Montel in Mass
To all my canna peeps in MA….
I will be in MA July 15th, 16th & 17th at select dispensaries and look forward to talking with you about my background in cannabis advocacy, education and how I formulated my products. I look forward to seeing you there!!
MA 420 STRONG!
On-Location Long Beach, California
On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel meets up with Tracy Ryan and Dr. Anahid Jewett at this year’s Cannabis Science Conference. Tracy Ryan - a returning guest - has a daughter named Sophie who was diagnosed with a brain tumor at 8 1/2 months old (she’s now 9 years old). Dr. Anahid is a respected immunologist and professor at UCLA School of Dentistry who has been studying natural killer cells for over thirty years. She has made numerous groundbreaking discoveries related to both cancer and ALS. Tracy connected with Dr. Jewett and they started treating Sophie as the first-ever natural killer cell treatment patient. If this treatment continues to be successful, it could become an incredible alternative treatment option for cancer patients.
On-Location Long Beach, California
On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Dr. Jennifer Anderson, a pediatrician and ER doctor from Canada. Jennifer’s son was diagnosed with intractable epilepsy. Daily life was a struggle for the family as her son would have continuous seizures. Out of pure desperation, Jennifer decided to try CBD. The results were astounding. The CBD significantly reduced the amount of daily seizures and increased his quality of life. Jennifer Anderson now specializes in medical cannabis for kids, in order to help other struggling families.
This SATURDAY, August 20
I will be in MASSACHUSETTS.
Let’s Talk Cannabis!
Come to Rowley, MA. Joint Operations @jointoperationsmaGrand Opening.
Let’s get this party started
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On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Matt Zorn, Esq, a partner at Yetter Coleman, LLP. Matt is recognized as an authority on issues relating to the federal Controlled Substance Act and issues relating to canna regulation, even being named to the Law360 2020 Cannabis Editorial Advisory Board. Matt routinely speaks and publishes on issues relating to legal issues involving controlled substances. He was honored as a 2020 Pegasus Scholar by American Inns of Court. In one of his favorite areas of complex litigation, Best Lawyers in America named Matt “One to Watch,” and Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers recognized him as a “Texas Rising Star” in IP Litigation, Canna Law, and Administrative Law. Before joining the firm, Matt was a judicial clerk to the Hon. Rodney Gilstrap, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, spending hundreds of hours in court helping manage one of the busiest trial dockets in the country. Before then he was a litigator with Paul, Weiss in New York City. He earned his law degree at Columbia Law School, and his BA in European History and Applied Mathematics from Emory University. #change #policy #MattZorn #cannabiscommunity
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On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt,
Montel gives the keynote address at the Cannabis Science Conference West 2022. His keynote was inspired by his personal journey and the expertise he’s accumulated along the way as he talks about the work ahead for the industry and the future of the cannabis reform movement. Over the past two decades, Montel Williams has been among the cannabis reform movement’s most prominent advocates having become a medical cannabis patient after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999. Along the way, Williams has taken an active role in legalization battles in almost every state where legalization has succeeded in states such as Pennsylvania, Arkansas, New York, Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut and his home state of Maryland. Williams has also spent two decades interviewing a wide variety of stakeholders in the movement.
Where is montel?!?! We have been trying to pass this blunt to him!!!
Scrolling through this topic as always, thanks for that comment, it was hilarious and true. Where is Montel, we need to pass this joint @mclaughlin
According to a January 2022 article in Rolling Stone Magazine, the US has pulled ahead as the one of the most valuable cannabis markets in the world, with the latest projections that it will be worth over 90 BILLION by 2026. However, female leadership in the industry has declined to record lows.
On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with Annick Goldsmith, founder of the Black Market Group. Annick is no stranger to male dominated industries, and she is using her voice to create space for those who have been marginalized and is speaking up about the disparities she’s faced in the cannabis industry.
On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel sits down with Michael Scott and Kevin Harrington at the grand opening of their first Joint Operations dispensary located in Rowley, MA, a portfolio company of their Cannaprenuer Partners venture. Michael Scott has raised over 35M in canna funding on the heels of a successful exit of a vertical operation in MA. KevinHarrington, one of the “original” sharks on Shark Tank, lends his business acumen as an uber successful serial entrepreneur to Cannapreneur Partners as a strategic investor and advisor. Cannapreneur Partners plans to build a portfolio of canna companies, starting with Joint Operations dispensaries in MA, with expansion along the east coast.
On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with Michael Sassano, CEO of Somai Pharmaceuticals, a large-scale manufacturer of medical canna compounds based in Portugal. His experience as both a developer and banker in the United States and Europe provides a unique perspective towards navigating international rules and regulations for developing canna medicines.
One of the stigmas holding back the acceptance of medical canna, especially within the medical community, is the lack of information in a format they are trained to receive, analyze and utilize it in. On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with the CEO Cannaformatics, Dr Itzhak Kurek, about how they are working to change that paradigm. Dr Kurek has published 20 peer reviewed scientific papers and holds 13 granted US and international patents cited over 2,000 times. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Sciences from Tel Aviv University and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis, and has conducted research at the Technical University of Munich, John Innes Center Norwich, C.N.R.S Bordeaux and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Dr Kurek discusses how Cannaformatics is identifying canna biomarkers, and how that information will benefit patients and medical practicioners in the near future.
On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt Montel speaks with Dustin Hoxworth, a lifelong canna enthusiast and the Founder and Editor-at-large of Fat Nugs Magazine and co-founder of Three Good Buds, an online canna community built around the love and appreciation of the plant and all it has to offer.
What an achievement 
The removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act is a proposed legal and administrative change in cannabis law at the federal level that can be undertaken by Congress, The Executive Branch or The United States Attorney General and has been proposed repeatedly since 1972. Schedule I is the most tightly restricted category reserved for drugs that have "no currently accepted medical use”. The scheduling of cannabis is also an issue that needs to be addressed at the state level and often conflicts with cannabis legalization laws, allowing for cannabis possession arrests to continue to occur even in those states where it has been legalized. On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel speaks wtih the Executive Director of the NV ACLU, Athar Haseebullah. Athar is graduate of Howard University and Howard University School of Law. He spent several years as a litigator for both Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada and the City of New York.
Montel talks with Jointly founder David Kooi on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. David is on a MISSION to change the conversation and stigma around canna to one that is about well-being and all the ways canna can enhance our lives. He graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in economics and statistics and earned his MBA from the Chicago Booth School of Business. He is the founder and CEO of Jointly, a canna platform that is using data to stimulate purposeful consumption.
Montel speaks with Len May on this episode of Let’s Be Blunt. Len is the author of “Making Cannabis Personal”, a guide on how genetics interact with cannabinoids to create truly unique experiences and the host of the “Everything is Personal” Podcast. He is the founder and CEO of Endo-Canna, a company committed to helping everyday people find the right cannabis product for their needs.
On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel speaks with Haley Elizabeth Anderson and Mary Bailey about the recently released documentary, The Sentence of Michael Thompson. As canna legalization continues across America, so do canna arrests and convictions. Michael Thompson was sentenced to 40-60 years in prison for selling 3lbs of canna, and served a total of 26 years before Governor Whitmer granted him clemency in 2021. An estimated 40,000 people are still incarcerated in the US for canna offenses while canna-business has grown into a billion-dollar US industry. Haley Elizabeth Anderson directed the film along with Kyle Thrash, and Mary Bailey is the Managing Director of The Last Prisoners Project
Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties in Northern California make up the Emerald Triangle, an area known for its legacy farms and cultivars that many believe to be the origin of US cannabis industry. On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with a second generation Craft Cannabis Farmer who served eight years in prison for growing the plant he and his community have depended on for decades. John Casali of Huckleberry Farms shares his families history with the cannabis plant, his time served for growing it, and what he is doing today in the legal market.
On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel speaks with the Co-Founder and CEO of Jane Technologies Inc. After leaving active duty in 2011 as a U.S. Army veteran and Apache helicopter commander, he turned to cannabis to re-acclimate to civilian life. Because cannabis wasn’t legal at the time where he lived, he was forced to rely on the black market, where he couldn’t be sure about the quality of the cannabis he was buying. The frustration of that experience, coupled with the lack of access to cannabis for his fellow veterans, led him to co-found Jane Technologies with his brother. Iheartjane.com launched in 2017 to provide an e-commerce solution for legal cannabis retailers. Jane’s unique offering provides dispensaries and brands with a turnkey e-commerce solution, including real-time POS integration, curated content directly from the brands (the best pictures, descriptions, etc.), and retail and market analytics. Prior to starting Jane, Socrates was an associate at McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and earned an MBA in entrepreneurship from MIT.
iHEART JANE | SOCRATES ROSENFELD - YouTube
