Topic: Podcasts

On this episode of the Joint Status Report, Chicago Partners Doug Sargent and David Standa discuss the significance of the SAFE Banking Act passing in the House (1:11) and then interview the founder of Project Yosemite and maker of the OLO sublingual cannabis strip (www.getolo.com) Andrew Mack about how he is navigating the complicated California cannabis industry as well as how OLO provides a unique cannabis experience (7:25).

On this episode of the Joint Status Report, Chicago Partners Doug Sargent and David Standa briefly discuss the recent warning letters sent by the FTC to unnamed CBD companies for allegedly unsubstantiated medical claims (1:10) and Senator Crapo’s recent announcement that he plans to bring cannabis banking legislation to a vote by the end of the year (4:59), and interview David Belsky, the founder of cannabis recruiting firm FlowerHire (@flowerhire on Twitter and @flowerhire on Instagram) (6:54)).

On this episode of the Joint Status Report, Chicago Partners Doug Sargent and David Standa briefly discuss Naperville’s recent decision to opt out of recreational marijuana sales and what some of the newspaper articles missed about the vote (:30), the federal indictment of Fall River, Massachusetts Mayor Jasiel Correia (2:35), and interview Bethany Gomez, the Managing Director of Brightfield Group (@brightfieldgrp on Twitter and @brightfieldgroup on Instagram) (5:50).

On this episode of The Joint Status Report, David Standa and Doug Sargent discuss recent developments with Illinois’ recreational marijuana roll out (0:44), Washington’s Cannabis 2.0 Initiative (8:30), New York’s expungement of low-level marijuana convictions (12:10), the implications of the U.S. Surgeon General’s advisory warning related to marijuana use among pregnant women and adolescents (14:20).

In the third episode of The Joint Status Report, Chicago partners Doug Sargent and David Standa discuss former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s recent op-ed calling on the FDA to take action on CBD (1:00), the recent legalization of hemp in Ohio, which enforcement officials believe has effectively legalized recreational marijuana (6:42), a court ruling in Pennsylvania that threw out evidence obtained via a search of a vehicle containing a medical marijuana cardholder where the search was initiated because the officers smelled marijuana (14:36), Cornell University’s announcement that it will offer courses about cannabis starting this fall semester (17:46), and a recent lawsuit initiated by Oklahoma medical marijuana companies against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly putting the companies’ Facebook pages in “Facebook Jail” (20:11).

In the second episode of The Joint Status Report, Chicago partners Doug Sargent and David Standa discuss recent key events that impacted the cannabis industry, including the industry’s response to the FDA’s warning letter to Curaleaf (:46), Cresco’s announcement of its Sunnyside dispensaries (3:42), and the concerning trend of municipalities across the country opting out of permitting recreational marijuana sales (9:05).