Hempresent

Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia is today’s guest on Hempresent. Garcia is an author, cannabis cultivator, and entrepreneur, and was a member of the 1960’s group the Merry Pranksters which was immortalized in Tom Wolf’s book The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe that was published in 1968. The book is remembered today as an early and arguably the most popular example of the growing literary style called New Journalism. Garcia is the former wife of the late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, and currently sits on the boards of the Rex Foundation and the Furthur Foundation, as well as on the advisory board of the Marijuana Policy Project, and she has kindly taken time out to join me today. The Merry Pranksters were a group of friends and family associated with Ken Kesey. Many lived together communally in a house La Honda, CA, and several traveled together across the country in Furthur in 1964. Today Vivian speaks to Carolyn about her early days as one of the first high profile cannabis cases, as well as how her early days with the merry pranksters shaped her as a person.

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The green Renaissance with Julie Chiariello. As a woman in business for the last two decades, Julie 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. She is a champion of 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.

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Cannabis for epilepsy and how to get treatment with Cecilia Sivertson founder of Nana's Secret. Nana's Secret was founded by Cecilia Sivertson, out of a need to ease her epilepsy symptoms and arthritis pain. In 2013. Cecilia tried cannabis in desperation after her prescription epilepsy medications left her with tremors, pain, and cloudy thinking that made life difficult. Amazed at the immediate and lasting results she experienced, Cecilia began sharing her own infused beverages, creams, and tinctures with others and the rest is history.

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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.

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The creation of Seattle HEMPFEST with HEMPFEST founder Gary Cook. Throughout the years of being on Cannabis Radio Vivian has been named the founder of the Seattle HEMPFEST. Well, today he sets the record straight Gary. Vivian explains how profoundly HEMPFEST has changed his life and how it continues to change the lives of millions who have attended. The Seattle HEMPFEST protective started out as a humble little gathering of stoners and has grown into one of the most sophisticated cannabis policy reform events in the world.

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Music marketing and activism with Catherine Enny creator of the Power To The Peaceful Festival. Today's episode gets to pick the brain of one of the best music and marketing minds alive today. Catherine's music career kicked off as engineer, producer, and manager for Grammy Award Nominee Josh Homme (Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age) Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu, and The Dwarves. Then she partnered with Warren Entner, manager of legends and platinum-selling artists Rage Against The Machine, Deftones, Failure, Faith No More to launch street their marketing firm, Ignition Marketing.

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GI Mary Jane A.K.A Joie Leigh joins Vivian today on Hempresent. Growing up as the daughter of a Baltimore City police officer, Joie Leigh was exposed early on in life to a world of awe-inspiring contrast. She developed a great sense of love and unity from her family and the church school she attended and took joy in being of service to others through various outreach programs. In contrast, Joie saw first hand all of the crime and poverty on the streets of Baltimore City. She saw her father, a true servant of the people become frustrated with the rise of corruption in the BCPD and quickly realized that corruption was helping to facilitate the downfall of the city she loved.

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HEMP Party Australia With Michael Balderstone with Hemp End Marijuana Prohibition. Michael Balderstone is the HEMP Party President and President of Nimbin HEMP Embassy as well. HEMP's plan is to re-legalize and regulate Cannabis for personal, medical and industrial use. They also want to allow for health education, home growing, and regulated sales through registered outlets which will separate Cannabis from the criminality of the black-market and end consequent associated corruption. Michael believes releasing all those imprisoned for Cannabis alone and the removal of all records of previous criminal Cannabis convictions. These topics and many more are the main focus of today's Hempresent, HEMP Party Australia With Michael Balderstone with Hemp End Marijuana Prohibition.

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Progressive Activism in 2019 with Jake Burdett. Jake is a Salisbury University Poly Sci Student, and progressive activist on many fronts including cannabis. Burdett was charged with two felony counts of making an illegal recording and distributing the video filmed during a Maryland Marijuana Justice rally at Maryland Rep. Andy Harris’s Salisbury office. Marijuana legalization protesters have long tangled with Harris, who in 2014 worked to block full legalization of the drug in the District of Columbia.

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The Rainbow Family Of Living Light with Barry "Plunker" Adams. A founding member of The Rainbow Family Barry, better know as Plunker, was part of the first Eugene Rennisance fair now known as the Oregon Country Fair. Not to mention Plunker was a judge at the original Cannabis Cup, receiving his name from a two-string instrument he plays at these various festivities. the Rainbow Family's full name is the Rainbow Family of Living Light, but you can just call them the Rainbow Family. Around since the early 1970s, this counter-culture group was heavily inspired by the famous 1969 Woodstock Festival as well as the anti-war, pro-love movements. Unlike many of the hippie groups that saturated the 1960s before fading away, the Rainbow Family lives on, holding annual Rainbow Gatherings.

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