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Rick Cusick has one of the most unique professional portfolios in the modern cannabis industry. He has worked on the top tiers of media, commerce, culture, and cannabis activism for 25 years.

Best-known for his 18-year tenure at High Times magazine and Hightimes.com from 1998 to 2016, including infamous turns as ad director, co-editor, and associate publisher & spokesperson, Rick has appeared on The Daily Show with John Stewart, Entertainment Tonight, CNN Business Report, The Bill O'Reilly Radio Show, CNN Business Report, Huffington Post Live, The History Channel, and many local television news shows, radio programs, and cannabis-themed podcasts.

Rick has published over 200 articles, essays, columns, and interviews relating to cannabis and cannabis law reform. Rick has also served on the board of directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) for eleven years.

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David Fenton is the Chairman and founder of Fenton Communications created in 1982 to promote issue-oriented public relations campaigns focusing on the environment, public health, and human rights. He pioneered the use of professional P.R. and advertising techniques by nonprofit public interest groups in the United States and around the world. 

Fenton was formerly director of Public Relations at Rolling Stone magazine in 1978 and worked for High Times Magazine. He was co-producer of the No Nukes concerts with Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, and many others in New York City, in 1979. In the late 1960s, he was a photojournalist, for Liberation News Service while also publishing in the NY Times, Life, Newsweek and others. His book of photographs SHOTS: An American Photographer's Journey was published in 2005. His new book, "The Activist’s Media Handbook," discusses how to organize social media campaigns.

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In 1982 he became the morning talk show host of WKDA/KDF in Nashville, Tennessee which was the number-one talk show in the mid-south for two years. In 1986 he became a full-time touring comedian, based in San Francisco. In his twenty-six years as a standup comedian, he has appeared on dozens of national TV shows, headlined A-List comedy clubs from coast to coast – Improv, Punchline, Comedy Underground, Comedy Works, and more – growing an audience of devotees to his unique take on the human potential movement.

His first book, “Fondle The Fear,” is now in its third printing, and is the basis for a TV show by the same name, broadcast by Comcast Television in west coast markets. He also creates short stories of transformation for NPR stations KQED, KUSP, and KAZU in Northern California. He currently produces and hosts Planet Cruz Comedy with Richard Stockton, a live comedy/variety show performed at the Rio Theatre.

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Doug McVay, who joins us today on Hempresent, is an activist, writer, researcher, and speaker with a long history in drug policy reform. He's the editor of Drug Policy Facts and Health Systems Facts and he maintains the Real Reporting family of websites, including Drug Policy Facts, Health Systems Facts, and Real Reporting Foundation.

Doug currently produces and hosts a weekly half-hour radio show called Century Of Lies, which is produced for the Drug Truth Network and distributed via the Pacifica Foundation Radio Network. He also produces and hosts a monthly half-hour radio show called Free Culture Radio, which is produced at the studios of KBOO Radio in Portland, Oregon, and is also distributed via Pacifica. As a member of KBOO's Prison Pipeline Collective, Doug also occasionally hosts and produces installments of the Prison Pipeline show.

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Swami Select mindfully cultivates craft cannabis in native Mendocino soil under the full sun, moon, and stars in the heart of Northern California’s famed Emerald Triangle. Co-founders of Swami Select, Nikki Lastreto and Swami Chaitanya each have their own roots deeply planted in cannabis culture, history, and knowledge. Always advocating for their fellow craft cannabis farmers, they both participate actively in political forums that shape legislation affecting local Emerald Triangle, and California-wide, small-batch cannabis cultivators.

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Washington Bud Company with CEO Shawn DeNae today on Hempresent with Vivian McPeak only on The Cannabis Radio. Shawn DeNae has a determination to defend craft cannabis, business models. Boutique batch products produced by dedicated hands-on ownership are a segment of this new market that often gets pushed aside by the mergers and acquisition crowd.

Shawn believes opportunities exist to give this hard-working section of cannabis entrepreneurs a large voice to balance the bellow of the big as our fast-paced industry is lobbied to manipulate laws in favor of the elite. Shawn’s background includes advocacy for the Coalition for Standards and Ethics, Chair for the Health Before Happy Hour Campaign, Board Member of the Cannabis Farmer’s Council, Founding Member of The Cannabis Alliance, Chair of the Cannabis Commission Formation Committee, and Board Member of the Craft Cannabis Coalition.

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CLEO was formed by two friends passionate about expanding access to clean cannabis products. As the biggest believers in the power of cannabis as wellness, we wanted to create a product line that brings all of the quality and lab-testing of the regulated THC market, while being accessible in states like Texas & Minnesota, where our families and friends live. And so CLEO was born.

Whether you’re a hemp connoisseur or just learning about it for the first time, Your Friend CLEO is here for you. Our flagship line of hemp-derived CBD and Delta-8 gummies has something for everyone (provided you’re 21 or older!).

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Big Island Genetics master grower Aaron Zeeman a.k.a. “Professor Potgrower” joins us today on Hempresent with Vivian McPeak only on The Cannabis Radio.

Aaron has had his gear in High Times twice and has been on the front page of the Hawaii-Tribune Herald for his cannabis creations. The professor brings you some of the best Hawaii has to offer, a “Sativa Believa”, if you have the time, BIG has the seeds!

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Johnny Green is the Director of Management and Marketing of the International Cannabis Business Conference. The International Cannabis Business Conference is the planet earth's premier cannabis networking event that will provide unparalleled educational and networking opportunities.

This conference is the perfect place for entrepreneurs and policymakers of all backgrounds to learn about the latest trends in the cannabis industry.

Marlo Richardson is a black entrepreneur who is making a huge name for herself in California’s cannabis industry. Marlo did not start her career in the cannabis industry. Her successes have abounded in different industries since leaving her previous profession. She has been profitable in real estate, crypto, insurance, production businesses, and more. Her portfolio of experience has led her to become very informed about developing profitable companies. Richardson’s significant accolades as a businesswoman in the cannabis industry all started with her mother. Cannabis as Medicine Marlo Richardson’s mother had a challenging year in 2018. Richardson recalls her mother being in a lot of pain before having surgery for a full hip replacement. Physicians prescribed narcotic pain medication for her mother’s discomfort. However, Marlo Richardson noticed that her mother only found pain relief after using strong doses. A friend of Richardson recommended the use of ointments and creams made with CBD. Richardson’s friend indicated that her mother may experience some pain relief without the negative impact of prescribed narcotics. Richardson began educating herself on how cannabis may have promised natural elements to help others after that moment.

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