Fusion TV Welcomes Chief Cannabis Correspondent

RyanNerzPicThe headshot accompanying today’s announcement that Ryan Nerz is the U.S. TV world’s first officially anointed chief cannabis correspondent is spot-on. No suit jacket? Check. No tie? Check. A rugged, outdoorsy look in tune with the two states currently most friendly to his beat? Double check.

The Yale-educated, Brooklyn-based contributor to NPR, Esquire, The History Channel and other outlets is also the author of last year’s Marijuanamerica. The work he did for that book is his beat’s equivalent of J-school:

Nerz’s cross-country investigation started out sensibly enough: taking classes at a cannabis college, hanging out with a man who gets three hundred pre-rolled joints per month from the federal government and visiting the world’s largest medical marijuana dispensary.

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