EP. 7 JAY WEXLER, AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR OF LAW

On this episode, Shwa Laytart interviews Jay Wexler and his latest book release, "Weed Rules: Blazing the Way to a Just and Joyful Marijuana Policy".

Jay Wexler is a professor at the Boston University School of Law, where he has taught since 2001. Prior to teaching, Wexler studied religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School and law at Stanford Law School. After law school, he worked as a clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Supreme Court and then as a lawyer in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. He has published nearly three dozen academic articles, essays, and reviews, as well as over forty short stories and humor pieces in places like the Boston Globe, Huffington Post, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Mental Floss, the New Yorker, Newsweek, Salon, Slate, Spy, USA Today, and Vox. He tweets @SCOTUSHUMOR.

ABOUT THE BOOK With full legalization seeming inevitable, it's time to shift the conversation—from whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how.

Weed Rules argues that it's time for states to abandon their "grudging tolerance" approach to legal weed and to embrace "careful exuberance." In this thorough and witty book, law professor Jay Wexler invites policy makers to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it.

The "grudging tolerance" approach has led to restrictions that are too strict in some cases—limiting how and where cannabis can be used, cultivated, marketed, and sold—and far too loose in others, allowing employers and police to discriminate against users. This book shows how focusing on joy and community can lead us to an equitable marijuana policy in which minority communities, most harmed by the war on drugs, play a leading role in the industry. Centering pleasure and fun as legitimate policy goals, Weed Rules puts forth specific policies to advocate for a more just, sensible, and joyous post-legalization society.

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Host: Shwa Laytart
Guest: Jay Wexler
Venue: Avantpop Bookstore, Las Vegas, NV
Theme Music: Delachaux

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