Emily Bazelon

I mean, project ahead a year, we will be staring down the next State of the Union.

I just wonder if this whole conversation is going to have become so much more prominent than it is now, right?

I mean, it just feels to me like this huge gathering storm that we haven't really...

seriously started to grapple with.

And I think a lot of it goes back to what you were saying, Binya, about change, that the rate of change is itself so unpredictable, right?

I mean, some AI creators are talking about incredibly rapid change, like practically immediate or almost immediate, and others think it's much more long term.

And because that in itself is so uncertain, I think the political conversation is having a hard time catching up.

Thanks for having us.

I'm Emily Bazelon, a writer for New York Times Opinion and The Times Magazine.

I'm here today with two of my excellent colleagues, German Lopez and David Leinhart.

Hey, guys.

The three of us help write and edit Times editorials.

Those are the unsigned articles that say editorial board at the top, and they express the institutional view of New York Times opinion.

This week, we published an editorial that we have been working on for a long time about marijuana, in which we're calling for increased regulation of the pot industry.

So we're going to talk about our argument and how we got to this point.

But I want to start just by asking both of you how you feel like

The place of marijuana has changed in the culture in the last decade and a half.

Is weed part of your lives?

Do you feel like you see it much more now that it's been legalized in many states?

How do you think about marijuana these days?