The first episode of Jerry Chu’s new long-form video podcast, produced with En Volá and distributed through High Times’ YouTube channel, opens with Steve DeAngelo on legacy cannabis, corporate drift, hemp wars and the legalization fight he says the industry still hasn’t finished.
A new cannabis interview series just landed, and its first move was a smart one: hand the mic to Steve DeAngelo and let him go straight at the fault lines still splitting the industry apart.
The debut episode of Jerry Chu and Blimburn founder Sergio Martínez’s new long-form podcast video, now live on the High Times YouTube channel in collaboration with En Volá and Blimburn Seeds, is built around DeAngelo, one of the most recognizable veterans of the modern cannabis movement, and it does not waste time warming up. Early in the conversation, he talks openly about moving large amounts of weed from Mexico across the United States in the underground era, then pivots into a broader argument about what legalization got right, what it got wrong and why the legal market still has not delivered on the vision many activists fought for. The result is less a standard founder interview than a full-on diagnosis of where cannabis lost its way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njPssdYiC5s
That makes for a strong opening episode, especially because Chu does not treat DeAngelo like a museum piece. He pushes him into the hard stuff: the legacy market, corporate cannabis, hemp, California’s failures and the infighting that has fractured what used to feel like a more unified movement. DeAngelo’s answer, in essence, is that legalization is not finished, and maybe never really got the structure it needed in the first place. He does not say the industry went in the wrong direction so …
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
