The Young Jurks

Negligence is the failure to take proper care in doing something. There's no other way to describe Trump's mass spreader COVID-19 parties. Call ins from Ava Sue Pederson and Bay State Rock’s Carmelita! Bay State Rock podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cMOGWlypVcO2KUan1oqCA

Nick Giannone for MA State Rep

Mike Crawford & Grant Smith open with an interview, Ashwawn Dabney-Small running for Boston City Council, and then are joined by three women candidates we have previously endorsed, Michelle Mullet and Nichole Mossalam for MA State Rep and Helena Fontes for MA Governors Council. 

Mike Crawford interviews Chelsea City Councilor at Large Damali Vidot discussing her campaign for MA State Rep, she's running in all of Charlestown and a section of Chelsea. We also discuss her wish to bring transparency to the Massachusetts State House, an Exxon Mobile lawsuit she's a part of, cannabis, COVID19, her past, police and drug reform, safe injection sites, and much more. https://www.vo...

Why did a MA State Rep candidate call the Middleton Police Department on us? MA State Rep candidate Robert May didn’t want to answer questions about blocking a veteran from opening RiverRun Gardens, LLC, a microgrow in a Newburyport business park. May  wouldn’t speak and then called the police? First time anybody has ever called the police on us for asking questions. Bet his opponent Sally Kerans...

Let's elect the first ever women of color to the Massachusetts Governor's Council! Helina Fontes for Massachusetts Governor's Council, she's running in District 6 and will be on the democratic primary ballot, September 1st.  https://www.helinafontes.com/

Massachusetts CCC proposed changes, delivery only and caregivers with Janelle Goines, Dr. Marion McNabb, Dan Scotland, Grant Smith and Mike Crawford. midnightmass.substack.com

Grant  Smith interviews Morriss Partee, Aaron Goines, and Janelle Goines regarding their proposed changes to the CCC's delivery regulations for adult use operators.

Fabricio DaSilva, Vice President of UFCW 1445 gives us an update on NETA, New England Treatment Access union campaigns as well as the campaign to bring back COVID19 hazard pay for Stop & Shop workers and those employed in healthcare. 

Shekia Scott, the former Director of Community Outreach and Equity Programming at the state's Cannabis Control Commission. Within this position, she focused on promoting the inclusion  of communities disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs, marijuana prohibition, arrests and incarceration in the adult-use  marijuana industry. Shekia developed and introduced MA’s  first-in-the-nation, state...

Grant Smith with a panel of local experts Devin Alexander, Ed DeSousa, and Dr. Marion McNabb on Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission proposed regulation changes. 

NETA Parallel dispensary employee fired after discussing union organizing on a recent episode of The Young Jurks, an interview with that employee Jonathan Martins. We also discuss new proposed Mass CCC regulations that would lift medical cannabis caregiver limits. Email the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Comission to support lifting the caregiver to patient limit. This  is truly amazing news and i...

Interviews with attendees who participated in today's MassCann/NORML strawpoll on Bill Flynn, it was a landslide against the President.  Mike Crawford also gets Bill Flynn on the record, he threatens Crawford and continues to blame others..

US Senator Ed Markey discussing Green New Deal, OSHA not protecting legal cannabis workers in Massachusetts, Stop & Shop supermarkets ending hazard pay, cannabis legalization and much more.

NETA, New England Treatment Access cannabis dispensary employees speak on the ongoing mail-in Brookline, Massachusetts union election & troubling work conditions in Franklin, fires, aphids, mold, and COVID19. We find out that NETA Franklin has started to have fire drills since our most recent episode with Rob Cawley who stated that most employees hadn't been through a fire drill. As Cawley stated,...

Mike Crawford interviews Isaias Lopez, store manager at Canna Provisions dispensary, Holyoke on their opening day. 

MassCann/NORML emergency over Director's ties to Straight Pride and anti-BLM statements, we interview a number of former directors and members of the organization about the controversy, Noni Goldman, Shannon Jones, Rachel Donlan, Kate Steinberg, and Hope Marian. We all agree in wanting MassCann to ban chairman of the board, Samson Racioppi and President Bill Flynn. 

Grant Smith interviews Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commissioner Shaleen Title on social equity, new proposed regulations and bills she supports that would establish a cannabis social equity loan fund as well as another that would allow cities and towns to license social consumption business.  And much more. 

Mike Crawford & Grant Smith discuss corporate cannabis conspiracies, real ones and fakes too.  Revolutionary Clinics, Commissioner Shaleen Title, and Globe reporter, Dan Adams are also topics of discussion. 

Devin Alexander, co-founder/CEO at Rolling Releaf, LLC. This episode is sponsored by http://ufcwlocal1445.org

NETA employees fired for union organizing? An interview with three former NETA, Parallel cannabis dispensary workers who were fired after organizing for a union. Sponsored by http://ufcwlocal1445.org

Fire at NETA, Mass cannabis news, and responding to fan mail.  NETA has an upcoming union election, we are recording a special live episode tomorrow with NETA workers who were fired for union organizing. Sponsored by http://UFCWlocal.1445.org

What happened to expanding veterans access to medical cannabis in Massachusetts? Interview with Stephen Mandile

Interview with Kobie Evans, Co-owner of Pure Oasis, Boston's first black owned dispensary which was just this month featured on Netflix and then looted earlier this week. We discuss the robbery and the state of equity in the Massachusetts cannabis industry.

Audio from DA Rachael Rollins and Mayor of Boston, Martin Walsh on police brutality and the Boston riots. "Police shoot us in the street as if we were animals"