The Cannabis Connection

This week on The Cannabis Connection Show we welcome the team behind Refined Genetics! Topics include:  Refined Genetics growth and expansion.  Go over seeds, seedlings, clones, teens Different cultivars available  Breeding Cannabis  Feminized seeds Current state of the industry HPLVD Lab on site Tissue culture  Join us for another addition of Santa Cruz Cannabis Talk Radio.

Today on The Cannabis Connection Show we welcome the President of Caring Kind. Caring Kind specializes in sourcing high quality cannabis mostly from the Santa Cruz area and mostly indoor. Caring Kind works with local distributors, farmers, and retailers to supply the highest quality flowers at a fair price to consumers and to the farmers. Caring Kind were the first company to package in Calyx cont...

Malcolm MacKinnon is a veteran photojournalist and writer. He is the former editor-in-chief of HIGH TIMES magazine who used the pen name of “Dan Skye” during his tenure. He also served as executive editor of HEMP TIMES, a sister publication (1996-1999). During his 25-year career with HIGH TIMES (1991-2017), Malcolm shot over 50 covers and centerfolds and traveled over a million miles on assignment...

Mike has been a marijuana cultivator and breeder and a caregiver for 50 years. He co-founded WAMM(Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana and was it's Agricultural Director for more than 20 years. He co-founded Project Fenix in Poland has advised The Israeli Ministry of Health and is an Expert witness in state and federal court. Helped write Prop. 215.

Elmar is co-founder and CEO at Neatleaf, where he is leveraging his expertise in AI and robotics to enable data-driven agriculture and to automate cultivation environments. Prior to Neatleaf, Elmar was at Google X, leading the largest engineering team at the Everyday Robot Project. Before that, he spent his career advancing the state-of-the-art in computer vision and perception for self-driving ca...

Alissa Maya Folk Herbalist and certified women's work facilitator. Founder of Akasha Apothecary & The Renegade Apothecary Project. Thoroughly enjoyed having Alissa Maya Folk live in the studio for an in depth discussion of her journey with plant medicine starting in the Santa Cruz Mountains and stretching out to the Sierras in Calaveras County and the Emerald Triangle. We explored the jou...

The Cannabis Connection show covers a 50 slide master class presentation prepared for an exclusive audience and took the time to cover all the topics below in 54 minutes covering the basics of cannabis plant science, anatomy to the end process of harvest, manicuring and cure. Topics covered in this show: Understanding Cannabis  Plant Anatomy Cultivar Characteristics Chemotype Phenotype Entourage e...

Gabriel Reeves is an educator, writer and Chef who presently resides in the central coast of California. Currently he trains staff and creates strain reviews and website content for Canna Cruz and their family of brands. Under his own brand Green Gourmet CA,  which he founded in 2011, Gabriel caters and does various consulting work. Over his 25+ years experience in the cannabis industry, Gabriel w...

Grant Palmer is CEO of CannaCruz dispensary which started back in 2008 with locations in Santa Cruz and Salinas. Grant is also the CEO of Crop Circles providing craft flowers and vape concentrates for the people. We discuss cannabis genetics, supply chain insights in compliant California Cannabis and fresh ideas to help address regulatory issues from the unforeseen consequences of a post Prop 64 e...

Skye McDougall of Hyphaelife Santa Cruz joins The Cannabis Connection to shed light on his experience with psychedelics, meditation and improving one's life by reclaiming ones mental, physical and spiritual agency. 

Al Bundi is a socially aware comedic and experimental rapper from Souther California who aims to help people through his experiences and art. He is part of a 10-piece band called Boostive that blends reggae, hip hop, R&B and world music genres. He is also a cannabis advocate and farmer who has worked in the industry for over a decade and is now building a cannabis genetics company that promote...

Lauren Avenius & Felipe of Compound Genetics + Node Labs join the Cannabis Connection Show! Node Labs uses cutting edge plant tissue culture techniques to provide the cleanest high-value cannabis plants to cultivators, breeders, and researchers. Outline:  Timestamps for the show.  (3:17)Sommelier style "Smoke & Steak" Tastings of new cannabis (7:28) Criteria for selecting the nex...

The men behind Molecular Farms join our show for our final broadcast ever on KSCO! Steven Haba, M.S. (the Plant Whisperer) and Mark Lewis (Chemistry Whisperer) join the broadcast to discuss thier relationship, process and passion for breeding some of the most pleasurable and chronic cannabis in the known universe. This was a dream come true. I love these flowers, seeds and creations coming from th...

Surfer Joe Milo interviews Christopher Carr.

Luna is an all organic, living soil, probiotic, natural farmer and grower. Writer for SKUNK magazine and aministrator for cannabis education groups. She specializes in soil biology and homemade plant input making. From ferments to extracts and enzymes, Luna's methodology focuses on plant health and vigor.

Tamara Thorn, Joey Burger and Noble Haze join us to discuss a very special gathering Camp Heal Thyself happening December 2-4, 2022. These community stewards have come together to teach the people about Regenerative Agriculture, plant medicine and closing loops on the farm and in the community. The Campout will feature expert speakers shedding light on all themes mushrooms, hashish and regenerativ...

Michael Katz serves as the Executive Director of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance (MCA), the premier cannabis trade association in Mendocino County representing over 130 individual local businesses, and MendocinoCannabis.shop, a direct to consumer platform developed to help provide increased access to market for MCA's members, currently operating as a delivery service in Sacramento, CA and thr...

Brandon Potter joins The Cannabis Connection to discuss his work breeding cannabis seeds and furthering our understanding about molds and fungi like botrytis. Brandon has always felt a conneciton with plants and the outdoors. This led him to persue a career in Biology, first earning a Bachelors of Science in Biology from UNC-Asheville and a Masters of the same from University of Wisconsin - La Cro...

Vice President of Cultivation & Production, Aaron Keefer of Sonoma Hills Farm Prior to joining in February 2020, Aaron Keefer held a ten-year tenure as culinary gardener for the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group (TKG), which includes famed, three-Michelin Star restaurant, The French Laundry, in Napa, California. Keefer’s green thumb and passion for the land emerged as a young child in his grandfa...

Jahan Khamsehzadeh, Ph. D. completed his dissertation on psychedelics at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. His book, The Psilocybin Connection: Psychedelics, the Transformation of Consciousness, and Evolution of the Planet—An Integral Approach was published by North Atlantic Books and distributed Spring 2022 by Penguin Random House. He earned his Masters in Cons...

Brandon Parker joins our broadcast! Brandon is the man behind 3rd Gen Family Farms. 3rd Generation Family Farms is a pioneer cannabis company located in the heart of the Emerald Triangle. For many generations, 3rd Gen has cultivated sun grown cannabis using organic methods, paired with unrivaled passion for the cannabis plant, gave birth to some of the finest cup winning strains celebrated around...

Humboldt Fungi join us on the show to discuss deepening the appreciation and relationship with all mushrooms especially those native to the redwood forests of the Emerald Triangle. We discuss pro-tips in foraging for mushrooms, ways to research and build community in fungi and mushroom cultivation hacks!

We welcome Marty Clein to the show to discuss his roots in cannabis cultivation, breeding, preserving cannabis culture and the future of legal cannabis in Mendocino and his farm in Covelo, CA.  Marty Clein is a longtime cannabis enthusiast, a seed breeder, and top notch plant cultivator. He will serve as an Ambassador for the 2022 California State Fair's first ever Cannabis Competition. Marty...

Annick Goldsmith has a contagious passion for cannabis that is pure and her energy is electric, with knowledge that runs deep. We explore her journey in cannabis and taking on challenges over the years to deepen her relationship with the plant and the communities that have kept it alive during prohibition specifically recording artists in the Hip Hop space and Emerald Triangle farmers.  We explore...

Michael Backes is best known as the author of the book titled, Cannabis Pharmacy and opening the first science based dispensary in Southern California called Cornerstone Wellness in 2005. Michael is a respected pioneer in the cannabis industry and dubbed the "Morpheus" of cannabis after being convinced that the cannabis plant could be a legitimate medicine, because it helped him deal wit...