How’s it growing folks? Today, the Here Weed Go! podcast is honing in on a few different subjects that are beginning to enter into the national conversation: hemp-derived products and legal mushrooms.
For some quick context, hemp-derived products, or HDPs, are products like gummies, vape products, drinks and smokables that are in many ways similar to the marijuana-derived products you can find at state-licensed dispensaries.
Except HDPs can be sold at grocery stores, smoke shops and gas stations in many states. That’s due to hemps federally legal status as result of the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill by Congress.
When it comes to mushrooms, it’s important to remember that psychedelic compounds like psilocybin are still classified as federally illegal.
However, there are a wide range of mushrooms that aren’t psychedelic and are just now coming to public prominence due to movies like Fantastic Fungi and Dosed that seem to show the medical benefits of mushrooms.
To talk about both subjects, my conversation today is with Brett Weiss, an entrepreneur from a young age who is now the CEO of Smilyn Wellness, a San Diego-based hemp company that also sells legal mushrooms under the brand Happy Mush.
Weiss, a University of Arizona graduate like myself, talks about how he entered into the world of hemp originally, why he believes legal mushrooms and psychedelics are less than a decade behind cannabis in going main-stream, and about Smilyn's almost endless products lines: all made possible through hemp and mushrooms.
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