About this episode

Daniella Barreto shares her journey from Zimbabwe to Canada, including her experiences at a cannabis conference and her advocacy for racial justice in cannabis legislation.

A cannabis conference. A front-row seat she wasn't supposed to have. A question to Snoop Dogg about racial justice in cannabis legislation that she absolutely was not going to leave unasked. In this episode of a 4-part series in collaboration between Public Health Insight Podcast and Public Health Is Dead, Gordon Thane rewinds to the early beginnings of Daniella Barreto's story, which includes a childhood in Zimbabwe, a mother who made immunology a dinner-table subject, immigration to Vancouv...

People in this episode

Host: Gordon Thane

Guest: Daniella Barreto

Topics covered

• cannabis
• racial justice
• public health
• immigration
• personal story

Keywords

• cannabis conference
• Snoop Dogg
• racial justice
• public health
• immigration
• Zimbabwe
• Vancouver

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Public Health Insight Podcast, Public Health Is Dead

Places: Zimbabwe, Vancouver

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