California's History With Marijuana

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California's history with cannabis goes back decades. California was the first in the nation to legalize medical marijuana and open its doors to medical dispensaries. Prop 64 generates a billion in new tax revenue for California to fund after-school programs, job training and placement initiatives. War on drugs is an abject failure. It's been a war on poor, war on people of poverty,war on people of color," says John Sutter.

Pro-pot Californians said legalizing marijuana would end the state’s black market for reefer. Instead, says LA Times investigative reporter Paige St. John, the illegal market is bigger than ever.

This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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