
Flower Shortage in PA - Growing Pains or Structural Problems?
Featured, Interviews, PodcastA Panel of Industry Watchdogs Weighs in on Flower Shortage
Medical cannabis patients in Pennsylvania are experiencing a severe flower shortage at the state’s legal dispensaries. Many people are angry, many are quite vocal about who is to…

Helping Veterans Find Balance: An Interview with Ron Millward
Interviews, News, PodcastMedical cannabis is a huge issue with veterans, as it is often the most effective treatment for both pain and PTSD. So we’re proud to bring you profiles of veterans who are making waves in the cannabis industry by helping to make things better…

Mental Health and Medical Cannabis: Dispense Magazine Panel Podcast
Interviews, News, PodcastFor many people dealing with mental health issues, to explore using cannabis as a treatment, it seems overwhelming because of two stigmas. First is the stigma of their condition, and second the stigma still lingering with medical cannabis in…

Inside SB 350, PA's Adult-Use Bill: An Exclusive Interview with Senator Daylin Leach
Featured, Interviews, NewsSenator Daylin Leach was a co-author of Act 16, which legalized Medical Marijuana in Pennsylvania. Signed into law in April 2016, the first dispensaries opened two years later in February 2018, and since then over 200,000 patients have had access…

How To Run A Patient-Focused Dispensary: An Interview with Victor Guadagnino, Jr.
Featured, Interviews, PodcastIn this podcast, Dispense Publisher Sven Hosford and Editor-in-Chief Kristal Oknefski talk with Victor Guadagnino Jr., Manager and co-founder of Keystone Canna Remedies. He and his aunt Joan have created a model for how to run a Patient-focused…

Vireo Employees Ratify Landmark Agreement Creating the First Cannabis Union Contract in Pennsylvania
Featured, Interviews, NewsUnited Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 Keystone State and Vireo Health International, Inc. ("Vireo"), announced Monday that workers at Vireo’s Pennsylvania subsidiary voted overwhelmingly to ratify a Collective Bargaining Agreement…

How to Run a Patient-Focused Dispensary
Featured, Interviews, News Fall 2019An Interview with Victor Guadagnino, Jr.
The legalization of medical cannabis in Pennsylvania, while very successful in numbers, has not been without problems. The lack of patient education is one that stands out. Patients are not always receiving…

Veteran Profile: Erik Asher
Featured, Interviews, PodcastMastering the Power of the Press
Medical cannabis is a huge issue with veterans, as it is often the most effective treatment for both pain and PTSD. So we’re proud to bring you profiles of veterans who are making waves in the cannabis industry…

Anxiety and what it takes to qualify: An Interview with Sara Makin
Health, Interviews, News, PodcastAs of July 20, 2019, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Health now includes anxiety to the list of qualifying conditions for patients to be able to use medical cannabis.
But what exactly does it mean to have anxiety? We all get anxious from time to…

Behind the Scenes at Prime Wellness
Interviews, Podcast, SponsoredThe legal Medical Cannabis produced in Pennsylvania is getting great reviews, and the medicine produced at Prime Wellness of PA is getting some of the highest marks. What does it take to create the best quality medicine and keep that quality…

Medical Cannabis and the Second Amendment
Interviews, Law, News Winter 2019What are a patient's firearm rights?
The issue of a medical cannabis patient’s Second Amendment rights is of great concern here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania where we have a long tradition of hunting and sportsmen. Now that physicians…

Illinois expunging cannabis-related criminal records
Featured, Health, InterviewsIf you've faced charges for marijuana in Illinois, you can now breathe a bit easier, as the politics of pot are changing in the prairie state.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed HB 1438, which makes cannabis legal in Illinois for individuals…

An Interview with Soulful Cannabis
Featured, Health, Interviews, PodcastThe rapid growth of the cannabis industry in America today is causing concerns about the impact on our economy, our health, and our wallet. So who is out there working to keep the medical cannabis industry a healthy one?
Soulful Cannabis…

Cannabis: The Exit Drug. An interview with Felicia Greenfield-Blau
Featured, Health, Interviews, PodcastRather than a Gateway Drug, Cannabis is quickly becoming the Exit drug as more people like Felicia Greenfield-Blau encourage patients to use it along with well established holistic therapies. She’s part of a natural convergence of the holistic…

Recreational vs. Medicinal: A Panel Discussion
Health, Interviews, Law, PodcastRight now, the Lt. Governor of PA is on a listening tour to every county in the state -- all 67 of them -- to hear what people think about legalizing the recreational adult use of cannabis. In this episode, we get to hear from his wife, the…

The Entourage Effect and Why Physicians Make Better Medicine
Featured, Health, Interviews, PodcastThis podcast series is focused on what you and your doctor might talk about, and in this episode, we talk with just such a doctor. Dr. Stephen Dahmer is a practicing physician and also happens to be the Chief Medical Officer of Vireo Health.
During…

Treating Trauma with Cannabis: An Interview with Sara Makin
Featured, Health, Interviews Winter 2019Seventy percent of adults in the United States have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lives. Of those, 20 percent develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) says Sara Makin, founder of Makin Wellness, a therapy and coaching…

How Safe Are Your CBD Products?
Featured, Health, Interviews, News, Podcast Winter 2019An interview with Jahan Marcu and Jan Roberts
The International Research Center on Cannabis and Mental Health (IRCCMH), along with the Cannabis Chemistry Subdivision of the American Chemical Society, recently released a report about the safety…

Integrating Cannabis and Holistic Medicine
Health, Interviews, PodcastDispense Magazine Podcast
On Oct. 6, 2018, the Mind Body Spirit Healing Expo in Monroeville, PA was host to a panel discussion on Integrating Cannabis and Holistic Health. Featured were three luminaries of the medical cannabis industry in the…

Medical Marijuana and PTSD
Health, Interviews, PodcastSolevo Wellness, Pittsburgh’s first medical marijuana dispensary, and Dispense Magazine team up for this series of podcasts called Cannabis Conversations. Recorded live in front of an audience every month, these conversations discuss various…

Medical Marijuana and Pediatric Medicine - PART II
Health, Interviews, PodcastSolevo Wellness, Pittsburgh's first medical marijuana dispensary, and Dispense Magazine team up for this series of podcasts called Cannabis Conversations. Recorded live in front of an audience every month, these conversations discuss various…

Medical Marijuana and Pediatric Medicine - PART I
Health, Interviews, PodcastSolevo Wellness, Pittsburgh's first medical marijuana dispensary, and Dispense Magazine team up for this series of podcasts called Cannabis Conversations. Recorded live in front of an audience every month, these conversations discuss various…

Pain Management and Opioid Addiction - PART III
Health, Interviews, PodcastSolevo Wellness, Pittsburgh's first medical marijuana dispensary, and Dispense Magazine team up for this series of podcasts called Cannabis Conversations. Recorded live in front of an audience every month, these conversations discuss various…

Pain Management and Opioid Addiction - PART II
Health, Interviews, PodcastSolevo Wellness, Pittsburgh's first medical marijuana dispensary, and Dispense Magazine team up for this series of podcasts called Cannabis Conversations. Recorded live in front of an audience every month, these conversations discuss various…

Cannabis and Mental Health - PART II
Health, Interviews, PodcastAt a recent Dispense with the Nonsense event in Harmony PA, we recorded a panel discussion with a live audience on the topic of "Cannabis and Mental Health".
Cannabis and Mental Health Panelists included:
Dr. John Metcalf, Ph.D., MD, ABIM,…

Cannabis and Mental Health - PART I
Health, Interviews, PodcastAt a recent Dispense with the Nonsense event in Harmony PA, we recorded a panel discussion with a live audience on the topic of "Cannabis and Mental Health".
Cannabis and Mental Health Panelists included:
Dr. John Metcalf, Ph.D., MD, ABIM,…