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More Americans now smoke marijuana than cigarettes, per a new Gallup poll. We break down the CDC's proposed "for fun or to get high" survey question, USPS possibly delivering medical cannabis under rescheduling, and why Blue Dream is the Fleetwood Mac of weed.
A historic scoreboard flip: for the first time in Gallup polling history, more U.S. adults are smoking marijuana than tobacco cigarettes. We mark the moment, roast the CDC's proposed survey wording, imagine your mailman's new route, and close with a love letter to Blue Dream.
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Daisy: —okay so I have to tell you something and you have to promise not to look at me like I'm insane.
Astoria: I make no such promise. Go.
Daisy: I microwaved my weed.
Astoria: You WHAT.
Daisy: In my defense—
Astoria: There's a defense?
Daisy: In my defense, I read one time that you can... reactivate it? Like leftover pasta?
Astoria: Daisy. Weed is not leftover pasta.
Daisy: I know that NOW, Astoria.
Astoria: What did it smell like.
Daisy: Like a house fire in a Bath and Body Works.
Astoria: Oh my god.
Daisy: My smoke detector gave me a standing ovation. It was like, finally, content.
Astoria: Okay, we have to move on or I'm gonna cry. What is even happening in the world today.
Daisy: Oh, big news actually. Weed just beat cigarettes.
Astoria: Beat them at what, a footrace?
Daisy: At being smoked! In America! Gallup poll — more adults are smoking weed than cigarettes now.
Astoria: Wait, seriously?
Daisy: Cigarette use is at an all-time low, and cannabis smoking has more than doubled since like 2013.
Astoria: That's actually kind of historic.
Daisy: It IS historic. The Marlboro Man just got dunked on by a guy in Rick and Morty socks.
Astoria: The visual.
Daisy: Sixty years of cigarettes being cool in every movie. Sixty years of weed being the punchline. Scoreboard.
Astoria: Okay but hold on — I feel like you're leaving out that vapes exist. Kids aren't picking up Camels, they're huffing a USB stick.
Daisy: Fair. Fair pushback.
Astoria: I just don't want us to be like, weed WON, when really cigarettes lost because they got replaced by a different lung crime.
Daisy: A different lung crime. That's the tagline.
Astoria: But yeah, no, it's still wild. First time in Gallup history the joint beats the cig.
Daisy: Big Tobacco is having a midlife crisis. It's out here buying a convertible. It's dating someone named Chelsea.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: It's like, "I still got it." And weed is like, buddy. You do not.
Astoria: Okay, related — did you see the CDC thing?
Daisy: No, what CDC thing.
Astoria: The CDC wants to add a weed question to one of the big annual federal health surveys.
Daisy: Oh that's actually smart, that's data.
Astoria: Sure, but the wording, Daisy. The wording.
Daisy: What's the wording.
Astoria: They want to ask if you're using it — and I quote — "for fun or to get high" versus medical.
Daisy: "For fun or to get high."
Astoria: That is the literal proposed wording. From the CDC.
Daisy: Those are the same thing! Those are the same option!
Astoria: I know!
Daisy: "Sir, please clarify. Is this for FUN or to get HIGH." Sir. Yes.
Astoria: Yes. The answer is yes.
Daisy: Imagine a CDC surveyor calling my uncle. On a landline.
Astoria: Your uncle has a landline?
Daisy: My uncle IS a landline. He's beige and he yells.
Daisy: And they're like, sir, medical or recreational. And he goes... yes.
Astoria: Click.
Daisy: Click. Data collected.
Astoria: Truly rigorous science we're doing.
Daisy: Hey, don't drag the CDC, they're trying.
Astoria: I'm not dragging! I'm just saying, whoever wrote "for fun or to get high" needs to be in the room where it happens.
Daisy: They ARE in the room. That's the problem.
Daisy: Okay wait, one more news thing and then I have a recommendation.
Astoria: Go.
Daisy: There's talk that if weed gets rescheduled federally, USPS could deliver medical cannabis. Like, and FedEx, UPS, the whole crew.
Astoria: Get OUT.
Daisy: State officials floated it.
Astoria: The mailman?
Daisy: The mailman.
Astoria: My mailman is a very sweet older gentleman named — well, I'm not gonna say his name, but he does not know what's coming.
Daisy: He's about to have the most interesting route in America.
Astoria: He's gonna be so popular.
Daisy: Every dog on the block is gonna be like, why does Dave smell AMAZING today.
Astoria: Why is Dave GLOWING.
Daisy: And you know the tracking is gonna be cursed. "Out for delivery." Since Tuesday.
Astoria: Since Tuesday!
Daisy: "Package delayed due to weather." It's SUNNY, USPS. What are you doing.
Astoria: "Package acquired by processing facility." Sure it was.
Daisy: Processing facility. Sure. That's what we're calling Kevin's break room now.
Astoria: I would like to push back on one thing though.
Daisy: Push.
Astoria: I actually think if USPS handled it, it'd be more reliable than half the delivery services people already use for weed.
Daisy: Ohhh, spicy take.
Astoria: I'm just saying! The post office has been quietly moving stuff around this country for two hundred years.
Daisy: That is... a real point.
Astoria: They delivered a live alligator once. Look it up. I'm pretty sure. Don't look it up.
Daisy: "I'm pretty sure, don't look it up" is going on my headstone.
Astoria: It's my whole personality.
Daisy: Okay so tying this all together — if weed is officially winning, if the CDC is asking about it, if the MAILMAN might be involved—
Astoria: Big if.
Daisy: Big if. But if all that's happening, you gotta have your comfort strain locked in. Your like, house wine.
Astoria: Ohhh. What are we recommending today.
Daisy: Blue Dream.
Astoria: Classic!
Daisy: The Fleetwood Mac of weed.
Astoria: Wait what.
Daisy: Everybody claims they discovered it first.
Astoria: Oh my GOD that's accurate.
Daisy: "Yeah I was into Blue Dream before it was cool." Sir. It was born in California. Everyone was into it.
Astoria: It's like being into pizza. Congratulations.
Daisy: Exactly. Okay so — sativa-dominant hybrid, cross of Blueberry and Haze.
Astoria: See I always forget the lineage.
Daisy: Blueberry times Haze. That's the parents. That's the mom and dad on parents' night.
Astoria: Blueberry and Haze sound like a divorced couple who own a candle store.
Daisy: They ABSOLUTELY do. And Blue Dream is their kid who went to art school.
Daisy: Leafly literally calls it a fan favorite of both novice and veteran cannabis consumers.
Astoria: Which is a very diplomatic way of saying...
Daisy: It's a beginner-friendly rollercoaster that also terrifies adults.
Astoria: Yes. That.
Daisy: THC can top twenty percent. Low CBD. So like, respect it.
Astoria: Okay so it's not TAME tame.
Daisy: It is not tame. It is friendly. Friendly is not tame.
Astoria: A golden retriever is friendly. A golden retriever will still knock you down the stairs.
Daisy: Exactly, Astoria. Blue Dream is a golden retriever.
Astoria: Effects?
Daisy: Balanced. Cerebral stimulation with full-body relaxation. Skews energizing, not couch-locky.
Astoria: Oh good, so it's not the "I am now part of the couch" strain.
Daisy: No, this is more the "I have opinions about the couch" strain.
Daisy: And Leafly notes people reach for it a lot to help with stress, anxiety, depression — that kind of thing.
Astoria: Which tracks. It's the vibe of a strain that doesn't make you spiral.
Daisy: Right? It's not the strain that makes you rewatch a text from 2019.
Astoria: God, not the 2019 text.
Daisy: Some strains — you take a hit and suddenly you're like, why did Brandon leave me on read.
Astoria: Sativa journalism hour.
Daisy: Blue Dream is not that. Blue Dream is like, hey, you're great, wanna go for a walk.
Astoria: What does it taste like, because I always forget.
Daisy: Sweet berry. Big berry nose, berry on the taste.
Astoria: Cereal aisle terpenes.
Daisy: Cereal aisle terpenes! Yes! It's Boo Berry. It's a Boo Berry situation.
Astoria: I haven't thought about Boo Berry in fifteen years and now I want a box.
Daisy: See, THAT'S Blue Dream working on you and you haven't even smoked.
Daisy: Okay real talk though — I need to admit something.
Astoria: Oh no.
Daisy: I have no idea what a "haze" actually is. Like botanically. As a category.
Astoria: What.
Daisy: I've said "haze" a thousand times. I do not know.
Astoria: You're a cannabis podcaster.
Daisy: I'm a VIBES cannabis podcaster.
Daisy: I know it's sativa-leaning. I know it's got a heritage. That's where my knowledge ends. Haze, to me, is a mood.
Astoria: Haze is a mood. Okay, that's fine, we'll allow it.
Daisy: Thank you.
Astoria: The bar is on the floor for you today.
Daisy: The bar is Blue Dream low, baby. Balanced. Approachable.
Astoria: Okay, so if I'm picking this up this weekend, what am I pairing it with. Give me a scenario.
Daisy: Ohhh. Okay. Sunday. Two p.m. You have exactly one responsibility and it's returning a package.
Astoria: A very achievable Sunday.
Daisy: You hit the Blue Dream. Small hit. This is not a "prove yourself" strain.
Astoria: Respect the twenty percent.
Daisy: Respect the twenty. You put on a playlist. You reorganize one drawer. ONE.
Astoria: Just one.
Daisy: You do NOT open the closet. The closet is a trap.
Astoria: The closet is always a trap.
Daisy: And then you take a walk. That's the play. Blue Dream is a walk strain.
Astoria: It's a walk strain. I love that as a category.
Daisy: Some strains are couch strains, some are walk strains, some are "I'm gonna text my ex" strains and we don't recommend those.
Astoria: We do not.
Daisy: Blue Dream: walk. Small snack. Maybe a berry, to really commit to the bit.
Astoria: Method acting.
Daisy: You gotta match the terpenes, Astoria.
Astoria: Okay so what's the takeaway. Give me the one-liner.
Daisy: The takeaway is this — weed is officially outrunning cigarettes, the CDC is trying to figure out what "fun" means, and your mailman might be a delivery service soon.
Astoria: A lot happening.
Daisy: A lot happening. So pick a strain you actually trust to hang out with you through all of it. And that's Blue Dream. Beginner-friendly, veteran-approved, tastes like Saturday morning cartoons.
Astoria: Boo Berry approved.
Daisy: Boo Berry APPROVED.
Daisy: Also, quick PSA: do not microwave your weed.
Astoria: Please. Please do not.
Daisy: Learn from me. Be better than me.
Astoria: Be better than Daisy is genuinely the show's ethos.
Daisy: Slap it on a shirt.
Astoria: On that note.
Daisy: On that note. Thanks for hanging out with us, friends.
Astoria: If you liked this, if you want more of us being like this but about more stuff — head to mncannabishub.com.
Daisy: mncannabishub dot com. That's where the goodies live.
Astoria: Take a walk this weekend. Small hit. Reorganize one drawer.
Daisy: ONE drawer, Astoria.
Astoria: One drawer!
Daisy: We love you. Don't microwave anything.
Astoria: Bye.
Daisy: Bye.
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