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• Want to Stay Informed on All Things Cannabis? Listen to These 16 Best Podcasts

  September 21, 2017 11:44 pm Leave a Comment

   

  It’s a great time to be alive if you love cannabis and podcasts. Pot aficionados are taking full advantage of audio and video content to reach new and experienced cannabis users. There’s tons of podcasts for every cannabis-related interest including business, investing, health, news, politics, culture, comedy—the list keeps going.

   

  Whether you’re doing the dishes, walking your dog, or on your morning commute, these cannabis podcasts will keep you entertained and informed.

   

  What you'll learn in this post:

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  • Business & Investing
  • Health & Wellness
  • Culture & Lifestyle
  • News & Politics

   

  Business & Investing

   

  CannaInsider Podcast

  

  Matthew Kind shares his business consulting experience hosting the CannaInsider Podcast. His webcast features interviews with cannabis industry leaders and entrepreneurs to keep up with the latest technology and trends.

   

  Based in Colorado, Matthew releases an episode every Sunday, so you can remain inspired by these disruptors making waves in cannabis. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher to listen to their show, which runs anywhere from half an hour to an hour.

   

  Cannabis Economy

  

  Hosted by Seth Adler, the Cannabis Economy covers the history of legal cannabis by talking to the people who  have helped pushed the industry forward.

   

  He has 20 years of experience as an event moderator for international events and shows, but now podcasting. Every Monday and Friday (no specific time), special guests discuss how they’ve managed to turn their startup cannabusiness into a success amidst all of  the legal hurdles surrounding cannabis manufacturing.

   

  Seth brings together the greatest business minds and legal activists who’ll inspire you to pursue your dream to become a part of the ever-evolving weed industry. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, or Amazon MP3 to stay up-to-date with his thirty minute to hour-long episodes.

   

  Cannabis Business Minds

  

  Business strategy expert Simone Cimiluca-Radzins and executive management guru Kristen Yoder distill complex industry information into easily digestible topics on Cannabis Business Minds.

   

  Simone runs Kalogia, an online community that connects cannabis professionals and has experience providing public accounting services for Fortune 500 companies. Kristen is the founder of Cannabis Industry Adviser Group that helps cannabis businesses get into the industry.

   

  This interview-based podcast gives insight into how marijuana professionals think. Cannabis Business Minds releases new podcasts every week or so; subscribe on iTunes to get their half hour to hour long podcasts straight to your phone. If you’re looking to develop a strong, strategic, and successful business team, this podcast will give you insight into raising capital, retail strategies, and how to scale your business.

   

  Investing in Cannabis

  

  Hosted by Brandon David, this podcast gives you a rare glimpse into the lives of the leading cannabis investors driving the industry forward. Brandon has a background in mentoring companies in a business accelerator program. He wanted to apply his business acumen to the exciting and expanding cannabis industry.

   

  From from five minute interviews to over hour-long discussions with marijuana money people, Investing in Cannabis provides invaluable business information every other Tuesday. Head on over to iTunes to subscribe and get your fresh perspective on the business.

   

  Health & Wellness

   

  If you use cannabis for health reasons, Cannabis Health Radio has got you covered in the latest happenings of the science and medical community. Hosted by radio talk show veteran Ian Jessop and cannabis oil-proponent Corrie Yelland, you’ll get half hour interviews every couple of days on iTunes with people who’ve directly benefited from treating their illnesses with cannabis products.

   

  Whether you have cancer, seizures, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, inflammation, chronic migraines, or any ailment, Cannabis Health Radio can guide you through the often confusing world of medicinal marijuana and help you properly use it to improve your life.

   

  Medical Marijuana Radio

  

  Former New Mexico dispensary owner and cannabis advocate L.S. Love hosts the weekly Medical Marijuana Radio Show Saturday nights at 7 pm (MST).

   

  Although you can’t listen to audio versions in your car, you can stream through Ustream to hear Love talk about the news, interviews, and everything that’s going on in the world of medical marijuana. Love doesn’t restrict himself to the medical aspect of cannabis and branches of into business, news, and lifestyle topics, as well.

   

  High on Healthy

  

  Audrey Kreger is a health coach and owner of a nutrition and wellness center in Phoenix, Arizona who loves to inform patients on how to optimize their health. Let her be your personal guru on the cannabis’ beneficial medicinal aspects by listening to her podcast, High on Healthy.

   

  Audrey talks to patients that have used cannabis to treat their symptoms so you can learn how to treat your Alzheimer’s, autism, chronic pain, or whatever ails you. Subscribe on iTunes and catch an episode every week or more while on your way to work. Episode run-times stays within the thirty minute mark.

   

  Concierge for Better Living with Doctor Rob

  

  Dr. Rob Streisfeld knows how cannabis affects the body. He’s an expert at optimizing health and lifestyle habits to remove those aches, pains, and worries that lower our quality of life.

   

  The doc also doubles as a chef, so he understands how food and cannabis effect your body; he takes a holistic approach to talking about illnesses and the people who’re improving patients’ mmj use. Download and subscribe to Concierge For Better Living on iTunes or Stitcher to get his half hour podcasts on your phone every week or so.

   

  Culture & Lifestyle

   

  The Weed Show

  

  The Weed Show, hosted by comedian, actor, and overall renaissance man, Chris Iacono, is a weekly podcast that delivers hilarious news commentary, expert interviews, comedy sketches, strain reviews, and giveaways.

   

  With an extensive background hosting comedy radio shows and doing stand-up, Chris Iacono caters humorous musing to the cannabis community. Subscribe on iTunes to get his latest episodes that run between 20 and 30 minutes.

   

  Getting Doug With High

  

  Your favorite stoner comedian, Doug Benson, hosts Getting High With Doug, a side-splitting video and audio podcast every week or two at exactly 4:20. Subscribe on Youtube to be notified about when the live show air. If you don’t mind missing it live, download it on iTunes.

   

  Doug Benson, of “Super High Me” fame, delivers recurring funny, informative, and intriguing pot-centric segments such as “High History,” “Pot Topics,” and “Pot Quiz Hop Shot,” along with celebrities, comedians, athletes, and anyone willing to get super high from an assortment of cannabis products. Give yourself about 45 minutes to an hour to sit back, light up a joint, and listen to comedy gold.

   

  GrowCast

  

  Jordan River, a cannabis cultivating enthusiast, covers everything surrounding marijuana cultivation, growing techniques, and the culture beyond being a grower in GrowCast. This cannabis talk show releases new content about twice a month so make sure you subscribe on iTunes to stay up-to-date with the latest episodes (run-time: between 30 and 45 minutes); or listen anytime via Soundcloud.

   

  Hempresent

  

  Activist, musician, and cannabis podcaster, Vivian McPeak, hosts Hempresent. Vivian interviews 420-friendly guests about the latest in marijuana developments. Hempresent is a vibrant mix of news, interview, and lifestyle themes that’s often funny, passionate, and informative. Subscribe on iTunes and get alerted to new thirty minute shows that come out every week or two.

   

  News & Politics

   

  The Marijuana Agenda

  

  Host Russ Belville has a great deal of podcasting experience hosting NORML’s Daily Audio Stash and plenty of cannabis publication bylines.

   

  With a larger-than-life personality and a undying passion to make a change in the marijuana industry, Russ brings you The Marijuana Agenda, daily 30-minute podcasts full of news, analysis, statistics, interviews, and so much more. With more than 3,000 podcasts hours under his belt, he’s a master and leading the conversation into insightful territory and keeping you up-to-date with marijuana news.

   

  The Cannabist Show

  

  The Cannabist Show hosts Jake Browne and Janae Burris take listeners on a guided tour of the cannabis industry with interviews with marijuana experts, industry movers and shakers, and people who’ve improved their lives with cannabis. Browne is a comedian, writer, “pot critic,” and co-founder of The Grow-Off and HempBox; Janae Burris is another Denver comedian and writer.

   

  Shows are released every Friday and range from thirty minutes to an hour, making this a binge-worthy podcast for the cannabis lover who needs to be up-to-date with the latest happenings in the scene. Subscribe on iTunes, Pocket Cast, Stitcher, and anywhere else you can find podcasts.

   

  Marijuana Today

  

  Host Kris Lotlikar (entrepreneur, former lawmaker, and activist) shares his wisdom and covers the latest in the cannabis biz on Marijuana Today. Every week you’ll get an hour dose of experts weighing in on the marijuana industry, legislation, and how marijuana entrepreneurs are operating their businesses in this current uncertain climate.

   

  There’s also a daily podcast (via their website) offering headline news hosted by Shea Gunther, a environmental writer and media entrepreneur.

   

  Dopefiend

  

  Pitched as “the web’s favourite cannabis podcast,” the Dopefiend brings you new episodes every first Monday of the month. Based in the U.K., host the Dopefiend dives right into news topics and any cutting-edge technology in the marijuana community, domestic and abroad.

   

  Get your fix of interviews, product reviews, and comedy bits to make news just a bit more interesting. Give yourself an hour to listen to these podcasts episodes all the way through.

   

  Of course, there are plenty more cannabis podcasts that cater to every cannabis user, grower, health care practitioner, lawmaker, activist, and everyone in between. Give these podcasts a chance; support the fight to remove the stigma from marijuana and hear how it helps improve your life and those of others.

• What Do Citywide Cannabis Bans Mean For You?

  September 19, 2017 11:55 pm Leave a Comment

   

  Under Proposition 64, Californians over the age of 21 can use marijuana recreationally. Under this same law, however, local jurisdictions have the power to regulate the cannabis industry within their territory as they see fit. Sometimes these strict regulations border on being ridiculously obstructive, making it harder for cannabis industries to thrive and for patients to receive their medical cannabis in their city.

   

  What you'll learn in this post:

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  • Citywide Pot Bans Are Highly Restrictive
  • The High Cost of Cannabis Restrictions
  • What If You Live in an Anti-Pot City?
  • Last Note

   

  Citywide Pot Bans Are Highly Restrictive

   

  

   

  Almost immediately after California voters approved Proposition 64’s recreational cannabis use, many city councils passed moratoriums on the sale of recreational cannabis.

   

  One SoCal city with a strict anti-pot history is Poway. This small, rural town in unincorporated San Diego County recently banned all cannabis dispensaries by a unanimous vote, citing safety concerns.

   

  Like many others, this specific ban prohibits all marijuana storefront dispensaries, collectives, cooperatives, cultivation, delivery, manufacturing, and storage of any type of cannabis. Even worse, outdoor growing is banned. Luckily, this ordinance does not prevent citizens from using medical cannabis at home. So Poway mmj patients will still be able to grow up to six plants per person in their homes.

   

  But other cities aren’t as forgiving. Those that attempt to restrict cannabis production are seeing a backlash, as in the case of the City of Fontana in San Bernardino County against the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

   

  The ACLU filed a suit against Fontana which, “adopted an ordinance designed to make it virtually impossible for Fontana residents to enjoy the rights conferred on them by [Proposition 64].” Fontana enacted these purposefully restricting regulations to keep their residents safe, according to mayor Acquanetta Warren.

   

  The city currently bans all cannabis dispensaries, making it extremely hard for qualified residents to get the medication they need. If you want to start growing cannabis in Fontana, you’ll need to apply for a $400 permit. If that wasn’t bad enough, the city also requires growers to pay for a warrantless search of their homes and prohibits people with criminal records from growing. 

   

  Essentially, Fontana became the poster town for prohibitionist-type laws clearly designed to make it hard for people to grow cannabis and get well.
  

   

  The High Cost of Cannabis Restrictions

   

  

   

  By denying marijuana businesses from establishing themselves, city council members prevent the people who need it the most from obtaining their medicine in the name of protecting the town.

   

  Not only are local elected officials making it extremely difficult for medicinal patients to obtain their mmj products, but they’re also sabotaging their local economy’s growth.

   

  Thriving economies in other pot hot spots should’ve at least piqued the interest of elected officials, but financial incentive wasn’t enough to dispel their misguided fear of creating an impractical framework for cannabis business to thrive in their town—with resulting consequences.

   

  Black Market

  When storefronts are banned, there’s no competition for black market operations. The cannabis demand is so high that there’ll always be a distributor wherever needed for the right price. Black market dispensaries may provide residents with cannabis, but who knows if their products are even quality, clean, or even real cannabis.

   

  Sickness

  Without regulation, mmj products run the risk of being mislabeled or not labeled at all, preventing users from determining an accurate, consistent dosage for their illness. Inaccurate or lack of product info and lab testing also make it easier for first-timers to take too much and swear off cannabis altogether.
  
  

  Without local testing facilities, growing sites and proper regulations, mmj patients may ironically resort to risking their health by buying from dispensaries that don’t test their products. When these places aren’t testing for pesticides or mold, the city dumps the burden of quality control on the patients buying from these black market operations.

   

  Home Growing

  It’s well-known that inhaling pesticides and mold can cause respiratory damage or worse. Often mmj patients aren’t sure how to identify mold because cannabis education isn’t as mainstream or prevalent as it should be. Banning pot and casting it to the shadows only prevents us from truly understanding it and using it wisely.

   

  Another problem when you restrict mmj users to growing their own weed? They aren’t aren’t naturally adept at growing organic cannabis, nor do they have the resources to do so. Growing indoors requires time, specialized knowledge and equipment that can be quite costly.

   

  Inaccurate & Twisted Information

  When city council members like those in Poway cite driving accidents and overall crime rises in legal mmj states, they’re willfully cherry-picking points to support their argument. 

   

  Multiple studies cite that cannabis has negligible effects when it comes to accidents on the road. Yet there’s no significant link between cannabis use in mmj states and increase accidents. The fear of increased accidents and the city going to hell is simply alarmist rhetoric that does more harm than good when protecting elected officials’ constituency.

   

  The demand for cannabis is too high, making it a haven for pot producers, legal and not. This large request for cannabis makes it nearly impossible to enforce without proper regulations.
  

   

  Law enforcement won’t be able to close shops as quickly as they want; in the time it takes to close one illegal dispensary, another, or the same one, pops up elsewhere. This waste of tax dollars continues in the name of protecting its residents, when in actuality these laws do a disservice to residents, not just mmj patients, who’d benefit from legalization.

   

  What If You Live in an Anti-Pot City?

   

  

   

  With all these restrictive laws, you can still easily receive a medical marijuana recommendation from a licensed physician. An online telemedicine service like NuggMD makes it very easy to obtain your cannabis rec and/or card by answering a few simple questions about your health history.

   

  Then with your rec you can order products via Nugg’s cannabis delivery. California’s mmj laws allow a less than an ounce of cannabis in a closed container for personal use to travel freely on public roads. Essentially, delivery services bypass these strict dispensary laws, bringing cannabis to patients in cities that have enacted dispensary bans.

   

  Last Note

   

  City-wide medical marijuana bans are nothing to fear. Even if you’re unable to visit a local dispensary due to restrictive local laws, delivery services in surrounding communities or within your own community are a discreet and safe way to get your medical cannabis products delivered right to you without city officials knocking at your door.

   

  Live in a banned city like Poway or Fontana? Let your voice be heard; contact your local officials, telling them your history and how cannabis, medical or recreational, has improved your life.