Today Lex speaks with Ashley Picillo. She's an author and entrepreneur who co-wrote the book "Breaking the Grass Ceiling: Women, Weed & Business." The book is a collection of true stories about women seeking their fortunes in the cannabis world. Ashley also runs her own cannabis consulting firm called Point7, so she has lots of insight for anybody trying to get in on the action.

https://www.pointsevengroup.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Grass-Ceiling-Women-Business/dp/1541096592

 

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This is the first episode in a series about Women in Weed.

Lex talks to Betty Aldworth, executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP). She talks about her experiences as a woman in the world of weed and activism, as well as the power and ambition of today's youth who are tackling the Western World's irrational attitudes towards cannabis and other drugs. If you want a first-hand look at how (and why) attitudes are changing, this episode is for you.

https://ssdp.org https://twitter.com/bettyaldworth

 

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Richie Ogulnick is one of the big proponents of Ibogaine, a psychedelic drug famous for battling addiction. He talks about his discovery of the iboga plant, his trip to Cameroon to find out more about it, and his years of teaching people about what he's learned.

Richie also founded the International Children's Awareness Network.

https://www.facebook.com/richard.ogulnick

 

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Julian Vayne, an author & occultist, talks about the history of drugs and magick. He also highlights some of the important idea from his new book on creating psychedelic ceremonies.

his book: https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/getting-higher-psychedelic-julian-vayne

trailer for his book: https://vimeo.com/210684370

his blog: https://theblogofbaphomet.com/

his facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/deepmagicbeginshere

on the psychedelic prisoner project https://theblogofbaphomet.com/2017/10/20/preliminary-proposal-for-a-psychedelic-prisoner-solidarity-network/

 

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Lolly Bee is a holistic healer who worked at Standing Rock and studied many different practices, including the use of plant medicines for healing trauma. Today, she talks with Lex about her journey with PTSD and how she came to her relationship with plant medicines.

Her website is www.lollybe.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/198623297235950/about/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/lollybehealing/ YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG_qjt4jxn7By8THnfxC_hA

 

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Lex chats with Migs of the American Veterans service organization about the work that they do and their recent decision to publicly call for the medical use of cannabis by veterans.

Twitter: @AmVETSHQ

"Join the Conversation"

http://amvets.org/

 

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Bodick discusses the near-death experience that initiated his journey as an author & explorer who writes about shamanism and plant medicines.

Find him online:

http://www.soulremedy.org/

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/travsha

 

The Greener Grass Podcast features weekly interviews about cannabis, hemp, psychedelics & other green topics. Our host Lex Pelger sits down with experts, scientists, activists, policy-makers, underground herbalists, radical lawyers and others doing their part to make the world a greener place.

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Jonathan Miller is a wideranging lawyer. Studying at Harvard, working all over the political arena, leading the Lexington, Kentucky branch of Frost, Brown Todd and finally, acting as the general counsel to the U.S. Hemp Farming and Business Roundtable. Regarding that, he wrote an inspiring article on HuffPo about how the death of a friendly political rival caused him to reexamine the issue of cannabis. In addition, Miller also played the straight man on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, made it to the last table in the World Series of Poker and wrote the peer-reviewed article 'The Evolving Law and Regulation of Industrial Hemp in the United States'.

 

For those interested in joining the Roundtable, here's more info: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tz442tzamxvbc6u/Roundtable%20Membership%20Document.pdf?dl=0   To see him on the Daily Show,  http://therecoveringpolitician.com/the-rp/vidds2   To learn about why he chose to dive into poker, https://www.thedailybeast.com/world-series-of-poker-how-jonathan-miller-almost-won-it-all-really?ref=author   And to see his article on hemp and the law, http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/jael8&div=22&id=&page=

 

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Julie Holland is a psychiatrist, an author, a medical monitor for MDMA and cannabis research, a harm reductionist and a forensic consultant. She's also the author of several books including her most recent, "Moody Bitches" and her first breakout book, "Weekends at Bellevue". This is a GREAT chat. Julie has a dynamic and passionate mind, and you don't want to miss this conversation.

Her Twitter handle is @BellevueDoc

Learn more about Julie and her book "Moody Bitches" at http://moodybitches.com/

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Today Lex speaks with Morris Beegle, a hemp entrepreneur, outspoken activist, and generally busy guy who has been involved in business, media, and events for years now.

 Here are just a few places where you can find Morris on the web:

twitter: @morrisbeegle

http://nocohempexpo.com/category/news/ www.coloradohempcompany.com www.treefreehemp.com www.nocohempexpo.com www.hempevents.org www.letstalkhemp.com

 The Greener Grass Podcast features weekly interviews about cannabis, hemp, psychedelics & other green topics. Our host Lex Pelger sits down with experts, scientists, activists, policy-makers, underground herbalists, radical lawyers and others doing their part to make the world a greener place.

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