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While making Detroit her home base, Jessica travels all over the United States to document Top 40 concerts as well as notable events like the High Times Cannabis Cup, Breakaway Music Festival, Chicago Open Air, and most prominently The Forbes Under 30 Summit. Her heavy involvement in the live entertainment space has allowed her the opportunity to interview and photograph some of the top names in m...

Clergy for a New Drug Policy with The Rev. Alexander E. Sharp. Sharp has been working on criminal justice issues for 15 years. He served as the founding executive director of Protestants for the Common Good from 1996 through June 2012. He and colleague Walter Boyd joined the early efforts in Illinois to provide a second chance for those seeking to rebuild their lives after prison. They were struck...

The Civil Survival Project organizes directly impacted people and invests in a leadership capacity to advocate for criminal justice reform. The criminal justice and reentry system are failing us so Civil Survival organizes people and empowers them to get active in creating real change. Their mission is to Educate, Motivate, and Liberate. That's what Civil Survival is all about. Civil Survival...

Cannabis for Veterans with Joshua Linney. Joshua is a Florida native, born 1975, in Manatee County where he still resides. He served in the US Army during Operation Vigilant Warrior, and as a result, now advocates with Veterans For Cannabis for legal access to medical cannabis, which he used to end his pharmaceutical dependence and now manages his conditions with. Joshua is currently the Director...

Fight For Your Right To Get Better with Robin Anderson. Robin moved to his town in December 2015 from Spokane. He's been a medical card holder since 2012. Once Robin moved there he was immediately targeted by neighbors in the town that did not like them here because they were newcomers. They tried to be nice and respectful to a lot of them but three totally decided to Target them. There are se...

Trailblazers in Cannabis Law with Joshua Horn and Bill Bogot. Today’s guests on Hempresent are attorneys Joshua Horn and Bill Bogot of the Cannabis Law practice at FOX-Rothschild. Josh Horn is the co-chair of the firm’s Cannabis Law practice and has an extensive background in several areas of legal cannabis business law. He is a highly sought-after authority on complex cannabis law issues. Josh re...

Fight 4 Lilly Foundation with Serra Frank. Serra is a Mother of 3 from Boise, ID, with an Education in Criminal Justice and Applied Psychology. Serra’s credentials include being the Founding Director of Moms for Marijuana International, and Co-Founder at The Fight 4 Lilly Foundation (a family advocacy/CPS and family courts watchdog organization). Serra is also The Founder of New Approach Idaho as...

Marijuana and marijuana policy with Paul Armentano. Paul is the deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the NORML Foundation in Washington, D.C. Armentano has written on the subject of marijuana and marijuana policy. His work has appeared in over 200 publications, including more than a dozen textbooks and anthologies, and he is a frequent contribut...

The Last Prisoner Project with Mary Bailey. Mary serves as the Managing Director for The Last Prisoner Project. The Last Prisoner Project is a coalition of cannabis industry leaders, executives, and artists dedicated to bringing restorative justice to the cannabis industry through intervention, advocacy, and awareness. Mary is the CEO and founder of Alpha Agency, a Hawaii based production company...

Environmentally sustainable building practices with Greg Flavall. Greg co-founded Hemp Technologies in Asheville, North Carolina, to build healthy, breathable, energy-saving homes with Hemp/Lime and other non-VOC (or non-Volatile organic compound) materials. After a long career in the construction industry, Greg is actively involved in efforts to reduce, recycle and reuse construction site materia...

Being Denied Cannabis with Barbara Gooding. Barbara is a former nursing professional who suffers from a serious pain condition. Obviously we have talked at length about how cannabis can assist in people managing their pain and suffering. In many instances, cannabis can be used to compliment or even reduce the number of pharmaceuticals taken to ease such pain or suffering. Then, on the other hand,...

Drive revenue and growth in cannabis with Benjamin Ray, Tread Global International Chief Marketing Officer. Ben is a proven industry leader who implements new ideas, processes, and procedures to drive revenue and growth including building and executing company sales, marketing, partnerships, and innovative capital raising strategies. Ben has tackled difficult challenges and create solutions that h...

Green Zone Japan with Naoko Miki and Yuji Masataka. The two of them founded Green Zone Japan as a medical cannabis advocacy group. Its main focus is bringing evidence-based, accurate and up-to-date information on medical cannabis to Japanese medical professionals and the general public. Naoko Miki, Green Zone Japan's Program Director, is a translator by trade. She first became interested in me...

Grasslands: A Journalism Minded Agency with Ricardo Baca. Full-service communications firm Grasslands: A Journalism Minded Agency, has launched “Destigmatized,” an Instagram TV docuseries documenting America’s ever-transforming relationship with the cannabis plant. The docuseries will feature more than 120 episodes, with each short documentary capturing an individual's story about how cannabis...

Creating a legal, regulated, and compliant cannabis industry with Mitchell Colbert. Mitchell is a lobbyist, freelance journalist, and formerly an editor of The Leaf Online. He has written over a hundred published articles for outlets including Cannabis Now, High Times, Hemp Magazine, Green Flower Media, the Wine Industry Network, ABV Magazine, and About.com. As a journalist and cannabis researcher...

Hempresent 2019 Rewind With Karen Averill And Jerry Whiting. Weeding out the norm in stamped leaf patterns with Karen Averill of Cannaflage. Along with the introduction of today’s nascent legal cannabis industry has come an explosion of interest in all things cannabis. The formerly nefarious, illicit herb is experiencing a cultural renaissance as an evolving focus on the cannabis lifestyle emerges...

Investing in the cannabis industry with Luis Vega. Luis is a Cannabis Activist, Entrepreneur, and Hemp farmer. He also is the manager for business development for Present Naturals Distribution. They are delivering valuable products focused on solution-based remedies for people who can really use them. Present Naturals have learned to intertwine eastern and western methodologies to provide what the...

Hempsters: Plant the Seed with Diana Oliver. Diana is an accomplished filmmaker with an expansive repertoire of film and television projects to her credit. Considered a maverick within the hemp movement, she was among the first to bring more Hemp awareness into the public eye with her groundbreaking documentary film called Hempsters: Plant the Seed Starring Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson and other...

Athletics and Sports Changing Perception of Cannabis and the People that Use It as Jim McAlpine is on a mission to change the perception of cannabis and the people that use it via athletics and sports. This Silicon Valley entrepreneur is a father of two daughers and also the founder of “CannaDads”. Over the past 3 years McAlpine has become one of the most well known figures in the cannabis industr...

Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia is today’s guest on Hempresent. Garcia is an author, cannabis cultivator, and entrepreneur, and was a member of the 1960’s group the Merry Pranksters which was immortalized in Tom Wolf’s book The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe that was published in 1968. The book is remembered today as an early and arguabl...

The green Renaissance with Julie Chiariello. As a woman in business for the last two decades, Julie 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. She is a champion of new style business that upholds the tenets of sustainabil...

Cannabis for epilepsy and how to get treatment with Cecilia Sivertson founder of Nana's Secret. Nana's Secret was founded by Cecilia Sivertson, out of a need to ease her epilepsy symptoms and arthritis pain. In 2013. Cecilia tried cannabis in desperation after her prescription epilepsy medications left her with tremors, pain, and cloudy thinking that made life difficult. Amazed at the imme...

Weeding out the norm in stamped leaf patterns with Karen Averill of Cannaflage. Along with the introduction of today’s nascent legal cannabis industry has come an explosion of interest in all things cannabis. The formerly nefarious, illicit herb is experiencing a cultural renaissance as an evolving focus on the cannabis lifestyle emerges into the daylight of mainstream attention. Modern canna-fash...

The creation of Seattle HEMPFEST with HEMPFEST founder Gary Cook. Throughout the years of being on Cannabis Radio Vivian has been named the founder of the Seattle HEMPFEST. Well, today he sets the record straight Gary. Vivian explains how profoundly HEMPFEST has changed his life and how it continues to change the lives of millions who have attended. The Seattle HEMPFEST protective started out as a...

Music marketing and activism with Catherine Enny creator of the Power To The Peaceful Festival. Today's episode gets to pick the brain of one of the best music and marketing minds alive today. Catherine's music career kicked off as engineer, producer, and manager for Grammy Award Nominee Josh Homme (Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age) Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu, and The Dwarves. Then she partne...