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Getting high on Godmother’s supply: The story behind NYC’s Godmother of Weed
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Eleni Polinski grew weed so wonderful that she had New York state officials courting her throughout the cannabis legalization process. Then she came home to a busted down door, and no weed to be found. Reporter Rosalind Adams joins Crime Story to talk her article "The 'Godmother' of Weed vs. Her Uncle, the DEA Agent," which she wrote for The City. She tells us about the time she spent with the Godmother, and how New York has been handling legalization. You can read her article here.
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And so Stephen's like home alone and he hears like a drill and he hears like a saw and he hears like a hammer. And they're like banging on this like, you know, metal fortified, it's like a pretty fortified door. And he's like, I don't know, do you have a warrant? Do you have a warrant? Do you have a warrant? And they're like, we don't need a warrant. You pulled a gun on somebody.
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