Blunt Talk

Brit runs down this week's cannabis news out of MA, OH, CA, UT, AZ, IA, MI, Canada, Australia, and Space. And WBZ news Anchor Nichole Davis joins Brit in the studio to discuss a new University of Montreal study on how cannabis effects teenage brains long term.

Brit has this week's Global, National, Local Cannabis Headlines (00:30) Scientific/Medical Cannabis News (2:30) Financial Cannabis News (4:32) and Political Cannabis News (5:20) And Canadians and other foreigners are being given lifetime bans from entering the U.S. if they have anything to do with cannabis (7:18.) Brit talks to CA/NV Cannabis Attorney, Shoshanna Silverberg, about what this means for Green Card/Visa holders who want to invest in pot (11:20)

In Brit's first solo episode, (thanks for everything, Carl!) we talk about Americann's nearly 1,000,000 sqft grow facility they're building in Freetown, Ma. And Coca Cola is looking at stock in Aurora Cannabis Co, possibly for CBD-Coke. Why is it always Canadian cannabis companies doing big things again?!

We discuss the first financial institution to agree to work with recreational cannabis companies in the Bay State, and what that means for the future of adult-use sales.

Dr. Jordan Tishler joins Brit to discuss cannabis for degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Advise for the geriatric community, family members of patients, and patients themselves.

Dr Tishler explains how patients 65 years and older can approach considering medical marijuana for a number of ailments.

In this mini-clip, our resident cannabis physician, Dr Jordan Tishler, explains how chemicals from cannabis can be grown outside the plant. This, as Ginkgo Bioworks in Boston is eyeing the cannabis extraction world.

This week we cover the Trump Administration's Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee, a group trying to push more negative coverage of cannabis. And we discuss the new ruling in MA, that bans on medical Marijuana Dispensaries will no longer be allowed.

We discuss the recent Cannabis Control Commission meeting in which 2 testing labs were OK'd for preliminary licenses to test recreational pot, and the panel votes not to review controversial Host Community Agreements. We talk about the impact to small business owners.

We discuss the Drug Enforcement Agency's about-face on cannabis and opioids. We discuss the MA CCC's meeting to consider approving the first recreational testing lab, and Brit covers recent research on the decline of opioid abuse numbers in states with legal pot.