CANNABIS LAW | JOSIAH YOUNG

01/20/22 • 44 min

Cannabis has a special responsibility when it comes to social justice, because cannabis has a special history. To quote the Leafly report on social equity -Seeds of Change: Strategies to Create an Equitable Cannabis Industry - It is disingenuous to legalize cannabis and pretend that people of all races enjoy equal access to the opportunity offered by this new industry. Eight decades of prohibition have burdened people of color with targeted policing, arrests, and criminal records. In the present, venture capitalists and other investors, who are overwhelmingly white, often ignore, shun, or dismiss pitches from entrepreneurs of color. To make progress in the future, we’ll have to examine where and how we can do better. On this episode of Let’s be Blunt Montel talks with Josiah Young, a NY & CA licensed attorney with a passion for social equity within the cannabis industry. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport the show

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CANNABIS CARE | BENJAMIN CAPLAN, M.D.

Montel talks with one of the 100 most influential individuals in cannabis on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Dr Benjamin Caplan. After an early career in brain imaging research at UCLA, he graduated from Williams College, completed his medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine, and his residency at Boston University. In addition to practicing as a primary care physician at some of Boston's foremost hospitals, he served as the Chief Medical Officer of one of the largest medical cannabis healthcare groups in the US, overseeing the clinical evaluations of over 250,000 medical patients. He has supervised and mentored hundreds of physicians across the United States and abroad, served as Investigator for multiple pharmaceutical research studies, and has been published in premier medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine. He is a board-certified doctor of Family Medicine, the Founder and the Chief Medical Officer of CED Clinic, CED Foundation, and EO Care, Inc, as well as a co-founder of Solo Sciences which was acquired by Akerna Corp. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport the show

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NATIONAL CANNA FESTIVAL & SUMMIT | CAROLINE PHILLIPS

Montel talks with Caroline Phillips on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. Caroline is the founder of The High Street LLC, a public relations and event production company with the mission of cultivating projects and ideas that leverage business and advocacy for social good. In 2016, she launched the National Canna Festival in Washington, D.C. and in 2018 she expanded the program to include the National Canna Policy Summit and Four20 Month. Going into year 6, the National Canna Festival is now the largest ticketed canna gathering on the east coast and NCPS is the only nationally televised canna conference in the United States. The 2022 summit and festival will be held in Washington, DC on April 23rd & 24th. Headliners inlude Wiz Khalifa, Ghostface Killah & More. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport the show

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