High Society with Paxton Quigley

High Society with Paxton Quigley

Best-selling author and entrepreneur Paxton Quigley speaks with the changemakers of the cannabis culture through the eyes of its innovators and influencers who are knee deep in this dynamic space.

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September 14, 2021 50 mins
Paxton Quigley Spotlight today on High Society with guest host Jorge Hermida only on Cannabis Radio. Prior to authoring books, Paxton worked as a Director in Community Relations for Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Los Angeles, for five years, and reported to Hugh M. Hefner and Christie Hefner. She was at Playboy in its heyday, the cable network had just started up, the magazine at the time had over 5 million readers. So we talk about ho...
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High Society's One Year Anniversary with Paxton Quigley only on Cannabis Radio! Welcome to this first-anniversary recap of High Society with Paxton Quigley. Since Paxton joined CannabisRadio.com last year, she has explored a wide variety of topics from cannabis science breakthroughs to space travel to what people are doing together and alone during this long pandemic.

During the height of the lockdown, Paxton spoke wit...
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Dr. Peter Grinspoon discusses current events from Sha’Carri Richardson to legalization after a busy week of events that have seemingly affected not only cannabis legalization but provoked an outpouring of emotions and opinions that can only mean that what remains of the stigma surrounding weed is finally lifting and beneath it are millions who do not agree with its continued prohibition.
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UFO expert Avi Loeb discusses the long-awaited Pentagon report and what the U.S. government knows about UFOs and what it didn’t manage to learn and why.




The nine-page unclassified document detailed 144 of what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” or UAPs, seen by Navy pilots and others between 2004 and 2021.
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Award-winning sex educator and coach gives free advice to Paxton Quigley’s listeners in this spicy interview with Ashley Manta, the much sought-after authority on combining sex and cannabis as part of her “Cannasexual Brand.”

Manta, author of “Sex: How Cannabis, CBD and Other Plant
Allies Can Improve Your Everyday Life,” explained that Cannasexual - a concept she created - describes “mindfully and deliberately combinin...
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Meet the Ohio mother taking on the powers that be for medical marijuana for autism: Tiffany Carwile, who seems to never sleep.

For the third year in a row, the Ohio Medical Board has refused to approve autism spectrum disorder as one of the state’s 25 qualifying conditions for medical marijuana. 

So Carwile is taking her arguments, based on science and experience, to Ohio’s legislators and governor. 

Carw...
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Harvard physicist Abraham "Avi" Loeb talks about outer space in his second interview with Paxton Quigley.




A recent report from the National UFO reporting center noted that the number of sightings in the United States rose by a thousand nationwide to 7,200 this year, according to the government’s reporting center. And only now, apparently, the Pentagon is taking them seriously.




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The future of cannabis is in rare cannabinoids such as CBG, CBN, THCV, THCA, and more, said Dennis O’Neill, president of BioMedican, a biotech company that has developed a unique patented method of producing pharmaceutical-grade cannabinoids. 




“These rare cannabinoids offer specific health benefits that are better than CBD,” O’Neill said. 
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The burgeoning hemp industry and where it’s headed was the topic of in this interview with Robert Hoban, Esq. president and founder of the Hoban Law Group, one of the largest cannabis and hemp industry law firms in the United States.




Hoban talks about the versatility of hemp as a manufacturing product as well as how beneficial its use can be for the environment. He pointed to such benefits as less reliance o...
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The Martha Stewart of edibles talks about Wana Brands, which produces the country’s top-selling cannabis-infused gummies and other yummy edibles.




Nancy Whiteman, CEO of Colorado-based Wana Brands, the largest cannabis-infused products manufacturer in the U.S., tells us how she started her edibles company over a decade ago, what it was like for females to get ahead in the cannabis industry, and how she is now...
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420 originators tell how it all started fifty years ago at San Rafael High School and in the scenic mountains of Marin County, California.




Known as the Waldos, five high school friends met after school at 4:20 to then go off and search for an abandoned cannabis patch that was planted then abandoned on Point Reyes Peninsula by a member of the U.S. Coast Guard. 




“We never found the mari...
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A new cannabis coalition seeking to influence federal policy was recently launched and is called the Coalition for Cannabis Policy, Education and Regulation (CPEAR). 

The CPEAR Coalition has not only enlisted cannabis policy experts, academics, mental health experts, and law enforcement, it also includes tobacco and alcohol companies as well as several convenience store partners, explained its executive director Andrew Fre...
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New York’s legal weed program is set to be the best in the nation, according to David Holland, executive and legal director of Empire State NORML. 




How great is New York State’s legal cannabis program? 

First of all, possession of up to three ounces of cannabis and 24 grams of concentrate is effective immediately for adults. 




Home Grow

Home cultivation, the bane of o...
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Delta-8 THC is popular, legal, and quite fantastic, say consumers of this lesser-known, and now much sought-after, cannabinoid.

In the past several year's researchers have found that the Delta-8 THC molecule, which occurs in the cannabis plant in very small concentrations, contains much of the same unique therapeutic potential as Δ-9 THC and CBD. 

This includes anti-nausea properties, pain and anxiety reductio...
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FDA approval to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with MDMA is imminent, explained Betty Aldworth, Director of Communications and Events for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).

“We are on the precipice of filing that application to the FDA for approval of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD,” Aldworth said.

Indeed, several years ago the Food and Drug Administration designated MDMA...
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Women’s successful inclusion in the cannabis industry has been the goal of ArcView’s Chief Investment Officer, Jeanne Sullivan, since she left the world of corporate tech investment in 2014 and entered the cannabis industry, bringing her much-needed skills along with her. “Throughout my career, I have been interested in supporting women entrepreneurs who receive less than 3% of venture capital funding and very little access to reso...
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Reflecting on Black History Month and the cannabis industry was the topic addressed by Dr. Kirsten Shepard Ahmed, CEO & founder of Texas-based CBD company, Pain Stoppers, who pointed out that only 4% of cannabis businesses are owned by African Americans, of whom she is one. 

As the legal cannabis industry continues to grow, the reality is that white business people are almost exclusively profiting from it at the moment...
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Author discusses Mars landing and inner workings of NASA in a fascinating interview that also looks at the agency’s exploration of Saturn’s moon, Europa, whose ocean, say, scientists, is habitable and similar to Earth’s. 

And if you’ve ever wondered about the inner workings of NASA (who hasn’t!?), journalist and bestselling author David W. Brown talks about how NASA scientists worked for years to discover a large saltwater...
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February 16, 2021 34 mins
The moon is hollow and aliens rule the sky, says bestselling author and UFO investigator Rob Shelsky, referring to one of his recent books that contain his hollow moon research findings.

“I laughed off the idea at first then I started researching and found that the moon is actually very light. If it was any lighter, it would float away,” Shelsky said. “It is missing mass. When it is struck, it rings for hours, like a hollo...
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Jointly app helps users track cannabis usage and much more, said the company’s co-founder and CEO about a new consumer-driven database, which is already making waves in the legal weed market by helping consumers get organized about what they need, want, and how to find it. 

“Jointly advocates and promotes purposeful cannabis consumption by serving as a personal and collective database that essentially revolves around the g...
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