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. https://weedmaps.com/deliveries/grove-cannabis-co?

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-relo...

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...

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-work...

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 McMurr...

This week on Century of Lies: The Marijuana Industry and Workplace  Safety. Host Doug McVay speaks with Mike Crawford, a Massachusetts journalist and host of the award-winning podcast THE YOUNG JURKS, about activism, the marijuana industry, and the death of Lorna McMurrey. Sign the petition Mike and Doug discuss at https://change.org/lornamcmurrey DrugTruth.net

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 als...

Big cannabis Craig Spadafora Malden cannabis dispensary shenanigans with guests who are suing the city of Malden.  NECANN Awards please consider nominating “The Young Jurks” for best podcast  and best news source. Awards we’ve won in the past, 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 nev...

Employees speak out on powdery mildew, spider mites and other unsafe conditions at HEKA, Inc dispensary in Westfield, Massachusetts. Growing cannabis in moldy dirt. Intro Audio from Western Mass News.

"Crises of opiate-like proportions", Haverhill fearmongers on cannabis. With guest, Caroline Pineau, the owner of Stem Haverhill suing the city of Haverhill over a lack of accounting on cannabis impact fees. 

After the death of Trulieve Holyoke worker, Lorna McMurrey, we are asking for your help!  Please email the Massachusetts Commissioners, ask for a cannabis employee health and safety worker survey! Shannon. OBrien@cccmass.com Nurys. Camargo@CCCMass.com Ava. Concepcion@CCCMass.com Kimberly. Roy@CCCMass.com Bruce. Stebbins@CCCMass.com midnightmass.substack.com Photo of Lorna McMurrey in the hospital...

Arlington, Massachusetts Police Department racial profiling. Interview with author of DigBoston's "Arlington Police Detained the Wrong Man. Then They Added Insult To Injury", written by LAURA KIESEL  https://digboston.com/arlington-police-detained-the-wrong-man-then-they-added-insult-to-injury/

Mike Crawford & Lauren Pespisa host a live election night show with US Rep Seth Moulton. We discuss cannabis, election deniers, the lack of security protection for elected members of Congress, and much more. 

Election Voting special hosted by Mike Crawford and Lauren Pespisa with State Senator Diana DiZoglio (Democrat nominee for MA State Auditor), Rahsaan Hall for Plymouth County DA, Attleboro Mayor Paul Heroux (Democratic Nominee for Bristol County Sheriff), Jenny Armini for MA State Rep, Laura Saylor for MA State Senate, and Anthony Amore the Republican nominee for MA State Auditor. Candidates Armin...

Posts from Lorna McMurrey's facebook account discredit the Trulieve pre-existing conditions bs press release.

Discussion on how to cure big cannabis of toxic and dangerous workplaces with Farmer Tom & Kristen Yoder of Cynical Stoner Podcast.

Mike Crawford discusses Lorna McMurrey's Trulieve death on The Fine Print show.  Please subscribe, review and rate The Young Jurks on iTunes! 

Toxic and dangerous big cannabis cultivation work conditions? What changes can be made to protect cannabis workers from dangerous workplace conditions? What toxic work conditions could have contributed to the death of Lorna McMurrey? We speak to Tess Eidem, Ph. D., PCQI, Microbiologist specializing in Cannabis Biocontrol about the risks. 

Trulieve blames dead worker, Lorna McMurrey. We speak to a friend of Lorna, McCartney Ford about Trulieve's awful press releases and we review recent news stories from local reporters: Dan Adams of the Globe, Shira Schoenberg with Commonwealth Magazine and Eric Casey in Worcester.

Trulieve union-busting after Lorna McMurrey worker death, UFCW1445 is filing charges with the labor board for employee intimidation, illegal surveillance, and wrongful termination.

The timeline of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission not protecting workers at Trulieve Holyoke or anywhere else! Lorna McMurrey took ambulances out of Trulieve Holyoke in Nov 2021 and then finally in January 2022 and had complained of the work conditions and asthma from the workplace even before the first ambulance ride. 

Lorna McMurrey's mom, "It has to stop now!", “this should have never happened to her”. “I’m so thankful for the support of everybody speaking out”. We speak to her and whistleblowers from other big cannabis operators, Parallel and INSA on the Trulieve worker who passed after a work-shift. We also speak to a friend of Lorna and much more.