Let's be Blunt with Montel

Montel chats with KymB on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. Kym is an avid cannabis and psilocybin advocate, community activist and influencer. She serves on the Advisory Board of the CWCBE and contributes to numerous local and national organizations. She has held roles such as NY Ambassador for Women Grow, VP at CannaGather, and as a High Times Judge. She has inspired many in their pursuit of fitness as a 20-year Pilates Instructor and Lululemon Ambassador. She is the Co-founder of TribeTokes, a luxury brand of CBD, D8 vape, skincare and wellness products for the next generation canna consumer.

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On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel speaks with the Co-Founder and CEO of Jane Technologies Inc. After leaving active duty in 2011 as a U.S. Army veteran and Apache helicopter commander, he turned to cannabis to re-acclimate to civilian life. Because cannabis wasn’t legal at the time where he lived, he was forced to rely on the black market, where he couldn’t be sure about the quality of the cannabis he was buying. The frustration of that experience, coupled with the lack of access to cannabis for his fellow veterans, led him to co-found Jane Technologies with his brother. Iheartjane.com launched in 2017 to provide an e-commerce solution for legal cannabis retailers. Jane's unique offering provides dispensaries and brands with a turnkey e-commerce solution, including real-time POS integration, curated content directly from the brands (the best pictures, descriptions, etc.), and retail and market analytics. Prior to starting Jane, Socrates was an associate at McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and earned an MBA in entrepreneurship from MIT. 

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Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity counties in Northern California make up the Emerald Triangle, an area known for its legacy farms and cultivars that many believe to be the origin of the US cannabis industry. On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with a second-generation Craft Cannabis Farmer who served eight years in prison for growing the plant he and his community have depended on for decades. John Casali of Huckleberry Farms shares his family's history with the cannabis plant, his time served for growing it, and what he is doing today in the legal market.

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On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel speaks with Haley Elizabeth Anderson and Mary Bailey about the recently released documentary, The Sentence of Michael Thompson. As canna legalization continues across America, so do canna arrests and convictions. Michael Thompson was sentenced to 40-60 years in prison for selling 3lbs of canna, and served a total of 26 years before Governor Whitmer granted him clemency in 2021. An estimated 40,000 people are still incarcerated in the US for canna offenses while canna-business has grown into a billion-dollar US industry. Haley Elizabeth Anderson directed the film along with Kyle Thrash, and Mary Bailey is the Managing Director of The Last Prisoners Project.

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Montel speaks with Len May on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. Len is the author of “Making Cannabis Personal”, a guide on how genetics interact with cannabinoids to create truly unique experiences and the host of the “Everything is Personal” Podcast. He is the founder and CEO of Endo-Canna, a company committed to helping everyday people find the right cannabis product for their needs. 

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Montel talks with Jointly founder David Kooi on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. David is on a MISSION to change the conversation and stigma around canna to one that is about wellbeing and all the ways canna can enhance our lives. He graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in economics and statistics and earned his MBA from the Chicago Booth School of Business. He is the founder and CEO of Jointly, a canna platform that is using data to stimulate purposeful consumption. 

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The removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act is a proposed legal and administrative change in cannabis law at the federal level that can be undertaken by Congress, The Executive Branch or The United States Attorney General and has been proposed repeatedly since 1972. Schedule I is the most tightly restricted category reserved for drugs that have "no currently accepted medical use”. The scheduling of cannabis is also an issue that needs to be addressed at the state level and often conflicts with cannabis legalization laws, allowing for cannabis possession arrests to continue to occur even in those states where it has been legalized. On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel speaks wtih the Executive Director of the NV ACLU, Athar Haseebullah. Athar is graduate of Howard University and Howard University School of Law. He spent several years as a litigator for both Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada and the City of New York. 

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On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt Montel speaks with Dustin Hoxworth, a lifelong canna enthusiast and the Founder and Editor-at-large of Fat Nugs Magazine and co-founder of Three Good Buds, an online canna community built around the love and appreciation of the plant and all it has to offer.

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One of the stigmas holding back the acceptance of medical canna, especially within the medical community, is the lack of information in a format they are trained to receive, analyze and utilize it in. On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with the CEO Cannaformatics, Dr Itzhak Kurek, about how they are working to change that paradigm. Dr Kurek has published 20 peer reviewed scientific papers and holds 13 granted US and international patents cited over 2,000 times. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Sciences from Tel Aviv University and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis, and has conducted research at the Technical University of Munich, John Innes Center Norwich, C.N.R.S Bordeaux and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Dr Kurek discusses how Cannaformatics is identifying canna biomarkers, and how that information will benefit patients and medical practicioners in the near future.
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On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with Michael Sassano, CEO of Somai Pharmaceuticals, a large-scale manufacturer of medical canna compounds based in Portugal. His experience as both a developer and banker in the United States and Europe provides a unique perspective towards navigating international rules and regulations for developing canna medicines.
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