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Coleman Strumpf

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87 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

And if you spend a little time kicking around in the background, you can figure out a way of doing that. So I always have a lot of computers running. I had a bunch of computers for several years just pulling stuff off this site. So I have a list of all the stores. Now, how do I know who's legal and how do I know who's illegal? So the state of California publishes a list of the legal stores.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

So I could start using that, but the information's a little bit incomplete. So I had to look at different online sources, including Google Maps, to see stores magically turning from a kid's store into a weed store in Los Angeles. And you can kind of figure out through a lot of sweat Which ones are legal and which ones are not?

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

So I could start using that, but the information's a little bit incomplete. So I had to look at different online sources, including Google Maps, to see stores magically turning from a kid's store into a weed store in Los Angeles. And you can kind of figure out through a lot of sweat Which ones are legal and which ones are not?

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

So I could start using that, but the information's a little bit incomplete. So I had to look at different online sources, including Google Maps, to see stores magically turning from a kid's store into a weed store in Los Angeles. And you can kind of figure out through a lot of sweat Which ones are legal and which ones are not?

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, they either make up a number, go down the street, look at the legal store, take a picture of that and use that number, or sometimes they just put up stuff that isn't even a valid number.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, they either make up a number, go down the street, look at the legal store, take a picture of that and use that number, or sometimes they just put up stuff that isn't even a valid number.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, they either make up a number, go down the street, look at the legal store, take a picture of that and use that number, or sometimes they just put up stuff that isn't even a valid number.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, that's a great question. There's not a lot of... I guess, will among policymakers to do it. The people who would be doing the enforcement, the police, think about how hard this job is. If I say arrest people who are doing some activity, well, I just see somebody doing this activity. Now you need to say not just to somebody who

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, that's a great question. There's not a lot of... I guess, will among policymakers to do it. The people who would be doing the enforcement, the police, think about how hard this job is. If I say arrest people who are doing some activity, well, I just see somebody doing this activity. Now you need to say not just to somebody who

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, that's a great question. There's not a lot of... I guess, will among policymakers to do it. The people who would be doing the enforcement, the police, think about how hard this job is. If I say arrest people who are doing some activity, well, I just see somebody doing this activity. Now you need to say not just to somebody who

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

selling cannabis, but is it somebody who's licensed or unlicensed? They're literally doing the exact same thing. Some people are doing it legally. Some people are not doing it. It's not so easy.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

selling cannabis, but is it somebody who's licensed or unlicensed? They're literally doing the exact same thing. Some people are doing it legally. Some people are not doing it. It's not so easy.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

selling cannabis, but is it somebody who's licensed or unlicensed? They're literally doing the exact same thing. Some people are doing it legally. Some people are not doing it. It's not so easy.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

In the wake of prohibition, actually, you did see things like that for 15 years through the 1950s. You would have lots of arrests of people having illicit stills and things of that sort. Today, in cannabis, the illegal people are pretty sophisticated. So one of the things in this weed map state I have is I have a list of all the products. What are some of your favorites?

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

In the wake of prohibition, actually, you did see things like that for 15 years through the 1950s. You would have lots of arrests of people having illicit stills and things of that sort. Today, in cannabis, the illegal people are pretty sophisticated. So one of the things in this weed map state I have is I have a list of all the products. What are some of your favorites?

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

In the wake of prohibition, actually, you did see things like that for 15 years through the 1950s. You would have lots of arrests of people having illicit stills and things of that sort. Today, in cannabis, the illegal people are pretty sophisticated. So one of the things in this weed map state I have is I have a list of all the products. What are some of your favorites?

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, well, I like to observe. Honestly, I'm a little out of date on them. Is that true? Yes. You're not a big... I took you for a big... Yeah, I definitely have that, yeah. But at any rate, so I am familiar with some of the big brands.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, well, I like to observe. Honestly, I'm a little out of date on them. Is that true? Yes. You're not a big... I took you for a big... Yeah, I definitely have that, yeah. But at any rate, so I am familiar with some of the big brands.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, well, I like to observe. Honestly, I'm a little out of date on them. Is that true? Yes. You're not a big... I took you for a big... Yeah, I definitely have that, yeah. But at any rate, so I am familiar with some of the big brands.

Freakonomics Radio
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

Yeah, right. Well, maybe it's a gateway drug to being an economist. I don't really know. But at any rate, if you're... wanting to sort of pretend you're running a legitimate place, you'll take a name brand and you'll just switch a letter. And they literally get old containers or wrappers from legal stuff and they'll put it around the legal stuff.