts and that may still be the case. It’s New York. There is a high concentration of highly manipulated people in New York (center of advertising and fashion industry where people are “told” what is what) and organized crime, a direct competitor to legalized cannabis, is heavily entrenched as well.