OUR SHOW TODAY will continue our series on the politics of cannabis, this time examining higher education research and programing for cannabis certification and degrees. We will also spotlight the opiate epidemic and the role of Big Pharma and the Koch Brothers.

Our featured guest is Kim Hewitt. Kim Hewitt is an Associate Professor of American History and American Culture at SUNY Empire State College. Her areas of focus include postwar American culture, body studies, consciousness studies, psychiatric history, and drug policy. She is the author of Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink and various articles about popular culture, African American culture, and mental illness in Popular Culture Review, Radical History Review, The Senses and Society and an anthology entitled Afro-Asian: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African and Asian Americans.
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