Our featured interview is with Matt Kovarsky, Washington State Department of Health certified medical cannabis consultant at The Novel Tree dispensary, a medical cannabis dispensary that's been deemed essential and is still open for business in the tech hub of Bellevue, located just east of Seattle. Matt discusses his experience scaling up from eight lights to 100 lights throughout his near-decade of work in the legal cannabis industry in Colorado and Washington, cutting edge developments in medical cannabis at the The Novel Tree, and the experience of serving patients during a quarantine. In our segments, we meet Vermont artisan, Laura Sullivan of Pipe Dream Hempworks, who is making compostable and sustainable hemp face masks, update current events with former NFL players being scolded by the FDA, and update the increasing legislative fallout from COVID19 impacting states in the northeast. The Vermontijuana podcast is brought to you by the Bern Gallery (@berngallery) and www.berngallery.com, open for curbside service in Burlington, Vermont and sponsors of the Pipe Classic. Contact [email protected] and @vermontijuana for information about advertising and/or guest bookings.

Vermont artist Jesse Miles Snyder is a talented and hilarious painter and podcaster who sat down with host Eli Harrington for an interview to talk about side hustles, (trying) to make it in Vermont as an artist and Millennial, and how he became a literal “culinary smut peddler” on Instagram (@culinarysmutpeddler). In our segments, we also talk about how the Coronavirus, AKA #Covid19 (NOT called the ‘Chinese Virus’) has made us think differently about cannabis events and some common sense realizations about how we socialize in a pandemic world and speak with Meredith Mann, CEO and Cofounder of MagicMannVT, a fellow cannabis events company readjusting to the new normal. Looking at Vermont politics -- as much as they're still happening -- we also reveal and analyze the six legislators who will meet as a Committee of Conference to discuss the final details of S.54, Vermont’s tax-and-regulate cannabis bill. Full Episode available on Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Podcast as well as www.vermontijuana.com. This episode is presented by the Bern Gallery, which is still taking orders online at www.berngallery.com and @berngallery on Instagram. For information about advertising or guests, email [email protected] or DM @Vermontijuana on your favorite social media account.