Emily Davis
Appearances
Betrayal: Season 4
Introducing the Burden of Guilt Docuseries
Is there any kind of possibility that I could have done this? It's an unimaginable sort of trauma to inflict on a person. Honestly, it just didn't make any sense.
Betrayal: Season 4
Introducing the Burden of Guilt Docuseries
Is it possible Matthew's death wasn't an accident?
Ninjas Are Butterflies
131 - The Nuclear Vela Incident, Friendship Aliens & Skinwalkers
Let there be light.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
131 - The Nuclear Vela Incident, Friendship Aliens & Skinwalkers
Go. Action. Sundaycool.com. Get all your fresh apparel, water base. We have a 72-hour turnaround.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
131 - The Nuclear Vela Incident, Friendship Aliens & Skinwalkers
The Invisible Children.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
132 - Green Children of Woolpit, Solway Spaceman, Hawaiian Cryptids
Ich sage dir, das klingt wie ein unprächtiges Jokers-Ding.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
132 - Green Children of Woolpit, Solway Spaceman, Hawaiian Cryptids
That's crazy.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
132 - Green Children of Woolpit, Solway Spaceman, Hawaiian Cryptids
What is that?
Ninjas Are Butterflies
132 - Green Children of Woolpit, Solway Spaceman, Hawaiian Cryptids
Why is it only sometimes echoing?
Ninjas Are Butterflies
132 - Green Children of Woolpit, Solway Spaceman, Hawaiian Cryptids
Do you have to make the noise with the shooting?
Pardon My Take
NFL Week 11, Fastest 2 Minutes, Steelers + Bills Statement Wins, Bears Lose In Soul Crushing Fashion, Chargers Eliminate The Bengals + National Sports Podcast Updates
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!
Pardon My Take
NFL Week 11, Fastest 2 Minutes, Steelers + Bills Statement Wins, Bears Lose In Soul Crushing Fashion, Chargers Eliminate The Bengals + National Sports Podcast Updates
Yeah.
Pardon My Take
NFL Week 11, Fastest 2 Minutes, Steelers + Bills Statement Wins, Bears Lose In Soul Crushing Fashion, Chargers Eliminate The Bengals + National Sports Podcast Updates
Harbaugh.
Pardon My Take
NFL Week 11, Fastest 2 Minutes, Steelers + Bills Statement Wins, Bears Lose In Soul Crushing Fashion, Chargers Eliminate The Bengals + National Sports Podcast Updates
Thank you.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
Yeah, for sure. So we ended up selling in 2001. Okay. And for me, you know, personally, that was a big thing, you know, cause it's like, if you sell, you created something that is proven value and then private equity is coming in and buying. And then I stayed on for a while and then I was, and then I, and then, you know, I've got a great new CEO running it now.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
And so I'm able to take time and reflect on it. And, and I would say that there are definitely a couple of things. Like the first one is when you can afford it, like as a business leader, as a business owner, is getting the best people in and getting some skin in the game for the best people. Okay. And then creating a vision and letting them know what that final outcome looks like.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
So for example, you know, early on, I probably would have been, I was more tight, you know, because I'm thinking, okay, if I, you know, how much should I share? And then At later on is, is I, you know, kind of learned the right way to, to lead. And there's a lot to it that I learned, but I'm just simplifying it here.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
It's like when you get good people and you say, Hey, let's, let's sell them three years. And if, and if we do, this is what it looks like for you. Like, yeah, they're going to just run through walls. Like there's a huge, because everybody's motivated by money. Okay.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
It's like, sure, you want people who are just going to always do the right thing, but you got to show them that this is what it's going to look like for you. And they're going to work their asses off and get there if there's a big payday for them. And they're going to do things that you could never do on your own. So that was a big one that I learned, you know, as far as like,
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
getting the right people. I realize early on that can be hard. Like if companies don't have enough scale, like they can't hire in, you know, that CFO for 250 or 300, or they can't hire the CEO, but you know, you can still prioritize getting the best people over saving a few dollars is how I would say for most companies. Um, and then, um, just another quick one is just focusing on margins.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
You know, too many companies are, um, they're, they're churning, they're churning revenue, they're churning top line. They're, they're, they're, they're, they're building in lots of, uh, expenses into their business system. Okay. And they're saying one day, you know, one day I'll get scale one day I'm going to get leverage. Uh, And that does work for some companies, okay?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
And especially people who've already done it, they're really smart and they come at it round two and they really know how to get to that point. But for a lot of people that doesn't, it doesn't work. It's like make, it's like before you go build like a 10 or $20 million company and then try to figure out how to make money, like make money from day one because the thing is that can actually,
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
basically what it's telling you is your brand is not valuable enough to the market like if you're not profitable when you're a couple million dollars at at the transaction level you know there's a good chance that as you're 10 15 20 you still may not be that profitable Because the market's telling you like, this is all we're going to pay for your brand, you know?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
And so you want to figure that out early on. What do I need to do with my product or service? How do I add more value? How do I, you know, stretch these margins? And so that's a huge one. You know, right now I do CEO coaching and that's like one of my main focuses. Like, what are your margins? Okay. How can we get creative and really think about your product and big focus on the product?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
Yeah, no, that's why it's important early on. Like, I think it's tough because a lot of times people give up too early. So it is really, really tough to say, you know, if it's not working, you got to tweak this. But I guess you should always be tweaking. But too many people, I would say it's a bigger error is to give up early. So you can't do that.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
But it's like at the beginning, you have to be smart and you got to look at your product and, you know, have some way to measure your competitive advantage over what the market is offering. I guess I'd say it like that. Think deeper about your competitive advantage and even use things. I mean, there's all kinds of online tools. You can use SurveyMonkey. You can use your friends.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
You could use LinkedIn. There's ways where you can... vet that. But often what happens is as, you know, you're growing your business, you kind of naturally do that. You know what I mean? The good leaders are naturally, like you're probably not even thinking about it, but you're learning. You're like, oh, okay, I got the sale here. What copy did I use? Or what pitch was I using?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
Oh, okay, this is what they wanted. I thought they wanted this, but they actually wanted this, right? And you're sort of iterating along the way. But if you can do that without making it accidental, like from the beginning, if you could do your basic market research. And if this is basic branding, right? So it's like, what is your position in the market? Okay.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
And can you create some sort of emotional connection? Now, not every product, a lot of people think, well, like with us, with fridges, how are we going to do that? You know, but you can do it. You can, you can come up with fun ways to create some emotional connection because a brand is a feeling that somebody has about you. That's literally what it is.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
So how do you make more people feel a certain way about you?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
For the bullshit. I always say, to make this understandable for people, I put this out on Twitter a few times, X. I never met a wildly successful pessimist. And people will say, oh, what about short sellers? I was like, that person's optimistic. They think they're more optimistic than anybody. They're like...
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
They're going against the grain and they're willing to risk everything with unlimited downside because they believe that they're right. That's pretty optimistic. Pessimism is somebody who thinks the deck is stacked against them. The system is rigged, all that crap. Like, please, like some of that may be true from time to time.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
But at the end of the day, we all have the power to change our circumstances. And the reason I love why we're drilling down on this is. I talk about this in this book, this one phrase to always anchor me to what I believe in and what I'm doing. Opportunity arrives before the tipping point of evidence. Right. And that's a simple way of saying like lightning and thunder.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
You know, you always see the flash of light first. That's the opportunity. It travels. Light travels many times faster than the speed of sound. And evidence is thunder. It's unmistakable, but everybody hears it. And so if you want to be wildly successful, you first have to be an optimist or else you won't even believe you saw the light. You'd be like, ah, it's in my head.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
And then the ability to act on it is the thing that sets winners apart. And back to your point about belief, it's why burn the boats is so important because the time to burn the boats is when the opportunity arrives before the tipping point of evidence. When you burn the boats, when everybody knows about it, it's like... Well, it's, you know, it's too late.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Best of Right About Now: World class Business Advice for Entrepreneurs
You know, that being said, if you're an innovative and dynamic and optimistic person, when you think it's too late, it's still OK.
Science Vs
We're Back to Science Harder Than Ever
One time I got so high, I tweezed out all my pubes.
Science Vs
We're Back to Science Harder Than Ever
Meth makes your whole body kind of tingly, almost like glistening. Almost like Edward in Twilight. I love myth. Because it felt like I was flying.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Jon Stewart on Immigration Over the Years
Your theory is that Al Qaeda will send a pregnant woman over here, have a baby, and then start to train these babies to be terrorists. Is that right?
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Jon Stewart on Immigration Over the Years
I do not want the police here, there, Arizona, any place else, pulling people over because you look like you should be pulled over.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Billy Hamilton of Hockey
What do you mean? What are you talking about? They played harder than us. It's okay. We played hard, but they played harder. What's your point? I don't get it. That happens in the game, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Billy Hamilton of Hockey
You know what was at stake. You're saying they played harder than you guys. You didn't fight them hard enough. How is that possible?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Practical Ways To Grow Your Business | Ep 821
I have a hair extension business. We educate stylists how to make more money and salon owners with hair extensions with the product. I want to know how gym launch was structured because I know that that's how we need to structure our offer. Um, so you can tell me a little bit about that.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Practical Ways To Grow Your Business | Ep 821
The education? Mm-hmm. We're kind of making a new offer, but for under six-figure stylists, it'll be $500 a month. Six-figure to salon owner, it'll be $2,000 a month. Salon owner, $4,000 a month. All right.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Practical Ways To Grow Your Business | Ep 821
Should they pay for education or just their product spend? So it's just an exchange of value.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Practical Ways To Grow Your Business | Ep 821
Yeah, it does. Thank you so much.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Practical Ways To Grow Your Business | Ep 821
Yeah, so I've got a motorcycle YouTube channel. Cool. 2.3 million subscribers. Top line is 3.7. Sweet. Most of my money comes from ad revenue. Interesting. And we sell a couple hundred thousand dollars comes from products. I'm just wanting to know, I feel like I'm leaving something on the table, something big. Are you doing a lot of sponsorships in addition to ad revenue?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Practical Ways To Grow Your Business | Ep 821
The automotive gets pretty good RPMs. I'm just doing the math there.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Kate Leinbaugh. It's Wednesday, December 11th. Coming up on the show, what Bitcoin's rally tells us about where crypto is headed next. Just two years ago, the vibe in the crypto world was so bad that it was considered a crypto winter. At that time, cryptocurrencies were plunging. Firms were filing for bankruptcy.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
And if crypto is the wild west, the sheriff has been the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC, which regulates stocks and bonds, has argued that the crypto industry should be regulated like traditional finance. And the SEC has filed lawsuits against some of the biggest players in crypto. Securities and Exchange Commission filing charges against Binance.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
The crypto firms fought back in court. But they did something else, too.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
In the 2024 election cycle, crypto firms spent big. They funneled tens of millions of dollars into super PACs, backing pro-crypto candidates and trying to get crypto-minded voters to the polls with ads like this. Crypto equals innovation. Innovation equals jobs.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
One advocacy group backed by Coinbase called Stand with Crypto gave candidates a rating from A to F based on their support for the crypto industry. As the crypto industry is like, they're like, OK, we need some allies in D.C. What were they looking for? What are their aims?
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
And this big election push worked. In the end, according to Stand With Crypto, nearly 300 pro-crypto candidates were elected to Congress. And some lawmakers, seen as hostile to the industry, were voted out. So going into this next administration, the crypto industry is in a pretty good spot.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Coming up, what a Trump White House could mean for crypto. When Trump won the election, the crypto world celebrated by driving up the crypto market.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Our colleague Alexander Osipovich has covered Bitcoin for seven years, and he has a takeaway.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Trump has even said he'd have the government own a lot of crypto.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Another sign of Trump's support of crypto came last week when he announced his pick for the new head of the SEC, a former SEC commissioner named Paul Atkins.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Atkins has been running a consulting company, Potomac Global Partners, whose clients include crypto firms. One of Potomac's clients was FTX.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Here's Atkins on a podcast last year talking about crypto regulation.
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
What was the market reaction to the announcement of Atkins as the chair of the SEC?
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
What does all of this excitement say about crypto right now?
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Okay. And if grandma bought Bitcoin at $20,000, how's grandma doing today?
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Does Bitcoin hitting 100,000 mean it is no longer a sort of fringe thing and it's sort of becoming more establishment than it used to be?
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
And Bitcoin's rise to 100,000 has been a roller coaster, as we've mentioned. Which direction do you think Bitcoin's going in from here?
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
Because last week, crypto hit a major milestone. What happened?
The Journal.
Bitcoin Hit $100k. What's Next?
That's all for today, Wednesday, December 11th. The Journal is a co-production of Spotify and The Wall Street Journal. Additional reporting in this episode by Dave Michaels and Caitlin Ostroff. Thanks for listening. See you tomorrow.
The Journal.
Corporate America's Embrace of Trump 2.0
Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, is also giving a million dollars to the fund. Walmart. Walmart.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Understanding This Will Change How You Experience Your Entire Life
Have you been on a spiritual path all along?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Understanding This Will Change How You Experience Your Entire Life
Know that your deep inner experience of love is the double door to the sacred reality.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Understanding This Will Change How You Experience Your Entire Life
Stitcher.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Understanding This Will Change How You Experience Your Entire Life
Anyone living or deceased who truly has your best interest in mind. And with them all sitting there, ask them if they love you. Ask them if they love you.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Understanding This Will Change How You Experience Your Entire Life
Ask you if you love you.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Understanding This Will Change How You Experience Your Entire Life
What do you need to know? What do you need to know? When you're ready, I invite you back.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
Yeah, that's not the right question. The question is, why would they do such a stupid thing? Yeah, that is the question, isn't it? Yeah, that's the question.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
And we had special assistance this week from Jonathan Mitchell.
The Science of Flipping
new draft: 2025-05-30T04:26:45.510Z
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The Tim Dillon Show
424 - Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog
Let's go. I've always loved taking something pretty ordinary and elevating it. Surprising people with moments that let them know I was really thinking of them.
The Tim Dillon Show
424 - Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog
I'm going to share some little tips and tricks. I see what color I gravitate to, and everything goes from there. And how you can incorporate these practices every day. That's what you want. You want that shape and texture. Come on. This is about connecting with friends. I love that we're doing this together for the first time. Making new friends.
The Tim Dillon Show
424 - Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog
We're not in the pursuit of perfection. Woke us all up. We're in the pursuit of joy. Love is in the details. I have to do it totally wrong to get it totally right.
The Tim Dillon Show
424 - Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog
Go. I've always loved taking something pretty ordinary and elevating it.
The Tim Dillon Show
424 - Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog
People with moments that let them know I was really thinking of them.
The Tim Dillon Show
424 - Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog
I see what color I gravitate to, and everything goes from there. And how you incorporate these practices every day. That's what you want. You want that shape and texture.
The Tim Dillon Show
424 - Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog
Come on. This is about connecting with friends. I love that we're doing this together for the first time. Making new friends, that is so good.
The Tim Dillon Show
424 - Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog
We're not in the pursuit of perfection. Woke us all up. We're in the pursuit of joy. Love is in the details.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Rep. Curt Weldon: It’s Time to Finally Tell the Truth About 9-11
Tucker sagt es am besten. Die Kreditkarten-Kompanien zerbrechen die Amerikaner und genug ist genug. Das ist der Senator Roger Marshall aus Kansas. Unsere Legislaturperiode, der Kreditkarten-Kompetition-Akt, würde die Visa und Mastercard auf uns helfen. Every time you use your credit card, they charge you a hidden fee called a swipe fee, and they've been raising it without even telling you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Rep. Curt Weldon: It’s Time to Finally Tell the Truth About 9-11
This hurts consumers and every small business owner. In fact, American families are paying $1,100 in hidden swipe fees each year. The fees, visa and mastercard charge Americans are the highest in the world. Double candidates and eight times more than Europe's. That's why I've taken action, but I need your help to help get this passed.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Rep. Curt Weldon: It’s Time to Finally Tell the Truth About 9-11
I'm asking you to call your senator today and demand they pass the Credit Card Competition Act.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
Well, cannabis has been legal now federally for just over six years. And even before that, cannabis was legal for medical purposes since 2001. So it's been legal in one form or another for nearly 25 years.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
So fundamentally, the approach was to apply a public health strategy to cannabis, and in particular, to try to reduce harms and maximize benefits. The three big goals were to reduce youth access, to create a legal framework for adults to access cannabis, and to reduce burden on the criminal justice system.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
Well, the good news is we haven't seen a sharp increase in youth consumption, which was a fear that a lot of people had. And although we haven't seen big decreases, it does seem like there haven't been those feared increases. There have also been some other consequences that are not so positive.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
But the other things that are good include certainly many fewer arrests for cannabis and a fully realized large economic cannabis sector now.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
So right now, the rates of cannabis use in Canada are certainly at all-time highs. Some of that happened before legalization. But that's a trend that hasn't gone away. And especially if you look at not youth like teenagers, but young adults in their 20s, the rates are close to half in terms of folks reporting any use in the last year. So the overall rates of cannabis use are certainly high.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
Well, historically, Canada lagged the U.S. only in terms of overall rates. I think that actually the rate may be higher than the U.S. now, although it depends on the survey that you look at. But certainly it is near the top, if not at the top, globally.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
Well, I think that it's a complicated picture six years in. So as I said, some of the good things are it's a real economic marketplace. There's a lot of sales. The illegal market has been substantially displaced. But there have been some downsides, too. I think the overall high rate of use is not great. But the other reality is a lot of people are concerned about how many storefronts we have.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
There's a cannabis shop on every corner, it feels like. And there are concerns about burdens on the health care system, too. Worrying upticks in terms of the number of individuals going to emergency departments or urgent care centers, the number of individuals who are experiencing cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome that
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
very unusual syndrome of acute nausea and vomiting that takes place in people who use cannabis frequently. There are increases in pregnant women who are seeking care for cannabis and increases in the proportion of impaired drivers who are testing positive for cannabis. So those are all kind of canaries in the coal mine for some pretty troubling trends.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
So I think that alcohol is in some ways the best comparator drug. And the reality is alcohol, despite being legal, has lots of harms. And those range from acute harms like driving while intoxicated and physical and sexual assaults to chronic harms like cancer.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
And in a lot of ways, cannabis has a somewhat more favorable profile, although we don't have a great sense for whether the increase in cannabis use and the increase in cannabis sales, legal sales, has offset some of the harms from alcohol. What I can tell you is that if you look nationally, the alcohol retail sales have not changed all that dramatically.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
So Canadians spend about $2 billion a month on alcohol, and that has been very stable from prior to legalization to the current date. Along that same time period, there has been a skyrocketing sales of legal cannabis.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
And so it seems like what's happening is the legal cannabis market is displacing the illegal market, but it's not really changing the amount of drinking all that much, which probably suggests that the amount of benefits in terms of reducing alcohol harms are going to be limited.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
There have been aspects of the cannabis economy that have been boom-like, but also bust-like. The reality is the stocks for a lot of the producers prior to legalization were sky high. And
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
uh those stocks unfortunately dropped in value after legalization when things recalibrated a bit a lot of the pop shops open and then unfortunately closed because it turns out the markets are already somewhat saturated and there are some pretty insidious aspects of this too because
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
When you have cannabis shops on every corner, even though advertising is prohibited, that becomes a form of advertising. So I have young kids and they see cannabis stores all over the place, sometimes two or three in a given strip mall. And the other thing is, I've heard from my patients that when they're trying to quit or even reduce, having cannabis stores everywhere is a real challenge.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
And so I think that even though there are some economic benefits, we are right now reckoning with some of the harms also.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
I'll tell you, Sean, what I think is the best model. And I think that Canada has done on balance a good job, but maybe not a great job. And where I see the best implementation is actually in Quebec. Also Canada. Also Canada. So one of the things that's interesting about Canada is that cannabis is federally legal, but it is implemented by the provinces.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
So there are slightly different models across the provinces and territories. And there are some interesting natural experiments that are happening as a result. And as you probably know, Quebec often marches to the beat of a different drum compared to other provinces in Canada. They speak a whole different language. They speak French. And there are many great qualities about Quebec. But
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
In this case, they are probably the most different from the other provinces and territories because they have a higher age of access, 21 rather than 19. They prohibit any edibles that look like candy to keep them out of the hands of children. So you can get cannabis. cauliflower or cannabis broccoli or beets, but you can't get cannabis chocolate.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
They have a provincial monopoly, which means you can only buy cannabis from stores that are administered by the province, which means you can control how many stores you have.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
And you can have really rigorous ways of making sure that kids or teenagers are not coming in and buying cannabis because they're similar to, for example, the ABC store in North Carolina or other state monopolies around alcohol. So in many ways, Quebec has implemented a more stringent public health model. And we've actually seen in studies, not from my group, but from other groups, that
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
that some of the harms that are observed in Canada are not present when you look specifically at Quebec. So if there was a model I would recommend, it's probably that one.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
Well, Sean, given that it's January and a lot of people already consider dry January and abstaining from alcohol, I would absolutely encourage them to think about taking a month off from weed also, especially if they're frequent users. The reality is, as a psychologist, I see a lot of people who struggle with their cannabis use.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
It's the number one problem in our young adult substance use program. And taking a month off is a great way to kind of take stock of whether or not you have a problem. If it's easy, then you'll save some money. You might clean out the mental cobwebs. Your lungs will thank you. If it's hard, you may want to think about whether you need to talk to a health professional.
Today, Explained
Canadian bakin’
And so to me, new year, new you, it's a great time to think hard about your relationship with pop.