Cannabis culture, rights, business, and real talk.
Cannabis Talk 101 treats cannabis as law, business, medicine, comedy, and everyday culture. The show moves from police-stop advice and federal legalization questions to product talk, music-industry stories, and reform advocacy.
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Cannabis Talk 101 is a cannabis-culture talk show with a wide, noisy lane. It treats cannabis as a legal issue, a business category, a medical subject, a comedy tradition, and a community with unfinished criminal-justice questions. The excerpts show conversations about police stops, Fifth Amendment rights, federal legalization, CBD research, cannabis access during stay-at-home orders, and people still affected by cannabis-related incarceration. That gives the show a practical edge. It is not only strain talk or lifestyle chatter. It also spends time with the consequences around the plant. Weldon’s segment points toward advocacy for people in prison on cannabis cases, while other excerpts move toward product lines, portable rigs, and cannabis projects. The tone is informal and fast-moving. Speakers joke, interrupt, challenge each other, and drift into personal stories before circling back to the topic. That looseness can make the show feel messy, but it also keeps the conversation close to the culture it covers. Cannabis is discussed as something people buy, defend, consume, build businesses around, and argue about. The show’s cultural range is broad. Cheech and Chong come up through stores, comedy, movies, and cannabis history. Yukmouth from the Luniz appears in a conversation that reaches into music, money, crews, labels, and staying accountable for business decisions. Big U’s excerpt shifts into street experience, young people, struggle, and trying to redirect someone before harm hardens into a life path. Other moments are lighter, including childhood stories, acting memories, and studio teasing around Mark Wasserman. The show can move from serious reform to jokes in a matter of seconds. That contrast is the point. Cannabis Talk 101 presents cannabis as a whole scene: policy, products, entertainment, risk, loyalty, commerce, and identity all tangled together.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants cannabis coverage with direct candor, industry references, and frequent shifts between news, advocacy, and culture. It fits someone comfortable with loose conversation rather than a tightly scripted explainer.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating cannabis as a lived ecosystem: police encounters, incarceration, medical research, comedy history, cannabis projects, and product talk all appear in the same conversational flow.
Cannabis Talk 101 made global history by becoming the first cannabis show to partner with iHeartMedia, and is now “The World’s #1 Source For Everything Cannabis” Cannabis Talk 101 is a casual, fun, and informative long form interview podcast. Hosted by Christopher Wright, aka “Blue,” CEO and Creator of Cannabis Talk 101 and the Cannabis Talk Network & “Joe Grande,” former Co-Host on Big Boy’s Neighborhood on Power 106, On Air With Ryan Seacrest on 102.7 KIIS FM in Los Angeles and The Dog House in the Bay Area on WILD 94.9 KYLD.Sharing a passion for educating, advocating and defending members of the cannabis community. They discuss the benefits of cannabis as well as the laws engulfing it, wh…
Blue and Joe Grande make room for both dab contests and prison advocacy; bring a wide lens.
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Mark Wasserman reflects on childhood friendship, Hebrew school memories, and a moving story about singing to his father.
Mark Wasserman's appearance settles into a warm, informal conversation about childhood, friendship, and the personal stories that gather around an acting life.
A conversational cannabis-rights drill built around a simple roadside script for a police stop.
This single-episode review centers on a practical roadside problem: what a cannabis user should say when police ask where they are going or what is in the trunk.
Competitive cannabis stories fold into hands-on talk about a Carta portable e-rig.
The episode settles into a loose, shop-talk conversation about the mechanics and theater of getting high. A guest looks back on competitive sessions where the challenge could involve edibles, a dab, and a blunt, with everyone racing to finish first.
Big U links survival, credibility, and mentorship in a tough-minded conversation about reaching young people.
Big U grounds his story of change in the blunt details of what he has lived through: hunger, being chased, hiding under cars, and being shot seven times. Those memories give the conversation its weight, especially when he connects them to the work of reaching young people.
True crime through evidence, judgment, and consequence.
High-profile cases, read closely for the signals underneath.
A retired Captain on crime, policing and their roots.
This episode promotes the Love Trapped podcast about a hoax pregnancy case involving Bachelor star Clayton Eckerd and internet detectives uncovering a pattern.
Cannabis Talk 101 spends this episode on Marc Wasserman's role in the movie Herbie, a film about a homeless veteran who finds a broken cannabis plant and survives with it.
Cannabis Talk 101 uses its 4/20/2020 launch to frame a mix of origin-story history, cannabis policy, and influencer culture, with Blue, Joe Grande, and the Pot Brothers-at-Law on mic.
Weldon Angelos says he served 13 years on a 55-year sentence for $900 worth of cannabis, then built the Weldon Project to help people still serving cannabis sentences.
Cannabis Talk 101 brings in Adam Ill, with Blue, Joe Grande, and the Pot Brothers at Law introducing him as a social media figure tied to cannabis culture.
Big U tells Cannabis Talk 101 that reading Malcolm X’s autobiography while delivering 15 keys from Minnesota to Chicago changed how he saw himself, his hair, and his future.
Cannabis Talk 101 features CJ Wallace and Willie Mack discussing Think Big Brand, a cannabis-focused platform tied to creativity, legalization, and social justice.
Cannabis Talk 101 hosts Blue, Joe Grande, Mark Wasserman, and Craig Wasserman debate federal cannabis legalization during the COVID-19 quarantine.
Yuck Mouth of the Luniz explains how teenage Bay Area cannabis purchases and five-dollar contributions informed “I Got Five on It.” He says the song was created in 1993, released in 1995, and went platinum in one month while reaching number one on Billboard.
Ben Baller tells Cannabis Talk 101 how Ben Yang grew up near East Los Angeles, entered hip-hop through breakdancing and DJing, and met Ice-T at about age 10.
Cannabis Talk 101 interviews Waka Flocka Flame and Chris about Igetha, a hemp beverage developed through 115 flavor trials and a 13-nanometer THC formulation.
The episode begins with promotions for other iHeart podcasts before transitioning into a casual discussion about cannabis use and its effects.