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Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis with author Joe Dolce today on Hempresent only on Cannabis Radio. The former editor-in-chief of Details and Star adventures into the fascinating "brave new world" of cannabis, tracing its history and possible future as he investigates the social, medical, legal, and cultural ramifications of this surprisingly versatile plant....

Niambe Tosh is the youngest child of the legendary reggae musician and activist Peter Tosh. She serves as the head of the Peter Tosh Legacy & Brand; Managing Member of Tosh Holdings LLC; Board Chairperson for the Peter Tosh Foundation Ltd.; and President of PT Capital LLC. She was instrumental in the planning and development of the Peter Tosh Museum which opened in 2016 and is a national landm...

CannaCurious Magazine with Tekisha Harvey today on Hempresent with Vivian McPeak only Cannabis Radio. Tekisha is the co-founder of CannaCurious Magazine, created by women, for women. Their mission is to educate women about cannabis so they feel empowered to make the best wellness & lifestyle decisions. CannaCurious Magazine is a women’s platform created to showcase the many ways cannabis can e...

Heather Manus, RN is a native New Mexican and Registered Nurse specializing in all aspects of medical cannabis care. Nurse Heather began her career as a Registered Nurse providing psychiatric home health care to patients in New Mexico. Nurse Heather has extensive background and experience in natural healing modalities and herbal remedies, some of which she obtained from her close association with...

Freedom Grow with Kristin Flor today on Hempresent! In 2011, the medical cannabis company her father co-owned (Montana Cannabis) was raided by the Federal Government. her mom and dad were suddenly facing an unfair fight in the court system. The feds did not allow the state laws in their court, so they had no defense, and they both were forced to prison. The private prison the feds sent her dad was...

Branding Bud With Author David Paleschuck joins us today on Hempresent to talk about his book Branding Bud: The Commercialization of Cannabis. The book touches upon the political and legal history of cannabis; consumer segments and means of consumption; and how that has informed the legal cannabis brand landscape developing today. Designed to offer a comprehensive overview and contextualization of...

Forti Goods with founder Sharon Kevil joins us today on Hempresent. Sharon previously spent over a decade as an interior designer before turning her talents to develop furniture for Kohl’s. After an overseas factory trip where she witnessed subpar working conditions and horrible pollution, Sharon got to work building the kind of company she wanted to work for: socially & environmentally sustai...

Angel Thrasher (Salter) is the mother of Dylan Moon, a 22-year-old who was born a micro-preemie or born very prematurely, at just 26 weeks. Dylan was born with hydrocephalus resulting in brain damage and initial frontal lobe damage, which caused him to have intractable epilepsy. He suffers grand mal seizures which damage his brain, killing neurons and further worsening his condition. Not surprisin...

The life of Tom Forcade with Colleen Manley today on Hempresent. Ms. Manley has an Executive MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management with a specialty in the business organization, sustainability, and succession planning and has earned her Doctor of Law and Master of Law degrees from the University of Arizona. She has also served as the lead Legacy Advisor for Shelterwood (now Pitcairn, mu...

Cannabis Basics with founder Ah Warner today on Hempresent. In 1994, newly pregnant Ah Warner knew that life would never be the same after she walked into the Fremont Hemp Company, realizing the possibilities for creation and production were limitless. 1995 saw the birth of her daughter, Darienne Zoa, along with an overly ambitious catalog of hemp products she called Cannabis Creations, which incl...

VAYA with the founder Salvador Santana. VAYA (IG) is a socially-conscious lifestyle cannabis flower brand, marketed as an all-natural, spiritual feminist tone, driven from African and Mexican indigenous roots. Salvador’s vision aims to embody folks ready to escape current narratives and harness an alternative route to elevated freedom. The initiative also engages and collaborates with community ad...

Sisters of The Valley are on a mission to heal the world through plant-based medicine. Like their Beguine ancestors, they are scholars who work together, pray together, and are dressed to identify their enclave. Nestled in the impoverished but agriculturally rich Central Valley, their order makes honorable jobs to support their community through organic health products. All products are hand-made...

Singer-Songwriter Shyan Selah. Today’s guest on Hempresent is Shyan Selah, a Kentucky-born/Seattle-raised Singer-Songwriter and Multi-Genre Music Artist with over 15 years of producing, recording, and performing Rock & Roll, Hip Hop, Soul, Blues, and Jazz music in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Shyan has shared the stage and worked with many world-famous talents from all genres of musi...

Single-Use Plastic In The Cannabis Industry with Jason Lammers. Jason is the General Manager at 420WholesalePack.com, the Vice President of the Cannabis Alliance, & Chair of The Sustainable Cannabis Committee. Jason has joined us today to talk about regional efforts to address the growing problem of single-use plastics in the cannabis industry. Government regulations require strict packaging g...

Entheo With Leo Russell And Kody Zalewski on Hempresent. Leo Russell serves as the Executive Director of Decriminalize the Nature Washington & Entheo Society of Washington. Leo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 18 years of experience. She has a passion for exploring new treatment modalities through entheogens with a focus on mental health and chemical dependency. Her early caree...

Being Black Or Brown In The Green Rush With Ingrid Joiya-Warrick. Being Black Or Brown In The Green Rush is A practical guide for women and people of color to make money in the legal marijuana industry. Awarded the Authority in Aspiring Entrepreneurs award by New York Times bestselling authors, Jack Canfield and Raymond Aaron, Ingrid has been an entrepreneur for more than 30 years. Raised in Chica...

Jimi Hendrix 50th Anniversary with Tina Hendrix. In 2009, Tina Hendrix, the niece of Rock Legend Jimi Hendrix, founded the Hendrix Music Academy to honor her uncle by making a difference in the lives of the under-served children from his hometown. Since then, hundreds of under-served youth of all ages have been served with free music lessons, free instruments, free healthy meals, free mentoring pr...

The only LGBTQ organization in cannabis with Neil Lequia. In Neil's spare time, Lequia has also been building what is, to his knowledge, the only LGBTQ organization in the cannabis industry for cannabis industry professionals. Lequia founded Queers of Cannabis in October 2018, before changing the group’s name to The Full Spectrum in November 2019. The Full Spectrum currently has about 30 membe...

Richard Delisi: Serving life for cannabis with Ashley Delisi. In December 1989, Richard DeLisi was sentenced to a total of 98 years in prison for trafficking cannabis as part of a RICO case. Richard was caught as part of a reverse-sting/entrapment operation for trafficking cannabis into the State of Florida. Richard and his brother Theodore were both charged for cannabis trafficking - his brother...

Becoming a Citizen Activist Nick Licata. Nick is from a working-class family, where neither parent graduated from high school. Licata, who couldn’t read until the age of nine, was the first of his relatives to attend college. He led the local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Bowling Green State University and subsequently was elected student body president. He became a Seattle...

Empowering women in cannabis with Julie Chiarello. As a woman in business for close to the last two decades Julie Chiarello enjoys bringing green, cutting edge products successfully to market and empowering other women to succeed. She is a medical user, an herbalist, and believes in the use and protection of herbal medicines in all their forms. Julie Chiarello is a champion of a new style business...

Our Planet and Our Plant with OP Innovates, Keith Butler. With 40+ years serving the cannabis industry and 20+ years developing consumer products, Keith leads formulations for the company and helps them achieve their goals. OP innovates is a formulations company dedicated to delivering the world’s most effective cannabinoids. Using Op's patent-pending delivery method, termed Nature's Deliv...

Art In Life and Cannabis With Art Chantry. Today Vivian is joined by an old and dear friend who has been known as a pioneer in his field. They go through the years of Art's career including his work with Vivian's own "Hempfest". Art is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he has done for bands from the Pacific Northwest, such as Mudhoney, Mono Men,...

Police Reform In Our Trying Times with Norm Stamper. Social media has been on teeming with videos of police officers using rubber bullets, flashbangs and smoke bombs against, not always, but mostly peaceful protestors. Today we sit down with Norm and talk about how we can avoid this type of situation in the future. As well as his tenured career dealing with this while he himself was an active poli...

Minority Cannabis Business Association with Tiffany Bowden. Entrepreneur, Business Consultant, and Corporate Diversity Expert, Tiffany Bowden is the founding President and Co-Founder of the Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA) and Co-Owner of Comfy Tree Enterprises. The MCBA is the first non-profit dedicated to the needs of minorities in the cannabis industry. Comfy Tree Enterprises provi...