Richard Delisi: Serving life for cannabis with Ashley Delisi. In December 1989, Richard DeLisi was sentenced to a total of 98 years in prison for trafficking cannabis as part of a RICO case. Richard was caught as part of a reverse-sting/entrapment operation for trafficking cannabis into the State of Florida. Richard and his brother Theodore were both charged for cannabis trafficking - his brother served 24 years in total and was released in 2013. This case was based on intelligence from an informant for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement who was cooperating due to impending firearms and cocaine charges. Ashley Delisi is the daughter of Richard Delisi. Ashely has been fighting to get her father released with every last breath. The toll Delisi’s incarceration has had on his family is immeasurable including the death of his wife and his son from pill overdoses. Ashley herself has suffered from depression and anxiety disorder and multiple other health issues due to the loss of her father. She wants to get to know her father. Ashley wants to help him rebuild his life one step at a time. “My dad doesn't even know how to use a cell phone. I will teach him,” she said. Today Vivian speaks with Delisi about the case and how you can help release Richard Delisi from this ridiculous sentence.

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Becoming a Citizen Activist Nick Licata. Nick is from a working-class family, where neither parent graduated from high school. Licata, who couldn’t read until the age of nine, was the first of his relatives to attend college.

He led the local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Bowling Green State University and subsequently was elected student body president. He became a Seattle City Councilmember despite being significantly outspent, with the majority of the council, the mayor, and both daily newspapers supporting his opponent. He was elected to five terms to the council and became its president.

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Empowering women in cannabis with Julie Chiarello. As a woman in business for close to the last two decades Julie Chiarello enjoys bringing green, cutting edge products successfully to market and empowering other women to succeed. She is a medical user, an herbalist, and believes in the use and protection of herbal medicines in all their forms. Julie Chiarello is a champion of a new style business that upholds the tenets of sustainability, empowered consumerism, philanthropy, and more intelligent use of our collective resources. She has successfully built and led the sales teams of various companies within the yoga, health, and wellness industries and entered the Cannabis market in the vaporizer manufacturing segment, where she was blessed to cultivate a global network of friends and activists. Julie is the editor-in-chief of Skunk Magazine.

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Our Planet and Our Plant with OP Innovates, Keith Butler. With 40+ years serving the cannabis industry and 20+ years developing consumer products, Keith leads formulations for the company and helps them achieve their goals. OP innovates is a formulations company dedicated to delivering the world’s most effective cannabinoids. Using Op's patent-pending delivery method, termed Nature's Delivery System, its products provide unmatched absorption of cannabinoids, omegas, and some vitamins, improving results and experience.

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Art In Life and Cannabis With Art Chantry. Today Vivian is joined by an old and dear friend who has been known as a pioneer in his field. They go through the years of Art's career including his work with Vivian's own "Hempfest". Art is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he has done for bands from the Pacific Northwest, such as Mudhoney, Mono Men, Soundgarden, and The Sonics. Chantry's designs are perhaps most closely associated with the Seattle, Washington-based Sub Pop Records and the Bellingham, Washington-based Estrus Records, for which he has worked with dozens of bands.

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Police Reform In Our Trying Times with Norm Stamper. Social media has been on teeming with videos of police officers using rubber bullets, flashbangs and smoke bombs against, not always, but mostly peaceful protestors. Today we sit down with Norm and talk about how we can avoid this type of situation in the future. As well as his tenured career dealing with this while he himself was an active police officer. Norm was a police officer for 34 years, the first 28 in San Diego, the last six (1994-2000) as Seattle’s Chief of Police. He earned his Ph.D. in Leadership and Human Behavior and is the author of two books: To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America’s Police (2016) and Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (2005).

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Minority Cannabis Business Association with Tiffany Bowden. Entrepreneur, Business Consultant, and Corporate Diversity Expert, Tiffany Bowden is the founding President and Co-Founder of the Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA) and Co-Owner of Comfy Tree Enterprises. The MCBA is the first non-profit dedicated to the needs of minorities in the cannabis industry. Comfy Tree Enterprises provides business consultation to cannabis enthusiasts, start-up’s and established companies. Honing her entrepreneurial savvy in the corporate arena, Ms. Bowden built a solid reputation as a go-to expert in investor building, grant writing, and contract to bid. During her corporate tenure, Ms. Bowden brought in profits of over 500 Million dollars. She has led business development projects in top companies such as Procter & Gamble, Groupon, Barefoot Proximity, and Arnold Worldwide. An advocate for medical cannabis, Ms. Bowden gained the first-hand experience during a spinal injury of its importance. Using personal experiences as a platform for advocacy, she fights to ensure access to improved quality of life via medical cannabis. Having built a network of over 50,000 cannabis entrepreneurs, many who are women, and minority, Ms. Bowden provides management consulting to entrepreneurs applying for, starting, and managing cannabis businesses. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Communications and Diversity and Inclusion, Ms. Bowden has a master’s specialization in Human Resources, Sales, Training, and instruction. She is a highly sought speaker on issues of cannabis growing, cultivation, and marketing and branding.

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While making Detroit her home base, Jessica travels all over the United States to document Top 40 concerts as well as notable events like the High Times Cannabis Cup, Breakaway Music Festival, Chicago Open Air, and most prominently The Forbes Under 30 Summit. Her heavy involvement in the live entertainment space has allowed her the opportunity to interview and photograph some of the top names in music including Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Keith Urban, Quavo, Wu-Tang Clan, Thirty Seconds to Mars, The Chainsmokers, Snoop Dogg and more. Most recently, Jessica launched her very own music publication Life Beyond The Music which has quickly grown in virality. Jessica Golich has been featured in Medium and was recently interviewed by High Times Magazine in which she discusses her journey as an entrepreneur and launching Life Beyond The Music.

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Clergy for a New Drug Policy with The Rev. Alexander E. Sharp. Sharp has been working on criminal justice issues for 15 years. He served as the founding executive director of Protestants for the Common Good from 1996 through June 2012. He and colleague Walter Boyd joined the early efforts in Illinois to provide a second chance for those seeking to rebuild their lives after prison. They were struck by how many individuals, predominantly African American and Hispanic, were incarcerated for low-level drug offenses.

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The Civil Survival Project organizes directly impacted people and invests in a leadership capacity to advocate for criminal justice reform. The criminal justice and reentry system are failing us so Civil Survival organizes people and empowers them to get active in creating real change. Their mission is to Educate, Motivate, and Liberate. That's what Civil Survival is all about. Civil Survival teaches participants how to use their collective voice to create policy change that promotes liberty and justice for all. A lot of the Civil Survival participants have served time for mistakes they've made but not one of them was sentenced to a lifetime of unemployment, homelessness, and a mountain of debt.

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