Different Leaf: the Podcast

Different Leaf, hosted by Brit Smith, provides a roadmap to an evolving landscape for new and experienced cannabis consumers. Episodes come out every Friday.

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Episodes

Cannabis In A Post-Covid World With Alex Halperin

Will drive-thru weed shops become the future? Could legalizing pot be the solution to the post-pandemic economic depression? Or will cannabis companies fail to even survive? Host Brit Smith talks to Alex Halperin, the editor of WeedWeek.net and the author of The Cannabis Dictionary, about what the legal cannabis marketplace could look like after the pandemic.

May 29, 2020•20 min

Fingers in the Soil with Aja Atwood

Guest Aja Atwood's company Trella Technologies was born out of her struggle to grow tall plants in a small basement. Aja is a mechanical engineer who cares a lot about sustainability and issues of climate change. She invented an automated plant training system that helps plants grow horizontally, which is proving a great tool for cultivators in confinement. After host Brit Smith's chat with Aja we bring you, as always, your New England cannabis news.

May 15, 2020•25 min

CBD For Post-Mosh Pit Pain With Laura Beohner

Brit catches up with Laura Beohner, CEO of The Healing Rose CBD company, to see how the rec store shutdown is impacting all kinds of cannabis related businesses. They're also telling their first-time CBD stories, and remembering the late Charlotte Figi, the young girl with epilepsy who kickstarted the U.S. medical marijuana movement on CNN's documentary 'Weed.' To subscribe to Different Leaf Magazine or find out where you can pick up a copy, go to www.differentleaf.com . Follow us on Facebook an...

Apr 30, 2020•25 min

A Conversation With Dr. Peter Grinspoon

Peter Grinspoon, MD is a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He’s a board member of the advocacy group Doctors For Cannabis Regulation and the author of the memoir Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction. You may have even smoked a strain called Dr Grinspoon. That’s the namesake of Peter’s father Lester Grinspoon- grandfather of cannabis- who you can read about in the first issue of Different Leaf magazine on page 41. In th...

Apr 17, 2020•30 min

Gummies And Gumption With Philip Smith

Guest Philip Smith is one half of Freshly Baked, an edibles company based in Taunton, Mass. Philip and his wife Jenny Roseman founded the company in 2018 and got a provisional license to operate at the start of March this year, just as the coronavirus shutdown was beginning. But Philip and Jenny are both veterans, and a little pandemic won’t slow them down. Host Brit Smith chats with Philip about his experience as a social equity applicant with the CCC, decreasing stigma around cannabis use amon...

Apr 03, 2020•24 min

Hey it's a Pandemic! with Drew Greene

Guest Drew Greene is a business major at Northeastern University, a United States Marine, a former medical marijuana patient, and a current recreational consumer. He also happens to be married to host Brit Smith! Drew reports back from his surreal trip to the Comcann dispensary in Millis this week. Plus, Drew and Brit discuss the effect of COVID-19 on Massachusetts' cannabis businesses and consumers, and Brit brings us the latest New England cannabis news. (It's more upbeat than you think!) To s...

Mar 20, 2020•21 min

From Print To Pod With Different Leaf Editor Michael Kusek

It’s an exciting time for marijuana in Massachusetts as dispensaries are opening quickly in some places and slowly in others (and in other places, not at all), and more and more residents are “coming out of the cannabis closet.” In our first episode, host Brit Smith sits down with Different Leaf Magazine Editor in Chief Michael Kusek for a conversation about the cannabis space in the Commonwealth, the creation of Different Leaf Magazine, and the impetus for launching this podcast. We also hear a...

Mar 06, 2020•27 min

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