Joint Highpothesis Potcast

SkyTre creates products for smokers who value sustainability, sophistication, and creative design. They call their products “heavy on the personality, but light on the uptight.” Please enjoy this episode where SkyTre shares the culture behind their team (hint: they’re both interdisciplinary and intersectional). They also share their interests in anime, discovery channel, and building - typical int...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM OUR GUESTS: Join us this Sunday, March 10th for the 314 Warm Up Pop Up at Uptown Hookah at 2549 Woodson Road in Overland, Missouri. The first twelve to show up get special merch! If you come a little later you still may catch a freebie. VIP tickets are also available for moonrock hookah, prerolls, and other goodies! We’re back on science and all that good stuff for the re...

Dr. Nik Dickerson is a scholar who talks about the connections between race, masculinity, sport, and of course, our ancestors’ favorite plant. At the beginning of our interview, Nik shared how he got into sports sociology, how plant users are recognized in pop culture, why athletes use c@nnabis, and the importance of Black men defining their own identity. Unfortunately, this part of our interview...

Guest Bio: Ariel is your average twenty year old w*** prodigy- she entered studio B in a navy floral maxi skirt, a head full of dark pink curls, and two nose piercings. She works at Mr. Nice Guy- one of the dopest head shops in Missouri (no pun intended) and educates customers on decisions they make around consumption. She also is a medical patient, plant advocate, and of course, enthusiast. #Stre...

Season 3 keeps rolling with our next guest, AC, CEO of LoudBank - one of the first and only Black-owned hydroponic garden stores in the Midwest. With past lives and an engineer and a DJ, AC found yet another passion in the world of cannabis. He's channeled that passion into the founding of Loudbank and through educating the community with his involvement in Minorities for Medical Marijuana. In thi...

DID YOU MISS US?!?! We're excited to kick off our 3rd season of Joint Highpothesis! This season will focus on the science around cannabis. We’ll have people talk about cultivation, patient health and wellness, and what we call “street science.” For our first guest of the season, we're talking with Sya Collins - a vocal performer, and cannabis advocate, who loves to help educate people about the pl...

Grandma, PLEASE do not listen to this episode. Much less safe for work than our typical content, this episode still fits under the "Politics of the Marginalized" theme of season two and we speak of entertainment politics. We talk about the cultural wealth created off of a stock image of Donovan that has been featured on the NBA website, a Mr. Beast video, and a ton of other places without him bein...

Dawn tells listeners to make smart decisions with the plant so that we can be understood as healthy individuals who are medicating. As a patient advocate, she asks questions on behalf of folks who can’t speak directly to a doctor about their consumption because of the years of stigma in medical settings. We also talk about medicating safely because decriminalization can't prevent folks from gettin...

Ball is Life!!🏀⚾️🏈⚽️🎾🏅 Why do we view players like Lebron as an exception? Why do Serena Williams and Sha’Carri Richardson get so much pushback from athletic associations? Why are there so few Black women sports commentators? So much of it has to do with race, class, and gender. In this episode we talk about everything from sports enhancement drugs to “fan energy” to Saint Louis having no ba...

Marian Coon never smoked moldy weed before getting into the cannabis industry. Self described “bitter, jaded, and burnt tf out cannabis worker,” Marian describes her experience in cannabis advocacy and activism, and how she witnessed the conditions of the pandemic spread weed smoking. In this episode, she speaks of her disappointment towards the medical market, which favors quotas and deadlines ov...

In this episode we are joined by Jo Njama of the Sister Struggles podcast. Jo talks about her transition from being a microbiologist and chemist in corporate science to working at a dispensary to eventually organizing a union for dispensary workers. These harsh work environments led her to start the Sister Struggles podcast, dedicated to Black women struggling with people pleasing habits and cycli...

In this episode Tea tells their story of connecting to the plant as a means of survival when they were under threat for their high profile activism. We also discuss being “We*d Rich,” infusing chicken, and their history in journalism and organizing Longer Description: Tea is a St. Louis native, born and raised in North City. In 2012, they moved across the state and studied multimedia journalism at...

In the 1920s, there were more cannabis consumption lounges, aka. "tea pads", in New York City than there are Starbucks locations in the entire state of New York today. Half a century later, cannabis was classified as a Schedule 1 drug under the 1970 Controlled Substance Act. The process in which the plant was stigmatized in the country is heavily intertwined with the objectification and criminaliz...

An alternative title to this episode would be titled "They Don't Know the Magic that We Do." Description: This episode is deeply provocative from calling out traditional diversity training for maintaining white supremacy culture to citing the Black church for how it can treat drug users to defending recreational drug users with our whole chest. We also discuss how Black genius is more common than...

Imagine coming out of your federal housing, and smelling straight loud from the four dispensaries on your block. You can’t consume due to your apartment’s policies(weed may be legal in your state, but federally, you’re left deserted). Not only that, but you can’t even work at a dispensary due to your lease. So if you partake you go to jail, and you can’t make money off of it. Is the war on drugs o...

In this episode we cover the importance of doing science that supports marginalized peoples. We also speculate the impact of upcoming cannabis policy in this episode, which was originally a media watch presentation on marijuana policy in a course titled “The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics.” Jorge has a PhD in Bioengineering and worked for years on optimizing a drug delivery m...

We're back! Did you miss us? Season 2 is underway and we are excited to release all of our episodes into the deep abyss of podcasts. Compared to our first 4 episodes, this next series of interviews will be getting more political, as we share the perspectives of some of the marginalized voices in the cannabis community and the rapidly growing industry. We'll focus on our guests' work, passions, and...

Rene gets corny. Justin gets nerdy. The Swade guys get flowers. And we all get high. Please join us with our last guests for season one of Joint Highpothesis- the three stooges from Swade Cannabis in Missouri! Listen in to hear about some of the products available for purchase at Swade in person or https://www.swadecannabis.com/ We also talk about our love for Cherokee Street, munchies, and of cou...

Unlike the first 2 episodes, we clown around for the entirety of episode 3, keeping it rowdy and raunchy (sorry grandma, this one isn't for you) with our guest. ....what we're saying is we can’t take Moses nowhere. Shawn Moses is a whole rockstar spreading his passion amongst the Saint Louis music scene. He can play the guitar behind his back and with his mouth. In episode 3 talk about music, food...

Listen in for Siddik Lartey’s quest to clear his own marijuana charges while doing advocacy work for racial minorities in the food and cannabis industries. In this episode, the self-proclaimed Cannabis Cowboy talks about growing everything from Durban poison to fruits and veggies to hemp. He promotes his plant-based brand Way2Fresh eats, which caters sports games, holidays, and popups where people...

Teresa Wooten of Tea Times covers herbs, healing, health, and wellness. Weed makes us humble ourselves, grounds us to the earth and to the moment. Who are you in that moment? Does anxiety pass through? Is that image you didn’t want to resee coming back to the surface? Rather than be mad at ourselves for not having a pleasant high, we could choose to see the clear presentations of our biggest menta...