According to a January 2022 article in Rolling Stone Magazine, the US has pulled ahead as the one of the most valuable cannabis markets in the world, with the latest projections that it will be worth over 90 BILLION by 2026. However, female leadership in the industry has declined to record lows. On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with Annick Goldsmith, founder of the Black Market Group. Annick is no stranger to male dominated industries, and she is using her voice to create space for those who have been marginalized and is speaking up about the disparities she’s faced in the cannabis industry.

#BlackMarketGroup #AnnickGoldsmith #cannabiscommunity

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Lulu Tsui, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at On The Revel, a company working to create curated educational and networking experiences for people breaking into the legal canna industry. At her company’s Revelry events and through the Dope People mentorship program, she’s working to help make the canna industry more inclusive, more collaborative, and more diverse.

#LuluTsui #cannabiscommunity #cannabiseducation

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Lulu Tsui, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at On The Revel, a company working to create curated educational and networking experiences for people breaking into the legal canna industry. At her company’s Revelry events and through the Dope People mentorship program, she’s working to help make the canna industry more inclusive, more collaborative, and more diverse.

#LuluTsui #cannabiscommunity #cannabiseducation

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Matt Zorn, Esq, a partner at Yetter Coleman, LLP. Matt is recognized as an authority on issues relating to the federal Controlled Substance Act and issues relating to canna regulation, even being named to the Law360 2020 Cannabis Editorial Advisory Board. Matt routinely speaks and publishes on issues relating to legal issues involving controlled substances. He was honored as a 2020 Pegasus Scholar by American Inns of Court. In one of his favorite areas of complex litigation, Best Lawyers in America named Matt "One to Watch," and Thomson Reuters' Super Lawyers recognized him as a "Texas Rising Star" in IP Litigation, Canna Law, and Administrative Law. Before joining the firm, Matt was a judicial clerk to the Hon. Rodney Gilstrap, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, spending hundreds of hours in court helping manage one of the busiest trial dockets in the country. Before then he was a litigator with Paul, Weiss in New York City. He earned his law degree at Columbia Law School, and his BA in European History and Applied Mathematics from Emory University.

#change #policy #MattZorn

On-Location Long Beach, California On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Becca Williams about the advent of a new paradigm: canna and psilocybin microdosing as “Psychic Vitamins” to release trauma and support emotional healing. Becca is a registered nutritionist, educator, and emotions therapist who holds certificates in Canna Core Curriculum, Dosage Protocols & Methodologies, CBD Essentials, and Clinical Application. She has worked as a group facilitator, speaker, and mentor for personal and collective transformation for more than two decades and specializes in psilocybin microdosing and canna-assisted emotional & trauma recovery.

#psilocybin #cannabis #BeccaWilliams

On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with the owners of Joint Operations, a MA dispensary group that has recently opened their first location in Rowley, MA with a second location set to open in Menden, MA in October of 2022. Joint Operations is a veteran owned and operated company. Owner and operator Bill Duggan is a U.S. Army veteran and retired law enforcement officer. Bill was Awarded ARCOMs (Army Achievement Medals) as well as a CAB (Combat Action Badge), served as a team leader and operated in Panama. He has dedicated his new career to unleashing the power of cannabis to improve lives after his family and friends found outstanding results in treating medical conditions with cannabis. Todd Sullivan of Cannaprenuer Partners is a co-owner of Joint Operations. Todd is a serial entrepreneur who founded his first business in 1986 at the age of 18. Since then, he has been involved in entrepreneurial businesses either as an investor, advisor or founder/employee, his entire working life. Todd currently is the owner of ValuePlays and former General Partner in Rand Strategic Partners, a long/short hedge fund and a partner in Cannaprenuer Partners.

#JointOperations #veteran #massachusetts

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel speaks with Valentia Valentine, owner of Synchronicity Holistic, an elevated dispensary catering to senior women. Valentia was a successful commercial real estate agent and mother, when a medical diagnosis forever changed her life. In 1989, after suffering from symptoms that were first thought to be a brain tumor, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. She refused to let the diagnosis define her and set about to learn everything she could about the disease and treatment options.

#ValentiaValentine #ms #msawareness

On-Location Long Beach, California Traditional tobacco is a medicine, which can be used in a prescribed way to promote physical, spiritual, emotional, and community well-being. It may be used as an offering to the Creator or to another person, place, or being. A gift of traditional tobacco is a sign of respect and may be offered when asking for help, guidance, or protection and is sometimes used directly for healing in traditional medicine. It may be burned in a fire or smoked in a pipe, yet the smoke is generally not inhaled. On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Ashéninka Mino. Mino was born and raised in the Amazon jungle of Peru. He comes from a family of healers and was taught by his grandfather how to use Natural Tobacco to eliminate accumulated negative, and harmful energy which is causing disharmony for the person and their space. He is joined by his partner, who is an herbalist and healer of many years, Bernadette Torres, and together they run Shabeta’s Healing Garden. Mino states that his full task is to create harmony and equilibrium in the person being healed and to reconnect the person to their spirit. Part of bringing harmony to a person is to bring back their joy, their passion, their strength. Everything that creates harmony and equilibrium.

#AsheninkaMino #tabacco #health #news #wellness #alterative

On-Location Long Beach, California On this episode of Let's Be Blunt, Montel talks with Dr. Jennifer Anderson, a pediatrician and ER doctor from Canada. Jennifer's son was diagnosed with intractable epilepsy. Daily life was a struggle for the family as her son would have continuous seizures. Out of pure desperation, Jennifer decided to try CBD. The results were astounding. The CBD significantly reduced the amount of daily seizures and increased his quality of life. Jennifer Anderson now specializes in medical cannabis for kids, in order to help other struggling families.

#JenniferAnderson #Canada #epilepsy

On-Location Long Beach, California On this episode of Let's Be Blunt, Montel speaks with Rylie Maedler. Rylie was diagnosed with aggressive bone tumors at the age of seven. Her parents decided to secretly begin giving her canna oils to help with the seizures and tumors in her face. Ever since then, Rylie has become a fierce advocate for canna in her home state of Delaware. At the age of nine, she helped pass a law in Delaware named "Rylie's Law", which allowed children under the age of 18 to use canna oils to treat intractable epilepsy and dystonia. Today, she is the CEO of her very own canna business: Rylie's Smile.

#RylieMaedler #cancer #RyliesSmileFoundation

On-Location Long Beach, California On this episode of Let's Be Blunt, Montel welcomes "Amazon" John Easterling to the podcast. John has spent years traversing the Amazon Rainforest and studying native botanicals and believes that using these Amazonian herbs mixed with canna plants can be a game-changer for the health industry. John informs Montel all about the different remedies derived from these amazing plants deep in the Amazon Jungle.

#JohnEasterling #bontanical #AmazonJungle

On-Location Long Beach, California On this episode of Let's Be Blunt, Montel talks with Heather Manus, a registered nurse that specializes in medical canna care. Heather is a founding member of Canna Nurses Network, which is comprised of over 3,000 nurses. Heather works in training new nurses for the organization and expanding their influence. In this episode, Heather shares how she started off as a nurse, as well as what led her to holistic medicine and working with canna.

#HeatherManus #nurses #globalnurses

On-Location Long Beach, California On this episode of Let's Be Blunt, Montel meets up with Tracy Ryan and Dr. Anahid Jewett at this year's Cannabis Science Conference. Tracy Ryan - a returning guest - has a daughter named Sophie who was diagnosed with a brain tumor at 8 1/2 months old (she’s now 9 years old). Dr. Anahid is a respected immunologist and professor at UCLA School of Dentistry who has been studying natural killer cells for over thirty years. She has made numerous groundbreaking discoveries related to both cancer and ALS. Tracy connected with Dr. Jewett and they started treating Sophie as the first-ever natural killer cell treatment patient. If this treatment continues to be successful, it could become an incredible alternative treatment option for cancer patients.

#TracyRyan #AnahidJewett #naturalkillercells

On this episode of Let's Be Blunt, Montel welcomes Dispense King and Dispense Queen. King and Queen are a couple who have both personally found relief through canna and are working to educate others through their business platform. They created their own canna edible and wellness brand named "Dispense Throne". The Dispense Throne is now on a mission to be the first fully black-owned dispensary in Baltimore.

#Baltimore #gummies #blackbusinesses

On this episode of Let's Be Blunt, Montel speaks with Leah Heise, former government attorney whose life was changed after being diagnosed with pancreatitis. After being told by doctors that there was no cure, she retired from her job and started a high-level opiate regimen to ease her pain. However, after turning to canna in hopes of a healthier alternative, she never looked back. Leah has since committed her time and efforts to helping others in a similar situation and is now working in the canna industry.

#LeahHeise #attorney #opioidcrisis

On this episode of Let's Be Blunt, Montel sits down with Nathaniel Janowitz. As a journalist for VICE magazine, Nathaniel shares his first-hand experience with "Brick Weed" from Paraguay. Referred to as the "world's worst weed", this chemical-ridden canna can leave you feeling nauseous. Despite this, this canna is sold all around South America at cheap prices. Montel and Nathaniel discuss the current situation in Paraguay and what the future of the canna market could look like if nothing changes.

#Vice #NathanielJanowitz #canna

Canna tourism is on the rise globally. A 2020 report found that 29% of ALL active leisure travelers want to partake in canna-related activities on vacation! Montel talks with Chris Chiari on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. Chris is the founder and president of The 420 Hotels. He is a canna advocate, investor and film producer. He is the owner and operator of the historic Patterson Inn in Denver, CO. He currently serves as the deputy director of the Colorado Branch of NORML and the president of the American Millennium Investment Corporation.

#420Hotel #ChrisChairi #norml

Montel catches up with his friend Redman while they are both in Denver, CO for 420 celebrations. Redman talks about the song he dropped on 4/20 titled "Jane", the latest on The NCP, and his new role on The Dab Roast.

#REDMAN #NCP #DabRoast

On this episode of Let’s Be Bunt, Montel talks with a cancer survivor, Christy, and her caretaker Kelly. Christy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and given a prognosis of three to five years to live. She underwent traditional cancer treatment for years, only to have the cancer return time after time until the treatments stopped working altogether. She decided to try cannabis as a last resort even though it is not legal in her home state. Her doctors are amazed and told her to keep doing whatever it is she is doing, as her cancer hasn’t progressed. She credits canna with her ability to leave hospice and move back home and continue to lead a productive life while keeping her cancer at bay.

#cancer #canna #caretaker

Four activist entrepreneurs thought there should be a consistent way consumers could trust their cannabis and cultivators could improve their products. The idea: develop testing and certification standards that could be built into the cannabis production process, at scale. On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with two of the founders of SC Labs, Jeff Gray, and Josh Wurzer. In 2010 they opened SC (Science of Cannabis) Labs in Capitola, California along with two other partners and developed the industry’s first testing standards. These guidelines are now widely adopted by the cannabis community, regulators, governments, and many organizations. As the industry transforms, they continue to support standards — helping clients meet new challenges, and advocating for common-sense regulation.

#SCLabs #Testing #labs