Ep. 433: Mickey Dor, Israel Ministry of Health

Mickey Dor, Senior Medical Advisor of the Medical Cannabis Unit for the Israel Ministry of Health, tells the story of regulated cannabis in Israel and notes the different types of changing winds that he has seen over the years. Although every country has a different approach to cannabis, Dor believes that the first step must […]

Chains & Lanes

Supply chains don’t work, as the theory goes, without communication and a unified sense of purpose. I think it’s really important, when…

Size vs. Direction

Size vs. direction means something different to me now than it used to mean. We started up in 2009. The initial business model was very…

Amendment 64

It was an incredibly formative experience to work on Amendment 64, which was historic legislation; the first initiative to legalize marijuana…

’97 – ’00

Entering the Tail End of the DecadeWe came out of ’96 with medical marijuana victories in California with Proposition 215, a pivotal piece…

Mass Incarceration vs. Solving Incarceration Part II

Getting to the Roots of the Incarceration ProblemPlease see Part I. One thing that we must think of when we hear the terms over-incarceration,..

Sustainability

Perhaps the issue that I spent the most time and resources on during my four years at Congress was climate policy and the environment…

Ep. 423: US Representative Joe Courtney`

Representative Joe Courtney joins us and shares the repercussions of the recent government shutdown and how it affects cannabis and agriculture: “When you look at the growing season fast approaching is just a tragic sequence of events, because we would love to have farmers putting seeds in the ground as we are in the beginning […]

Ep. 421: Chairman Steve Hoffman, MA Cannabis Control Commision

Chairman Steve Hoffman joins us and shares some of the protections put in place relating to Cannabis legislature in Massachusetts: “I think that every state is unique. So you can learn, but every state is different demographically, the laws are different. Massachusetts is the only state that has this explicit requirement about ensuring that disproportionately […]

The 2000’s in Cannabis Activism

Cannabis activism in the 2000s, you know, from 2000 to 2010.It was a very long time ago. My goodness. Now I’m trying to remember…