Here Weed Go!

How’s it growing folks?! Welcome to the latest episode of Here Weed Go! I’m your host Eddie Celaya, cannabis reporter for the Arizona Daily Star and TucsonMarijuanaGuide.com ! So about a year ago, I was out at Earth’s Healing dispensary here in Tucson looking for some top shelf marijuana flower. I made my purchase, came home to grind the flower up to hit out of my freshly cleaned bong, and when I...

How’s it growing folks? Welcome again to Here Weed Go! , the podcast bringing the latest news, info and science surrounding the nations newest cash crop, cannabis, to you! Today starts a string of podcasts that explore an overlooked but integral part of the cannabis industry: packaging. Gone are the bad-old days of dried-up cannabis passed around in Ziploc baggies or rolled up pieces of tin foil....

How’s it growing folks?! Welcome back to Here Weed Go! As any of my long-time listeners know, I’m endlessly curious about how cannabis is treated, regulated and used in different jurisdictions and markets. What’s legal, acceptable and cool in one place, might not exactly be in another. In today’s episode, I’m taking a deep toke on one of the world’s great agricultural producers: Colombia! Once kno...

How’s it growing folks?! It’s so nice to say "Welcome back to Here Weed Go! ," again! I’m keeping it Arizona-based this episode by taking a look at Copperstate Farms . Known best its five Sol Flower dispensaries in the Phoenix area, the vertically integrated company was started in 2016 in part by former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, and sports as part of its portfolio one of the largest indoor gree...

How's it growing folks?! The Here Weed Go! interview this week features Josh Hirschey, the president of Timeless , a marijuana vape company based here in Arizona. Timeless started its corporate life originally as a cannabis lifestyle company that was founded in 2013. After beginning life as a sort of hybrid head shop and skate shop merchant, the brand expanded in the medical cannabis vape space, b...

How’s it growing folks?! Welcome to a very special episode of Here Weed Go! I hinted last week that this new season, this new year of Here Weed Go! would be different. The difference is you’ll be hearing a lot more about my personal journey, not just with cannabis, but through life: my travels, my success, my troubles and my failures. Part of that means taking a slightly new tack with my interview...

How’s it growing folks?! Welcome to a magical bonus episode of Here Weed Go! See, I grew up loving magic. From tricks like making a bird appear out of a hat, to making the statue of liberty disappear, to my very favorite: card tricks! In my teens, shows like Mindfreak featuring Criss Angel and specials starring David Blaine on TV defined a new era of magic that was also heavy on stunts and escape...

How's it growing folks?! In this episode, I’m talking with Murray Stein , CEO of Halo Infusions and Extractions and the mastermind behind what will soon become Arizona’s largest cannabis infusion kitchen. One of the better known and widely available brands in Arizona, Halo sports a litany of infused (and quite tasty, if I do say so myself) edibles, beverages and topicals in its portfolio. As a mat...

How’s it growing folks?! Welcome again to Here Weed Go! Today I’m honing in on the latest advertising developments for cannabis in the digital world, specifically Twitter’s new policy of allowing some marijuana and hemp company's products to be featured on its platform. It’s a big change for Twitter , which since Elon Musk's take-over late last year, has been hemorrhaging advertisers. It’s also a...

How's it growing folks?! Welcome back to Here Weed Go! With March being Women’s History Month, I figured it was a great time to talk to two of the most successful canna-preneurs I’ve come across in my time reporting on the industry, to get their stories and perspectives about what challenges and barriers women still face in breaking into cannabis. My first conversation is with Anna-Sophia Kouparan...

How’s it growing folks?! Today, I’m clearing the smoke around one of the fastest growing sectors in cannabis: the beverage industry. Currently, according to cannabis-industry tracking firm Headset, cannabis beverages make up about 1% of cannabis sales nationally. In some legal states, that ticks up a little higher, but right now, consumers seem to be sticking to pre-rolls, vaping and good ole fash...

How’s it growing folks? Today, the Here Weed Go! podcast is honing in on a few different subjects that are beginning to enter into the national conversation: hemp-derived products and legal mushrooms. For some quick context, hemp-derived products, or HDPs, are products like gummies, vape products, drinks and smokables that are in many ways similar to the marijuana-derived products you can find at...

How’s it growing folks?! In today’s episode, I’m taking a deep toke on the cannabis-only special election in Oklahoma on March 7, 2023. For those not in the know about the Sooner State, here’s a little background: Although you probably wouldn’t guess it, Oklahoma is home to the most dispensaries per capita of any state. And it’s not even close. Known as the "Wild West of Weed," by some estimates,...

How’s it growing folks?! Welcome again to Here Weed Go! , the national podcast that looks at the business, science, politics and culture surrounding cannabis, America’s favorite pastime. Today’s episode is a special Black History Month episode that outs the focus on cannabis company owners and brand creators that are pursuing success through authenticity in a way that is unique to their stories an...

How’s it growing folks!? Welcome to the latest episode of Here Weed Go! In this episode, I’m looking at a new and interesting technology. Like most new technology there’s some virtual reality and artificial intelligence involved, but not in a way you might suspect. Ken Fichtler is the former chief business development officer for the state of Montana and current CEO of Gaize , the technology start...

How’s it growing folks? It’s Super Bowl week here in Arizona and to get into the spirit, I’ve put together a super bowl of cannabis content with this episode, featuring my interview with former NFL star and counter-coulter icon Jim McMahon. On top of being a living legend with two super bowls, including the 1985 title with the Chicago Bears, McMahon is active in advocating for cannabis legalizatio...

How’s it growing folks?! Welcome to a special edition of Here Weed Go! These sort of episodes happen when the largest cannabis-legal state in the country, California, gets one step closer to possibly opening up the floodgates to interstate commerce for cannabis. If you’ve been living under a rock the past week, here’s what happened… On January 27, California’s marijuana regulatory body, the Depart...

How’s it growing folks?! Last week, I took a deep toke into the budding recreational program out in New York. The guest I spoke with, New York cannabis farmer and entrepreneur Karli Miller-Hornick , was confident the legal market could overcome the challenges of burdensome regulations and an entrenched underground market. Today, I’m attempting to clear some of the smoke surrounding a much more est...

How's it growing folks?! To find out what’s going on in New York’s budding cannabis market, I talked with Karli Miller-Hornick , the CEO of Florist Farms , a brand of organically grown cannabis flower and other cannabis products which are available on the shelves of Housing Works Dispensary , the first legal recreational pot shop in the state. Miller-Hornick originally got into farming organic veg...

How’s it growing folks?! This episode is really one for your friends, your Cannafriends to be specific. Here in Arizona, dispensaries and other cannabis companies and brands are allowed to show off their products at vendor fairs and trade shows. Probably the most popular of these events is a twice-monthly meet-up known as AZ Cannafriends . AZ Cannafriends events take place in both Tucson and Phoen...

How's it growing folks?!  My guest this episode is Marta Di Forti , a researcher at King’s College in London and one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of cannabis and pyschosis. She is the lead researcher of a study named “Cannabis and Me,” what’s being hailed as the largest cannabis study of its kind in the UK, ever. In a nutshell, Di Forti and others are looking for 6,000 participants...

How's it growing folks!? It’s a new year and a new episode of Here Weed Go!, streaming to you live all over the world! Before I jump into my interview, I want to give a quick shout out to the HousingWorks Cannabis Co. dispensary in New York City. It made history over the holiday break when on Dec. 29, 2022, it became the first legal cannabis dispensary in the Empire State to open and serve custome...

How's it growing folks? As a canna-consumer for over 15 years, I’ve seen the industry explode in ways I'd never imagined. But I’ve always wondered why cannabis-based and -infused beverages just haven’t taken off. Much like smoking or vaping, consuming alcohol is (usually) best enjoyed as a social act. Participating in something with others brings out good conversation and good times. Someone who a...

How's it growing folks?! Welcome to the very last of the Here Weed Go! MJBizCon 2022 episodes!  For this episode, I sat down with Kim Rael , the President and CEO of Azuca , a cannabis company founded by Chef Ron Silver of Bubby’s in New York City that focuses on edible innovations and improvements. One of the things that sets Azuca apart is its trade marked delivery system, called TiME INFUSION....

How's it growing folks?! During my time on the convention floor, between scheduled interviews and exploring all the new products and innovations, I ran into two dispensary operators, Weiwei “Vivian” Fellman and Monica Werkheiser . While both women head up operations for their companies, that’s about where the similarities end. Fellman, who immigrated from Vietnam, lives in Fargo, North Dakota and...