America's Cannabis Conversation

Catch the latest on all things happening in the world of cannabis and marijuana at America's Cannabis Conversation with your host, Dan Perkins. Find more at: https://w420radionetwork.com/

Dr. Jordan Tishler is a Harvard educated practitioner with a lot of experience with using cannabis as an alternative therapy to treat certain ailments. The conversation addresses pain management and how cannabis can be used. Further, how do we as patients, who want to take control of our care, find a doctor who has the compassion to help us find whatever treatment is necessary? What strain of cann...

Morgan Fox works with the National Cannabis Industry Association as the Director of Communication. Our conversation today is about expressed intentions by members of the Senate to bring major changes to cannabis law. This might be a de-scheduling bill of some sort to remove federal prohibition against cannabis. We can expect to see hearings in the Senate in this term. While hearings on this may co...

Consumer Evolution in the Cannabis Market John Kagia works at New Frontier Data as the Chief Knowledge Officer. They have a new consumer survey that tells us about trends and attitudes in the US. New research delved more deeply into the study of consumer practices and these updates were released last month in their ‘2021 US Cannabis Consumer Evolution Report.’ Listen in for their finding and what...

America's Cannabis Conversation mid-week news: The Legislative Battler for Legalization. Find more at: https://w420radionetwork.com/

Dr. Beverly A. Potter is a psychologist specializing in career and workplace issues, like overcoming job burnout, self management and self-leadership, mediating disputes, giving directives as examples. ‘Doc Potter’ blends humanistic psychology and Eastern philosophies with principles of behavior psychology. The objective is to create a strategy for handling many challenges encountered in today’s w...

John Kagia works at New Frontier Data as the Chief Knowledge Officer.  They have a new consumer survey that tells us about trends and attitudes in the US.  This was to find how the consumer evolved over the past few years.  They began with focus on the cannabis consumer based on their findings in 2018.    Research went on to find why they are consuming and how legalization and the opening of legal...

Eddy Lepp is on the ‘Mount Rushmore’ of legalization pioneers. If you are one of the many who enjoy recreational marijuana in 17 U.S. states and medical marijuana in 37 American states, then you owe a huge debt of gratitude to an iconic figure in the movement, Eddy Lepp. Despite having a body now riddled with the cancer he has fought, Mr. Lepp (joined by his wife Sandra) speaks candidly with our c...

NEW! Annual Report on the Status of the Cannabis Business Kasey Morrisey is the Associate Director of Industry Analytics for New Frontier Data which helps cannabis businesses make the right decisions with data. New Frontier Data has a mid-year update on the trends in the cannabis industry.  Kasey shares these with us as we get an to date 'finger on the pulse' of carefully analyzed trends. Why are...

Kasey Morrisey is the Associate Director of Industry Analytics for New Frontier Data which helps cannabis businesses make the right decisions with data.  It is an independent, technology-driven analytics company specializing in the global cannabis industry.  They produce an annual U.S. cannabis industry report based on data from the past year on legal cannabis markets. From this they make market p...

Irwin Simon is Chairman & CEO @ Aphria Inc., Executive Chairman of Whole Earth Brands, Inc., and, Presiding Director of MDC Partners Inc. He joins host America’s Cannabis Conversation to discuss the colossal merger of two of the biggest marijuana companies in Canada, Tilray and Aphria. In so doing, they are creating the largest cannabis company in the world. It will operate with the ‘Tilray’ name...

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Brent Zettl is President and CEO of Zyus Life Sciences, a company is focused on advancing the science of wellbeing. His company attained revolutionary rights for selling and shipping cannabis in Canada. They are now able to sell online and mailing products directly to medical marijuana users, by prescription. This avoids the need for traditional dispensaries. Dispensaries cater largely to recreati...

Charles Butler ​is a talk show host, based in Chicago, in the third largest market in America. His podcast program, ‘The Reality Check with Charles Butler’, addresses cultural issues and current topics of interest. He explores the current pandemic and why minority groups, like African, Hispanic and Native Americans are more adversely effected than the majority of European Americans. How do profess...

Information Technology for the Industry Gary Allen is the CEO of New Frontier Data which helps cannabis businesses make the right decisions with data. He tells about New Frontier's Equio software. It is a leading cannabis business intelligence platform that delivers insights, data, news and analysis on the rapidly evolving cannabis industry. It helps businesses expand by helping them evaluate pote...

Patrick King started the Soil King Garden Center to manufacture soil blends that are 'Designed by Grower's 4 Grower's' with healthy tested inputs.  He tested for pesticides and heavy metals long before proposition 64 requirements.   Mr. King now owns every part of the cannabis industry from the picks and shovels, to distribution, manufacturing, cultivation, remediation etc.  He also owns every can...

Dr. Jordan Tishler helps us understand what so many of us are going through right now.  As the COVID pandemic is evolving many people are worrying about what is coming next.  Right now, we have more questions than answers and the answers we do have keep changing.  This has led to confusion and polarization as we seek to form perspectives.  Many of us have been out of work or working from home, and...

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Gabriel Kruse is an entrepreneur who became the Chief Strategy Officer of Dark Digital Group which develop strategies for design driven technology and do technical coding for business startups.  Mr. Kruse joins us to talk about the UpSparrow company which developed a new product that is designed to help dispensaries and their employees and bud-tenders be more productive and make more right decisio...

Information Technology for the Industry Gary Allen is the CEO of New Frontier Data which helps cannabis businesses make the right decisions with data. It is an independent, technology-driven analytics company specializing in the global cannabis industry.  Mr. Allen tells about New Frontier's Equio software. It is a leading cannabis business intelligence platform that delivers insights, data, news...

National Changes for Cannabis, with Former Mayor Willie Brown Willie Brown is the former Mayor of San Francisco and one of the leading Democratic figures for more than a generation. He is also the former president of Harborside, the first and largest marijuana dispensary in California. Now, fifteen states have legal adult use of marijuana and thirty-two states have the use of medical marijuana. St...

Steve DeAngelo looks at current laws, and the people who have been imprisoned for illegal use previously. He also analyzes what motivated investors to come into the new market, in terms of, profit-seeking versus medical benefits. In the medical world, the introduction of THC and CBD products greatly increased the effectiveness of various treatments. The introduction of CBD products, and the drop i...

Bruce Linton is the former CEO and Co-Founder of Canopy Growth Corporation (CGC), the world’s largest cannabis company, and currently is the Executive Chairman of Vireo Health, a physician-founded, patient-focused company that provides cannabis-based products and care. He joins the conversation to discuss CBD for pets. The pet industry is a multi-billion dollar business. Results show that that ani...

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David Klein tells us about Jelly Belly, the company he started in 1976. The company now delivers more than 100 mouthwatering candies, as chocolates, gummies, sour candies, and confections for all the seasons. With his new company, Specturm Confections, he enhances his beloved products with CBD infusion. By blending old success with new ideas, he created a combination that proved to be successful....