From Prison to Prescription— Exposing the Controlled Return of Cannabis w/ Inesa Ponomariovaite

Man in America Podcast · Dec 15, 2025 · 1h 11m · transcript

For decades, cannabis was treated as a criminal substance, with people imprisoned and research suppressed, only for that same plant to suddenly be rebranded as “medicine” once it could be patented, regulated, and controlled. In this episode, Inesa Ponomariovaite joins me to break down how cannabis moved from prison sentences to prescriptions, why the endocannabinoid system was excluded from medical education for generations, and how a natural plant that mirrors a core human biological system became acceptable only after corporate and government institutions could own the solution. This isn’t…