Eastern Standard: June 25, 2026
Cornbread baked according to the Mindy Merrell recipe.(Tom Martin)
This week on Eastern Standard:
What is the “Halfback Wave” and how might eastern Kentucky benefit from it? Veteran Appalachian journalist James Branscome has some ideas and joins us to offer details.
What does it mean to cannabis research that the Trump administration has dropped marijuana from the prohibitive “Schedule I” drug category to the more lenient “Schedule III”? That’s our question for Dr. Shana Babalonis, head of the University of Kentucky Cannabis Research Center.
Marianne Worthington, in conversation with ES…
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