Steve’s Cannabis Show

On Tuesday May 12th, The Rochester, NY City Council approved legislation that, effective immediately, removed THC as a chemical tested for during pre-employment drug screenings.

Mitch Gruber is a Rochester City Councilmember and Chief Strategy Officer at Foodlink, the regional food bank.  We discuss the new legislation in depth and what it means for Rochester residents.

Jason Klimek, a tax attorney at Boylan Code LLP, discusses the promising economic benefits of legalizing adult-use Cannabis in New York.

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Alexis Pleus is the Founder and Executive Director of TruthPharm, a national advocacy 501c3 non-profit organization that is working to raise awareness and reduce the stigma associated with substance use disorders, and advocating for policy change to improve treatment option -- including the use of Cannabis as a harm reduction tool.

Steve Halton is the Founder and CEO of CNY Hemp Processing in Canastota, NY.   This episode is all about the process of growing hemp for Fiber, and what it takes to turn the fiber into a usable end-product like Hempcrete or bioplastic.

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Jacob Fox is the CEO of Closed Loop Systems.  On this episode we discuss regenerative agriculture, the insane bioremediation properties of Hemp, and the link between dirty underwear and soil health.

Harold Smith, PhD is a cell and molecular biologist and full professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Dr. Smith is the founder and CEO of Oyagen, a Rochester-based biotech company that recently announced their discovery of OYA-1, a promising new antiviral treatment to COVID-19.
We discuss the promising role that Cannabis could play in the management and treatment COVID-19.
Resource:  https://www.projectcbd.org/medicine/cannabis-cbd-covid-19

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Kaelan Castetter, CEO of CSG Hemp, provides a legislative update on the state of Cannabis legalization in NY in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.

Growing Cannabis uses a considerable amount of energy.  For indoor grow operations, the environment is carefully controlled, with humidity, temperature, nutrients, and lighting all managed to optimize the grow cycle of the plants.  Growers typically are not considered ideal customers for renewable energy developers, because of perceived credit risk.  However, many jurisdictions are using the regulatory process to encourage or compel growers to use renewable energy, as local electric grids strain to keep up with this growing industry.

Sangha Systems has over 30 years of experience in the renewable energy,

engineering, finance, and legal fields. They are committed

to reducing the carbon footprint of energy intensive

industries like Cannabis cultivation, reducing the largest operational expenses

while increasing facility up-time.

To learn more about the services that Sangha Systems has to offer, check out their website: https://www.sanghasystems.com/

Growing Cannabis uses a considerable amount of energy.  For indoor grow operations, the environment is carefully controlled, with humidity, temperature, nutrients, and lighting all managed to optimize the grow cycle of the plants.  Growers typically are not considered ideal customers for renewable energy developers, because of perceived credit risk.  However, many jurisdictions are using the regulatory process to encourage or compel growers to use renewable energy, as local electric grids strain to keep up with this growing industry.

Sangha Systems has over 30 years of experience in the renewable energy,

engineering, finance, and legal fields. They are committed

to reducing the carbon footprint of energy intensive

industries like Cannabis cultivation, reducing the largest operational expenses

while increasing facility up-time.

To learn more about the services that Sangha Systems has to offer, check out their website: https://www.sanghasystems.com/

Kyle Moffitt is the cofounder and CEO of STEM Cultivation.  After becoming a medical marijuana patient in 2016, Kyle quickly experienced the pain of high prices, short supplies, and inconsistent quality shared by many patients across the market and realized that the cannabis industry suffered from a broken supply chain.  He and his co-founder started STEM Cultivation in 2017 to develop a manufacturing solution that would consistently lower the cost to grow high-quality cannabis at a commercial scale, yet affordable enough to be accessible by growers of all sizes to compete in the global cannabis market.  Kyle graduated from MIT with a degree in Architecture.