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  • Weed War of Words! SAM Prohibitionists vs. Cannabis Industry; Michigan adding 24% Tax Increases!
    2025/09/29

    In this week's complete edition of Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto (Yes, she's back!) Not so Smart Approaches to Marijuana creates a poll fixed to fit their prohibitionist agenda and influence the rescheduling movement while the Industry fights back with facts and overwhelming anecdotal evidence. NORMAL, MPP, ATACH all respond with a war of words. Michigan increases taxes on cannabis sales by 24% putting industry at risk. Amie Carter has that story and details on a protest at the state house in Lansing. Massachusetts Commissioner Shannon O'brien is back in charge of the CCC and immediately puts the kibosh on social consumption lounge progress; Colorado shuts down 3 companies for health violations as the rules change in that state, Jenny Germano has more;

    In the B Block, Dave Barton in the UK with an unjust prison sentence for a caregiver; Debi Facey in Canada; Kerry Hinkle with the Hemp report; Joe Parsons in Virginia on that Governors race; Dina Nagib in California at the Latinos in Cannabis festival and the final cancellation of the controversial tax increase; Doug Miller on GTI High on Wall Street; Mark Alan in Illinois and GTI;

    In the C Block, Kimmie Cannabis on the adult use ballot box question in Oklahoma; Karen Black in Arizona, Tina Tasaka in Nevada and with Tribal Lands; Christoph

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  • Legalization Update! Is Rescheduling in trouble? GOP Tries to Stop Rescheduling in Congress.
    2025/09/15

    In this week's Cannabis Coast to Coast News, the impact of the political assassination of Charlie Kirk on the rescheduling process. The GOP circles their wagons to fight the rescheduling process in Congress. NORML's Morgan Fox with a legalization update. Andrew Behringer in Washington DC; Texas Governor Greg Abbott uses his executive power to create a more regulated hemp industry in his state after his legislature couldn't agree, and a hemp ban was avoided. Reaction from Cynthia Cabrera of Home Town Heroes and Kerry Hinkle with the hemp report. plus Joe Parsons in Virginia;

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  • Massachusetts Chief Regulator Reinstated at CCC; Texas Ends 2nd Session with no change to Hemp Rules
    2025/09/08

    In the full version of Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto, Shannon O'Brien, the Chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, gets reinstated with back pay after a two year ordeal of suspension and dismissal. Curtis Emery with that story and reaction from Chris Faraone of the Talking Joints Memo; Kerry Hinkle in Washington DC to fight against the threat of a federal hemp ban; Texas' second special session to figure out new laws on hemp ends with no agreement so no change in the Lone Star State. Amie Carter in Michigan at the 67th annual Mackinac Bridge Walk; Karen Black in Arizona; Trump insiders continue to battle with rescheduling plans;


    In the B Block Dave Barton in the UK, Debi Facey in Canada; Debi Facey in California where they have rolled back a tax increase for a change; A huge data breach in Ohio with Medical records of thousands of patients, Christina Brisson reports; Jenny Germano in Colorado; Joe Parsons in Virginia and Delaware sells 7 Million dollars of weed in its first month of adult use sales;

    In the C Block, Tina Tasaka on the Tribal Lands; Doug Miller is High on Wall Street and is Verano ready to rock? Christopher Bright in Maryland; Jennifer Boozer Stewart in Alabama with more injustice; Alysha Bellamy at the Doobie Dabler in Minnesota;

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    56 分
  • Trump Insiders React to Rescheduling; NORML's Paul Armentano Exclusive - TX Senate Bans Hemp Again!
    2025/08/25

    This is the full weekly news show, Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto, but she is off this week, Executive Producer Jimmy Young fills in with Karen Black, Kimmie Cannabis, Curtis Emery, and Dave Barton co-anchoring. Texas Senate passes Hemp Ban again, will the House? Kerry Hinkle on hemp; Amy Carter in Michigan with a testing lab shut down; Curtis Emery with the State House Audit of CCC; Kimmie Cannabis In Oklahoma with an deadly domestic assault at an Oklahoma dispensary;


    In the B Block - Ben Sevens in Europe; Dave Barton in the UK; Joe Parsons in Virginia; Doug Miller High on Wall Street on Tilray. Jennifer Boozer Stewart with the hemp battle in Alabama; Al;ysha Bellamy in Minnesota with Jesse the Body Ventura;


    C Block Tina Tasaka in Nevada and with Wisconsin Tribal Challenges; DEA asks HHS to take Psilocybin off schedule 1 to 3, sound familiar? Karen Black with the Arizona drought. Matt Friedlander in his Washington State backyard filled with hemp; Jenny Germano in Colorado;

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  • Is Trump Ready to Deliver on Rescheduling? 2 Weeks? Dems Walkout in Texas Impacts fight on Hemp!
    2025/08/18

    In the full version of this week's Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto, President Trump makes his first comments in public about rescheduling cannabis. NORML reaction from Morgan Fox, political director; House Republican Greg Steube files a rescheduling bill; Andrew Behringer in Washington, DC; Kerry Hinkle on the Texas battle over THC-infused hemp products; Curtis Emery has the mess in Massachusetts with the CCC; Kimmie Cannabis in Oklahoma; Jennifer Boozer Stewart in Alabama.

    In the B Block, Thailand recriminalizes the plant; Debi Facey in Canada with Toronto events; Alysha Bellamy in Minnesota; Mark Alan the Chicago Clone Guy; Joe Parsons in Virginia; Christina Brisson in Ohio; Tina Tasaka in Nevada, and on the Tribal Lands; Christopher Bright in Maryland; Jill Goldsberry with a tour of an Atlantic City Social Consumption Lounge; Plus we celebrate the Women in Cannabis Expo,. and the Canna Mom of the year, Amie Carter, our Michigan correspondent, a tireless advocate, and super mom! Plus Dina Nagib with a special 1v1 report with Brooke Westlake of Women in Cannabis Expo.

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  • Texas DA Partakes on Tik Tok to prove a point; Boston Sheriff arrested for Extortion of $ w/ Ascend
    2025/08/11

    In the full show of this week's Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto, West Texas DA Sarah Stonger posts her smoking a joint on TikTok that she 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 the state GOP efforts to get a prohibitionist ballot question approved for midterms. Dina Nagib in California on changes Glass House Farms has made in hiring practices after ICE raid two weeks ago. Plus NORML"s Morgan Fox on the influx of prohibition content in media and in Washington DC.


    In the B Block—international reports from England and France; State reports from Amie Carter in Michigan; Tina Tasaka in Nevada and on Tribal Lands; Joe Parsons in Virginia; Christopher Bright in MD; Christina Brisson in Ohio;


    In the C Block—Jennifer Boozer in Alabama; A Women in Cannabis preview with Brooke Westlake and Exec. Producer Jimmy Young 1v1; Kimmie Cannabis in Oklahoma; Mark Alan the Chicago Clone Guy in Illinois ; Alysha Bellamy in Minnesota at Canna Con; Robin Alford in Kentucky; Doug Miller is High on Wall Street, and Jill Goldsberry in NJ at new Social Clubs;

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  • DEA Head Cole Backs Off Rescheduling Priority! Feb Hemp Ban Avoided; 3 Day Dead&CO in San Francisco
    2025/08/04

    In this weeks 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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  • Prohibitionists Circle Their Wagons in DC Terry Cole is in at DEA! & Judge John Mulrooney retires
    2025/07/28

    In this week's Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto. The Senate confirms Terrence Cole as DEA Head Administrator, a prohibitionist who just doesn't want to move cannabis off schedule 1 of CSA, but will science and public opinion sway him to do what's right? Plus the DEA Judge who stalled the rescheduling process John Mulrooney retires; Aaron Smith the NCIA Executive Director resigns to try to Unite America and Executive Producer Jimmy Young has an exclusive interview; plus a determined Jennifer Boozer in Alabama as a victim of draconian laws in her state; ; Dina Nagib in California on Cresco Labs leaving; Doug Miller has the impact on their stock.

    B Block International reports with Ben Stevens, Dave Barton, and Debbie Facey; 5 state reports Plus Jimmy Young covers a putting for prerolls competition at a charity golf tournament;

    C block, Kimmie Cannabis in Oklahoma, and Christopher Bright,; Plus name that gummy contest in Minnesota!

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    54 分