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I’m Amanda Chicago Lewis. I mostly report and write long, magazine-style stories. I’ve also worked as a producer on documentaries, for MTV and CNN.
I’ve written a lot about cannabis, as it relates to policy, politics, science, economics, culture, criminal justice, and public health. From April 2017 to summer of 2019, I wrote a column for Rolling Stone, covering everything from the best pot party in California to the roadblocks facing tribes in the cannabis business to how much more money the IRS makes by keeping weed illegal. Between January 2015 and October 2016, I was a national reporter at BuzzFeed News,
Hi there!
I’m Amanda Chicago Lewis. I mostly report and write long, magazine-style stories. I’ve also worked as a producer on documentaries, for MTV and CNN.
I’ve written a lot about cannabis, as it relates to policy, politics, science, economics, culture, criminal justice, and public health. From April 2017 to summer of 2019, I wrote a column for Rolling Stone, covering everything from the best pot party in California to the roadblocks facing tribes in the cannabis business to how much more money the IRS makes by keeping weed illegal. Between January 2015 and October 2016, I was a national reporter at BuzzFeed News, where I sounded an early alarm about the unregulated cannabis concentrates that would later cause the vaping crisis and revealed a pot lobbyist’s unethical gifts to a California senate leader aide.
I’ve also written for GQ, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED, The Verge, California Sunday, POLITICO magazine, The New Republic, The Guardian, Curbed, them, Vice, the LA Review of Books, The Awl, Pop-Up Magazine, and the LA Weekly, where I was a contributor from 2011 to 2014. I’ve appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, KCRW's Good Food, NPR's 1A, KPCC’s Air Talk with Larry Mantle, and Viceland’s Bong Appetit, among others.
This one time I was on TV in Japan. When they cut back to the studio, the news anchor said he thought I looked like Cher.
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