Vermontijuana - Elevate the State Eli Harrington

Our featured interview is with Matt Kovarsky, Washington State Department of Health certified medical cannabis consultant at The Novel Tree dispensary, a medical cannabis dispensary that's been deemed essential and is still open for business in the tech hub of Bellevue, located just east of Seattle.

Matt discusses his experience scaling up from eight lights to 100 lights throughout his near-decade of work in the legal cannabis industry in Colorado and Washington, cutting edge developments in medical cannabis at the The Novel Tree, and the experience of serving patients during a quarantine.

In our segments, we meet Vermont artisan, Laura Sullivan of Pipe Dream Hempworks, who is making compostable and sustainable hemp face masks, update current events with former NFL players being scolded by the FDA, and update the increasing legislative fallout from COVID19 impacting states in the northeast.

The Vermontijuana podcast is brought to you by the Bern Gallery (@berngallery) and www.berngallery.com, open for curbside service in Burlington, Vermont and sponsors of the Pipe Classic.

Contact vermontijuana@gmail.com and @vermontijuana for information about advertising and/or guest bookings.

Vermont artist Jesse Miles Snyder is a talented and hilarious painter and podcaster who sat down with host Eli Harrington for an interview to talk about side hustles, (trying) to make it in Vermont as an artist and Millennial, and how he became a literal “culinary smut peddler” on Instagram (@culinarysmutpeddler).

In our segments, we also talk about how the Coronavirus, AKA #Covid19 (NOT called the ‘Chinese Virus’) has made us think differently about cannabis events and some common sense realizations about how we socialize in a pandemic world and speak with Meredith Mann, CEO and Cofounder of MagicMannVT, a fellow cannabis events company readjusting to the new normal.

Looking at Vermont politics -- as much as they're still happening -- we also reveal and analyze the six legislators who will meet as a Committee of Conference to discuss the final details of S.54, Vermont’s tax-and-regulate cannabis bill.

Full Episode available on Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Podcast as well as www.vermontijuana.com. This episode is presented by the Bern Gallery, which is still taking orders online at www.berngallery.com and @berngallery on Instagram.

For information about advertising or guests, email vermontijuana@gmail.com or DM @Vermontijuana on your favorite social media account.

Vermont artist Jesse Miles Snyder is a talented and hilarious painter and podcaster who sat down with host Eli Harrington for an interview to talk about side hustles to try and make it in Vermont as an artist and Millennial, and how he became a literal "culinary smut peddler" on Instagram (@culinarysmutpeddler).

In our segments, we also talk about how the Coronavirus, AKA #Covid19 (NOT called the 'Chinese Virus') has made us think differently about cannabis events and some common sense realizations about how we socialize in a pandemic world.

Looking at Vermont politics, we reveal and analyze the six legislators who will meet as a Committee of Conference to discuss the final details of S.54, Vermont's tax-and-regulate cannabis bill.

Full Episode available March 21, 2020 on Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Podcast. This episode is presented by the Bern Gallery, which is still taking orders online at www.berngallery.com and @berngallery on Instagram.

Andrew McEwing is a Navy veteran, retired farmer, and as an unquestioning conservative, spent most of his life as an avid opponent of cannabis. Living in Northern Vermont and coming from a conservative upbringing, Andrew had fought with alcohol addiction, then after a brutal injury, lost his ability to work as a chef and became dependent on opiate pain-killers to function.

Never addicted, but in so much pain that Andrew was literally taking a lethal dose of morphine and oxycontin to function and run his beef and chicken farm. Eventually, his AA sponsor, doctor, and wife confronted him to try medical cannabis, a concept which he had previously dismissed as, “just an excuse for the hippies to get high legally'“.

In this conversation, Andrew talks about the impact of cannabis on his overall health — down from 150mg to 60mg of morphine — how it’s impacted his relationships with his family, and how he’s found his way into the Vermont cannabis community as a medical grower for himself, and resource for fellow suffering Vermonters.

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ELEVATE THE STATE. Host Eli Harrington and interviewees will regularly discuss cannabis politics, hemp, medical marijuana, the cannabis industry, and the leaders shaping marijuana legalization and culture in Vermont and around the world.

In this episode, we speak to Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan in advance of his office hosting "Conversation About Cannabis: Lessons From Our Neighbors" at 5:30pm on Thursday, December 5, 2019 at Contois Auditorium at Burlington City Hall featuring a panel of regulators and entrepreneurs from Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Event information on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/423320208366208/

Visit www.vermontijuana.com and follow @Vermontijuana for more news and information, and email eli@yourgreenbridge.com for interview and advertising opportunities.

Heady Vermont hosts speak to cannabis newsmakers, experts, and enthusiasts in Vermont and beyond to discuss the latest news, events, technologies, and cultural shifts happening in the cannabis community.

In this episode, host Eli Harrington speaks to Ashley Reynolds, founder of Elmore Mountain Therapeutics (@emtcbd) about her experience winning the $20,000 first prize in the 'Female Founders Start Here Challenge" pitch event hosted at Middlebury College by the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET).