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Lamont Ratcliff of Texas MMJ Doctors is the guest for this episode. Lamont talks about the patient makeup of the #TCUP (Texas #Compassionate Use Program) that they see, the issues the program is facing in Texas and much more.

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Lamont Ratcliff of Texas MMJ Doctors is the guest for this episode. Lamont talks about the patient makeup of the #TCUP (Texas #Compassionate Use Program) that they see, the issues the program is facing in Texas and much more.

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This week in our short recap of the week, a new poll has shown that Republican voters are overwhelmingly in favor for state legal/states rights cannabis markets with minimal federal regulation. Several congressional lawmakers have called the FDA as being a disappointment and their response being completely insufficient regarding CBD/hemp regulations. A prominent cannabis favoring congressman has called out drug testing as part of a modern day issue causing labor shortages and supply chain issues.  

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Several members of congress sent a letter to the FDA to express disappointment in a response the FDA gave to them regarding questions that they had about hemp and cbd products.  The letter opens stating that, This one-page technical assistance, which took your agency nearly four months to provide in response to our request, is simply a reformatting of a document provided to Congress over two years ago.  Reps. Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Angie Craig (D-MN) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) were the congress members behind the writing of the letter. 

 Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) has proposed that the drug testing standards for the workforce undergo changes. Noting the recent rail strikes that have been averted, he notes that the job has a requirement of specialized skills, but a job pool shrunk by drug testing requirements.  These are requirements that place qualified candidates out of the running for job positions over items they ingested up to six weeks prior to a test. This also gets qualified workers disqualified from continuing with a job by drug test, when they were not intoxicated or consuming on the job.  “A lot of these shortcomings in terms of the supply chain are that people do not qualify for the jobs because they’ve used marijuana sometime in the last six weeks, which doesn’t affect their ability to do their job, but it throws them out of the consideration,” Blumenauer said.

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This week in our short recap of the week, a new poll has shown that Republican voters are overwhelmingly in favor for state legal/states rights cannabis markets with minimal federal regulation. Several congressional lawmakers have called the FDA as being a disappointment and their response being completely insufficient regarding CBD/hemp regulations. A prominent cannabis favoring congressman has called out drug testing as part of a modern day issue causing labor shortages and supply chain issues.    Dan Patrick Says he is not there yet link https://youtube.com/shorts/grPibQ9nqEk?feature=share Dan Crenshaw Image by Gage Skidmore on Flickr Visit

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Several members of congress sent a letter to the FDA to express disappointment in a response the FDA gave to them regarding questions that they had about hemp and cbd products.  The letter opens stating that, This one-page technical assistance, which took your agency nearly four months to provide in response to our request, is simply a reformatting of a document provided to Congress over two years ago.  Reps. Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Angie Craig (D-MN) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) were the congress members behind the writing of the letter.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) has proposed that the drug testing standards for the workforce undergo changes. Noting the recent rail strikes that have been averted, he notes that the job has a requirement of specialized skills, but a job pool shrunk by drug testing requirements.  These are requirements that place qualified candidates out of the running for job positions over items they ingested up to six weeks prior to a test. This also gets qualified workers disqualified from continuing with a job by drug test, when they were not intoxicated or consuming on the job.  “A lot of these shortcomings in terms of the supply chain are that people do not qualify for the jobs because they’ve used marijuana sometime in the last six weeks, which doesn’t affect their ability to do their job, but it throws them out of the consideration,” Blumenauer said.

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Amanda Reiman PhD. of My Person Plants joins the show with Jesse and Gramps hosting this week. 

Amanda Reiman is the vice president of community development for Flow Cannabis Company. She is also the founder and CEO of Personal Plants, an online platform that supports the home cultivation and processing of therapeutic plants and fungi. Reiman is a board member for the California Cannabis Tourism Association, the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, the Mendocino County Fire Safe Council, and The Initiative, the first incubator/accelerator for women-owned cannabis businesses.  After earning a PhD from UC Berkeley, Reiman became the director of research and patient services at Berkeley Patients Group, one of the oldest dispensaries in the United States, and the manager of marijuana law and policy for the Drug Policy Alliance, a national nonprofit organization that was engaged in the drafting and campaigns of legalization initiatives across the country and abroad. She also taught courses on substance abuse treatment and drug policy at UC Berkeley for 10 years and has published several research articles and book chapters on the use of cannabis as a substitute for opiates and the social history of the cannabis movement.  For more information about her visit https://mypersonalplants.com  The book mentioned in the episode is Sex Drugs Einstein and Elves by Clifford A Pickover.

Amanda Reiman PhD joins the the show with Jesse and Chris hosting this week.

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This week the state of California has seen issues with illegal grow operations using immigrants to tend to their illegal grows. The illegal grows have popped up due to supply issued caused by the state's licensing system. John Fetterman had a meeting with Joe Biden but Karine Jean-Pierre led reporters to repetitive details in the recent press conference where she was asked. 

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DFW NORML's executive director Shaun McAlister joins the Lonestar Collective podcast for episode 52. Shaun talks about the Marijuana March and Freedom Festival taking place on October 8th, 2022. For more information just search for Texas Marijuana March and Freedom Festival on Facebook or visit txcannaco.com/events.

DFW NORML's executive director Shaun McAlister joins the Lonestar Collective podcast for episode 52. Shaun talks about the Marijuana March and Freedom Festival taking place on October 8th, 2022. For more information just search for Texas Marijuana March and Freedom Festival on Facebook or visit txcannaco.com/events.

Gramps takes over as host this week to interview Jarell Wall of Gentleman Quinn's. The two discuss how Jarell started his company, the processes they went through to make their company what it is today, and social equity in the cannabis space. For more information on Gentleman Quinns visit https://www.gentlemanquinns.com/home