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This week's stories:

• Rescheduling cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under federal law is “not enough” as it “continues to misrepresent the plant’s safety relative to other controlled substances”. But who said it? Listen to find out!
• On Tuesday, as the US senate returned from its August recess, the majority leader Chuck Schumer reiterated his commitment to advancing the highly anticipated Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act.
• In a letter to New York’s governor, four cannabis companies have highlighted the mess of New York’s adult-use cannabis programme rollout, calling on the state to issue retail licences. 

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Johnny and Mike take the high road in this hot take on legal weed with their guest, famed cannabis lawyer David Holland! Mike and David talk about their experiences working for High Times magazine, and what our town can expect from a recreational pot shop — it might not be what you expect! Plus, Mike rolls a monument of retro gold goodness and turns on with local superstars the Electric Chords, Johnny delivers the headlines, Tiffany Diamond reports from the Barryville Traffic Helicopter, and so much more — only on the Biggest Smalltown Podcast in the World!

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Today's stories:

• While two states legalized cannabis during midterms, a number of other cannabis wins were voted in across the country, including 5 Texan cities voting to decriminalize adult-use. However.. Texas Tribune
• Data published in Health Policy journal shows correlation between the introduction of medical cannabis in Canada and falling alcohol sales, reports Norml 
• Illinois is making the most of out-of-state customers, who buy almost $39 million of cannabis each month in the state, reports Courier and Press

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Happy Thursday from the "Cannabis Daily" podcast team!

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Today's stories:

• There's been an update in the trial of execs caught up in CannTrusts fall from grace, reports CBC.
• Employees let go by Trulieve have filed a class action lawsuit against the company on the grounds that not enough notice period was provided, reports MJBiz Daily.
• Since 2018 almost 2 million US cannabis convictions have been pardoned or expunged according to a report by NORML

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Today's stories:

• Brittney Griner: US basketball star freed in a prisoner swap with an arms dealer Viktor Bout
• NORML praised Brittney Griner's release, noting it should inspire U.S. cannabis law changes
• Ontario cannabis execs concerned the retail scheme is no longer an even playing field
• Greencare Capital to move out of the cannabis sector, OCT shares jump & more on MGC Pharma COVID drug

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Nevada set to greenlight cannabis lounges

Welcome to another episode of "Cannabis Daily"! 

Here are today's stories:

• House Committee on Appropriations approves bipartisan amendment - NORML
• White House says current laws haven't worked - Marijuana Moment
• Nevada 'okays' Cannabis Lounges - Nevada Independent
• Canopy Growth downgraded - MJBizDaily

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Uncle Dig interviews Larry Aday, a cannabis activist, homegrower, and guerilla grower OG, who has been in southern Oregon for a long time. He is the former director of the state of Jefferson NORML chapter, and former operations manager for voter power. This is part 2 of a 2 part interview.

Uncle Dig also fills us in on the garden of course.

What’s in the interview?

Thanks for taking the time to talk to me today. Can you introduce yourself?

How did you get involved in cannabis?

Tell us about Pheno Exotic

Scope of duties as COO

Challenges/Successes

You’ll be featured in an upcoming episode of our Deep Roots series, what are you looking forward to showing off?

Pheno Exotics does cultivation, processing, distribution - are you involved in any other parts of the cannabis industry?

Can you tell us about your cultivation facility?

Size, type, # of employees

Cultivars?

Processing facility?

Types of products ?

Phenohunting

What do you look for?

Best strain you’ve been able to find?

Why is it important to you to have some novelty among your products?

The brand takes pride in “straying from the ordinary” - Is this just in terms of the strains you look for and cultivate? How else does your company do things differently?

How does a boutique brand like PE stay competitive in a growing market?

Marketing strategy?

How do you separate yourself from the rest of the pack?

How important is it to you to look at market trends with regard to the products you are developing?

What do your customers like most?

Small batch series

White label

Best selling flower? Concentrate?

Trends between flower and concentrates?

Increase in CBD interest with Hemp legalization?

Does Pheno Exotics have any new projects you can tell us about?

Expansion?

New Products?

Exciting new strains?

Is there anything else you’d like to talk about that we didn’t get a chance to discuss?

Uncle Dig interviews Larry Aday, a cannabis activist, homegrower, and guerilla grower OG, who has been in southern Oregon for a long time. He is the former director of the state of Jefferson NORML chapter, and former operations manager for voter power. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview.

Uncle Dig also fills us in on the garden of course.

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Table of Contents

00:00 Opening

Questions from the Interview:

• How did you get involved in the cannabis space? 
• First collections of landrace or heirlooms? 
• What’s the origin story of Kagyu and Coastal Seed CO.?
• What’s your day to day like? 
• How do you source stock for breeding? 
• What do you look for in plants for breeding? 
• For people that are new in breeding, what is your advice?
• What are the most memorable experiences and the main challenges you’ve found up until this point? 
• Why do you like Sativa after all this time? 
• How do you transition from medical era prop 215 to recreational Prop 64 era?
• Tell us about your collaboration with other breeders? 
• Give us your workflow - simplify it for the audience, what’s the steps in the breeding process and when releasing new cultivars? 
• What is the most important consideration to keep in mind when breeding a new cultivar?
• What is your general analysis you have in the current cultivar selection and what is your direction/roadmap in 2021 beyond? 
• What are some of the biggest changes/transitions you've seen in the cannabis space since you started? 
• Has it changed the quality? 
• Cannabis is widely accepted, which is great for business. How has corporate cannabis impacted you? 
• For closing, tell us your project that you want to announce to the audience? 
• Where can they access those? 

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Join RJ & Claire for a conversation that covers more ground than 4Front Ventures itself as the show is joined by Josh Krane, VP of Operations in California for the industry giant.

If you don't know, 4Front Ventures is a publicly-traded MSO which delivers 18 brands through facilities in 5 states, including a just-opened, 180k sq. ft. manufacturing facility in the California desert.

Josh Krane's career experience is as impressive and diverse as 4Front's edible offerings - prior to launching Field Extracts, Krane's resume includes launching All Games which  was acquired and turned into the video game television channel G4.  Upon many firsts at G4, Josh was the first person to put Twitter on TV.

After working at Comcast, Josh launched a web agency and an e-cigarette business before joining his brother Kris Krane in the cannabis industry and has not looked back.

The conversation covers hype weed, the importance of repeatable experiences, the human impact of automating cannabis edible production, capturing cannabis consumers, the power of budtenders, building sustainable company culture, the fate of small cannabis retailers, the importance of social equity, managing the cannabis supply chain, federal legalization, the benefits of consolidation and more. 

Join RJ, Claire and Josh as they discuss everything and the kitchen sink on Episode 4 of Season 4 of the I'm with RJ Show. 

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This week Cali High sits down to have a most enlightening talk with Ellen Komp and Ian Rassman from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, otherwise known as NORML.  Ellen is with the California chapter of NORML and Ian is from the Los Angeles chapter. NORML is largely responsible for you being able to legally smoke cannabis as they have been around for 51 years trying to change cannabis laws around our cities, states and country. 

While largely an advocacy group for individuals’ cannabis rights, NORML works with other commercial cannabis proponents such as the United Cannabis Business Association here in Los Angeles to reform tax and access laws concerning cannabis. We learn out about evolving legislation and non-profit viability in a world of multi-state operators and put things in perspective for you in an ever-changing cannabis world! If you are involved with cannabis, this episode is essential!

Keith Stroup founded the infamous cannabis litigation firm NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) in 1970. His passion started with recreational use in law school and became a lifelong journey of activism. Even after establishing NORML as a firm that was committed to decriminalizing cannabis, his parents didn’t realize the impact of his work on the basic access to a plant that has been fighting prohibition for the last 50 years. Now nearing legalization we talk about the journey of cannabis, some of his biggest cases and the challenges the industry faces as it moves into commercialization.

NORML's mission is to move public opinion sufficiently to legalize the responsible use of marijuana by adults, and to serve as an advocate for consumers to assure they have access to high quality marijuana that is safe, convenient and affordable.

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On this episode Steve shares some great stories about his stint as Editor of High Times, drops some little known knowledge about cannabis.  Steve shares his stories of activism with Jack Herer and Steve tells us why James Brown would not start his concert until Steve showed up! Only on The Silver Ash, High Quality Cannabis Conversation.

Steve Bloom is a longtime journalist and author with 32 years in the cannabis community. His credits include:

Editor-in-chief of two Centennial Media titles, Marijuana Goes Mainstream and The Complete Guide to CBD.

 Publisher of CelebStoner.com, one of the leading sources for marijuana and celebrity news on the web since 2007.

 Former editor of High Times from 1988-2007, and producer of the Stony and Doobie award shows and the two Hempilation benefit albums for NORML (1995 and 1998) while at High Times.

 Former editor-in-Chief of Freedom Leaf magazine and freedomleaf.com from 2014-2019.

 Co-author of Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life (Abrams Image, 2007) and Reefer Movie Madness: The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide (Abrams Image, 2010) with Shirley Halperin.

 Recipient of NORML’s Media & Culture Award in 2004, Cannabis MVP by the Cannabis Business Awards in 2018 and New York NORML Activism award in 2019.
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Jason Tarasek of Minnesota Cannabis Law sits down for a Minnesota Cannabis Conversation with Michael Ford, Executive Director, Minnesota NORML. 

Michael Ford is the Executive Director of Minnesota NORML. As well, in 2018 Ford ran for statewide office in Minnesota, which served to qualify the Legal Marijuana Now party as a major party in state. The conversation ranges from advocacy efforts to politics to cannabis and exercise.

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Heather Fazio, Director for Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy joins us to give us the full download on the battle for Texas legalization. One of the biggest states is close to big cannabis changes and we have the scoop. Towards liberty! 

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Kris Krane joins WeedBudz Radio and shares his incredible insights on the importance of policy and the future of the Cannabis industry. Kris has been significantly involved in the Cannabis industry from activist to entrepreneur; from Associate Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) to Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), and the founder of 4 Front Ventures that now operates in many verticals within the Cannabis industry.

Kris spoke at 2019s MJBIZCON where our host, Ry, got to listen in as Kris shared his insights on the future of the industry.
     
     "While sitting In that room and listening to Kris speak and seeing how the room all admired his words and knowledge, I knew we needed to share his vision with our WeedBudz audience" - Ry Russell, Host, WeedBudz Radio

Tune in and enjoy the show! 

In this episode of WeedBudz Radio we explore the landmark bill that is being presented to congress and was approved by the Congressional Committee to reform Marijuana laws across the United States. Our host @RyCannabiz speaks with Diane Russell, who is retired from the Maine legislature and current Board Member for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and community activist.