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Mendo Dope Boys built 20 years in cannabis and hip-hop from the mountains of Mendocino. Here is the full story. OE and Bleezy of Mendo Dope Boys have been doing this since before the legal market existed and most people knew what to call it. Born and raised in the mountains of Mendocino, they started trimming at 16 and 18, came up selling pounds in Sacramento, and connected with Bay Area rap legend Reek Daddy at a gas station. Reek gave them their names, put them on his label NOYB Records, and told them to go find a lane no one else had. What they built from there spans two decades, four Live in the Garden albums recorded inside actual cannabis plants, a YouTube grow-education channel documenting every season since 2014, and an Emerald Cup Best of Show win with their house strain, the Headies. In this episode, JP sits down with OE and Bleezy for the full story. They go deep on growing up in Mendocino and entering the legacy cannabis world through trimming, pheno hunting, and connecting with Subcool and TGA Genetics at the early High Times Cannabis Cups. They break down the outdoor cannabis raid that happened right after their garden appeared in a High Times feature, what it was like to watch cops wood-chip 25 monster plants while they were handcuffed to a wheelbarrow, and how that raid gave them permission to start filming everything in public. They talk honestly about years in the California licensed cannabis market, why outdoor farmers cannot compete for shelf space without vertical integration, how a distributor partner started growing their own strains and cut them out, and what happened when they finally walked away. And they explain how they came up with the idea of turning a 10-foot cannabis plant into a recording vocal booth and brought Grammy-winning reggae artists out to the mountains to record inside it. This is the kind of cannabis and hip-hop story that does not get told in mainstream coverage. Two guys from the hills who never had a job, never signed to a label, and are still doing it their way 20 years in. Chapters below. Connect with Mendo Dope Boys: Website: mendodopefarms.com  (http://mendodopefarms.com/)Instagram: @itsmendodope  (https://www.instagram.com/itsmendodope/)YouTube: Mendo Dope  (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8BFOdvurKpz-Y2U4Nroo8g) Follow Good PizzZa: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodPizzzaInstagram: @_goodpizzza_ (http://instagram.com/_goodpizzza_) | @goodpizzzapodcast  (http://instagram.com/goodpizzzapodcast)Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDTo) | Apple Podcasts  (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263) CHAPTERS 00:00 Mendo Dope Boys Come Through to Good PizzZa 01:46 AI Robots, Skynet, and the Technology Rabbit Hole 08:23 Growing Up in Mendocino: Losing Their Father and Finding Cannabis 11:56 Mac Dre, Bay Area Hip-Hop, and Learning to Freestyle 15:11 Meeting Reek Daddy and the Birth of Mendo Dope 27:03 Finding Their Lane: Cannabis Cultivation as a Music Genre 43:07 First Grows, Bag Seeds, and Building a Real Garden 49:23 The Raid: Cops, a Wood Chipper, and 25 Monster Plants 1:00:56 Subcool, TGA Genetics, and Learning to Grow in Public 1:11:34 How to Grow Cannabis on YouTube: Filming Every Season Since 2014 1:16:22 Recording Music Inside a Cannabis Plant: Live in the Garden 1:24:03 California Legal Market: Partnerships, Distribution, and Walking Away 1:38:19 20-Year Anniversary Album, Breeding Singles, and What Is Next 1:43:27 Top 3 Strains, the Headies Emerald Cup Win, and Closing the Episode ⸻  Big up my sponsors! @ocbofficial @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @flowermillusa @dr.dabber  Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com (http://www.grovebags.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA  Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA  Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com (http://www.drdabber.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15  GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com (http://www.goodpizzza.com/) Please help our brother Jade with Buck Mountain fight his battle against cancer! Anything helps. Much love! https://gofund.me/e27f086a1 ⸻ Y’all know what time it is… Roll ‘em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants, do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with OE and Bleezy of Mendo Dope Boys!  ✌🏼❤️🍕 JP Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Ben of Humboldt Seed Company rode freight trains for a decade, then built Bob Marley's official cannabis strain from the ground up. Ben co-founded Humboldt Seed Company after spending nearly a decade hopping freight trains across America, funding every mile through cannabis. Now he is building official Bob Marley strains from Lamb's Bread genetics in Nine Mile, Jamaica, documenting hash cultures that predate written history, and figuring out how a California seed company operates ethically on a global stage. This episode goes places most cannabis podcasts never reach: Moroccan villages making full melt hash from ice trucks and gravity-fed vats, a Grateful Dead show handshake that became the Bob Marley genetics project, Ed Rosenthal's campaign to re-legalize cannabis in India through landrace preservation and Ayurveda, and the cold DM to a filmmaker's wife that turned into terpene fog-machine smell-o-vision across 28 movie theaters nationwide. Ben also breaks down why global legalization is right now threatening heritage hash producers who have been doing this for 6,000 documented years, and what it actually means to carry California genetics into traditional cultures without turning it into a colonization project. This is the kind of conversation Good PizzZa was built for: a real person, a life that cannot be explained in a press release, and the plant running through all of it. Chapters below. Connect with Ben and Humboldt Seed Company: Website: https://humboldtseedcompany.com/Instagram: @thehumboldtseedco  (https://www.instagram.com/thehumboldtseedsco/)Follow Good PizzZa: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodPizzzaInstagram: @_goodpizzza_ (http://instagram.com/_goodpizzza_) | @goodpizzzapodcast  (http://instagram.com/goodpizzzapodcast)Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDTo) | Apple Podcasts  (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263)#goodpizzza #humboldtseedcompany #cannabisgenetics CHAPTERS 00:00 Humboldt Seed Company Ben Returns 01:44 Life at the Farm: Seeds, Reversals, Remodel 05:04 How a Girl Got Ben onto His First Freight Train 09:03 Danger on the Rails: The Monongahela Bridge Story 13:51 Living Home Free: Cannabis Funded a Decade on the Road 23:50 From Black Bear Commune to Humboldt Seed Company 28:52 The Antigua Documentary That Got 2 Million Views 34:00 Morocco: 6,000 Years of Hash Culture Under Threat 45:36 Jamaica: Building the Island's First Licensed Cannabis Farm 51:00 The Grateful Dead Handshake That Became a Bob Marley Strain 1:07:08 Ed Rosenthal's Mission to Re-Legalize Cannabis in India 1:15:55 Smell-O-Vision: Terp-Fogging 28 Movie Theaters Nationwide 1:26:00 Breeding Talk, Strain Conversation, and JP's New Drop 1:43:46 Peak Froth, Maui Wowie Origins, and a Hawaii Plan  Big up my sponsors! @ocbofficial @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @flowermillusa @dr.dabber  Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com (http://www.grovebags.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA  Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA  Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com (http://www.drdabber.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15  GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com (http://www.goodpizzza.com/) Please help our brother Jade with Buck Mountain fight his battle against cancer! Anything helps. Much love! https://gofund.me/e27f086a1 ⸻ Y’all know what time it is… Roll ‘em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants, do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Ben!  JP Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Episode 203: Fake Toad, Real Lessons: Preferred Gardens Founder Dave on the Grind Behind the Brand Preferred Gardens' Dave tells the full Fake Toad story, breaks down building a 70-person team, and reveals what's next for the red brand. Dave is the founder and lead cultivator behind Preferred Gardens, a Sacramento-based cannabis brand running three cultivation sites, roughly 70 people across four states, and one of the most recognized identities in the craft cannabis space. He has been building in this game for over 20 years. This conversation is about what that actually looks like from the inside. The episode opens on the Champelli seed hunt, a years-in-the-making project to bring back a legendary cultivar with its original keeper. From there, Dave goes into the full Fake Toad story: how he bought what he believed was the real cut from a trusted source, went all-in across thousands of lights with no tester batch, took the financial hit when it turned out to be a candy cut, and then watched the content he made about it accidentally drive the real Toad market price higher for everyone who did have it. He closes with no foul toward Archive, because he has made the same nursery mistake himself. The story is one of the most candid grower-to-grower accounts in the episode catalog. The second half of the conversation covers the Preferred Gardens brand from every angle that matters: why they sold out $300-a-gram rosin at PuffCon as a team-motivation exercise rather than a flex, how they built a culture where the hire-people-better-than-you philosophy is operational reality rather than a slogan, what the East Coast cannabis market taught Dave about business that California never will, and where the multi-state expansion is heading with grows active in New York, Florida, Illinois, and more. Dave also walks through the Z-Lish breeding project, the Blue Zushi terp challenge, the Purple Medusa lineage, and the upcoming Drama Series crosses that put the most hyped genetics in cannabis into one breeding program. Good PizzZa documents the people who are actually building this culture. Dave is one of them. Chapters below. Connect with Dave and Preferred Gardens: Instagram: @preferred_gardens  (http://www.instagram.com/preferred_gardens)Email (wholesale and licensing): [email protected] Follow Good PizzZa: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodPizzzaInstagram: @_goodpizzza_ (http://instagram.com/_goodpizzza_) | @goodpizzzapodcast  (http://instagram.com/goodpizzzapodcast)Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDToApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263#PreferredGardens #GoodPizzZa #podcast CHAPTERS 00:00 Good PizzZa Intro and Episode Teaser 01:55 The Champelli Seed Hunt with Pelli 06:00 Global Cannabis Smuggling Culture Before Legalization 09:00 Old-School Strains, Skunk Terps, and What the Market Lost 11:00 Z as a Genetics Problem and How MSOs Secretly Source Heady Cuts 13:07 Growing The Toad: Characteristics, Potency, and What Makes It Different 19:07 The Full Fake Toad Story: Archive, the Mix-Up, and the Financial Hit 34:27 PuffCon, the $300 Gram Drop, and Motivating the Team 42:13 Building a 70-Person Cannabis Operation and Hiring People Better Than You 46:39 Boxing Coaches, Discipline, and the 4 AM Farm Mentality 1:10:27 East Coast vs. Cali Business Culture and Multi-State Expansion Strategy 1:19:01 Z-Lish, Blue Zushi Terps, Purple Medusa, and the Drama Series Breeding Projects Big up my sponsors! @ocbofficial @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @flowermillusa @dr.dabber  Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com (http://www.grovebags.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA  Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA  Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com (http://www.drdabber.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15  GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com (http://www.goodpizzza.com/) Please help our brother Jade with Buck Mountain fight his battle against cancer! Anything helps. Much love! https://gofund.me/e27f086a1 ⸻ Y’all know what time it is… Roll ‘em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants, do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Dave! JP Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

CJ Humboldt flatlined in Barcelona, grew up homeless in Humboldt County, and still chose authenticity over everything. Here is what it cost him. CJ Humboldt built his name in the legacy cannabis world of Northern California before anyone was handing out licenses. He grew up in Eureka surrounded by four Native American reservations, navigated homelessness as a kid, broke into houses to eat, and was done with school by 5th grade. By the time the legal market existed, he had already been through most of what it could throw at a person. This episode goes deep into the philosophy behind his content, his 8-year run as a creator since getting out of prison in 2018, and the specific moment he chose authenticity over consistency, and what that choice actually cost him. CJ walks through how he went from six figures a year in sponsorships to nearly losing everything, and why he would do it the same way all over again. He also breaks down the state of the cannabis industry in 2026 with the kind of clarity you only get from someone who has skin in the game: the good (ever-changing menus forcing real connoisseurs to the top, old genetics coming back), the bad (impossible taxation and rising competition from Michigan and Maine), and the ugly (the wrong people at the top and a culture being colonized by permanent negativity). And then there is the Barcelona story. A butane tank cut went septic on the flight over. By the time CJ landed, his arm looked like Hellboy. His friend Germ gave him CPR in an Airbnb while the crew finished a blunt. CJ came back to life looking for his phone. He survived, paid $110 at a Barcelona hospital covered as a tourist, drove south to Valencia, and watched the most theatrical bullfight of his life. This is Good PizzZa doing what it does: real people, real stories, nothing cleaned up for anyone. Chapters below. Connect with CJ Humboldt: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BlackmarketvikingsTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cjhumboldtInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cj_humboldt https://www.instagram.com/blackmarketvikings_backupFollow Good PizzZa: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodPizzzaInstagram: @_goodpizzza_ | @goodpizzzapodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDToApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263#goodpizzza #legacycannabis #blackmarketvikings CHAPTERS 00:00 CJ Humboldt Is Back: What This Episode Is Really About 01:43 Tortas, Gorditas, and Setting the Tone 05:07 Why Carbonation and Seed Oils Are Making Americans Sick 08:10 Deer Antler Spray, Peptides, and the Over-40 Men's Health Stack 19:28 New Jack City Was a Bay Area Story: History Nobody Tells 32:29 Consistent or Authentic: The Choice That Cost CJ Everything 38:35 Permanently Negative Canna Bros and Why CJ Is Done With Them 50:20 South Africa, Vallejo, Connecticut: Where CJ Comes From 51:52 Homeless at 11, Out of School by 5th Grade, 2 DUIs at 14 57:15 Flatlined in Barcelona: Sepsis, CPR, and a $110 Hospital Bill 1:18:50 Good, Bad, and Ugly: The Cannabis Market in 2026 1:32:36 Stop Calling Yourself a Trapper: Advice From a Legacy Operator CJ Humboldt is back. The Eureka-bred legacy operator and Black Market Vikings creator sat back down with JP for the second time, and this one goes places the first one did not. The authenticity-versus-consistency breakdown that every creator needs to hear. The state of the California cannabis market in 2026, broken down into good, bad, and ugly by someone who has been in it since before it had a legal name. The Barcelona story where he flatlined from sepsis in an Airbnb and his friend Jerm brought him back. The childhood in Humboldt nobody handed him a way out of. The weed man versus the trapper conversation that is going to make some people uncomfortable and they should be. This is what Good PizzZa is for. Real people with real stories who do not clean it up for the room. New episode out now. CJ Humboldt and JP on Good PizzZa Podcast. Link in bio. #goodpizzza #podcast #interview #westcoast #goodpizzza #podcast #interview #westcoast #storytelling Y’all know what time it is… Roll ‘em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants—do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with CJ Humboldt! JP ⸻  Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @OCB @flowermillusa @dr.dabber   Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com (http://www.grovebags.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA  Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA  Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com (http://www.drdabber.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15  GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com (http://www.goodpizzza.com/)  Please help our brother Jade with Buck Mountain fight his battle against cancer! Anything helps. 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Anonymous That Dude built Head Stash during the founding era of exotic weed. Here is how he got there, and what it cost him. Anonymous That Dude was in the cannabis game before the industry had a name for what he was doing. An upstate New York kid who hit the road at 18 on Grateful Dead and Further Fest tours, learned to source and move exotic work across state lines, and eventually built Head Stash into one of the first dessert-era cannabis brands, right alongside Runtz, Cookies, and Sherbinskis. This conversation covers the full arc: the early tour hustle and door-to-door sales career that taught him how to sell anything to anyone, the first California plug connects and car-for-packs trades in Ukiah, a Pennsylvania traffic stop that ended in extradition and 29 days in a gang module, and how a single validation post from Ray Bomb turned Head Stash from a brand nobody would stock into one shops were calling about within hours. He also breaks down the 90-acre Oklahoma outdoor operation he built in the first wave, the supply chain decisions that separated his harvest from everyone else's, and what happened when the market collapsed, a close friend died, and a spinal tumor sent him to emergency surgery on the same farm where he was trying to rebuild. This episode also gets into the pheno hunt series he is running now: 60-jar limited drops in different cities and countries, no strain information at point of sale, scan-code feedback from buyers, and a December reveal party in Los Angeles where every numbered jar becomes a ticket. It is one of the more creative community engagement plays in the current cannabis market, and he explains the whole architecture. JP and Anonymous That Dude also get into what the early Haight Street Cookies scene actually looked like from the inside, how Berner shaped his understanding of what a cannabis brand could be, and what it meant to watch the branded bag era go from $4,500 packs to $20 eighths in what felt like no time. Chapters below. Connect with Anonymous That Dude: Website: headstashnow.com Instagram: @anonymousthatdude | @headstashonly Follow Good PizzZa: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodPizzzaInstagram: @_goodpizzza_ | @goodpizzzapodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDToApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263#goodpizzza #headstash #podcast CHAPTERS 01:45 Cold Open: The Festival Story That Explains Everything 07:50 Growing Up in Upstate New York and the Opiate Epidemic 10:00 First Dead Show at 18 and Learning to Work the Lot 12:30 The Arizona Play: Sending Money, Getting Robbed, Driving Out Armed 22:30 Landing Homeless in Tucson and Building Up From One Ounce 37:31 The Fugitive Years: Fake News Paranoia and Bootleg Clothes as Cover 47:00 Door-to-Door Meat Sales and the Sales Philosophy That Carried Into Cannabis 55:00 First California Trip, the Sir Francis Drake Okie-Doke, and Cars for Packs 1:00:00 The Pennsylvania Stop, Extradition, and 29 Days in a Gang Module 1:17:00 Becoming a Rapper as a Cover Story That Turned Real: Berner and Kevin Gates 1:55:57 Pipe Dreams on Haight Street and the Birth of Head Stash 2:03:30 The Runtz Cut, Ray Bomb's Validation Post, and Breaking Into the Rec Market 2:20:00 Oklahoma: 150,000 Clones, 90 Acres, and the First Legal Money 2:27:00 Cookie Monster's Death, the Bird Omen, and Buying Land on the Lake 2:44:00 Spinal Tumor Emergency Surgery and Making a Will in a Moving Car 2:55:30 Getting a License After 16 Years and Going Fully Legal in Oklahoma 3:09:30 Hash Hole Island, Berlin, and Relaunching Head Stash 3:31:00 The Pheno Hunt Series: 60 Jars, No Info, Crowd Feedback, Party Reveal 3:36:48 Top 3 Strains of All Time and Closing e describes as his personal forever strain. According to this episode, multiple early candy-era brands used Head Stash's Granita genetics, sometimes rebranded under names like Razzles, Sheesh, and Certz, without attribution. He named his dog Nita after it. Connect with the guest: Instagram: @anonymousthatdude | @headstashonly Website: headstashnow.com Spotify: Good PizzZa Podcast   |   Apple Podcasts: Good PizzZa Podcast Follow Good PizzZa: goodpizzza.com   |   Instagram @goodpizzza and @goodpizzzapodcast #goodpizzza #headstash #podcast JP ⸻  Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @ocbofficial @flowermillusa @dr.dabber  Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com (http://www.grovebags.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA  Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA  Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com (http://www.drdabber.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15  GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com (http://www.goodpizzza.com/) Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Ed Rosenthal wrote the grow book that changed everything. Then the feds arrested him. This is the full story. Ed Rosenthal has been in this longer than the modern cannabis industry has existed. He wrote his first grow book in 1973, co-founded High Times, and watched the New York Times review the guide that taught a generation how to grow. Then, in 2002, the federal government arrested him for doing exactly what the city of Oakland had officially asked him to do: grow cannabis for medical patients. The trial that followed became one of the most extraordinary legal moments in cannabis history, and Ed has never stopped since. In this episode, Ed walks through the full arc: growing up in the Bronx with no clear direction, discovering cannabis at 21 and knowing immediately it was going to be a lifelong relationship, building the first grow tents, co-founding High Times, and writing the books that shaped how American growers think about cultivation. He goes deep on his 2002 federal trial, including why the jury was never allowed to hear that Oakland had deputized him, and what happened when nine of those jurors came back three days after the verdict to hold a press conference saying they were duped, slimed, and felt dirty. He then shifts to where the plant is going: breeding cultivars specifically designed for the coming consumption lounge era, preserving landrace genetics in the Arunachal Pradesh region of India, and the science of transferring THC-producing genes directly to yeast for industrial concentrate production. Good PizzZa episode 200 exists to document the real history of cannabis culture. There is no more fitting guest for that than the man who has been in it longer than almost anyone alive. Chapters below. Follow Good PizzZa: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodPizzzaInstagram: @_goodpizzza_ | @goodpizzzapodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDToApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263#EdRosenthal #GoodPizzZa #CannabisHistory CHAPTERS 00:00 Ed Rosenthal on Good PizzZa Episode 200 06:09 Ed Rosenthal's Origin Story: From the Bronx to Cannabis 11:04 Writing the First Cannabis Grow Book in 1973 14:44 Co-Founding High Times and the Yippie Movement 19:17 Oakland Deputized Him. Then the Feds Arrested Him. 27:29 Nine Jurors Returned to Apologize After the Verdict 45:40 Grateful Dead, Bay Area Music, and Cannabis Culture 48:28 Going to India to Preserve Landrace Cannabis Genetics 57:45 NL5 Haze: The Strain That Locked Into His Brain 01:01:00 Skunk Number 1 Changed Everything and Then Disappeared 01:07:40 Breeding Cannabis Specifically for the Lounge Era 01:20:47 Gene Transfer, Yeast-Grown THC, and the Future of the Plant 01:34:00 Top Strains, Overrated Picks, and Judging Cannabis on Effects 01:43:10 Billy Kimber OG, Get a Firm Contract, and Closing Wisdom Y’all know what time it is… Roll ‘em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants—do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Ed Rosenthal! JP ⸻  Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @millspaysthebillsamsterdam @flowermillusa @dr.dabber  Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com (http://www.grovebags.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA  Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA  Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com (http://www.drdabber.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15  GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com (http://www.goodpizzza.com/)   Please help our brother Jade with Buck Mountain fight his battle against cancer! Anything helps. Much love! https://gofund.me/e27f086a1 Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Elusive built his California grow operation when there was no competition, no playbook, and no real rules. He survived a fake dispensary, staged police robberies, a seven-figure rebuild that ended with a blown transformer, and a market that has changed completely around him more times than he can count. What he built out the other side is a 200-light boutique operation with 40 proven genetics, platinum baked onto glass, and a name that people in Berlin knew before he got there. The full story, from Baltimore to the Prop 215 era to Prop 64 to the world stage, is on Good PizzZa Podcast right now. Elusive sits down with JP for the whole thing: legacy market realities, the genetics hunting process, the Toad market warning, what it costs to build a real cultivation operation, and the advice he would give the young him the day before he jumped in. New episode. Link in bio. #goodpizzza #elusivela #podcast #entrepreneur #culture #goodpizzza #podcast #interview #westcoast #culture Y’all know what time it is… Roll ‘em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants—do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Elusive! JP ⸻  Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @OCB @flowermillusa @dr.dabber  Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com (http://www.grovebags.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA  Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA  Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com (http://www.drdabber.com/) PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15  GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com (http://www.goodpizzza.com/) Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Errl Hill built one of California's last craft BHO live resin operations out of Humboldt. Here's what it actually took. Scott and Harry of Errl Hill came up through the legacy market before most people had heard the word legalization. Scott started in Humboldt in 2006, running grow teardowns every 90 days to beat landlord walkthroughs. Harry left Atlanta at 16 and found his footing on Grateful Dead tour before spending two decades in the California underground. The brand they built together is one of the few craft BHO live resin operations left in the state that is doing it right, and this conversation is the unfiltered version of how that happened. They break down why BHO live resin still produces a more flavorful extract than live rosin for certain strains, how CRC color remediation chromatography strips terpenes and passes off adulterated product as quality hash, and why fake terpenes added back into low-grade extract have quietly damaged the entire live resin category. They also explain how the Blueberry Muffin strain from Humboldt Seed Company became the product Errl Hill is known for, and why some cultivars simply do not wash well but shine under BHO. The conversation goes deep into what the 2021 California cannabis market crash cost the Humboldt community, how Prop 64 shuttered more farms than any law enforcement raid ever did, and what it means for a legacy operator to build a branded product instead of wholesaling into a broken market. This is the part of the California cannabis story that almost never gets told from the inside. Chapters below. CHAPTERS 00:00 Good PizzZa Podcast Errl Hill Introduction 04:50 Scott's Origin Story: Sacramento, SoCal Dealing, Glass Blowing 09:20 Scott's Dad Gets Busted Under Prop 215 in 1996 11:29 Moving to Humboldt: The Rental House Grow Teardown Game 13:54 First Outdoor Busts, Trinity Partnership, Fresh Frozen Begins 17:40 Compliance Letters, Four Years to Go Legal, Building Errl Hill 26:15 Harry's Story: Atlanta, Military School, Grateful Dead Tour at 16 33:10 Oakland Indoor Grows, Everything Falls Apart, Finding Errl Hill 42:20 Blueberry Muffin: Meeting Nat from Humboldt Seed Company 1:08:30 BHO vs Rosin: CRC Explained and Fake Terpene Fraud 1:25:00 Howard Buffett's Private Helicopters Over Humboldt 1:30:50 Top Strains, Dream Cypher, Advice, and Where to Find Errl Hill Connect with Errl Hill: Website: errlhill.com Instagram: @errlhillhumboldt Follow Good PizzZa: YouTube: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ | @goodpizzzapodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDTo Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263 #goodpizzza #errlhill #humboldt Y’all know what time it is… Roll ‘em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants—do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Scott and Harry (Errl Hill)! JP ⸻  Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @OCB @flowermillusa @dr.dabber  Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA  Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA  Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15  GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Always Faded built his cannabis brand from Queens street corners to a Lil Baby collab that moved 200 units in one day. Here is how. Always Faded grew up in Woodside, Queens, started selling at 12 years old, and moved to Sacramento in 2012 with a plane ticket and a mission. Ten years later his brand has landed rapper collabs, moved serious volume without gimmick packaging, and survived everything the market has thrown at operators who refused to cut corners. This conversation goes deep into the Always Faded story: from running the Humboldt dep era with his New York crew, known throughout the county as the paper boys who showed up 10 deep and bought everything, to getting Connected Cannabis black bags in Sacramento during the Gelato 41 and Biscotti golden era, to pivoting south to LA and going back to ounce routes to rebuild from the ground up. JP and Always Faded also break down the Lil Baby Babyland collab from the first phone call to 200 units gone in a single day, reveal the Trippie Redd collab in the works for 2026, debate whether Toad Venom displaces candy as the next dominant market wave, and call out gimmick packaging as one of the biggest problems in the game right now. This is the Good PizzZa Podcast doing what it does: real access to operators who built something, told in their own words, with nothing cleaned up for a mainstream audience. Chapters below. Connect with Always Faded: Instagram: @alwaysfaded Follow Good PizzZa: Website: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ | @goodpizzzapodcast Spotify: goodpizzza.com Apple Podcasts: goodpizzza.com CHAPTERS 00:00 Always Faded Cannabis Brand Intro 04:08 Old School New York Street Culture vs the Instagram Era 06:00 Queens Upbringing and Puerto Rican Family Roots 07:48 Selling Weed at 12 in Queens 09:47 Spofford, Rikers, and Staying Slick 14:33 The Decision to Leave New York for California 17:44 Landing in Sacramento and Running Humboldt Dep Farms 28:07 California Cannabis Regional History: SF Exotics, LA OGs, Humboldt 30:44 Meeting Doja Pak and the Connected Cannabis Black Bag Era 46:26 New York Market Explodes: The Za Era and Brand Scaling 51:05 The Always Faded Name Origin and Brand Founding 2014 to 2015 59:07 The Lil Baby Babyland Collab: 200 Units Gone in One Day 1:08:51 Trippie Redd Collab 2026 Announcement and Candy Drop Strategy 1:12:00 Toad Venom: Best Batches, Trusted Camps, and Who to Watch 1:19:44 Five-Year Vision: Clothing Line and Raising the Bar 1:22:01 Why Gimmick Packaging Is the Biggest Problem in Cannabis  Right Now 1:23:56 Top 3 Strains: Sour Diesel, Biscotti Era, and Toad Venom 1:36:27 Dream Cypher: Big Pun and Jeff Bezos 1:43:47 Advice for the Youth: Do Good Business, Keep Your Face Clean 1:45:23 The Hardest Thing He Ever Overcame 1:46:36 Advice to His Younger Self: Trust Less, Wall Up 1:48:22 Where to Find Always Faded and What Is Coming Next LINKS Connect with the guest: Instagram: @alwaysfaded Spotify: Good PizzZa Podcast   |   Apple Podcasts: Good PizzZa Podcast Follow Good PizzZa: goodpizzza.com   |   Instagram @goodpizzza and @goodpizzzapodcast #goodpizzza #alwaysfaded #podcast Y’all know what time it is… Roll ’em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants — do what you gotta do… because we’re about to take this journey with Faded! ✌🏼❤️🍕 JP ⸻ 🔥 Big up my sponsors! @dr.dabber @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @OCBofficial @grovebags Please help our brother Jade with Buck Mountain fight his battle against cancer! Anything helps. Much love! https://gofund.me/e27f086a1 💸 Get a DISCOUNT at: www.grovebags.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA 🌿 Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Ted Lewis built Ted's Budz into California's top flower brand. He started with no money, no corporate background, and a distribution license he wasn't sure what to do with. Ted Lewis grew up between Omaha, Nebraska and half a dozen cities across California, attended six high schools, and landed at Cal State Northridge on a biology track before a Bay Area roommate showed him what the game actually looked like. He opened a Prop 215 dispensary in South Central, lost around $60,000 learning the hard way, slept on a futon in the back to hold it down, got broken into twice, and never stopped. What came after is the real story. Ted pivoted to growing in a Victorville rental house with 15 lights and his cousin Trey, chased genetics obsessively through online seed communities, connected with Dubz Garden and Backpackboyz, and handed Juan a Cookie  sample through a car window that changed everything, and eventually landed a California distribution license with zero corporate experience and one mandate: only sell what you would smoke yourself. He did his own driving. Thursday routes from LA to San Diego, 4am runs north to the Bay, a MacBook in hand for manifest corrections at every shop. That footwork built the budtender relationships that still hold Ted's Budz up today. On this episode, Ted breaks down how he built a cannabis distribution company from nothing: the three-way collab with Dubz and the Goonies that produced the Horchata and Oreoz jars in 2020, how meeting Doja Pak through Hi Tek changed the direction of the brand, the QC process behind every drop, the marketing philosophy that nobody in the industry predicted would work, and why putting his grandfather's name on the bag means he cannot afford to put out anything subpar. He also gets into his music, his plans for retail and a members-only concept, and exactly what he thinks is wrong with the industry right now. This is what Good PizzZa Podcast is built for: the full story, told by the person who lived it. Chapters below. Connect with Ted Lewis: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tedsbudzco_Websites: https://tedsbudzgoods.com/https://tedsfest.com/Follow Good PizzZa: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodPizzzaInstagram: @_goodpizzza_ | @goodpizzzapodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDToApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263 CHAPTERS 00:00 Ted Lewis and Ted's Budz: Intro and Zalympix Sellout Story 04:05 Growing Up in Omaha: Segregation, Mids Culture, and Nebraska Pride 05:50 Six High Schools and a Nomadic Childhood Between Nebraska and LA 11:18 Cal State Northridge, the Bay Area Roommate, and the Turn 20:10 Opening a Prop 215 Shop in South Central as Husker Boy Associates 25:35 Grow House Life: Victorville, 15 Lights, and Cousin Trey 30:37 Genetics Obsession: Thug Pug, Peanut Butter Breath, Backpackboyz, and the Cookie Wreck Handoff 36:39 Going Legal: Applying for Cultivation and Distribution Licenses 43:00 The Three-Way Collab: Dubs, the Goonies, Horchata, and Oreoz 47:45 Ted Was the Driver: Thursday Routes, 4AM NorCal Runs, and MacBook Manifests 59:09 Ted's Budz Today: 15 Strains a Week, QC Process, and a Team of 18 01:05:44 Marketing, Music, Acting, and the DMX Energy Behind the Brand Y’all know what time it is… Roll ’em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants — do what you gotta do… because we’re about to take this journey with Ted! ✌🏼❤️🍕 JP ⸻ 🔥 Big up my sponsors! @dr.dabber @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @OCBofficial @grovebags Please help our brother Jade with Buck Mountain fight his battle against cancer! Anything helps. Much love! https://gofund.me/e27f086a1 💸 Get a DISCOUNT at: www.grovebags.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA 🌿 Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA ⸻ 💨 Dr Dabber Discount www.drdabber.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15 🍕 GRAB SOME SWAG www.goodpizzza.com Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Michigan's Growing Pains bred and grew the Banana Taffy, entered it last minute, and beat every California grower in the Proper Smoke League. Tom and Seth of Growing Pains came up through Michigan basements, illegal caregiver traps, and the gray market years before a single license existed in the state. They built a 300-light indoor operation, bred their own genetics, and then flew to California and won. This is the full story. In this episode, JP sits down with the Proper Smoke League champions to unpack what it actually took to get here. They break down why the Banana Taffy nearly did not get entered, how harvest timing and their in-house dueling process shaped a Michigan craft cannabis operation that now competes with the best growers in the country, and what separates a craft cultivator from a production farmer in the current market. If you have ever wondered how Michigan cannabis growers stack up against California, you will have your answer by the end of the first hour. Tom tells the real GMO origin story on record for the first time: three Chem Cookies seeds popped by his buddy Billy in a Michigan basement, the corn-stalk structure that gave it the name, and why Ann Arbor dispensaries refused to sell anything called GMO and renamed it Garlic Cookies. They also get into the Motorbreath 15 history, the genetics game-changer moment that shifted Seth's entire growing approach, and what the cannabis industry loses when people consume the product wrong. This episode covers the craft, the business, and the culture that built Growing Pains from the ground up. Good PizzZa documents real cannabis culture, the growers, the breeders, the legacy operators, and the stories that do not get told anywhere else. Growing Pains is exactly what this show exists for. Chapters below. Connect with Growing Pains: Website: growingpainsofficial.com Instagram: @growingpainsofficial Follow Good PizzZa: YouTube: youtube.com/@GoodPizzza Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ | @goodpizzzapodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDToApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263#GrowingPains #ProperSmokeLeague #MichiganCraft CHAPTERS 00:00 Growing Pains Michigan: Proper Smoke League Champions 01:48 LANTZ Rosin Pen and First Impressions of the Grow 05:15 Building a Cannabis Team: Empowering People to Own Their Role 08:12 Tom's Origin Story: Ohio, Skateboarding, and Action Sports Sales 12:45 Learning to Grow Illegally: Michigan Basements and the Code of Silence 17:45 The Decision That Built Growing Pains: Doubling Down on Cannabis 21:50 Work Ethic, Delayed Gratification, and Turning Down $10 Million 34:03 Seth's Origin Story: Tennis Instructor to Michigan Cannabis Grower 39:44 First Warehouse, City Politics, and Linking Up with Tom 47:00 Connecting with California: Zalympix Michigan and the Genetics Shift 50:44 Harvest Timing, the Flush Debate, and Growing at 300 Lights 55:10 How Long Does Great Weed Last: Strain Longevity and Preservation 56:28 The Real GMO Origin Story: Michigan Basement, Three Seeds, Two Names 01:01:15 Motorbreath 15 Michigan History and Legacy Genetics 01:02:48 Terpene Profiles, Regional Taste, and Joe's Genetics Library 01:10:00 White Ash, Water Activity, and What Actually Measures Quality 01:17:15 Sacramento, North Jersey, and Growing Pains Reacts to NorCal 01:20:45 Top 3 Strains of All Time: Old School, Desert Island, and New 01:26:43 Cannabis Industry Pet Peeves: Pay Your Bills and Mean What You Say 01:29:05 Mary Jane Berlin, International Markets, and the Hash Conversation 01:34:08 Resurrect One Person from the Industry: A Question from the Last Guest 01:41:00 Cannabis Education, Pheno Hunt Parties, and Why Community Matters 01:42:32 Final Life Lessons and Where to Find Growing Pains LINKS Connect with the guest: Website: growingpainsofficial.com Instagram: @growingpainsofficial Retail: Refinery, Detroit / Kalamazoo / New Buffalo, Michigan Partners: King of Buds, Bloomery, Vibe, Herb, Cake House, Da Cut, Bo's, Jars, Puff Bodega Spotify: Good PizzZa Podcast   |   Apple Podcasts: Good PizzZa Podcast Follow Good PizzZa: goodpizzza.com   |   Instagram @goodpizzza and @goodpizzzapodcast #GrowingPains #ProperSmokeLeague #MichiganCraft Y’all know what time it is… Roll em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants, do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Tom and Seth from Growing Pain! ✌🏼❤️🍕 JP ⸻ 🔥 Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @OCB @flowermillusa @dr.dabber Get a DISCOUNT at http://www.grovebags.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Helga built a global budtender training program in 8 countries. Here's how she got there, and why the culture needs more people like her. Helga is a Costa Rican-born cannabis educator who worked her way from restaurant manager to cannabis club manager in Barcelona before launching Global Budtender Training, a worldwide certification program built in partnership with Oaksterdam University. In under a year she has trained over 100 budtenders across more than 8 countries, and the world tour is not close to finished. In this episode, recorded live at Mary Jane Berlin 2026, Helga and JP go deep on the gap between what the top of the cannabis industry knows and what actually reaches the person standing behind the counter. They break down the THC percentage myth and how lab manipulation pushes quality cultivars out of production. They talk through what day one for a new budtender should actually look like, why tasting the product is non-negotiable, and why a budtender is part psychologist, part pharmacist, and part friend all at once. Helga also tells the full story of how a stranger in a wheelchair at Spannabis handed her a cannabis university scholarship that changed everything. JP brings the legacy side: the original Cheese strain and why more people should be asking for it back, the history of piff and New York haze culture before Sour Diesel and Cookies took over the Northeast, and why passion for the plant is the only thing that keeps operators standing when the business gets hard. Good PizzZa is built to document conversations like this one. Educators, cultivators, legacy operators, and the people who love the plant enough to build something real around it. Chapters below. Connect with Helga: Website: www.globalbartendertraining.com Instagram: @globalbartendertraining YouTube: Global Bartender Training Follow Good PizzZa: YouTube: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ | @goodpizzzapodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDToApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263 CHAPTERS 00:00 Global Budtender Training Program Introduction 01:43 Costa Rica Cannabis Culture and Helga's Background 05:06 Costa Rica Rosin, Hash, and the Path Toward Legalization 07:36 How Helga First Got Into the Cannabis Industry 08:55 Barcelona Cannabis Clubs and Starting as a Budtender 12:24 Spannabis, the Scholarship, and the Moment That Changed Everything 14:31 Cannabis University, Certified Budtender for Spain, and Launching Global Bartender Training 17:22 How the Global Bartender Training Curriculum Works 19:33 THC Percentage Myth and How Lab Testing Hurts the Culture 25:01 Growing Up in Cannabis Culture: JP's Mom Still Grows at 73 30:17 Day One Budtender Advice: Tasting Products and Building Team Culture 35:55 Original Cheese Strain, Piff, and New York Haze History 47:44 Ted's Budz and the California Rec Market 50:51 Follow Your Dreams: Where to Find Global Bartender Training Find upcoming dates and registration at www.globalbartendertraining.com or on Instagram at @globalbartendertraining. LINKS Connect with the guest: Instagram: @globalbartendertraining Website: www.globalbartendertraining.com YouTube: Global Bartender Training Spotify: Good PizzZa Podcast   |   Apple Podcasts: Good PizzZa Podcast Follow Good PizzZa: goodpizzza.com   |   Instagram @goodpizzza and @goodpizzzapodcast Y’all know what time it is… Roll ‘em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants—do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Helga! ✌🏼❤️🍕 JP ⸻ 🔥 Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @millspaysthebillsamsterdam @flowermillusa @dr.dabber 💸 Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA 🌿 Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA 💨 Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15 🍕 GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Some of the best cannabis stories are about redemption. This episode was filmed at Mary Jane Berlin from the incredible Mills Nutrients activation, where JP sat down with Mile High Dave for an honest conversation about one of the wildest journeys in cannabis. Growing up in Southern California, Dave’s passion for the plant led him down a path that eventually put him on the run from law enforcement for nearly a decade. During those years, he continued cultivating, refining his craft, and developing the obsessive attention to detail that would later define his reputation as a grower. When cannabis legalization opened new doors in Colorado, Dave made the decision to face his past, clear his outstanding legal issues, and build a new life around the plant he always believed in. Today, he’s known as an award-winning breeder and cultivator whose genetics have earned respect across the cannabis community. His celebrated Dante’s Inferno #6 phenotype has won multiple competitions, and he’s become known for meticulous pheno hunting and selecting elite keeper cuts.  Now living in Minnesota with his wife and two children, Dave continues hunting exceptional genetics while watching the next chapter of legal cannabis unfold. 💨 In this episode, we get into: Growing up in Southern California Living on the run for nearly 10 years Turning a difficult past into a successful cannabis career The move to Colorado and starting over through legalization The story behind Dante’s Inferno #6 and elite pheno hunting Building a reputation as a breeder and cultivator The emerging Minnesota cannabis market Why passion, persistence, and patience always win 🧠 Dave’s story is about more than cannabis. It’s about second chances, dedication to your craft, and proving that your past doesn’t have to define your future. This is one of those conversations that reminds you why we document these stories. ⸻ Y’all know what time it is… Roll ‘em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants—do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Mile High Dave! ✌🏼❤️🍕 JP ⸻ 🔥 Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @millspaysthebillsamsterdam @flowermillusa @dr.dabber 💸 Get a DISCOUNT at: http://www.grovebags.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA 🌿 Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA ⸻ 💨 Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15 ⸻ 🍕 GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com #GoodPizzZaPodcast #MileHighDave #MaryJaneBerlin #MillsNutrients #DantesInferno #CannabisPodcast #CannabisGenetics #PhenoHunting #CannabisBreeding #ColoradoCannabis #MinnesotaCannabis #LegacyCannabis #PremiumFlower #CannabisCulture #WeedCulture Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Mills Nutrients founder Mike built a top-5 global cannabis brand from the streets of Amsterdam. Here is how he actually did it. Mike from Mills Nutrients grew up in the center of Amsterdam, skateboarding behind trams, hustling in the red light district, with a father and grandfather who were bouncers. After Dutch Green Beret service and 5 years in the Foreign Legion, he came home, started growing, and saw a problem: the nutrients market was overcomplicated, confusing, and nobody had simplified it for the people actually using it. In 2010 he built Mills Nutrients, went broke 3 times along the way, and eventually built one of the top-5 cannabis fertilizer brands in the world, operating across 5 continents. In this episode, recorded live at Mary Jane Berlin, JP sits down with Mike for a conversation that covers how the Dutch cannabis industry actually got its start (Americans taught them, not the other way around), what it took to crack the US market from Holland with no connections and no money, why Mills deliberately stayed small while competitors scaled up and burned out, and the story of chartering 2 KLM Boeing 747 cargo planes during the COVID port lockdown to make sure his customers never ran dry. The episode also gets into the new Mills Salads dry nutrient powder line, what 94% team retention actually looks like in practice, and what Mike would tell his younger self the day before he jumped into the game. This is what Good PizzZa is built to document: the operators who built something real, the decisions that looked crazy at the time, and the culture behind the brand that nobody covers in the trade press. CHAPTERS 00:00 JP Intro: Recording Live at Mary Jane Berlin 01:35 East Berlin History and the Mary Jane Show Origins  03:57 Growing Up in Amsterdam: Streets, Skateboarding, Red Light District  05:18 Dutch Green Berets, Foreign Legion, and Finding Cannabis  05:47 Who Actually Invented Indoor Cannabis Hydroponics  06:53 The Idea Behind Mills: 4 Color-Coded Bottles for Stoners  08:19 Mills Nutrients Founded in 2010 and Early European Struggles  09:14 From 2 Pallets to Containers: Cracking the California Market  10:07 Where the Name Mills Comes From: Dutch Windmills and Delft Blue  13:54 Grove Bags Sponsor Read  14:18 California as the Center of the Cannabis Universe  16:55 Building a Loyal Small Team: 94% Retention and Family Culture  19:23 Staying Small on Purpose: Agility as a Competitive Strategy  20:33 New Mills Salads Dry Nutrient Powder Line: 4 Years in Development  22:49 Mills Organics Line and Keeping Plants Green Through Week 9  24:00 Why Small Batch Growers Are the Heart of the Culture  25:33 5 Continents: Global Expansion and South America Agro Projects  27:38 Giving Back: Supporting Small Grower Cups With No Strings Attached  28:51 Mills Salads Sponsor Read  29:27 Advice to Entrepreneurs: Military Discipline and Going Broke 3 Times  32:28 DNA Genetics Collab and the First Fertilizer-Seed Company Partnership  33:27 The COVID Cargo Plane Story: 2 Boeing 747s to Supply His Customers  35:23 How Mike Smokes: Flower, Old School Hash, and the First Dab Story  38:39 Strain Talk: White Widow, Tangie, and Desert Island Pick Enemy of the State 42:33 Mike's 5-Year Plan and the Question for the Next Guest  44:44 Closing Jewels: Believe in Yourself and Call Me Connect with Mills Nutrients: Website: millsnutrients.com Instagram: @mills_nutrients Follow Good PizzZa:  goodpizzza.com  Instagram: @goodpizzza | @goodpizzzapodcast  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HHXF0ijATYi8eHIq0rDTo Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-pizzza-podcast/id1622059263 Y’all know what time it is… Roll em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants, do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Mike From Mills Nutrients! ✌🏼❤️🍕 JP ⸻ 🔥 Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @millspaysthebillsamsterdam @flowermillusa @dr.dabber Get a DISCOUNT at http://www.grovebags.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA ⸻ 💨 Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15 ⸻ 🍕 GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Freddie Bigg built from Bay Area middleman to cultivation partner. Here is what that journey actually cost and what it paid. Freddie Bigg started as a middleman in the pre-legal Bay Area market and made the call at exactly the right time: when recreational Cannabis launched, he partnered with SF Canna in 2019 and Planta in 2023, moving from distributor to cultivator. This is his third appearance on Good PizzZa Podcast, and the game has changed dramatically since the first one. In this conversation, Freddie breaks down why the "go direct to the farm" advice circulating online is getting people's heads knocked off on price, how the race to the bottom in Cannabis pricing destroys the value of product that operators should be protecting, and what it actually means to have relationships versus thinking you have them. He runs through the current Planta strain menu including Biscotti, Gelato 41, Gelonade, Coffin Candy, 11 Coffins, Red Hots, and the Zangria cross, and makes the case that flavor chasing in competition judging has quietly undercut the thing 100 percent of smokers actually want: to get high. The Toad conversation hits hard here because Freddie had early access, posted it, watched his account get deleted from the response, and has it in production at both operations. The macro conversation is where this episode gets interesting for anyone building a Cannabis brand right now. Freddie draws the Napa Valley comparison for Northern California sun-grown Cannabis once interstate commerce opens, explains how the first wave of legalization sent operators into what he calls the shores of Normandy, and traces why the operators still standing are mostly the ones who kept it solid from the beginning. The Static hash export market and the Doja Pak Germany story add an international layer that most California-focused conversations skip entirely. Freddie Bigg is one of the people in this industry who can back up everything he says with receipts. JP and Freddie have been building together since episode one of this show. This one is for the operators, the builders, and anyone who wants to know what the game actually looks like from inside it. Y’all know what time it is… Roll em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants, do what you gotta do because we’re about to take this journey with Freddie Bigg! ✌🏼❤️🍕 JP ⸻ 🔥 Big up my sponsors! @grovebags @buckmountaincannabis @cadre.verde @bambinas.sac @millspaysthebillsamsterdam @flowermillusa @dr.dabber Get a DISCOUNT at http://www.grovebags.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA Grab a Flower Mill with the Good PizzZa discount: https://www.flowermillusa.com/discount/GOODPIZZZA?ref=GOODPIZZZA Promo Code: GOODPIZZZA ⸻ 💨 Dr Dabber Discount http://www.drdabber.com PROMO CODE: GOODPIZZZA15 ⸻ 🍕 GRAB SOME SWAG http://www.goodpizzza.com ⸻ This page in conversation will be dedicated to the GoodPizzZa Podcast autumn notes, concepts, theories, strategies, etc. so tune in. ⸻ Freddie Bigg, Freddie Bigg Cannabis, SF Canna, Planta Cannabis, Good PizzZa Podcast, JP Good PizzZa, Bay Area Cannabis operator, Cannabis middleman vs direct farm, The Toad strain, The Toad Cannabis wave, Zkittlez strain California, Gelato 41, Gelonade, Biscotti strain, Cannabis shakeout legacy operators, Cannabis race to the bottom pricing, California Cannabis rec market 2024, Preferred Gardens Cannabis, Cannabiotix CBX, Cannabis flavor chasing potency debate, Northern California Cannabis terroir, Doja Pak Germany Cannabis, Cannabis interstate commerce future, Static hash Europe export, Cannabis brand strain menu, how to store Cannabis long term, Grove bags Cannabis storage, SF Canna cultivation Bay Area, Backpackboyz Lemon Cherry Gelato, Cannabis entrepreneur business podcast Support the show Shop Merch: goodpizzza.com Instagram: @_goodpizzza_ Instagram: @goodpizzzapodcast Show some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza