On this episode of Canadian Potcast: Bongs and Bylines. Rachelle Gordon is one of the world's leading cannabis journalists. She's the editor of GreenState and she's travelled the globe covering cannabis. She joins us to talk about her life in cannabis media and the changing landscape of weed journalism. Plus - we've ma...

Ross Rebagliati won the first-ever Olympic Gold Medal for snowboarding, then swiftly lost it when he tested positive for cannabis. The medal was reinstated on appeal, but he'd already become a sort of stoner anti-hero. That infamy led to the end of his snowboarding career. Ross joins us to help tell the story of that w...

On this episode, of The Canadian Potcast you'll discover how five kids and a Chevy Impala invented 420. You'll meet Thomas O'Neill, "The Butter Baron". A former black market dealer in Toronto who went legit around legalization... or tried to. His business was immediately shut down for violating cannabis regul...

Da Kine Smoke and Beverage was the first recreational cannabis storefront in North America, and it created a media storm when it opened in 2004. The pot shop became internationally famous, with tourists traveling from around the world to visit during its short tenure on Vancouver's commercial drive. Don Briere, who ran...

Legalizing cannabis didn't create the cannabis industry. Don Briere was one of BC's biggest cannabis producers until the police shut him down in 1999 before he went on to open the first recreational cannabis storefront in North America: Da Kine Smoke and Beverage. In the first part of this two-part series, we tell the ...

Cannabis tourism is more than just coffee shops in Amsterdam. It's an emerging world of experiences, retreats, adventures, and pot-friendly accommodations... but how to find them? We talk to Elizabeth Becker of HiBnB about how she's helping cannabis consumers navigate this new world. Then we go to Thailand, where canna...

Cannabis may be legal in Canada, but in the US it's patchy, and even here the regulations around marketing can be a little murky. So how do you market a product online, where your marketing could be seen in a state where weed isn't legal? We talk to one cannabis marketer about how to navigate that world, and then we te...

In the USA cannabis is classified as medically useless, and as dangerous as heroin since 1971, on the federal level at least. Cannabis was first banned in the U.S. in 1937. In this episode of Potcast, we tell the story of Harry J Anslinger, the man whose political ambition and racism led to that ban. Also, while cannab...

Cannabis used to be the second most-grown plant in Japan, after rice. Today most Japanese people don't know that the plant is a key part of Shinto rituals. We tell the secret history of how the USA led Japan to have some of the strictest weed laws on earth, with the help of Japanese activist Naoko Miki. Plus, if cannab...

In 2000, the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down all cannabis laws in Canada because of one man and his lawyer. Terry Parker has serious epilepsy and the only thing he claimed would stop his life-threatening seizures was cannabis. In this episode of The Canadian Potcast, we speak to his lawyer, Aaron Harnett, about how...