This week Cali High in conjunction with the Future Cannabis Podcast sit down with Brett Feldman of WonderBrett for a backyard discussion about origins of strains, and the various crosses and progenitors of the now famous WonderBrett varieties such as Pink Picasso and Orange Sunset. We also talk about long forgotten buds of the SFV. I ask Brett about his outdoor grow in Santa Barbara and how that’s going as well as out of state collaborations. Lastly, we get a look into Bird Seed Genetics, Won...

After enlisting in the US Navy and spending a year at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, in Millington Tennessee, I managed to get stationed close to home at the Naval Air Station Point Mugu’s Search and Rescue Division. While there, I put a band together with three friends and three female Thai background singers. During my fourth year in the Navy, and a few years with the band, I go...

This week we check back in with Armen Paronyan, CEO of LA Cannabis to talk about the present state of legal cannabis in California. Armen is a board member of the United Cannabis Business Association here in Southern California and we discuss his dealings with state legislators regarding issues of cannabis tax, regulation, and licensing. We find out about various bills proposed to make cannabis tax laws less onerous and fairer. We discover where the industry is currently, and whe...

We return to the world of cannabis for a talk with Nat Pennington and his daughter Halle Pennington of the Humboldt Seed Company about the origins of cultivars, registering strains in Columbia, searching for landraces in Jamaica, the development of triploids, which I found out has nothing to do with three leaves, old strains, new strains as well as scratch and sniff cannabis and more. Support the show

Welcome to Cali High Episode 65: The Gare Du Nord This is the fifth episode in a new series called, “A Work in Progress: A Retrospective of Adventures”. The Gare Du Nord is a cautionary travelers’ tale which begins in a rainstorm in Studio City and takes us through Paris, Tunis, and Amsterdam and ends on a Eurostar train bound for Florence Italy. ...

Welcome to Cali High Episode 64: Soy Cowboy pt. 1 This is the fourth episode in a new series called “A Work in Progress, a Retrospective of Adventures. In this episode, Cenzo joins the Navy and gets stationed at Naval Air Station, Point Mugu and decides to put a band together. The band, Soy Cowboy, plays its first show, live on Tom Schnabel’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, at KCRW, while Cenzo is still in the Navy. The episode ends with a recording of that p...

Cenzo meets his new partner Molly and flies to Miami to meet Rick Hershman founder of the now world-famous Rick’s Café Negril. Next, a chance encounter on the Sunset Strip with two guys sporting dreadlocks, who turned out to be two of the world’s most prominent reggae musicians: Stephen Cat Coore and Richard Daily of the band, Third World. Lastly, a blessed memory of smoking with Bunny Rugs. It is a story of a serendipitous chain of events linked by my time in Jamaica and how the thread...

Welcome to Cali HIGH episode 62: Instant Karma This week we have a very special two-part episode. In part 1, Satire meets a most earnest quest for the hearts and minds of our fans and in part 2, We have a true childhood story of weed, recklessness and mischief. Support the show

This week we have a special holiday episode for you. Jamaica is the first in a new series of retrospectives called, A Work in Progress. It is a story of my search for Rastafarians, and their herb and what really happened as well as the lessons learned. This episode is a true story and is dedicated to the memory of Joe Frank, Richard Hershman and Reford Ward! Support the show

This week we visit Rancho Verde Farms close to harvest and talk with my old friend Peter G. Out on the California coastal plains, Peter G has a medical grow at Rancho Verde Farm, where the it gets sun all day from sunrise to sunset. We take a stroll with Peter through the garden and learn some of his clever growing techniques. Peter has been a friend of mine for 44 years. We were in an avant-garde band called The Dadas in the late ‘70’s and in recent years he has been a mentor to...