On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Nick Satmary, the Director of Operations for Sanctuary Medicinals, a multi-state cannabis company operating in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Florida and New Jersey.

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Alice Johnson, a former federal prisoner turned advocate who received worldwide attention when Kim Kardashian advocated for her release from a mandatory life sentence without parole for a first-time nonviolent drug case.

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Maur Stringer & Cynthia Mompoint, a husband and wife team taking the Massachusetts cannabis drink industry by storm. Maur was a victim of the drug wars, arrested at the age of 14, charged and sentenced as an adult.

On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel speaks with Dr Paula-Noel Macfie, the founder of Backdoor Medicine, an organization dedicated to providing cannabis suppository education along with plant based nutrition and plant based medicine education.

Montel chats with KymB on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. Kym is an avid cannabis and psilocybin advocate, community activist and influencer. She serves on the Advisory Board of the CWCBE and contributes to numerous local and national organizations.

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel speaks with the Co-Founder and CEO of Jane Technologies Inc. After leaving active duty in 2011 as a U.S. Army veteran and Apache helicopter commander, he turned to cannabis to re-acclimate to civilian life.

Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties in Northern California make up the Emerald Triangle, an area known for its legacy farms and cultivars that many believe to be the origin of US cannabis industry.

On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel speaks with Haley Elizabeth Anderson and Mary Bailey about the recently released documentary, The Sentence of Michael Thompson. As canna legalization continues across America, so do canna arrests and convictions.

Montel speaks with Len May on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. Len is the author of “Making Cannabis Personal”, a guide on how genetics interact with cannabinoids to create truly unique experiences and the host of the “Everything is Personal” Podcast.

Montel talks with Jointly founder David Kooi on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. David is on a MISSION to change the conversation and stigma around canna to one that is about wellbeing and all the ways canna can enhance our lives.

The removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act is a proposed legal and administrative change in cannabis law at the federal level that can be undertaken by Congress, The Executive Branch or The United States Attorney General and has been proposed repeatedly since 1972.

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt Montel speaks with Dustin Hoxworth, a lifelong canna enthusiast and the Founder and Editor-at-large of Fat Nugs Magazine and co-founder of Three Good Buds, an online canna community built around the love and appreciation of the plant and all it has to offer.

#FatNugs #cannabiscommunity #dustinHoxwoth #cannabiseducation #cannabiscommunity #cannabis

One of the stigmas holding back the acceptance of medical canna, especially within the medical community, is the lack of information in a format they are trained to receive, analyze and utilize it in.

On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with Michael Sassano, CEO of Somai Pharmaceuticals, a large-scale manufacturer of medical canna compounds based in Portugal. His experience as both a developer and banker in the United States and Europe provides a unique perspective towards navigating international rules and regulations for developing canna medicines.

#portugal #cannabiscommunity #cannabisculture

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel sits down with Michael Scott and Kevin Harrington at the grand opening of their first Joint Operations dispensary located in Rowley, MA, a portfolio company of their Cannaprenuer Partners venture. Michael Scott has raised over 35M in canna funding on the heels of a successful exit of a vertical operation in MA. KevinHarrington, one of the “original” sharks on Shark Tank, lends his business acumen as an uber successful serial entrepreneur to Cannapreneur Partners as a strategic investor and advisor. Cannapreneur Partners plans to build a portfolio of canna companies, starting with Joint Operations dispensaries in MA, with expansion along the east coast.

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