Ryan Stoa

Oct 17, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Ryan Stoa |Tom Standage

We have always been a nation of drinkers — but now there are more daily users of cannabis than alcohol. Considering alcohol’s harms, maybe that’s a good thing. But some people worry that the legalization of cannabis has outpaced the research. (Part one of a four-part series.)SOURCES:Jon Caulkins, professor of operations research and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Yasmin Hurd, director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai.

Oct 16, 2024 | freakonomics.com | Ryan Stoa |Tom Standage |Stephen Dubner

Episode Transcript On a recent Monday morning, we found ourselves up in the Berkshire Mountains, in the town of Sheffield, Massachusetts. There’s a dark gray building with a big front porch, right on Route 7. It is home to a retail shop called The Pass. It was pretty busy — especially for a Monday morning! — and the customers were happy to tell us why they were buying what they were buying.