Hempresent

John Vergados is the omnipresent editor of SKUNK Magazine, Canada’s premier marijuana cultivation publication. Vergados, fluent in three languages and an avid baseball fan and player with the broken bones to prove it, is at heart a humanitarian ambassador for cannabis who uses the mag to advocate for those deprived of medicine or victimized by the marijuana laws, sponsoring fund-raisers with a network of other humanitarians in the industry who step up when others do not.

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U.S. Marine Sargent Sean J. Major is making a national push for approval to be the first active duty service member to use medical marijuana. Major has received a position to recommendation for medical cannabis use in October, he is currently prescribed more than 20 different pill varieties. There are 25 million veterans living among us today. The projected active duty and the strength of the U.S. Armed Forces for 2016 is over 1,300,000 people. It's reported that in all the american wars there have been 650,000 battle deaths, and about 1.2 million deaths during service in war time out of about 44 million people total who have served in the military during war.

When our veterans return home, no matter what their condition is, they deserve to enjoy the support and assistance they have earned, not just lip service and hollow words from politicians seeking to gain votes or political advantage. Sadly that's not always the case, but times are slowly changing. Sean J. Major and Vivian McPeak discuss the pharmaceutical industry and the movement to bring medical cannabis into the treatment plans of our returning soldiers.

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Renee Gagnon is the co-founder and CEO of International Cannabis Centres Inc. a supply chain solution for cannabis based in British Columbia, Canada and a board member of Women Grow Vancouver Island. The Medicinal Cannabis Resource Centre Inc. (MCRCI) is a private organization created to assist patients, by providing guidance in the use of cannabis for medical purposes in a compassionate and non-judgmental environment, and enabling them to meet Health Canada’s requirements to use cannabis legally.

The Centre does not provide patients with a family physician or a specialist. The Centre works with doctors who have an understanding of cannabis and its medical uses. Those doctors confine their care to issues related to the medical use of marijuana and take responsibility for the support of Health Canada applications. One of the staff members of MCRCI will review your medical history and a doctor’s appointment will be arranged if you qualify.

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Morgan Kristine is the Founder of the Cannabis Women's Alliance, and the former President of the Marijuana Business Association (MJBA), working closely with businesses in the early days of legalization. Prior to that, Morgan was an International Business Associate for Hidden City Entertainment, managing worldwide sales and global manufacturing. As Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Off-the-Grid, Morgan worked closely with Lucasfilm, creating and importing over 1 million items for the Star Wars 20th Anniversary convention in Los Angeles. Starting in late 1999, she spent six years as an account executive for Bill Gates' Corbis Corporations. Morgan also spent five years in Los Angeles, as Vice President of Masterfx, one of Hollywood's leading make-up and creative effect studios. A longtime cannabis activist and mmj grower, Morgan was an early ganjapreneur, launching her own line of cannabis in-home parties Mary Jane by Morgan at the turn of legalization in 2012. She's hosted several panel discussions at major cannabis trade events, and is passionate about helping women succeed in the cannabis industry.

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Mayor Pete Holmes has been a Seattle resident since 1985, and was sworn into office as Seattle City Attorney on January 4, 2010. Pete received his B.A. in American Studies from Yale College in 1978, with a concentration in Energy & Environmental Sciences. He worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., in Washington, D.C., before entering the University of Virginia School of Law, where he and his wife Ann each earned their J.D. in 1984.

Soon after Holmes was elected as mayor, arrests for possession of marijuana increased significantly, but none of these cases were prosecuted. He wrote and editorial in the Seattle Times in response to this calling for legislation, and sponsored Washington Initiative 502 to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana for adult recreational use. Holmes was present in media providing his legal opinion in local press, radio, and television broadcasts, and took part in public debates as an advocate of legalization. He framed the issue as a method of confronting racially disproportionate drug enforcement.

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Today on Hempresent Vivian McPeak is joined by Hilary Bricken. Hilary Bricken is an attorney at Harris Moure, PLLC in Seattle and she chairs the firm’s Canna Law Group, and has earned a reputation as a fearless advocate for local businesses. Seen on Al Jazeera America, CNN, and Fox News - Hilary was Named 2013 Top Deal Maker by the Puget Sound Business Journal, one of the 100 most influential people in the cannabis industry in 2014 by The Cannabis Business Executive, and Marijuana Industry Attorney of the Year at the inaugural 2015 DOPE Industry Awards. Hilary is also lead editor of the Canna Law Blog.

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Today on Hempresent Vivian McPeak is joined by Mark Taylor-Canfield, media activist. Mark Taylor-Canfield has blogged and published articles at HuffingtonPost.com, DailyKos.com, Truthout.org, Alternet.org, etc. His articles and news reports have been published by The Seattle Times, Washington Free Press, Counter-Punch, and more.

Mark is a frequent contributor to media programs such as the Thom Hartmann Program on Free Speech TV, Mike Malloy Show, Jeff Santos Show, Norman Goldman and others. Mark Taylor-Canfield’s Youtube channel is called "MTC TV Media". He served as a reporter at KBCS and is a former member of the international Steering Committee at Free Speech Radio News, Pacifica Radio Network.

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Today on Hempresent Vivian McPeak is joined by Brendan Hill, Paper and Leaf Co-Founder and drummer of the Grammy Award-winning rock and blues band Blues Traveler.

Paper and Leaf is the only recreational cannabis retail store located in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Co-owners Brendan Hill and Steven Kessler hand select the highest quality growers for consistent, top shelf products. Paper and Leaf believe education and cannabis go hand in hand in lessening the stigma against marijuana. All marijuana retail products of Paper and Leaf include gram bags, ounces, buds, edibles, topicals, pipes, and oils.Brendan Hill is one of the original members of Blues Traveler. In 1983, while attending school at Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, Hill met Blues Traveler harmonica player John Popper. Together, they formed the predecessor to Blues Traveler, Blues Band. This band played mostly at parties and saw numerous bassists and guitarists come and go. In 1987, with the addition of Chan Kinchla on guitar and Bobby Sheehan on bass, they officially renamed themselves "Blues Traveler". After graduating from Princeton High School, Brendan (along with John and Bobby) enrolled in The New School for Social Research to study music. Hill currently lives on Bainbridge Island, WA and owns a retail marijuana store.

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Today on Hempresent Vivian Mcpeak is joined by Dan Skye, editor-in-chief of High Times Magazine and a cannabis expert. He has been a staff member of High Times since 1992 and is the most prolific contributor in the magazine's 40-year history. He has interviewed countless celebrities for High Times, including Oliver Stone, Melissa Etheridge, Lewis Black, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Cheech & Chong, Rosanne, Roger Daltrey, Alanis Morissette, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Ventura, Milos Forman, Merle Haggard and many others. He is also considered one of the world’s foremost cannabis photographers.

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Today on Hempresent Vivian McPeak is joined by Michael Brewer, of Brewer & Shipley.

"Michael Brewer & Tom Shipley are truly two who work as one. Still as passionate as ever, they continue to blend guitars and voices and perform for audiences 40 years after their trademark vocal harmonies and intertwined acoustic guitars carved a unique niche in America's soundboard. Their melodic music and underlying lyrical themes of personal freedom and traditional songs of love still resonate with long time fans while continuing to draw new ones.

Brewer & Shipley's Top 10 hit "One Toke Over The Line" was largely responsible for introducing them to the masses, yet their music careers neither began nor ended with this one song. "One Toke Over The Line" became a hit single record, but that was a small measure of the impact Brewer and Shipley had on people who listened to the sound they had created. Album buyers understood that these men were designers, not pop music freaks, and as prolific as they were, they didn't write songs to any formula. Each album, from Down In L.A. to Heartland, was a meticulously woven tapestry of fabric they had invented one song at a time.

Brewer & Shipley have recorded albums for four different lsbels, A&M Records, Buddah/Kama Sutra Records, Capitol Records, and their own One Toke Productions. They have created timeless music that has spanned 40 years, 50 states and many countries. Brewer & Shipley... two guys, two guitars, two great voices still blending as one."

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