How’s it growing folks? Welcome back to Here Weed Go! I’m your host , cannabis reporter here at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÏñAV and .
In this episode, I have a very special guest: , the founder of , a consultancy that advises various cannabis businesses, brands and others in the industry across North America and Western Europe.
Hirsh also wears other hats in the cannabis industry worth mentioning: he is the vice chair of the and on the Board of Directors of the .
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Because he has such a diverse background, this episode hits on nearly every big story happening in cannabis at the state level right now: from the , to what smaller states like , and others can teach more established markets and others poised to make the recreational leap (!)
Of course, there’s also huge things happening at the national level, and our discussion attempts to shed some light and clear the smoke around what’s happening in D.C. when it comes to rescheduling cannabis from schedule 1 to 3 and if congress will ever get its act together and clear up SAFER banking and other issues they helped create.
But our conversation begins with a little bit of the personal, with Hirsh recounting what sort of impact his first time trying cannabis had on him…
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Eddie Celaya is a breaking news reporter and host of the "Here Weed Go!" podcast. He graduated from Pima Community College and the University of Arizona and has been with the ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÏñAV since May 2019.