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Paxton Quigley Spotlight today on High Society with guest host Jorge Hermida only on Cannabis Radio. Prior to authoring books, Paxton worked as a Director in Community Relations for Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Los Angeles, for five years, and reported to Hugh M. Hefner and Christie Hefner. She was at Playboy in its heyday, the cable network had just started up, the magazine at the time had over 5 million readers. So we talk about how Paxton embraced this icon of the counterculture and an iconic figure in Hugh Hefner. Paxton worked with actor, Robert Wagner, as the promotional director for two years for the Jimmy Steward National Relay Marathon in San Monica, California, and was also the editor-in-chief of The Valley Magazine in Sherman Oaks, CA., You chair your family foundation, “Pathways to Success From School to Work”, at the University of Chicago. She's on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Career Development, NYC. So we talk about the charitable efforts and how the doors to these opportunities were opened to her.

High Society's One Year Anniversary with Paxton Quigley only on Cannabis Radio! Welcome to this first-anniversary recap of High Society with Paxton Quigley. Since Paxton joined CannabisRadio.com last year, she has explored a wide variety of topics from cannabis science breakthroughs to space travel to what people are doing together and alone during this long pandemic. During the height of the lockdown, Paxton spoke with Dr. Sarah Mann, a Chicago-based physician who discussed how the pandemic and its social distancing restrictions were affecting people’s sex lives and what role cannabis plays in enhancing one's sexual activities. Dr. Mann also talked about how prevalent anxiety was, and perhaps still is, among people who are unsure of what awaits them now that we are hopefully seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. In this episode, High Society with Paxton Quigley speaks with one of the most prestigious astronomers and astrophysicists of our time: Dr. Abraham Loeb of Harvard University. Dr. Loeb believes that we on earth very likely have been visited by aliens. He cites one example when a cigar-shaped object flew past Earth in 2017. Loeb goes into detail in this fascinating interview. He also wrote an informative book on the subject called Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.

Dr. Peter Grinspoon discusses current events from Sha’Carri Richardson to legalization after a busy week of events that have seemingly affected not only cannabis legalization but provoked an outpouring of emotions and opinions that can only mean that what remains of the stigma surrounding weed is finally lifting and beneath it are millions who do not agree with its continued prohibition.

UFO expert Avi Loeb discusses the long-awaited Pentagon report and what the U.S. government knows about UFOs and what it didn’t manage to learn and why. The nine-page unclassified document detailed 144 of what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” or UAPs, seen by Navy pilots and others between 2004 and 2021.

Award-winning sex educator and coach gives free advice to Paxton Quigley’s listeners in this spicy interview with Ashley Manta, the much sought-after authority on combining sex and cannabis as part of her “Cannasexual Brand.” Manta, author of “Sex: How Cannabis, CBD and Other Plant Allies Can Improve Your Everyday Life,” explained that Cannasexual - a concept she created - describes “mindfully and deliberately combining sex and cannabis to deepen intimacy and enhance pleasure.”  This concept is also the basis of Manta’s sex therapy and coaching, which she describes in juicy details, especially when Quigley asked to role-play as if she were talking with a female client looking to make her sex life “more orgasmic.”

Meet the Ohio mother taking on the powers that be for medical marijuana for autism: Tiffany Carwile, who seems to never sleep. For the third year in a row, the Ohio Medical Board has refused to approve autism spectrum disorder as one of the state’s 25 qualifying conditions for medical marijuana.  So Carwile is taking her arguments, based on science and experience, to Ohio’s legislators and governor.  Carwile, president of the Autism Alliance of Ohio, said the most recent round of negative responses from the Ohio Medical Board was disheartening but “failure is not an option, for me or for my son.” Carwile’s 7-year-old son Jaxsyn was diagnosed with severe low-functioning autism in 2016.

Harvard physicist Abraham "Avi" Loeb talks about outer space in his second interview with Paxton Quigley. A recent report from the National UFO reporting center noted that the number of sightings in the United States rose by a thousand nationwide to 7,200 this year, according to the government’s reporting center. And only now, apparently, the Pentagon is taking them seriously. Prof. Loeb agreed that many more have probably been in our atmosphere, and go either unseen or unreported.

The future of cannabis is in rare cannabinoids such as CBG, CBN, THCV, THCA, and more, said Dennis O’Neill, president of BioMedican, a biotech company that has developed a unique patented method of producing pharmaceutical-grade cannabinoids.  “These rare cannabinoids offer specific health benefits that are better than CBD,” O’Neill said. 

The burgeoning hemp industry and where it’s headed was the topic of in this interview with Robert Hoban, Esq. president and founder of the Hoban Law Group, one of the largest cannabis and hemp industry law firms in the United States. Hoban talks about the versatility of hemp as a manufacturing product as well as how beneficial its use can be for the environment. He pointed to such benefits as less reliance on fossil fuels and more efficient use of energy; less build-up of carbon in the atmosphere; forest conservation and a deep reduction in agricultural pesticide use. Hemp can also be used to replace cotton, which is a crop that requires enormous amounts of water. 

The Martha Stewart of edibles talks about Wana Brands, which produces the country’s top-selling cannabis-infused gummies and other yummy edibles. Nancy Whiteman, CEO of Colorado-based Wana Brands, the largest cannabis-infused products manufacturer in the U.S., tells us how she started her edibles company over a decade ago, what it was like for females to get ahead in the cannabis industry, and how she is now using her success to help women and people of color to get a fair break. With Wana Brands available in dispensaries across 11 states including Canada and the company having been ranked the top edibles brand in terms of sales revenue in 2019, Ms. Whiteman makes a point of giving back to communities in need.   In Sept. 2020, Wana Brands launched a new resource, Cannabis for Justice, which provides “a compendium of trusted resources designed for companies in the cannabis industry seeking to do more.”

420 originators tell how it all started fifty years ago at San Rafael High School and in the scenic mountains of Marin County, California. Known as the Waldos, five high school friends met after school at 4:20 to then go off and search for an abandoned cannabis patch that was planted then abandoned on Point Reyes Peninsula by a member of the U.S. Coast Guard.  “We never found the marijuana patch but we had a blast searching for it!” said Steve Capper who along with his friend of five decades and fellow Waldo, Dave Reddix, shared many of the Waldos’ escapades in this fascinating interview.

A new cannabis coalition seeking to influence federal policy was recently launched and is called the Coalition for Cannabis Policy, Education and Regulation (CPEAR).  The CPEAR Coalition has not only enlisted cannabis policy experts, academics, mental health experts, and law enforcement, it also includes tobacco and alcohol companies as well as several convenience store partners, explained its executive director Andrew Freedman, whom many may remember as Colorado’s cannabis czar in 2014 when then-Gov. John Hickenlooper was implementing the world’s first legal adult-use cannabis market.