Category: cannabis

TSC Talks Women in Weed

TSC Talks Women in Weed! This is a compilation of 6 different women who found their way into the cannabis industry. Inspired, motivated, and educated from their encounters with the plant, now all making a difference by using their lived experiences as women, as cannabis users, as entrepreneurs, to bring some unique businesses and services to the industry.

Tiffany Watkins

Tiffany Watkins is a “Cannabis Enthusiast”. She’s been an activist for 20+ years and has done a lot of work to bring awareness to health care and proper distribution of Medical Cannabis as well as paving the way for Recreational Cannabis.

She has marched on the Capitol (CA), to help bring a voice to those in need of the protection of the Compassionate Care Act. Additionally, she has attended and spoken at City Council meetings and delivered talks as a keynote speaker.

She states, “Cannabis is my passion and I am driven to assist this industry in becoming the standard when it comes to treatment plans, revenue achievement, and sales models.
My intent is to continue helping, building and growing within the Cannabis industry. ”
https://vanguardmediaonline.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-watkins-9910a5176/

Danielle McQueen

Danielle, (Dani) McQueen, is a true champion in the cannabis world. She is a business owner who has been nominated for Best Cannabis Company of the Year, Maine Cannabis Activist, Business Leader of the Year, Champion in Corrupt Responsibility, Best Innovation: Hot Cocoa, and Young Entrepreneur of the Year. While doing all of that, she is also the mother of a special superhero little girl that suffers from the same autoimmune disease as she does. Danielle demonstrates her rough path but also her strength to follow her instincts, and as every human being, with doubts and uncertainty but reaches an amazing lifestyle for her family while also helping other families. She shares a story of overcoming but also the real struggle as a person who suffers from Ankylosing Spondylitis. Danielle just really uprooted herself and moved to Maine to help her child and herself.
Website: https://www.oldmanfarms.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oldman_goodies_llc/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldmangoodiesllc/

Daniella Benea

Daniella Benea, Pharm.D., licensed pharmacist working in the medical marijuana industry in CT & MA comes on to discuss her experience thus far working in the growing cannabis industry. A graduate of UConn School of Pharmacy, Daniella started out working as a Stop & Shop store pharmacist but took advantage of an opportunity to work at a CT dispensary, hoping for more hands-on patient engagement.
She encourages all listeners to call The Botanist or Prime Wellness with questions
(if local to CT or MA) if you’re interested in learning more or booking an appointment.

Links are as follows:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-benea-pharmd-54a38418b/

Joyce Gerber & Amie Searles

Joyce Gerber is an attorney, advocate, and writer. She brings her exceptional organizational skills, patience, and compassion to the emerging cannabis industry. She is the creator and host of The Canna Mom Show. When not advocating for cannabis normalization, Joyce is active with many community and civic organizations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, children, pets, and several students from the Berklee School of Music. In her spare time, she has managed a rock band, ran for a local political office, and likes to create beautiful quilts for friends and family. Joyce has degrees from Northeastern University, Tufts University, and Connecticut College. When asked to describe his mom, her son Josh said, “she’s a force to be reckoned with.”

Amie Searles is a top-performing agent specializing in residential sales and leasing in the Greater Boston area and was working with Joyce as co-host at the time of this recording.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecannamomshow
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecannamomshow/

LinkedIn, Joyce: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyce-gerber/

LinkedI, Amie:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/amie-searles-79329373/

Ruth Fisher

Ruth Fisher, Ph.D., Cannabis researcher, and analyst, Co-Founder of Cann Dynamics, as well as the author of The Medical Cannabis Primer,

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfisher/
https://medicalcannabisprimer.com/
https://www.quantaa.com/
https://canndynamics.com/

TSC Talks Guest Mike Robinson, GCRC Founder

 

TSC Talks guest Mike Robinson, Founder, GCRC, Global Cannabinoid Research Center, discusses his work developing a number of publications designed to harness and consolidate much of the multitude of cannabis content available all over the internet.

Mike’s Bio from https://mikesmedicines.com: “CONTACT MIKE: HIS BIO & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
To make contact: Email Mike 50kreasons@gmail.com Instagram @Cannabismymedicine

Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-robinson-~-cannabis-heals-256b3192/

Best Bet – Check him out at the Global Cannabinoid Research Center. If you or someone you know has a story of how cannabis has improved your life and you’d like to share it, please reach out to Mike at 50kreasons@gmail.com! https://globalcannabinoidrc.com/

Mike Robinson, the founder of the Global Cannabinoid Research
Center in Santa Barbara California, is a multiple Cancer survivor that’s used cannabis oils and CBD extensively as well for Severe epilepsy, Chronic Lyme Disease, PTSD, and in pain management. Over the last 6 years Mike has shared his journey and analytics on cannabinoid medicine research globally while assisting patients and helping to teach clinicians globally. Mike is the former Director of Consumer Affairs and Communications at The American Academy of Cannabinoid Medicine. His post grad education, however is not in cannabis or cannabinoid medicine, rather it’s focus was International Relations and Diplomacy. Robinson has an extensive history of leading a large compassion program that provided countless disadvantaged cannabis patients with various alternative protocol treatments, is a published journalist and international cannabinoid research specialist, is a former registered Civil Rights lobbyist and non attorney that represented countless disabled children pro bono nationwide for over 2 decades. He’s a past board member of Big Brothers and Sisters, the founder of multiple non profits for disabled children, and is well known for adopting a severely disabled child, Genevieve, from the compassion program he once ran.”

Time Stamps:
Introducing GCRC Publications (3.58)
Why he felt the need to create publications (4:41)
Looking for writers (7:18)
Examining the wealth of info and putting it into publications (11:59)
Medical education course (14:37)
Discussing ADA lobbying (20:45)
His biological daughter’s birth during the time he was in a racing wreck (25:13)
Cannabis brings back his memory (29:15)
Evolution of his writing (35:47)
Send in your stuff even if it’s not perfect (37:45)

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TSC Talks Guest Janna Champagne

TSC Talks guest Janna Champagne, RN, BSN, returns to the podcast to educate and enlighten and to update us on her projects.

From https://jannachampagne.com:
“Janna’s introduction to the cannabis industry began as a cannabis patient who happens to be a nurse, when she suffered a debilitating immune health collapse in 2012.
Janna credits cannabis for helping to reduce her reliance on harmful pharmaceuticals, and for supporting her ability to regain optimal health status against all odds.
Janna is also known for her daughter’s cannabis/Autism success story, which was published on the cover story in a nationwide industry magazine in 2017.

Nurse Janna has educated thousands of patients, helping them optimize their cannabis therapy outcomes through an individualized and well-informed approach. Janna has gained extensive clinical application knowledge through her work, including individual considerations of cannabis therapy, and which products might best fit a patient’s situation. This also lends to her current expertise in educating nurses/medical professionals about cannabis, formulating symptom-targeted products, and ensuring patient’s find optimal medical cannabis formulations.

Following patient needs has led Nurse Janna to fulfill diverse cannabis industry roles:

Graduate Faculty – John Patrick University
Founder Nonprofit Autism Safe Haven
Education-Patients, Medical Professionals, Industry Staff
Symptom Targeted/Medical Cannabis Formulating
Research Review/Written Content Author
Prominent Cannabis Advocate, Presenter, and Public Speaker/Interviewee
Volunteer Roles: Subcommittee Member, Oregon Cannabis Commission. Founding Member, Oregon Cannabis Clinician’s Group

From the transcript: “So I’m a cannabis nurse full time. And I have come into this industry as a patient, I have benefited greatly from cannabis as medicine, as has my daughter. Our stories are very widely available. If you want more detail on that. And just by following patient needs, I progressed from a patient to a grower to helping patients to now I’m beginning to educate medical professionals about cannabis. And another project I’m working on is is improving the accessibility of cannabis inclusive autism care resources. My daughter is you know, with her autism, and she’s 18 years of age and, you know, ready to move on in life. And there really are no resources. So I’m building this for her and for other children that rely on cannabis for their quality of life and is their medicine and to allow them access to their chosen medicine, you know, while also receiving the care that they require. So that’s that’s really the purpose of autism safe haven.”
https://otter.ai/u/mqsmqUyb_WKDQvYiW13P0Ug1Sf0

Time stamps:
Puberty crisis and beginning cannabis with her daughter (2:36)
How she came to integrated care (5:00)
Oregon nurse’s license in jeopardy if practicing in the cannabis space and teaching at John Patrick University (6:05)
Filling an educational gap-drug/cannabis interaction potential (8:52)
Transitioning her daughter from pharmaceuticals to cannabis (10:50)
SSRI interactions with cannabis (12:53)
Risk / benefit for cannabis and pharmaceuticals (14:58)
Stigma vs science (16:02)
Stigma and propaganda surrounding cannabis (18:05)
Autism Safe Haven (20:01)
The remodeling efforts to convert to Autism Safe Haven (20:35)
Improving quality of life for the neurodiverse population (24:27)
Presumption of Competence (25:13)
Treating behaviors with cannabis (28:08)
Explaining the Endocannabinoid System (29:06)
Flow Criteria (31:34)
CBD and Epidiolex combined with other pharmaceuticals (34:51)
Autism Safe Haven business model (37:00)
Unity products (39:00)
Therapies at Autism Safe Haven (40:48)

Janna’s links:
Autism Safe Haven: https://autismsafehaven.org/
http://www.integratedholisticcare.com/providers.html
https://www.cannabisnursesnetwork.com/speaker/janna-champagne-bsn-rn/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cannanursejanna
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janna-champagne-bsn-rn-95a51a167/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jannababe
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nursejanna/

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TSC Talks Guest Chiara Juster

TSC Talks guest Chiara Juster, Advocate and Strategic Counsel, Head of Government Affairs, Oaksterdam University, Host of High Tea Tuesdays on OU Instagram and Legal Advisor for The Last Prisoner Project.
From her bio:

“Chiara Juster is a social justice advocate and attorney. She advises Oaksterdam on government and policy matters and is OU’s liaison to DC; she represents the school as an active member of the National Cannabis Industry Association where she is in her second year on the Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee.

In addition to her work with Oaksterdam, Chiara is an advocate for reform, decarceration, cannabis & works on various policy matters. She was matched by Last Prisoner Project with the longest serving non-violent cannabis offender currently incarcerated in the United States, Richard DeLisi, who has been incarcerated since 1988. With good time he is set to be released from his ninety year sentence in July, 2022, but that day may never come as Richard is older, in poor health, and in a prison experiencing a COVID19 outbreak. If you’d like this grandfather of five to live his days with his loving family please visit FreeDeLisi.com.

Chiara grew up in Portland, OR, though she was born in CA. She attended the University of Oregon where she received degrees in political science and sociology before attending the University of Miami School of Law. She realized as a young prosecutor that there was no such thing as prosecutorial discretion. Disheartened, she left the country & spent years traveling & learning, before returning stateside resolute on changing the laws. She is a graduate of Oaksterdam University & hosts High Tea Tuesdays on OU’s IG live where she discusses a Cannacopia of topics.”

Chiara starts off giving some background from a personal perspective:
“I was born in Northern California. But I grew up in Portland, Oregon, from the time I was a toddler, and ended up going to college in Oregon. in a state where cannabis had been decriminalized since 1973. I actually grew up in Earl Blumenauer’s district, I have one of his little pins behind me, he gives a nod on the hill. And when I went to University of Oregon, obviously cannabis had always been part of the culture in Eugene. When I then went to the University of Miami for law school, it was a whole different world, particularly when it came to drug policy, cannabis in particular, to harm reduction overall, and Community Investment”

Links to content:

3:35-Richard Delisi~The Last Prisoner Project
3:59-Early days, growing up in Oregon
5:34-Going to Law School~Univ. of Miami
8:13-Working at State Attorney’s Office in Miami, FL
10:07-Decriminalization vs. Legalization
12:45-Deciding to leave the country and travel
13:50-Living internationally
16:13-Oaksterdam University
18: 32-The Last Prisoner Project
20:13-Steve D’Angelo
23:16-Decarceration and Clemency
24:45-National Cannabis Industry Association – https://thecannabisindustry.org/
25:48-Cannabis ownership predominantly white men
26:40-Burden on Women esp. w/covid
29:15:-Canna Bros
32:40-Role of Bud Tenders
36:33-Talking to her daughter and our offspring about Cannabis
41:11-Medical Cannabis for children
44:18-Where we can find Chiara Juster online
45:35-High Tea Tuesdays, https://www.instagram.com/oaksterdamuniversity/

Chiara’s Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flowerlover/
Facebook: Oaksterdam Univ- https://www.facebook.com/OaksterdamUniversity/
Oaksterdam University Bio: https://oaksterdamuniversity.com/chiara-juster-esq/
Wikileaf: https://www.wikileaf.com/thestash/free-richard-delisi/
The Last Prisoner Project: https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/

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TSC Talks Guest Sarah Hope

TSC Talks guest Sarah Hope joins me for a connected conversation sponsored by the plants.🌿  It was wonderful to cross paths with Sarah Hope on LinkedIn recently and have her as a guest on the podcast. She is the first Microdose Coach I have met, let alone interviewed. I have a personal interest in microdosing, mostly cannabis, but recently have tried psilocybin with excellent results. It has been a tool to engage in some perceptual shifts, processing and healing that I found subtle, non-toxic, and exceptionally worthwhile. “With micro-dosing, basically, what you’re going for is a sub-perceptual effect, so that you have a slight increase in brain connectivity, but you’re not having so much electricity or connectivity in the brain that you’re tripping or having a plant journey. But you’re in this sort of, like, sub perceptual spot, slightly more open to life, perhaps slightly more focused. And it’s something probably that people have been doing since ancient times, but the person who made it famous or the person who really kind of operationalize it as a psychological treatment was Dr. James Fadiman.” I’m clipping this bio from her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shopecoaching/

“I believe in your ability to reconnect with your own true, sacred and powerful nature. When you choose to do so you will access your own power in order to realize your own unique contribution to humanity. When we choose to work together we will settle for nothing less than the best expression of your talent and skill as we design the life you came here to live. I offer this work via three channels.

Forest Medicine Coaching: Whole life coaching programs and rituals for individuals, couples and groups. www.forestmedicinecoaching.com

Reclaiming the Sacred: Purposeful spiritual and cultural retreats and ceremonies and bilingual mindfulness services for people in the midst of life transition.

Trusted referral and connection services: I also help individuals and groups connect with the trusted professionals in the entheogenic and contemplative therapy community to find the best fit for their needs and availability.

Bilingual services and retreats in Mexico and South and Central America. ”

For more information, check out Sarah’s social media links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forestmedicinecoaching/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forestmedicinecoaching/
https://thethirdwave.co/microdose-mom/

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