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Freedom Grow with Kristin Flor today on Hempresent! In 2011, the medical cannabis company her father co-owned (Montana Cannabis) was raided by the Federal Government. her mom and dad were suddenly facing an unfair fight in the court system. The feds did not allow the state laws in their court, so they had no defense, and they both were forced to prison. The private prison the feds sent her dad was ignoring his health problems, he was being tortured and severely neglected. Four months into her dad’s prison stay, she got a phone call from the US Marshals. They told Kristin her dad had two major heart attacks and she needed to come to take him off life support. During this most private time between her dad and her, there were two US Marshals guarding us. A few minutes after Kristin's dad stopped breathing, the nurses removed his covers and his fragile ankles were still shackled to the bed. He had osteoporosis and had broken eight bones in prison. When she left the hospital that night, she vowed to herself to do everything humanly possible to help the prisoners that her dad left behind.

In 2013 she became a public speaker about the subject of cannabis prisoners and active membership with the Human Solution. Her membership quickly led to board members, vice president, and executive director. After leaving The Human Solution in 2015, she co-founded Voices of the Cannabis War (VOW). VOW was not a 501c3, so their focus was writing articles in various magazines about the prisoners, creating images about them, attending events, and hosting VOW radio with Eugene Fischer who served 35 years of a LIFE sentence for cannabis. In 2019, Kristin started working seriously deep with Freedom Grow and decided this is where she wants to put all her attention!

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Branding Bud With Author David Paleschuck joins us today on Hempresent to talk about his book Branding Bud: The Commercialization of Cannabis. The book touches upon the political and legal history of cannabis; consumer segments and means of consumption; and how that has informed the legal cannabis brand landscape developing today. Designed to offer a comprehensive overview and contextualization of this new segment, 'Branding Bud' examines the multitude of emerging brands, their creative assets, and the strategies behind them. With over twenty years of brand-building and consumer marketing experience at American Express, MasterCard, PepsiCo, and Microsoft – and over seven years in the legal cannabis industry as VP, Licensing & Brand Partnerships at Dope Magazine; and most recently as Chief Brand Officer at Evergreen Herbal – Paleschuck has played a part in creating many of today’s well-known cannabis brands. His writings on cannabis trends, branding, and packaging have been featured in The Cannabis Industry Journal, New Cannabis Ventures, Dope Magazine, High Times, PROHBTD, among others. His work has been noted and quoted in Forbes, Kiplingers, The Brookings Institution as well as interviewed with Wharton School Of Business Entrepreneur Radio; CannabisRadio; among others. As Founder of New Leaf Licensing, he consults within the legal cannabis industry on brand licensing; and focuses on branding, positioning, and marketing as the Chief Brand Architect of The Matters Group.

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Forti Goods with founder Sharon Kevil joins us today on Hempresent. Sharon previously spent over a decade as an interior designer before turning her talents to develop furniture for Kohl’s. After an overseas factory trip where she witnessed subpar working conditions and horrible pollution, Sharon got to work building the kind of company she wanted to work for: socially & environmentally sustainable, meaningful, and family-supporting. Forti Goods is the first furniture company with lockable drawers to safely and securely store cannabis products. Based in Milwaukee, this anti-fast furniture startup creates handcrafted pieces for responsible cannabis use within the modern home by keeping curious hands out. Forti’s products are made in the USA, sustainably-sourced, built to last, have controlled access via an app, carbon filters that neutralize the scent of cannabis — and use FSC-certified woods and water-based finishes.

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Angel Thrasher (Salter) is the mother of Dylan Moon, a 22-year-old who was born a micro-preemie or born very prematurely, at just 26 weeks. Dylan was born with hydrocephalus resulting in brain damage and initial frontal lobe damage, which caused him to have intractable epilepsy. He suffers grand mal seizures which damage his brain, killing neurons and further worsening his condition. Not surprisingly, cannabis significantly lessons Dylan’s suffering, but the iron curtain of federal cannabis prohibition creates arbitrary obstacles to Dylan’s quest for relief, as well as thousands of other Americans seeking to lessen their suffering.

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The life of Tom Forcade with Colleen Manley today on Hempresent. Ms. Manley has an Executive MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management with a specialty in the business organization, sustainability, and succession planning and has earned her Doctor of Law and Master of Law degrees from the University of Arizona. She has also served as the lead Legacy Advisor for Shelterwood (now Pitcairn, multi-family office), whose clients include members of the founding American families. Colleen has extensive transactional experience regarding complex tax, legal and financial matters including business planning and transactions; mergers and acquisitions; contract negotiations; and financial, estate, and business succession planning. So it might be counter-intuitive to some that Colleen’s “other life” has been her journey as a Shareholder and a Director of Trans High Corporation AKA High Times. Colleen is the cousin of Thomas King Forcade, the founder of High Times Magazine, and a counter-culture icon. Currently, Colleen is working on producing a feature film with Academy Award Winning Professionals on the life of Thom Forcade. And she is also planning on creating a branding company featuring Tom which will be “rolled out” along with a biography on the mythic and controversial entrepreneur.

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Cannabis Basics with founder Ah Warner today on Hempresent. In 1994, newly pregnant Ah Warner knew that life would never be the same after she walked into the Fremont Hemp Company, realizing the possibilities for creation and production were limitless. 1995 saw the birth of her daughter, Darienne Zoa, along with an overly ambitious catalog of hemp products she called Cannabis Creations, which included candles, stationery, hand-dyed yarns, fabrics, handcrafted pillows, and even a line of hempseed goodies called Incredible Edibles. Meanwhile, she rolled up her sleeves and began researching the therapeutic benefits of blending hempseed oil with healing botanicals and essential oils. As her first potion, Ah made a Lavender and Tangerine Love Yourself Massage oil, still prominent in the now Cannabis Basics line-up. That same year, Ah put together a team of mentors, (Sandi and Mary from Brookside Soap and Lisa from Full Moon Rising), to help with the expansion of her hemp body care line. Also in 2015, the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) issued Cannabis Basics the first-ever trademark registration for a brand logo with both the cannabis leaf and the word “cannabis” that actually protects a product with cannabis in it.

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VAYA with the founder Salvador Santana. VAYA (IG) is a socially-conscious lifestyle cannabis flower brand, marketed as an all-natural, spiritual feminist tone, driven from African and Mexican indigenous roots. Salvador’s vision aims to embody folks ready to escape current narratives and harness an alternative route to elevated freedom. The initiative also engages and collaborates with community advocacy initiatives from a social justice & ecologically rooted consciousness, and voices issues plaguing disenfranchised peoples. As a renowned producer, songwriter, and musician, Salvador has attained global acclaim for founding multiple bands and headlining events. He has graced stages from the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Bonaroo Music and Arts Festival, the High Sierra Festival, South by Southwest, and the New Orleans Jazz Festival, and has participated in projects outside of his own solo aspirations, such as the Hymns for Peace DVD released in 2004 as well as his father, Carlos Santana’s 2013 Corazón, Live in Guadalajara, DVD.

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Sisters of The Valley are on a mission to heal the world through plant-based medicine. Like their Beguine ancestors, they are scholars who work together, pray together, and are dressed to identify their enclave. Nestled in the impoverished but agriculturally rich Central Valley, their order makes honorable jobs to support their community through organic health products. All products are hand-made by women; saged to the moon cycles, set on the new moon, and bottled under the full moon. The Sisters Of The Valley's medicine-making is guided by ancient tradition, with care and respect for the Earth’s plants. Their mission is to find new ways of helping people get the treatment that they need through plant-based medicine.

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Singer-Songwriter Shyan Selah. Today’s guest on Hempresent is Shyan Selah, a Kentucky-born/Seattle-raised Singer-Songwriter and Multi-Genre Music Artist with over 15 years of producing, recording, and performing Rock & Roll, Hip Hop, Soul, Blues, and Jazz music in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Shyan has shared the stage and worked with many world-famous talents from all genres of music such as Robin Thicke, Seal, Ludacris, and more. Shyan is also the founder and CEO of Brave New World, where he’s built a boutique entertainment firm combining a record label, music and film production, marketing, and management divisions. Having recently completed a TV pilot for a new docu-series based on his life and career, Shyan is also working on a variety of TV, Film, and Multi-media projects. His taste and range in music began in early childhood with the help of his two older brothers, a soul and gospel songstress for a mother, and a record collector for a father. Shyan was influenced by a wide variety of legendary artists including Michael Jackson, Run DMC, Prince, Sting, LL Cool J, and James Brown. As such, his music style reflects the roots of his upbringing and the essence of these legends while authentically standing on its own. 

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Single-Use Plastic In The Cannabis Industry with Jason Lammers. Jason is the General Manager at 420WholesalePack.com, the Vice President of the Cannabis Alliance, & Chair of The Sustainable Cannabis Committee. Jason has joined us today to talk about regional efforts to address the growing problem of single-use plastics in the cannabis industry. Government regulations require strict packaging guidelines to ensure cannabis products are tamper-proof and child-proof, for good reason. Especially when cannabis comes in a wide variety of tasty treats like gummy bears and chocolate bars these days, it’s vital that kids (or even pets) can’t accidentally get into sampling an adult’s stash. Unfortunately, these laws often require large amounts of single-use plastic waste to be created in the process of protecting the public. This contradiction makes it quite difficult for cannabis businesses to utilize sustainable packaging materials if they want to keep compliant with the law. But with legal cannabis rapidly becoming one of the largest industries in the nation, not to mention the looming threat of climate change closing in on us, sustainable solutions to the plastic problem are genuinely needed.

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