A lot has changed over the past four years; we didn’t have adult-use pot shops in Massachusetts for the 2016 inauguration! In fact just a decade ago, recreational weed shops weren’t even a thing in the U.S. Over the span of just a few years, marijuana has gone from a taboo topic and a seedy underground gateway drug, to a luxurious experience developed by top scientists and promoted by our most trusted celebrities. How did it happen?This episode, Brit interviews Heather Cabot, an award winning journalist and former ABC News correspondent and anchor, who recently released her second book "The New Chardonnay; The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream."Check out DifferentLeaf.com to purchase 4 issues of Different Leaf the magazine for $20, and find a list of physical locations selling the magazine. Follow us on social media @DifferentLeaf and @Different_Leaf, follow host Brit Smith @BritTheBritish - Produced by Andrea Muraskin and Brit Smith, music by Homebody.