The Syndicate

["The Syndicate's preview for Elizabeth the First frames Elizabeth Taylor as 'the very first influencer' and follows her early years from England to MGM.", "Mara Davis introduces the preview, and Tim Mendelsohn, Mitch Erzinger, and Jill Sherry Robinson add estate, archive, and family context.", "The episode leans on concrete artifacts, including Taylor's earliest known recording of 'Chitty Bitty Bim,' childhood letters, and a 1948 school essay about her parents, horses, and animals.", "It also shows how MGM controlled her at age 11, then turns to the $25 brooch, the $75,000 Christie's sale, and National Velvet as proof of how early she learned business and screen value."]

["Emily Dufton says 1800s Americans could buy cannabis tinctures, cocaine, heroin, and morphine at corner pharmacies with almost no oversight.", "She traces the shift to Harry Anslinger, Reefer Madness, the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, and Nixon's push to keep marijuana in Schedule 1.", "The 1970s decriminalization wave widened after Oregon's 1973 law and 11 more states by 1978, but by 1977 the paraphernalia market was worth $250 million and one in nine high school seniors was using marijuana every day by the late 1970s.", "Brownie Mary Rathbun, Dennis Perron, HIV/AIDS care in San Francisco's Castro district, and the 1996 Compassionate Use Act show how cannabis won sympathy before the current federal rescheduling fight."]

Steve Bratton says local police were seeing “the tree rather than the forest” in Colorado grow cases.

Alicia Rainey is arrested on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles on a Colorado fugitive warrant after leaving the syndicate and moving in with family.

Joe Johnson is caught in Kansas with 66 pounds of marijuana, $374,000 in cash, and a gun, then tells officers he wants to work for the DEA.

A journalist investigates a marijuana smuggling ring run by college friends in Colorado.

A group of college friends build a massive marijuana smuggling operation in Colorado, but it unravels when a drug mule cooperates with authorities.

A narrative documentary about a group of college friends who built a massive marijuana smuggling operation from Colorado to Minnesota, exploiting legal loopholes and price differences.

The episode details how a group of college friends built a massive marijuana smuggling operation in Colorado and how it eventually collapsed after a drug mule cooperated with authorities.

A former marijuana grower is interrogated by prosecutors about a large-scale drug smuggling operation in Colorado.

A narrative documentary about a group of college friends who ran a massive marijuana smuggling operation from Colorado, and how it unraveled when a drug mule cooperated with authorities.