BPR Full Show 5/17/2019: This Is Your Brain On Marijuana

We opened the lines to hear our listeners' takes on Senator Elizabeth Warren refusing a Fox News town hall. Is this a winning strategy, or did she alienate the 2.5 million viewers who might have tuned in?

Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, gave our listeners a preview of an event May 20 in partnership with the Kendall Square Orchestra: Symphony for Science.

Bruce Bean, Wade Regehr, and John Gabrieli, neuroscientists from Harvard and MIT, will use a $9 million donation from Bob Broderick to study the effects of cannabis on the brain. They joined Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library to discuss their research.

Emily Rooney joined the show as she does every Friday for her famous list of fixations and fulminations.

Boston Globe's interim editorial page editor Shirley Leung on a proposal for a marijuana equity fund.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus say a Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket would be a dream. Harris considers that option more of a nightmare. Under the Radar host Callie Crossley discussed that and more.

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik made the case for liberalism on the show, and in his new book,
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.

We wrapped things up on a high note, with a Sing That Thing News Quiz, joined by Jared Bowen and Anthony Trecek-King.