Cannabis Coast Coast News With Alaina Pinto
The industry's most complete weekly news roundup from the cannabis industry. The host is Alaina Pinto with correspondents throughout the world.
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This is the full show of Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) admits pushing the 2018 Farm Bill through Congress was a mistake, creating a legal loophole that has led to a billion-dollar underregulated industry, and now the Feds want a mulligan, or a do over, and will ban all "quantifiable" THC infused products in one year. How much is "quantifiable" will be decide...
This is the full edition of Cannabis Coast to Coast News. Raw Rolling Papers CEO Josh Kesselman buys High Times out of receivership for a bargain at $3.6 million. We talk with former High Times Editor Steve Bloom, the Celeb Stoner himself. Plus 12 reports from Coast to Coast to Canada and Europe. Kimmie Cannabis in Oklahoma; Curtis Emery in Massachusetts; Andrew Behringer in Washington, DC, Federal Reform; Louis Joe in the District...
In this full episode of this week's Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto, exclusive interviews with
New Holland Group's Jamie Pearson, NCIA's Aaron Smith in Denver Co, , Sustainable Innovations John Murray in Illinois , Cannabis Safety First and Ohio Lobbyist of the Year Tim Johnson, plus Cynthia Cabrera from Texas' Hometown Hero. 18 reporters from Coast to Coast, Europe, England, and Canada; Is there jeal...
This is the Full Version of Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto with 16 correspondents from around the world.
In the A Block:00:2:10- One week in two minutes in cannabis newsAaron Smith from the NCIA on potential Federal Hemp ban; Kerry Hinkle from Bayou City Hemp;Andrew Bellinger in Washington DC; Amie Carter in Michigan; Christopher Bright in Maryland,;Dina Nagib in California;
In the B Block: 22:00-45:50Ben Stevens wit...
In this exclusive video, Jimmy and Aaron sit down with Michelle Rutter Friberg, a leading voice in cannabis policy and government relations and a key figure at the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA). Michelle shares powerful insights on federal cannabis legislation, advocacy strategies on Capitol Hill, and what it will take to create a more equitable, regulated, and thriving cannabis industry in the United States.What Yo...
This is the full version of Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto. Reaction from two hemp businesses on the THC-infused products ban bill that is heading to Governor Greg Abbott's desk. Kerry Hinkle with the Hemp report.
Amie Carter in Michigan on proposed DUI legislation.
Nevada Congress person Dina Titus on the STATES 2.0 Act, an excerpt from the NCIA's Voice of Cannabis Podcast this week;
Andrew Behringer on the lawsuit...
In the full edition of Cannabis Coast to Coast News this week, PCM TV Founder Jimmy Young fills in for the vacationing Alaina Pinto with anchor assists from Amie Carter in Michigan, Karen Black in Arizona, Tina Tasaka in Nevada, and Kimmie Cannabis in Oklahoma. The NCIA 's 13th annual lobby days in Washington, DC, are the focus of a day in the life of a cannabis lobbyist. Appearances and awards for STATES 2.0 ACT sponsors from ...
Here is the full Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto. All 3 Blocks or sections outlined belowA Block 00-19:301:45-8:00 - Pennsylvania takes the lead to become the 25th state to legalize, but the first house bill not embraced by the industry. Reaction from Claudia Post of Scarlet Express Delivery & CEO of Ethos Cannabis Gibran Washington; 8:-9- DOGE shuts down U Mississippi research lab;9:00-12:00 - Karen Black and Ar...
In the full version of Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto, all three blocks are packed with news stories from the Cannabis Industry. A Block 00-18:30- Terrence Cole's Senate confirmation hearing where he dodges Senator Padilla's question on rescheduling; Cannabis Unity Week in DC organized by the Last Prisoner Project with Dina Titus from Nevada on the STATES ACT 2.0 Tina Tasaka on Montana's deal with Tribal...
This the full Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto for the week of April 28th, 2025. A Texas appeals judge sides with the government troika of prohibitionists, Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick, and AG Ken Paxton. PCM TV founder Jimmy Young gets reaction from the J Man, Jerry Joyner in Texas; Andrew Behringer has the story of the DOJ warning a legal DC dispensary about its proximity to schools; Karen Black i...
This is the full version of Cannabis Coast to Coast with Alaina Pinto for the week of April 21, 2025; PCM TV productions continues to document the fight to end cannabis prohibition, and this week, Ohio Republican Dave Joyce , the head of the cannabis caucus in the house files the STATES 2.0 Act, which would deschedule cannabis and take it off the CSA or Controlled Substances Act. Andrew Behringer has his report from Washington, DC....
The National Cannabis Industry Association is one of the leading trade groups in the cannabis industry Founded in 2010, the NCIA is one of the most active and influential lobby groups in Washington, DC, advocating for the industry. Executive Director Aaron Smith has been involved since its inception. Co-host Jimmy Young is the founder of Pro Cannabis Media and the executive producer of Cannabis Coast News with Alaina Pinto, a weekl...
In the full Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto this week...the trickle down impact of the President Trumps tariffs on the cannabis industry. House oversight committee targets FDA failures with US Hemp Roundtable hearing. In Texas, protests at their state house to save the hemp industry in that state. We talk with the J Man Jerry Joyner in Texas; 16 reporters from Coast to Coast.PCM TV Founder Jimmy Young goes 1v1 with G...
On this week's Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto, (Yes she's back!), MSO's fund Super Political Action Committee to create and place commercial messages reminding President Trump of his campaign rhetoric to reschedule cannabis; of course, they throw Biden, the Democrats, and Canada under the bus while championing the president's record on weed.
Reaction from the NCIA's Aaron Smith.
This is the full A...
In this week's full Cannabis Coast to Coast news, PCM TV founder Jimmy Young anchors with 13 contributors. Would you trust former AG nominee Matt Goetz? It was his OP ED in a Tampa newspaper that is the most positive communication out of Washington, DC, since the new administration has been in power. Is rescheduling still on the "agenda"? Goetz says yes, but consider the source. Plus Virginia Governor Glen Youngkin ve...
In this week’s Cannabis Coast to coast with Alaine Pinto, (yes she’s back)! The top story is the state of Texas shutting down the billion-dollar hemp industry. The Governor, Lt. Governor, and AG all focused on shutting down , instead of regulation? Now the battle goes to the Texas House. We talk with the “J Man” Jerry Joyner, the founder of Weed and Whiskey TV in the Lone Star State.
Plus Pennsylvania gets closer to being the 25th ...
This week on Cannabis Coast to Coast News, PCM TV Founder Jimmy Young steps in for Alaina Pinto and delivers an exclusive interview with Aaron Smith, Executive Director of the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA). Smith discusses the NCIA’s push for public comments aimed directly at Congress via https://thecannabisindustry.org Could this be the start of Prohibition 2.0?
The team of 16 correspondents from across the U.S. and...
This is the full weekly Cannabis Coast to Coast News with Alaina Pinto.
The A Block has an exclusive 1v1 interview with Morgan Fox, Political Director of NORML, in Washington, DC. Christina Brisson is in Ohio, as the Congress there is ready to change the rules in that market; Andrew Behringer is in Washington, DC. South by Southwest Celebrates the Last Prisoner Project in Austin with Grow House Media; Karen Black in Arizona;
Th...
Mixed Signals from POTUS - "Death Penalty for Drug Dealers!" Ohio GOP Rewrites the State's New Laws
On Cannabis Coast to Coast with Alaina Pinto, the full show has coast to coast cannabis coverage plus a new European report from Ben Stevens with The Business of Cannabis in London; POTUS Trump appoints Terrence Cole to top DEA post, and he proclaims he wants to keep cannabis on schedule 1 . Wrongful detainee in Russia, Marc Fogel is freed and back in USA. A BlockB BlockC Block
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