The Conversation, Cannabis & Christianity podcast

Everything changes. Join Florida's founder of Culinary Cannabis, Mary Adams, founder of The Conscious Consumers Collective, Hillary Ferrara & Miguel Torrez. This Life Is Far More Amazing & Supernatural than it is advertised to be. People suffer for lack of knowledge.

Christopher Cano is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force where his military career was unfortunately cut short by a knee injury. Chris matriculated to the University of South Florida where he continued his public service, interning in the Florida House of Representatives and later seeking to represent his community in public office as a state representative. Chris was an organizer for Charlie Crist for Governor in 2014, United for Care’s Medical Marijuana Amendment campaign in 2015, and oversaw a successful field campaign for the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s race in 2016. Today Christopher spends his days working as a labor organizer for the Service Employees International Union building faculty unions for college professors around the country. Yet, the reason most people know him is his advocacy work as a founder of the Florida Suncoast Chapter for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).

Dr. Leah Johnson is a Medical Cannabis Specialist & Clinical Pharmacist who is the owner & founder of Alchemist Consulting LLC. She believes that complete physical/mental health & well-being can be influenced by the utilization of cannabis, as well as other herbal remedies and supplements in conjunction with pharmaceutical medications. Dr. Leah feels that most patients are given too many & often inappropriate prescription medications, while not being given the knowledge for utilizing effective herbals & supplements to reduce pill burden. In an effort to improve the overall health & well-being of patients, Dr. Leah works with patients & their healthcare providers throughout the country to help reduce pill burden & provide recommendations on alternative therapy. She also works with cannabis companies to advise them on formulations & speaks at medical conferences to help educate providers & patients on the benefits of utilizing cannabis medicine therapy. Dr. Leah holds a Doctorate degree in Pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences & a Masters degree in Medical Cannabis Science & Therapeutics from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She is a board member of multiple medical cannabis & healthcare organizations including the Pharmacists' Cannabis Coalition of California, where she presents education on Ryan's Law.

Some believe there is a tyranny in every moment and seek to be free from not only its grip but its presence. People suffer for lack of knowledge. This Life Is Far More Amazing & Supernatural than it is advertised to be.

The Door Is Open

Love One Another

Moriah Barnhart is a Native Floridian whose daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of two in 2013. Moriah watched her daughter struggle to survive chemotherapy, which compelled her to seek help from experts in cannabis. As a result, her family received support from Dr. Raphael Mechoulam and Moriah went on to co-found CannaMoms as a means to provide support system for other parents like herself, and to organize their stories to change voters hearts and minds about the medical efficacy of marijuana. After the State of Florida passed a Medical Marijuana Program, she was appointed to the Florida Department of Agriculture Hemp and Medical Marijuana Advisory Boards, respectively. She wrote Florida’s first CME program for physicians and continued to work on legislative policy reform, Co-Founding a new non-profit with a broader mission toward ending prohibition, the Women's Initiative for a Safe and Equitable (WISE) Florida. Moriah continues to work for Floridians to legally grow marijuana at home today.

People suffer for lack of knowledge

This Life Is Far More Amazing & Supernatural than it is advertised to be

Love One Another

Dr. Jake F. Felice is a Naturopathic doctor who has been serving patients in Washington State since 2003, and he is the founder of Sweetwater Holistic LLC (www.sweetwaterholistic.com). Anthony Lloyd is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a retired U.S. Coast Guard Captain who specialized in domestic and international disaster response. Now, Anthony is an executive for a non-profit disaster relief organization. Both have chosen paths in life that help people find peace in the midst of a crisis.

The format change and the Love that is its antidote. People suffer for lack of knowledge.

Everything Changes.

This Life Is Far More Amazing & Supernatural than it is advertised to be.

The Door Is Open.

Love One Another.

Dr. Joseph Rosado, MD is one of the world’s most respected medical authorities on cannabis as plant-based medicine. With over four decades of experience as a healthcare professional, he has built a career anchored in family tradition and driven by a desire to help his patients and community. Dr. Rosado's father was an x-ray technician before his untimely death in 1973. Losing his father spurred Dr. Rosado to start working at a young age to help support his family. He trained as a certified nurse’s assistant, then known as an orderly, and began working in the medical field in 1978 at age 16. After high school, Dr. Rosado trained as an emergency medical technician, paramedic, and catheterization laboratory technician while working his way through college.

A major car accident led Dr. Rosado to the field of chiropractic. After a chiropractor alleviated his agonizing back pain in just a few weeks of care, Dr. Rosado decided to explore the complementary medicine system. As a chiropractor, Dr. Rosado dedicated his practice to helping underserved communities, particularly those for whom English was a second language, ensuring that each patient received the highest quality of care that he could provide. At the age of 35, Dr. Rosado entered medical school and was a top student while working his way through school as a husband and father. In medical school, he studied marijuana and determined that potential health and wellness benefits could be extracted from the plant.

As a student and newly certified physician, Dr. Rosado worked throughout the Latin American Diaspora, setting up a clinic in Costa Rica, serving as a team doctor for the country’s Olympic teams. In 2014, Dr. Rosado added his considerable professional expertise to the frontlines of Florida’s push for medical marijuana. One of the state’s first doctors advocating for medical cannabis, in 2016, Dr. Rosado also had the distinction of being the first Central Florida physician to recommend medical marijuana for an adult patient, as well as the first to recommend it for a patient under the age of 18. As a clinician he has worked with thousands of patients, from toddlers to the elderly, recommending medical cannabis and managing treatment.

In 2003 Al Graham was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease which turned a five minute walk around his block into a two hour event. After a few years of re-organizing his life, Al turned the diagnosis into a positive by educating people on cannabis, which he had begun using.

"Wisdom has built Her house, She has hewn out Her seven pillars; She has prepared her food, She has mixed Her wine; She has also set Her table; She has sent out Her maidens, she calls from the tops of the heights of the city: "Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks understanding She says, "Come, eat of my food and drink of the wine I have mixed. Forsake your folly and live, and proceed in the way of understanding." Proverbs 9:1-6