Welcome to Burn After Reading

Eric Casey's weekly newsletter

Welcome to Burn After Reading, my newsletter that drops every Friday morning.

Every issue will include things like:

• A link to Cannabis Confidential, my weekly cannabis column in Worcester Magazine and all my other published work from that week. If you haven’t read my column before, here’s the introduction I wrote when it first launched.

• Links to other things I enjoyed reading that week.

• Occasional musings about cannabis-related items, or whatever else is on my mind.

• A movie/film/podcast/content recommendation.

• A list of cannabis-related events happening in Central Mass for the upcoming week.

• The cat picture of the week.

Plus, the occasional emergency email if some massive cannabis-related news breaks.

A little bit about myself:

I currently write a weekly cannabis column at Worcester Magazine. It mostly covers the Central Mass cannabis scene from a bottom-up perspective. You can find those columns and all my other work here.

I decided to become a freelance writer in November of 2021 after spending the previous seven years working in the Massachusetts cannabis industry in various roles ranging from Regulatory Analyst to Outreach Coordinator to Transport Agent (i.e., driving a van full of testing lab samples around the state).

Before that I attended the University of Rhode Island where I was heavily involved in Students for Sensible Drug Policy, an amazing organization that you should all support.

You should feel no obligation to pay for my substack, and the weekly newsletter and the vast majority of the rest of the content I post here will not be paywalled.

That being said…. *rattles tip jar*

Substack won’t let me set it lower than $5, so here’s a 60% off deal that will never expire:

Anything you can contribute will be tremendously appreciated and will go towards furthering my career. And of course, feel free to invite your friends to subscribe.