The Weed Witch

On the pod today: Molly Mathias, the founder of Go Easy —a cannabis lifestyle brand based in Dallas that’s making self-care a little more accessible and a lot less complicated. We love a good reinvention story, and Molly is truly an inspiration. A former CPA, realtor, and retail business owner, she decided to trade spreadsheets and cubicles for creativity and connection, opening her dream concept...

Truth be told, the lifestyle industry doesn’t give as much lip service to some of the issues it enables—be it the alcohol industry and alcoholism, the fashion industry and shopping addictions, or cannabis culture and the rising mental health issues that the plant potentially harms as much as it helps. Still, these heavier topics need to be addressed, as the spread of legalization continues to prol...

Mary Jane Gibson has the makings of a hero with new feminist project, "My Sandwich, My Choice" On the show today: Mary Jane Gibson , a prominent female voice in cannabis media and former culture editor at High Times , who has been tracking the legalization and culture of medical marijuana and adult-use cannabis since 2007. After writing at High Times for over a decade, she now writes at-...

There’s nothing like pouring your heart, soul, and wallet into your debut book only launch it during the worst timing possible—be it a travel book during a global lockdown or a book a psychedelic Judaism during the height of the latest iteration of the never-ending Israel-Palestine conflict. At the same time, these are exactly the critical moments when uplifting books that inspire new thinking are...

Founded by Lana Van Brunt and Hayley Dineen in 2018, New York-based cannabis lifestyle company and multidisciplinary product design and production studio ⁠Sackville & Co.⁠ stood out for its eye-catching accessories ⁠shiny gilded grinder⁠ and ⁠sleek joint carrying case⁠ fit for the stiletto stoner crowd. Both carrying an impressive pedigree in design and fashion, the move into cannabis lifestyl...

Taste is one of our most important senses, yet the majority of people still don’t have the language to articulate exactly why they love or hate something. In the past, tasting education had been limited to restaurant and hospitality professionals, most often deferring to rigid French wine classifications that rely on blind tasting to consider the more nuanced principles of how the natural environm...

On the pod this week: Riley Brain, founder of Wandering Bud , a Kansas City, Missouri-based ceramics studio that specializes in home decor for cannabis connoisseurs. She also takes the crown for producing the most beautiful bubbler worthy of every coffee table: the Billie , an abstract-inspired vessel that functions as a water pipe, but easily disguises as a flower vase. Riley discusses how she qu...

On the show today: Lulu Tsui (that’s pronounced SWAY ), Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at On The Revel , a curated educational and networking experience series aimed at fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and flourishing cannabis sector. She is also President of the Cannabis Media Council , an organization dedicated to destigmatizing and normalizing cannabis using the power of traditio...

On the show today: Our lady of the leaf and miss thing herself, the iconic Laganja Effing Estranja gracing us all with a 4/20 blessing. Best known for competing on season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race (where she served one of the show’s most sickening entrances), Laganja Estranja is the drag persona of Jay Jackson. But beyond being a world-renowned drag artist, she also has an incredibly impressive and...

Joining the  Pipe Dreams  podcast this week:  Lex Corwin, CEO and founder of the queer-led, family-run cannabis company, Stone Road . As a legacy grower turned founder of one of the country’s fastest growing national cannabis brands, Corwin has never known a life outside the industry. Retailing at over 400 outlets throughout California, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, and Michigan, plus New York, New Mex...

Joining the Pipe Dreams podcast this week: entrepreneur, art collector, and speaker Kristina Lopez Adduci, founder and CEO of House of Puff, a female-led, Latine-owned cannabis lifestyle company based in New York. She is also the host of At Home with House of Puff, a YouTube channel where she breezily walks viewers through tips on everything from how to decarb flower to distinguishing legitimate d...

On the show this week: What does it take to make a professional career in cannabis edibles? For Christina Wong, an L.A.-based award-winning storyteller, seasoned PR and communications pro, writer, and culinary cannabis content creator, it's been a journey in alchemy that has taken over a decade working with well-known chefs, restaurants, hospitality, and cannabis brands. In the latest Pipe Dreams...

On the show this week: Multi-hyphenate artist, creative and self-identifying weed witch Natalie Smith, whose work tackles existence and death, sacred geometry, ancient fertility, the womb, and tree of life inspired by the writings of Dutch Jesuit mathematician and astrophysicist Georges Lemaître. You know, exactly the kind of complex ideas you’ll never find casually streaming within the algorithm....

Joining the show this week: Brenda Hernandez, founder of Mexico City's first feminist head shop, Chicks vs. Stigma. Learn about her journey, the challenges of operating a boundary-pushing shop within a conservative culture, and a glimpse at Mexico City's growing cannabis scene on this episode of Pipe Dreams by The Weed Witch.

On the show this week: What do Nico, Marianne Faithful, a scandalous country singer named Tammy Faye Starlite and a fallen-from-grace Israeli pop star named Tamar have in common? The answer is one woman: Tammy Lang. Selling out shows across the country, she’s best known for producing an extremely NSFW repertoire includes smash hits like “God Has Lodged A Tenant In My Uterus” and “Did I Shave My Va...

Joining the show this week: Olivia Alexander, CEO of Kush Queen, a multi-million dollar, multifaceted brand specializing in CBD and THC-infused products, including: award-winning bath bombs, pain relief lotions, edibles, wellness supplements, and skincare. Olivia talks about growing up in Louisiana's ecologically devastated Cancer Alley, turning a swamp queen insult into a tribute to the Spirit of...

This is Pipe Dreams by The Weed Witch, a newsletter, podcast, idea sampler platter and content wildcard featuring stream-of-consciousness tales and divine wisdom from free-thinking societal outliers, a.k.a. the weed witches. Today's guest is Alia Volz, author of Home Baked, My Mom, Marijuana, and The Stoning of San Francisco—a journalistic memoir that came out last year that is a riveting tale wor...