If you want to know the secrets of the plant, talk to a plant scientist (or a shaman). This interview with phytochemist James Curran will make you reevaluate everything you thought you knew about cannabis – and appreciate how much more there is to learn.
Seth Ginsberg, co-founder of CreakyJoints.org and the ArthritisPower app on how patients and health care providers can get more info about using medical cannabis for their pains.
The next likely victim of drug war hysteria and prohibition: vaping. Ethan Nadelmann, founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, comes out of retirement to discuss.
Mainstream media are blaming one culprit for the illnesses and deaths from tainted vapor cartridges, but journalist Foster Winans reports that there's another, more common, deadly agent that is being overlooked.
As CEO of the venture capital fund Canopy Rivers, Narbe´ Alexandrian hears an amazing 7 new business pitches a day! In this episode he lets us in on what he's hearing...robots vs small craft farmers…the race to genetically engineer CBD from algae...and so much more.
Cannabis doesn’t behave like other medicines, which is why it doesn’t fit the current western way of healing -- an it may never. William Dolphin and Michelle Newhart, authors of The Medicalization of Marijuana, explore the future of a medicine that refuses to behave like a medicine.
It’s been 7 years since Washington legalized, but Hempfest, Seattle’s largest and oldest cannabis celebration is under attack from state and local governments. Hempfest co-founder, Vivian McPeak, joins us to talk about how he’s fighting back.
Jordan Klepper, ex Daily Show comedian has a new documentary series, Klepper, in which he immerses himself into the issues dividing the country. His episode “The New Weed War” takes on a topic that few others can.
Pastor Craig Gross is bucking the tide of the conservative churches by urging his flock to embrace cannabis. That's going to be a long, lonely struggle. Onward Christian Soldier!
Everyone’s hot to invest in large cap cannabis stocks, but in this exclusive essay Good Tree Capital’s CEO Seke Ballard makes the case against large cap investment.
If you’ve ever suffered from “puffy taco,” you should probably listen to this episode on cannabis and women’s health. If you don’t know what puffy taco is, you should download it right now!
The Coca Cola bottling billionaire was arrested for smuggling 5,000 CBD hemp seedlings into St. Kitts on his private jet (the press called the CBD “cannabis” – silly reporters). In this exclusive interview, Alki unloads about the arrest, his plan to turn the Caribbean into a hemp growing mecca, and why he thinks Trump is a hero. And that's just for starters...
Mark Williams, co-founder of Firefly Vaporizers, explains the folly of fat clouds, why vape pens suck, and why the new Firefly 2+ is so much more effective—and cost effective—than smoking.
Modern medicine knows how to prolong life but rarely addresses the quality of that life. this episode explores another way of growing older -- in which our symptoms are not controlling our lives – with the help of medical cannabis.
For small operators in the cannabis space securing a loan is impossible. Banks won’t touch you. Good Tree Capital has developed groundbreaking way of helping those in need of capital get financed and giving smaller investors a way to earn a high return at low risk.
That’s the question this episode obliquely addresses with two insightful men: Kris Krane, activist turned co-founder of 4Front, an investment and multistate dispensary firm, and Bruce Barcott, Deputy Editor at Leafly, who asks if corporate insensitivity and greed killed NY’s failed legalization effort.