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The enfant-terrible of New York’s legendary 80s downtown scene is now all grown up. Though the former Paper magazine Senior Editor and High Times columnist is still a bit of a contrarian, his advocacy of an alternative art history with graffiti, street, psychedelic and outsider art at its center is now widely accepted as visionary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
He’s best known for putting Fillipino cooking on the map, but Miguel Trinidad’s cannabis cuisine side hustle is equally groundbreaking. A foodie’s delight, Trinidad’s 5-course cannabis infused meal is an elegant dining experience known as the 99th Floor, an experience guaranteed to stimulate you in both body and mind. I speak with Miguel and his business partner Doug Cohen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“I got exposed to digital at the same time I was exposed to fantasy role playing games and psychedelics and rave culture.” So says media critic Douglas Rushkoff of Team Human, a podcast and book that make a case for a culture that honors human beings. No brainer? Not really. Here’s why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannabis is the new vertical of cultural production, much of it created by and for women. Among them Anya Charbonneau’s Broccoli magazine. We talk about her female-centric enterprise, why print is still a viable medium, identity v. lifestyle, where to buy a cannabis bouquet, psychedelic art, and the secret history of woman in cannabis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Navy veteran. Original Fun Gallery graffiti artist. Toured with the Clash. Buddy of Virgil Abloh. Collabed with Gortex and Commes des Garcons. Designed the livery of the new BMW M2. And there’s much, more learned about the multi-faceted international art star Lenny “Futura” McGurr. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dr. Peter Grinspoon got strung out on opiates, lost his license, recovered, wrote a book and returned to Harvard Medical School where he’s become one of the most important voices speaking out on cannabis, health and wellness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ashley Manta has made integrating cannabis into our sex life the focus of her work. Whether you’re feeling Valentine’s Day or not, it behooves you to listen and learn from someone schooled in the art of love and found that in the right place at the right time cannabis and CBD can provide the spark you’ve been looking for. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Working with psychedelics under the care of a psychiatrist has helped the artist known as Swoon address her personal trauma and expand her creative potential. Swoon exploded onto the street art scene with wall pieces beloved by her peers as well as the random passersby lucky enough to encounter them. Now an art world force with museum shows and exhibitions, the personal has become political and social with the environment, earthquake disaster relief in Haiti and opioid addiction among her preocc...
We travel back in time with Frenchy Cannoli whose mission is to spread the word about the Lost Art of the Hashishin. Having learned how to make hash from the ancient masters of Asia and the Middle East, he now lives among the beleaguered growers of California’s Emerald Triangle as Big Agra threatens their legacy, livelihood and way of life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Xeni Jardin is a one-time straight edge who discovered cannabis after being diagnosed with cancer. A digital media commentator, tech culture journalist and co-editor and contributor to the website Boing Boing, she is also at the forefront of investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile who famously funded dubious scientific research and died in prison under suspicious circumstances. We talk to the former National Public Radio, Wired magazine and Wired News contributor about Epstein, cannab...
In a career that spans 40 years, Kenny Scharf has gone from wunderkind pal of Haring and Basquiat to art world drop out to OG working in a reconstituted LA studio making one masterpiece after another. We talk about finding inspiration in head shops. Performing with Ann Magnuson and Club 57. His psychedelic Cosmic Cavern. Recycling for arts sake. Hanging with Warhol. Miami when it reminded him of the East Village. And much, much more so listen up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
Chelsea Leyland is one of the bravest people I know. At one time the fashion world’s favorite DJ, Leyland shifted focus after discovering that CBD could free her from the anti-convulsant drugs that as an epileptic she had been taking for most of her life. Today she’s a CBD activist, telling her story and working to educate the world about the help that’s available to the many millions of people afflicted with this condition, if only the government and medical profession got on board. Hosted on A...
David Hershkovits reviews the year with special guest DJ Kibbitzer. What he really thinks about the year in pot from Fab 5 Freddie to Ricky Powell, Danny Fields, AJ Sour Diesel and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sting, Russell Brand and Ellen Page would all agree that Daniel Pinchbeck is one of the most important voices in the new psychedelic revolution. His latest book When Plants Dream -- Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and The Global Psychedelic Renaissance couldn’t be more timely. Whether it’s microdosing or purging your guts out under the influence, Pinchbeck finds hope that the psychedelic experience will be more than a self-help product in the wellness toolbox. For him, it is the key to saving the...
Award-winning fashion designer, TV talk show host, Project Runway judge, singer, costume designer, author. Whatever, it all adds up to Isaac Mizrahi. We talk about the good old days when Madonna, Robert DeNiro et al would come to his shows and Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui made their marks. Why he likes Xanax and thinks department stores going out of business is a good thing. Don’t expect the expected. It’s Isaac Mizrahi. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Peter Davis grew up with the Trumps and other prominent New York families, but he’s always been an individualist. From his days as a punked out, green-haired skateboarder, he’s had a rebellious streak that crossed over into the wild world of downtown New York where he snuck into clubs, smoked weed and connected with a new reality. We talk about what it’s like being editor-in-chief of L’Officiel USA, his oddball collections, his views on fashion and weed, the luxe cannabis market and how he’d bra...
April Pride is an emerging star of the new cannabis culture. We talk with her about the intersection of cannabis and sex, how the new cannabis magazines targeting women get it right, post-partum pot and the many other ways that women can potentially benefit from normalization. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In the world of Cannabis, no brand stands out like SHERBINSKIS. It's been called the Supreme of cannabis. As well as the Louis Vuitton of cannabis. SHERBINSKIS, aka Mario Guzman, spans the high and the low, his foot in the door to become the breakout brand of the cannabis revolution. His widely loved Sunset Sherbet, Gelato, and Mochi strains have been name-checked in hundreds of rap songs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Keith Stroup has been fighting for marijuana reform for almost 50 years. As a founder of NORML he’s not quite ready to take a victory lap, but he’s gratified to see the fruits of his labor. We talk cannabis then and now and follow the story from the War on Drugs to Jimmy Carter permissiveness to Reagan's Just Say No to impending legalization. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Can a marketing whiz who’s worked for halo brands like Nike and Beats By Dre make it in the Cannabiz? Can what he learned there be applied to the wild west of cannabis where the playing field is uneven and different rules apply. As CMO of Cura Cannabis Jason White is ready for the challenge. We find out how China changed him, how marketing to women and seniors is all the rage and what it's going to take to establish a brand in an industry on the brink of national legalization. Hosted on Acast. S...
He’s quick to give credit to others, but when it comes to his role in introducing "kind weed" into the marketplace Joe Murray aka AJ Sour Diesel, is second to none. A contemporary of Chem Dog, Weasel and The Albany Gang, he was one of those kids in the 90s, barely out of high school on a mission to find the best weed in the city. Dead Heads and Wetlands, a downtown club where jam bands played and the best weed was brought to market, figures in this story as does genetics, seeds and the persisten...
Steve Olson is still skating after all these years. Jock, artist, raconteur, world traveler, Skateboard Hall of Famer, Olsen has many hats to wear and stories to tell. The dad of Nike skateboarder Alex, he can bask in his son’s achievement and his own legacy in a sport that’s going to the Olympics for the first time in 2020. We talk about the history of skateboarding, how he survived its ups and downs, his emergence as an artist as well as his little known attempt to make it in the financial wor...
Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Woody Harrerlson, Willie Nelson are just some of the famous stoners Steve Bloom has smoked with. As High Times editor and founder of Celebstoner.com, he’s chronicled the overlapping worlds of cannabis and entertainment. Celebs were once reluctant to be photographed holding weed, but they all jumped on the proverbial band wagon once Cypress Hill kicked it off as the first major act to appear on the cover of High Times. Bloom remains active on the scene, still writing abo...
A daily smoker and the great great grandaughter of the etiquette guru Emily Post, Lizzie Post is the perfect person to write a book for our cannabis culture today. “Higher Etiquette" looks at the changing world created by the growing acceptance of the plant as part of daily life. We discuss the etiquette of entertaining at home when some guests smoke and others don’t. How do you handle a pushy person who calls you out for smoking pot. Should your medical marijuana needs be kept to yourself? What...
Ricky Powell has had a checkered career running the gamut from pot delivery boy to froze aid vendor to access cable celebrity but most of all for being one of the coolest street photographers on the planet. As a stand-up comedian/photographer, he leaves audiences in stitches with the comments he makes about Run-DMC and other greats he shot and befriended. Here he talks about selling weed to Method Man, appearing in the Beastie "You’ve Got to Fight for Your Right to Party” video and what it means...
When the time came to extending his cannabis company outside the U.S., why did Wiz Khalifa choose to work with Canada’s Supreme Cannabis? Meet John Fowler and you’ll understand. From getting the door slammed in his face when he was looking for financing a few years ago to his status today as a go to expert on all things cannabis, he’s come a long way. Though an advocate for the industry, he’s free-thinking enough to admit that most legal weed is not as good as the underground. He thinks the snea...
Because he signed the Stooges, managed the Ramones and introduced punk rock to Britain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Rock is dedicated to Danny Fields. We talk about the wild days of New York when weed was everywhere and Danny was a confidante of all the young dudes from Lou to Iggy to Joey and Nico. His stories are so great they made a documentary about him called Danny Says . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
On the occasion of "Facing the Giant: 3 Decades of Dissent" I talked to my old friend Shepard Fairey in front of a live audience New York where he's working on a mural of Rosario Dawson, days before leaving to paint his largest wall ever, a 20-story piece in Vancouver, Canada. We talk politics, skateboarding, punk rock and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
I don’t use the word “visionary” loosely. But I do feel comfortable using it to describe Eugenio Garcia, the founder and CEO of Cannabis Now, the nation’s #1 Cannabis News magazine. As the industry goes from small to mega, Eugenio has kept pace with the changing times, extending his reach from print into digital and now into a chain of brick and mortar “retail expressions” called the Cannabis Now Wellness Experience. “This industry,” he advises, “is full of loan sharks, shady deals and people ta...
As Vancouver sits poised to make its claim to being one of the world’s great cities, its thriving cannabis culture and creative class is popping in all the right places. My guest GMan was there from the beginning, making his passion for skateboarding, streetwear, music and the arts the central pillar of a brand strategy that has made him one of the city’s greatest tastemakers and most successful entrepreneurs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
