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Medical marijuana was legalized in Massachusetts in 2013.\u00a0 But it has taken almost 3 years for the first dispensary to open in Western Mass.\u00a0 Meet Ezra Parzybok of Florence,\u00a0 a medical marijuana consultant and outspoken advocate for medical marijuana.\u00a0 Ezra was also running a dispensary out of his home – until it was raided last fall.\u00a0 Ezra talks about his personal story, and about ways cannabis can ease people’s pain, including a story about how one of his clients found healing from lung cancer by smoking marijuana.\u00a0 Ezra also talks about issues with the law, and how the laws and stereotypes around marijuana are applied differently depending on race and class<\/p>\n
And at the beginning of the show, Luna Puchalsky has a 5-min segment of street interviews she did, asking people about the biggest problem this country faces in the upcoming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Medical marijuana was legalized in Massachusetts in 2013.\u00a0 But it has taken almost 3 years for the first dispensary to open in Western Mass.\u00a0 Meet Ezra Parzybok of Florence,\u00a0 a medical marijuana consultant and outspoken advocate for medical marijuana.\u00a0 Ezra was also running a dispensary out of his home – until it was raided … Continue reading #55: Ezra Parzybok – medical marijuana<\/span>