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Your Highness Podcast: Episode 2.25 — Age and Experience in Cannabis

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For our 25th episode, Diana begins with her favorite new thing, an informative series of children’s books helping the entire family understand the history of cannabis and hemp. Leah’s favorite new thing is a book written by future guest, Higher Etiquette: A Guide to the World of Cannabis, from Dispensaries to Dinner Parties. 

Next, we talk about the benefits of surrounding yourself with people over 30 as a business or brand, and just the overall upsides to having a varied past and bringing it to this emerging industry.

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Your Highness Podcast: Episode 2.24 — The Four Rs of Sustainability In Cannabis

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We start off our 24th episode with our favorite things: For Leah, it is two recent books by Robyn Griggs Lawrence, and for Diana, it is the upcoming NCIA Lobby Days.

Our topic is the Rs of sustainability in cannabis, and we address some sticky topics along with some awesome resources.

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Unwitting Consumers Are Accidentally Eating Edibles – Baked Smart Has a Solution

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By almost every standard, legalizing cannabis has gone off without a hitch and had some incredible results. No more pointless arrests, fewer kids are using cannabis and opioid use has even decreased in some legal states. However, one unintended consequence of legalization is that the rate of accidental marijuana ingestion by children has gone up.

Reports of accidental consumption have been popping up everywhere from legitimate sources —no reefer madness paranoia. The same day 9 elementary schoolers were hospitalized in Ohio for eating infused gummies, 15 middle schoolers were sent home after being given edibles from classmates.

These situations can result in some serious consequences for some. After handing out gummies that contained cannabis to 6 classmates, a 12 year old in Florida may be facing 7 felony charges. It’s unclear whether he even knew they were cannabis-infused.

Kids aren’t the only ones affected by this problem. A man in Minnesota ate 2 unmarked brownies infused with cannabis, and after being randomly drug tested, he was fired from his government job. All because he couldn’t tell the difference between a regular unmarked brownie and a THC-infused brownie.

If an adult can’t tell the difference, how do we expect children to? How can there be a visible way to distinguish edibles from regular food?

The solution is to mark your edibles! Colorado, Nevada and Massachusetts created laws requiring all edibles to have a state-specified symbol displayed on the actual food product. As companies wise up to this necessity, and labeling requirements are put in place in more legal states, Baked Smart is standing ready to help cannabis companies and consumers making edibles at home keep their THC-infused goodies away from unwilling participants.

Read the full article on Leafbuyer

Your Highness Podcast: Episode 2:21 — Guidelines for Becoming an Advocate and Activist

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Hello again! To start things off a bit differently, we decide not to share our favorite discoveries, but instead highlight some great organizations that are effecting serious change. As we move forward to normalization, we as an industry must keep advocacy at the forefront, and figure out how to get involved.

To that point, we discuss ways you can help fight the continuous damage created by the War on Drugs. You don’t have to be seasoned activist or policy maker to fight the good fight!

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