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Environmentally sustainable building practices with Greg Flavall. Greg co-founded Hemp Technologies in Asheville, North Carolina, to build healthy, breathable, energy-saving homes with Hemp/Lime and other non-VOC (or non-Volatile organic compound) materials. After a long career in the construction industry, Greg is actively involved in efforts to reduce, recycle and reuse construction site materials, combined with renewable, carbohydrate-based technologies to help reduce our carbon footprint and give back to the Planet. Greg has a deep knowledge of renewable building materials from around the globe, sourcing, and distribution, and supply chain management. Greg is a passionate Speaker/Teacher on "Universal Design" and "Future-Proofing" for "Aging-in-Place" passive income homes - aka "Green Granny Flats" and the ”Boomerang Income Plan” to help ease the affordable housing crisis gripping our world right NOW! He has joined us today to educate us about ways that hemp and other natural resources can contribute to environmentally sustainable building practices and also talk about some special projects he is currently working on.

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Being Denied Cannabis with Barbara Gooding. Barbara is a former nursing professional who suffers from a serious pain condition. Obviously we have talked at length about how cannabis can assist in people managing their pain and suffering. In many instances, cannabis can be used to compliment or even reduce the number of pharmaceuticals taken to ease such pain or suffering. Then, on the other hand, we have heard of physicians pushing back on the notion that patients should be able to self medicate for certain issues your cannabis or cannabis-derived products. Barbara had a 40-year career as a nurse and 20 of those years were as a nursing supervisor. Then in 2012, she suffered a spinal injury that left her in severe pain from her neck down. She joins us today to talk about her personal experience with her pain. As well as talk about how she has helped to change the common thought process of physicians to allow them to experiment with cannabis and cannabis-derived products. Baraba wants to make sure that no one who needs cannabis gets denied the opportunity to use it.

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Drive revenue and growth in cannabis with Benjamin Ray, Tread Global International Chief Marketing Officer. Ben is a proven industry leader who implements new ideas, processes, and procedures to drive revenue and growth including building and executing company sales, marketing, partnerships, and innovative capital raising strategies. Ben has tackled difficult challenges and create solutions that have positively influenced and helped people around the world. With exceptional written, verbal, and visual presentation skills he has deep experience in funded startups, highly regulated industries, consumer products, and national and international QSR development. With an eye toward the future, he addresses the changing landscape of emerging technologies and ever-evolving customer behaviors to capitalize on the opportunities of digital transformation that deliver on customer objectives and experiences, while focusing on the human element to truly take advantage of the massive opportunities to build companies of lasting value.

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Green Zone Japan with Naoko Miki and Yuji Masataka. The two of them founded Green Zone Japan as a medical cannabis advocacy group. Its main focus is bringing evidence-based, accurate and up-to-date information on medical cannabis to Japanese medical professionals and the general public. Naoko Miki, Green Zone Japan's Program Director, is a translator by trade. She first became interested in medical cannabis when she translated one of Peter McWilliams' books, "LOVE 101," and learned the circumstances of his death. In 2010, Naoko translated "Marijuana Is Safer" by Mason Tvert, Steve Fox and Paul Armentano (who has been a guest on this show), and created an FB page for the book where she started advocating for legalization in Japan.

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Grasslands: A Journalism Minded Agency with Ricardo Baca. Full-service communications firm Grasslands: A Journalism Minded Agency, has launched “Destigmatized,” an Instagram TV docuseries documenting America’s ever-transforming relationship with the cannabis plant. The docuseries will feature more than 120 episodes, with each short documentary capturing an individual's story about how cannabis has improved their life. Ricardo Baca is a 20-year veteran journalist, keynote speaker, TEDx veteran and thought leader in modern media and drug-policy circles.

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Creating a legal, regulated, and compliant cannabis industry with Mitchell Colbert. Mitchell is a lobbyist, freelance journalist, and formerly an editor of The Leaf Online. He has written over a hundred published articles for outlets including Cannabis Now, High Times, Hemp Magazine, Green Flower Media, the Wine Industry Network, ABV Magazine, and About.com. As a journalist and cannabis researcher, Mitchell has written on the medical effects of nearly two-dozen cannabinoids and terpenes, the environmental impacts of cultivation, the history of hemp, cannabis genetics, the stock market, vaporizers, and cannabis doctors

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Hempresent 2019 Rewind With Karen Averill And Jerry Whiting. Weeding out the norm in stamped leaf patterns with Karen Averill of Cannaflage. Along with the introduction of today’s nascent legal cannabis industry has come an explosion of interest in all things cannabis. The formerly nefarious, illicit herb is experiencing a cultural renaissance as an evolving focus on the cannabis lifestyle emerges into the daylight of mainstream attention. Modern canna-fashion for this new age of the herb is advancing on par with a penchant for the plant’s therapeutic and euphoric effects. Imagine, if you will, bright green cannabis leaf fractals emblazoned across a variety of pants, skirts, neckties, umbrellas, and more. But you do not need to invoke your imagination, because these are a few of the products you can get today from Oregon based Cannaflage Designs, and I have the proprietor Karen Averill with me to tell you more about her canna-centric company where she puts the high, in high definition, photography.

Today on Hempresent were joined by Jerry Whiting, founder of Leblanc CNE. Founded in 2012 in Seattle, LeBlanc CNE focuses on cannabis & hemp genetics, formulations & product development, research & education. They specialize in CBD-rich cannabis & hemp and vintage heirloom landraces strains of cannabis sativa l. They support organic, sustainable cultivation and permaculture practices including advanced composting techniques. Jerry helps us take a deep dive in the 2018 farm bill and how it can and will affect the cannabis industry as a whole.

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Investing in the cannabis industry with Luis Vega. Luis is a Cannabis Activist, Entrepreneur, and Hemp farmer. He also is the manager for business development for Present Naturals Distribution. They are delivering valuable products focused on solution-based remedies for people who can really use them. Present Naturals have learned to intertwine eastern and western methodologies to provide what the body naturally can use for overall health benefit. They are thankful to have discovered and created many new and continued ways to utilize Cannabis, Vitamins, and Herbs to collectively and independently to do so. With 10+ successful years of Food Service management experience, investing in the cannabis industry was the natural thing to do. Growing teams, bringing products to market, managing to fund and evangelizing the benefits of America's next big GDP contributor. This has been more than engaging. Luis has operated in Urban, Suburban and Rural campuses and states alike for more than a decade stemming from medical cannabis to the new recreational markets that approach. He is also the co-host to Cannabis Corner.

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Hempsters: Plant the Seed with Diana Oliver. Diana is an accomplished filmmaker with an expansive repertoire of film and television projects to her credit. Considered a maverick within the hemp movement, she was among the first to bring more Hemp awareness into the public eye with her groundbreaking documentary film called Hempsters: Plant the Seed Starring Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson and other legendary performers who shared her passion for hemp.

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Athletics and Sports Changing Perception of Cannabis and the People that Use It as Jim McAlpine is on a mission to change the perception of cannabis and the people that use it via athletics and sports.


This Silicon Valley entrepreneur is a father of two daughers and also the founder of “CannaDads”. Over the past 3 years McAlpine has become one of the most well known figures in the cannabis industry and known as the leading expert in the field of cannabis and athletics by creating The 420 Games. A national tour of athletic events to change the perception of cannabis.

McAlpine also created New West Summit and is a partner in the world’s first athletic edible products by CannAthlete. “Everything in Moderation Except Sweat”(TM) For Jim this slogan is a motto he both preaches and also lives by. Jim’s message is simple and applies to a global audience- anyone and everyone whose lives can be improved with the health benefits.

Jim McAlpine is a lifelong entrepreneur and executive with over 30 years in sales, marketing, brand development and event production. Creator of the world’s first online lift ticket, Jim's first company, SnowBomb.com, was a technology and services asset for the ski industry. Jim McAlpine eventually moved on from the ski industry to focus on cannabis, not only as a businessman, but as an activist. Jim has focused his energy creating events such as The 420 Games, recently acquired by Civilized, a leading lifestyle brand and multi-platform media company in the cannabis industry. 

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