Hempirical Discussions: Recent Episodes
Nick Johnson
Joy Smith is the founder of Joy Organics, a CBD product retailer in Fort Collins, CO. Her products offer a cannabis-based treatment without the "high" one typically experiences with marijuana. In this episode, Joy talks about her own experience with CBD, current and upcoming product lines, company values, and her philosophy on cannabis treatment.
Jacob Levine, author of Cannabis Discourse: Facts & Opinions in Context (2018), discusses some of the most popular media tropes about cannabis and how to discern fact from spin in a heavily polarized discourse.
Adam Vine is the 39-year-old co-founder of Cage-Free Cannabis, a group that works with legal cannabis businesses to repair some of the damage done to minority communities during the War on Drugs. Listen as Adam tells the story of his group's founding and explains why its work is so necessary.