In the re-release of this week’s full show of Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto, DEA Head Terrence Cole lied to the US Senate during his confirmation hearings! Rescheduling didn’t even make top ten of priorities for his agency; Rand Paul from Kentucky gets Fed Hemp Ban pulled from appropriations bill;
“Smart” Approaches to Marijuana launches prohibition campaign and urges Trump to not reschedule cannabis; Andrew Behringer in DC; Texas Hemp battle heats up again, Kerry HInkle on Hemp; 1v1 exclusive with Embarc CEO Lauren Carpenter after successfully managing the California state fair, and the 3 day Dead and Co festival in San Francisco; Plus 19 reports from around the world and coast to coast;
A block – Amie Carter in Michigan; Curtis Emery in Massachusetts;
B Block – International reports from Europe; England, and Canada; Plus Joe Parsons in Virginia; Tina Tasaka in Nevada and on Tribal Lands; Doug Miller High on Wall Street; Kimmie Cannabis in Oklahoma at Terp Float;
C Block – Jennifer Boozer in Alabama; Jill Goldsberry in NJ. with new social clubs; Christopher Bright in MD; Mark Alan in Illinois; Matthew Friedlander in Washington State, Marianne Cursetjee in Oregon; Robin Alford in Kentucky; Christina Brisson in Ohio; Ashley Bellamy in Minnesota; 3 Days of Dead & Co in San Francisco celebrating 60 years of Grateful Dead music, but first open consumption and sale of cannabis.

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We went to see John Garcia of Kyuss at the Rickshaw in Vancouver BC

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In the A Block of this week’s Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto, West Texas DA Sarah Stonger posts her smoking a joint bought in legal New Mexico to make a point about the draconian laws on cannabis in her state and at the Federal level. Only in Texas! She explains in the A Block. Plus the Massachusetts GOP wants to put a ballot question for next year that would ban home grow, and change already existing possession limits in the 8 Billion Dollar state industry. Kerry Hinkle on the Mississippi Hemp battles; Curtis Emery in Massachusetts has a story of recalls and the Boston Sheriff arrest in Florida on extortion charges. TJM’s Chris Faraone expounds on the arrest, and details on the state GOP efforts to get a prohibitionist ballot question approved for mid-terms. Dina Nagib in California on changes Glass House Farms has made in hiring practices after ICE raid two weeks ago.

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