The Cannabis Connection

Daniel Morford comes from a legacy of cannabis breeders and is a third generation ganja farmer with 19 years of experience. Founder of Pride of the Lion Seeds and co-founder with his father of Heartrock Mountain Farm. This family has been saving and breeding seeds for decades in the mountains of Mendocino County. 
Daniel has published a book of poetry Love Grows and continues to write, farm, raise babies and make seeds. 

Today on the show, we welcome Jacob Beau. This show is for all those wondering how to reach a larger audience and rise from the shadowbans. Born and raised in Santa Cruz, Jacob Beau spent 3 years working on Facebook’s paid ads team, gaining deep insights into how the ad algorithm works. He’s using that knowledge to run highly effective ad campaigns on Meta, particularly in highly regulated markets. Recognized for his expertise, CEO Weekly even called Jacob the “human cheat code” to social media marketing.

Bleezy and Old E, two brothers from Mendocino, not only cultivate culture in their original music but were awarded 2024 Emerald Cup Best In Show for their Sun Grown Flower "Headies" at the 20th Annual Emerald Cup. Personal Use Flower 1st Place and 3rd Place for Personal Solventless Concentrate. Their work graced the cover of High Times August 2024 issue, and their farm is in full glory this weekend with an exclusive opportunity to learn from these award-winning farmers and underdog fan favorites. In an exclusive interview, we explore these milestones while going behind the genetics and music leading to long overdue recognition for cultural mavericks Mendo Dope.

Today on the show, we welcome Daniel Sheehan and Michael Smith to discuss a special gathering happening September 21 and new developments with UFO disclosure.

Daniel Sheehan is an acclaimed civil rights attorney at the forefront of the unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) disclosure and transparency advocacy movement.  

In 2023, Danny founded the New Paradigm Institute (NPI) as an initiative of the Romero Institute. NPI's mission is to inform the public of the facts surrounding the UAP phenomenon and to mobilize them to secure full and responsible disclosure of the information about UAP technology and non-human intelligence held in secret from the public and even Congress for over 80 years by the Military Industrial Complex. 

Several complex cases argued and won before the Supreme Court, including: 

• The Iran Contra Civil Lawsuit
• The Three Mile Island Litigation
• The Nation's first Sanctuary defense case

Michael Smith is the founder of Points Collected LLC a creative marketing and consulting agency located in Santa Cruz, CA with a focus on event curation & Artist / Brand Development. 

Together they with Heart Tribe Events will host an intimate Intergalactic Gathering of UFO Disclosure & Bass Music featuring Shlump September 21, 2024 at The 418 Project.

Today on the show we welcome Genine Coleman!

We discuss documenting the Legacy of California Cannabis.

Proposition 64, the California cannabis legalization ballot initiative passed in 2016, created cannabis-specific taxes. A portion of these cannabis tax revenues are used to fund cannabis research initiatives through California’s public universities. On April 25th, 2023 the California Department of Cannabis Control awarded $2.7 million dollars to a group of academic researchers, scientists, and community based organizations to develop a multidisciplinary, community-based participatory research (CBPR) study that will identify, document, and help to preserve the history, value, and diversity of California’s legacy cannabis genetics and the communities that steward them.

Genine Coleman is the founder and Executive Director of Origins Council, a nonprofit education, research and policy advocacy organization that serves some 800 members of California’s legacy cannabis growing regions. Origins Council is dedicated to sustainable rural economic development within legacy cannabis producing regions and establishing nationally and internationally recognized, legally defensible, standards-based, geographic indication systems for cannabis. A former grower, Genine has over 20 years of cannabis cultivation experience. In 2012, she stopped cultivating cannabis to take up cannabis patient and policy advocacy. She is the co-founder of the Mendocino Appellations Project, which is now a regionally sponsored project of Origins Council, and serves on the Board of Directors for the 420 Archive which is devoted to collecting, preserving and sharing the history of cannabis culture and prohibition in the United States. Genine is also a founding board member of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, formed in 2019. From 2017–2020, she served on the Board of Directors of the California Growers Association.

Today on The Cannabis Connection Show we welcome Grant Palmer ⁠@phenothepuppy⁠ CEO of Canna Cruz Dispensaries. ⁠@thecannacruzcollective⁠ started back in 2008 with locations in Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Salinas. Canna Cruz Salinas ⁠@cannacruzsalinas⁠ won 1st place Best Dispensary Central California for the 20th Anniversary Emerald Cup ⁠@theemeraldcup⁠ last weekend. We will explore his ongoing works in serving the people and cultivating award winning flower.

Today on The Cannabis Connection, we welcome Joel Perez! Joel is the Lead Extractor at Creme De Canna Extracts. He has worked in the industry for over 15 years. 
Back in 2013, Joel was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, with stage 4 Lymphoma. After multiple biopsies and surgery, Joel underwent a bone marrow transplant.
After a relapse, despite years of extreme chemotherapy treatments, Joel had heard of RSO (Rick Simpson Oil) and started taking a gram a day.
RSO paired with plant-based diet over a few months led to the best scan Joel’s doctor had ever seen over the years with no signs of any cancer. From the death bed to Joel’s story, being on the front page of High Times was a miracle.
Joel runs a c1d1 extraction booth, which is wired into the fire department and monitored by them. Joel is a father of four boys and runs a hydrocarbon extraction system providing the best extracts and concentrates to the greater cannabis community.

Sleepy John Sandidge and Luigi Oppido host Christopher Carr live in the Santa Cruz Voice talk studio. We discuss the local music community, the industry, old smuggling and cultivation stories, Sleepy John's run-in with the law, and the potential for growing our Canna-Community as a legitimate and intrinsic part of Santa Cruz in the future.

Today on The Cannabis Connection Show we welcome Andy Lopez-The Invisible Gardener who shared “Don’t panic it’s organic” with the world. The Invisible Gardener grew up in New York, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Miami Florida, where he learned to use organics from his mother, who naturally grew her fruits and vegetables. In 1972, he founded The Invisible Gardener, Inc. to impact the world’s environmental problems and educate & provide alternatives to chemical products used in the home and garden. With a common sense approach and endless enthusiasm, he champions Mother Nature’s wisdom through educational programs and his books.

Themes: 

Early days as Naval service member trying new cannabis in every port. 

Sourcing seeds - Red Dragon Thai, Lambsbread, Maui Wowie.

10 longitude rule.

Smuggling Panama Red - Mobile Alabama -> Porta Limon Costa Rica.

Trade secret germinating old seeds.

Mother Nature and health.

Water holds information.

Christopher Carr interviewed by Rosemary Chalmers live on Santa Cruz Voice covering major themes from Lookout Santa Cruz's recent article "Cannabis industry's sad state prompts changes across Santa Cruz County" by Christopher Neely. We explore local themes of the need for responsive policy in the county, a prevailing negative social stigma in the City of Santa Cruz and how Watsonville is leading the way with implementing reasonable regulations to keep what remaining Santa Cruz County cannabis businesses in operation. All politics are local yet the descheduling of cannabis on a federal level is also top of mind; we cover it all in this concise and to the point coverage.