Different Leaf: the Podcast

Guest Aja Atwood's company Trella Technologies was born out of her struggle to grow tall plants in a small basement. Aja is a mechanical engineer who cares a lot about sustainability and issues of climate change. She invented an automated plant training system that helps plants grow horizontally, which is proving a great tool for cultivators in confinement. After host Brit Smith's chat with Aja we...

Brit catches up with Laura Beohner, CEO of The Healing Rose CBD company, to see how the rec store shutdown is impacting all kinds of cannabis related businesses. They're also telling their first-time CBD stories, and remembering the late Charlotte Figi, the young girl with epilepsy who kickstarted the U.S. medical marijuana movement on CNN's documentary 'Weed.' To subscribe to Different Leaf Magaz...

Peter Grinspoon, MD is a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He’s a board member of the advocacy group Doctors For Cannabis Regulation and the author of the memoir Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction. You may have even smoked a strain called Dr Grinspoon. That’s the namesake of Peter’s father Lester Grinspoon- grandfather...

Guest Philip Smith is one half of Freshly Baked, an edibles company based in Taunton, Mass. Philip and his wife Jenny Roseman founded the company in 2018 and got a provisional license to operate at the start of March this year, just as the coronavirus shutdown was beginning. But Philip and Jenny are both veterans, and a little pandemic won’t slow them down. Host Brit Smith chats with Philip about...

Guest Drew Greene is a business major at Northeastern University, a United States Marine, a former medical marijuana patient, and a current recreational consumer. He also happens to be married to host Brit Smith! Drew reports back from his surreal trip to the Comcann dispensary in Millis this week. Plus, Drew and Brit discuss the effect of COVID-19 on Massachusetts' cannabis businesses and consume...

It’s an exciting time for marijuana in Massachusetts as dispensaries are opening quickly in some places and slowly in others (and in other places, not at all), and more and more residents are “coming out of the cannabis closet.” In our first episode, host Brit Smith sits down with Different Leaf Magazine Editor in Chief Michael Kusek for a conversation about the cannabis space in the Commonwealth,...

Different Leaf: the Podcast, hosted by Brit Smith, provides a roadmap to an evolving landscape for new as well as experienced cannabis consumers in Massachusetts. IdOUScgfe0911qqOWZzM