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Cali High

92 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings

The most informative and entertaining podcast featuring notable personalities and experts in the cannabis field, interviews with musicians and recently a new series of stories titled, A Work in Progress: A Retrospective of Adventures.

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Cali High Episode 68 Soy Cowboy Part 2- The Conscientious Objector

October 05, 2023 03:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB

          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 got orders to a munitions ship that would be going to the first Gulf War. ...

Episode 67: Catching Up with Armen

July 17, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB

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 where it’s...

Episode 66: A Garden Chat with Nat and Halle Pennington

May 25, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MB

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

Episode 65: The Gare Du Nord

April 17, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

         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.           This episode leaves out certain names, or changes them, due to concerns over various countries’ cannabis l...

Episode 64: Soy Cowboy

February 24, 2023 22:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

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 performance. Support the show

Episode 63: Serendipity

January 26, 2023 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB

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 threads o...

Episode 62: Instant Karma

January 08, 2023 18:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MB

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

Episode 61: Jamaica

December 25, 2022 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MB

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

Episode 60: Rancho Verde Farms with Peter G

September 30, 2022 22:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB

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 me, he...

Episode 59: Victor Pinho Emerald Farm Tours

July 30, 2022 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MB

This week our guest is Victor Pinho proprietor of Emerald Farm Tours. Based out of San Francisco, his tours will take you to cannabis farms in Mendocino and the Anderson Valley to see first hand what you may have only imagined. Tours include wine tasting and dining experiences as well and recently expanded bar services for private events. Tours of the farms culminate with stopping at the local outlets carrying the farm’s products, so tour goers can purchase cannabis from the farms they have...

Episode 58: Adam Gross, vice president, Ineffable Records

July 05, 2022 18:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB

This week our guest is Adam Gross, vice president of Ineffable Records, a reggae label with the world’s leading artists in the field, such as Stick Figure, Collie Buddz, Surfer Girl, DENM, The Dirty Heads and many more. Gross was fortunate enough to join the company in 2019 just as Stick Figure was about to release World on Fire, which Adam parlayed into one of the biggest hits of the modern genre. We talk about the record business, developing artists, as well as putting artists together in ...

Episode 57: Carter Reeves of Surfer Girl

May 24, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MB

This week our guest is Carter Reeves, the innovative young singer-songwriter of the band, Surfer Girl. He recently released his first single, Two, a collab with The Hip Abduction, off his upcoming album, Sunrise, due to be released in September. Reeves’ songs embrace the feel-good aspects of surf/reggae culture and at the same time can leave you thinking on a deeper level while his catchy melodies linger in your head. His first self-titled EP, Surfer Girl, on Ineffable Records, written durin...

Episode 56: BIG ARSON

April 21, 2022 18:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

This week our guest is BIG ARSON aka Justin Klaus, a young local hip-hop artist from the 818, who has just released his fifth album at the age of 23 called Keep Going! He gives Cali High a candid look into his creative process for this album, which is tied in with the inspiration and support given by is uncles and dad in pursuit of his goals. Justin tells us how the theme of Keep Going is derived from that inspiration and support! We include music from BIG ARSON’s 2022 release, Keep Going in...

Episode 55: Brett Feldman of WonderBrett

February 22, 2022 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MB

Cali High joins Brett Feldman of WonderBrett at the WonderBrett facilities in Long Beach for an enlightening interview on the history of WonderBrett and the future of cannabis. We talk about growing up in the San Fernando Valley and his early days attending Humboldt State University, and procuring the good herb to bring back to the 818. Brett recalls hanging out with Dre and Snoop, and how he was gifted the original OG Kush, which led to such strains as Orange Sunset and Pink Picasso, as wel...

Episode 54: Nat Pennington, Owner and CEO Humboldt Seed Company

February 15, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB

As planting season draws near, we talk with Nat Pennington about the new strains at Humboldt seed company, the selection and process for making a stabilized strain, improved quality of auto-flower strains, how to save a phenotype with tissue culture, trends in strain popularity and commercial vs. personal seed choices. We also talk about the current problems with the legalization of cannabis in California, and more. Coming from a science background, Nat is one of best-informed people in cann...

Cali High Episode 53: Michael Katz, Executive Director Mendocino Cannabis Alliance

January 21, 2022 18:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

Considering recent media reports which have described a collapsing cannabis industry in California, due to unfair, over-taxation, we reach out to the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance’s Executive Director, Michael Katz, for an update on this potentially devastating news. We find out why the cannabis community of legacy farmers in Northern California are up in arms about cultivation and excise taxes and other challenges they face. We talk about the Equity Grant Program and the difficulties it is ha...

Episode 51: Cali High Musical Guests 2021, A Montage

January 06, 2022 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

Happy New Year from Cali High! 2021 is coming to a close and we’ve put together a little montage of memorable moments from our incredibly talented musical guests! We are immensely grateful to all them for sharing their stories with our audience. And we are grateful to our followers and listeners for the thoughtful interactions we’ve had!  If you’ve been a little remiss as to watching full length videos, here’s a good place to start. This is a true Cali High classic adorned with a little vid...

Episode 52: 2021-The Year in Cannabis --A collection of memorable quotes from our guests in the cannabis field.

January 06, 2022 19:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MB

As Cali High starts 2022, we look back at the year that was in the cannabis industry. We talk with three growers, two NORML people, Two CEO’s, and a fellow podcaster! We speak with Armen Paronyan and Chris Koljan from LA Cannabis Co, Chiah Rodriques of Arcanna Flowers, River Txai Farm and Chaos Herbals as well as the herb documentary, Lady Buds. We speak with Nat Pennington of Humboldt Seed Company about the removal of four dams along the Klamath River, and incredible win for the Native peop...

Episode 37 Revisited: Rocky Dawuni

December 27, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 49.6 MB

Rocky Dawuni, our guest for episode 37, has just been nominated for a 2022 Grammy. And so, we are revisiting our episode with Rocky for your holiday entertainment!  After our interview with Rocky, his latest album, Voices of Bunbon, was nominated for a 2022 Grammy in the category of Best Global Music Album, and this is his second Grammy nomination.  Dawuni is a Ghanaian singer songwriter and while his roots are in the African styles of High Life and Afrobeat, he often plays reggae as well- ...

Episode 50: Ryan Cash aka Ryan Lattery

December 17, 2021 18:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MB

Ryan Cash is an amazingly original Jamaican artist who is a self-proclaimed ganja man with several albums of material, one of which, his 2019 release, Smoke One, is a whole album of herb songs, each it its own genre, from old school hip hop to roots to dancehall to dubstep and trap as well. He comes from Waterhouse, a neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica. We talk about his concern for the youth of the Caribbean and his album, Save the Caribbean.     While his style is his own and he calls it ...

Episode 49: Master Hollywood Arranger and Orchestrator, Steven Scott Smalley

November 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 50.7 MB

This week we have a very enlightening conversation with Steven Scott Smalley, aka Scotty, who I have known since kindergarten, and who has remained a friend of mine for 60 years. Scotty has orchestrated over 100 movie scores including Batman and Robocop and started professionally at age 21 arranging for the hit TV show, Charlie’s Angels. He developed an orchestration technique which he taught for ten years at UCLA’s extension and started the Film Music Institute, teaching a worldwide networ...

Episode 48: The Adoni and Prolific of Fourth Eye Tribe

November 16, 2021 22:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

This week we check in with The Adoni and Prolific, aka Rahsaan Adoni Ison and Reginald Smith of the Fourth Eye Tribe on the release of their dynamic new album, Don’t Try This at Home. We discuss how it is not your typical hip-hop album, starting from the changes and continuing with the album’s layering of sound as well as the self-analytical themes of the tunes. Towards the end of the interview we also have the first Cali High Yard performance of No Doubt, from the album, and we feature a gr...

Episode 47: Jody Hustle

November 02, 2021 21:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MB

This week our guest is Jody Hustle, a dynamic hip hop artist from Chicago who recently moved to LA. His forward-thinking outlook on life has influenced his music, which embraces realism and favors truth over fiction. He talks about the progression his music has gone through over the last few years and we get a clear sense of his goals and methods of achieving them, which include ownership of his music and forming his own production company, as well as embracing healthy lifestyle choices. Thi...

Episode 46: CEO Armen Paronyan and Master Grower Chris Koljan of LA Cannabis Co

October 18, 2021 18:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MB

This week we catch up with CEO Armen Paronyan and Master Grower Chris Koljan of LA Cannabis Co, for an update on the state of the cannabis business, locally and statewide.  We include tips on drying and curing. We talk about the Hemp Regulation bill AB45, which most cannabis associations here in California were against and what the remedies were. We discuss the social justice aspect of cannabis licensing here in LA as well as the streamlining of the departments that oversee cannabis here in ...

Episode 45: Michaelangelo Ruiz aka Big Mike

October 11, 2021 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MB

This week our guest is Michaelangelo Ruiz, aka Big Mike. Big Mike joins us for a catchup interview following his new 2021 release, Rebos. We catch up with Mike after he’s been out on the road. This is a great interview and we feature Big Mike’s new song Good Days as well as a BIG REVEAL at the end.  Support the show

Cali High Episode 44: Peter’s Garden, Harvest Time

September 17, 2021 17:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MB

This week we revisit Peter’s grow for a pre-harvest inspection of his amazing colas. Peter has been growing for 15 years and is now a master grower. He creates something between a Japanese garden and Edward Scissorhands’ topiaries, with a vast canopy of buds and an immaculately clean undergrowth.    During my visit, we see how he creates optimal growth, carefully filling every nook and cranny with super vibrant and healthy plants. We talk about growing techniques, garden setup, his strain...

Episode 43: Kahmoné

August 30, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB

This week our guest is Kahmoné Harris a multi-talented singer, writer, actor, athlete and performer from the West Side of Los Angeles. Kahmoné has a number of outstanding music videos on YouTube from her first EP, Double Cup and her latest City of the Palm Trees is a very cool and catchy interpretation of the beach culture of Venice and Santa Monica. Kahmoné is currently working on a number of projects including acting in a new series, West Los Scandalous, and plans to release her first full...

Episode 42: Chiah Rodriques of River Txai Farm, Arcanna Flowers and Mendocino Generations

August 12, 2021 16:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MB

This week our guest is Chiah Rodriques, of River Txai Farms, Arcanna Flowers and Mendocino Generations. Chiah and her husband Jamie have been growing cannabis for 23 years together and we talk about what it is to farm sustainably off the grid on a ridgetop up in Mendocino. Chiah talks about getting their latest well drilled and the ins and outs of water rights as well as strains grown, pests to deal with and best farming practices. She is also starring in the upcoming documentary Lady Buds, ...

Episode 41: Enyaw Big Wolf aka Dwayne Harris

August 04, 2021 18:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MB

This week Cali High presents Enyaw Big Wolf, a talented and motivated, young hip hop artist from New Orleans with a big drive for success. While growing up in New Orleans, Big Wolf learned to play acoustic guitar and tuba and gradually grew into hiphop after his NFL dreams didn’t come to fruition. He has recently moved to Los Angeles and has collaborated with The Adoni on a recent LP, 4 The City. We talk about his 2020 release, Next Level and aspects of his creative process and his use of im...

Episode 40: Ellen Komp and Ian Rassman of California NORML and Los Angeles NORML

July 25, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB

This week Cali High sits down to have a most enlightening talk with Ellen Komp and Ian Rassman from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, otherwise known as NORML.  Ellen is with the California chapter of NORML and Ian is from the Los Angeles chapter. NORML is largely responsible for you being able to legally smoke cannabis as they have been around for 51 years trying to change cannabis laws around our cities, states and country.  While largely an advocacy group for in...

Episode 39: Nat Pennington and the Klamath River

July 18, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB

In this episode, we talk with Nat about his successful 25-year-long effort to get the Spring Chinook declared endangered in the Klamath river and its tributaries, as well as his work with numerous state agencies, the Klamath tribes, including the Yuroc, Karuk, Hupa, Shasta, and Klamath nations and Pacificorp, which is owned by Warren Buffet, to get four dams removed along the Klamath river.   When finished in 2024 it will be the world’s largest river restoration project. The dams removal wi...

Episode 38: Jordan Webb

July 11, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MB

This week our guest is Jordan Webb, a talented, young hip hop artist from Nashville, Tennessee. Jordan is a member of the Fourth Eye Tribe, an arts collective here in Los Angeles, has several amazing releases and recently helped write the new Cali High theme which he sings lead and background vocals on. He calls his style is retro-futuristic and is one of the most real writers we know of. Stay tuned for a very cool and candid interview featuring his video, Back and Forth!  Here we have a cl...

Episode 37: Rocky Dawuni

July 03, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 46.9 MB

This week our guest is Rocky Dawuni, a singer/songwriter from Ghana. Dawuni’s 2015 album Branches of the Same Tree received a Grammy nomination for reggae album of the year. He is the first Ghanaian to be nominated for a Grammy and only the second person from the continent of Africa to be nominated in the reggae category. While his roots are in the African style of High Life and Afro-Beat, Dawuni’s music pulls from many styles and his videos are epic cinematic events, and we feature two in t...

Episode 36: Ellen Scanlon of How to Do the Pot podcast

May 24, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB

This week we are blessed to have one of the top women in cannabis podcasting, Ellen Scanlon of the How to Do the Pot podcast an innovative and informative show, that highlights how women interact with cannabis. From sexual to medical and beyond, her podcasts does exactly what it says, it tells women how to do the pot. We cover it all in this episode including the twelve strains every woman should have.  Support the show

Episode 35: The Adoni, aka Rahsaan Adoni Ison

May 17, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MB

This week our guest is The Adoni aka Rahsaan Adoni Ison, a young talent from New Orleans who is a singer, writer, rapper and producer with the Fourth Eye Tribe.  We talk to Rahsaan about his wrongful expulsion and his being reinstated, with the help of the NAACP, from and to The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, known as NOCCA. We discover his new music and talk about his muses. He speaks of his plans for the future and his current collaborations. Rahsaan’s story of leaving New Orleans...

Episode 34: T$upreme aka Tahj Hall

May 01, 2021 22:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB

This week Cali High features a fresh, young, talented, local hip hop artist, T$upreme also known as Tahj Hall.  T$upreme is the youngest local hip-hop talent we’ve ever had on the show, and at 18 he demonstrates determination and talent that you will find inspiring. Tahj talks about his influences, inspirations and philosophy of keeping positive people around him! He also speaks to the trouble of Covid hitting during his last year of high school and of his future goals and immediate pursuits...

Episode 33: Billy "Mystic Wilmot of the Mystic Revealers and Jamnesia Surf Camp

April 24, 2021 20:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB

Cali High speaks with Billy “Mystic” Wilmot, lead vocalist and songwriter of the band The Mystic Revealers, on 4/20, straight from his surf camp, restaurant and club: Jamnesia, eight miles east of Kingston, Jamaica. We talk about surfing in Jamaica, gnarly waves rolling into hurricane alley in the summer, The Mystic Revealers, and herb in Jamaica. We learn of Mystic’s influence on the youth of Jamaica and the younger reggae artists who came to Jamnesia surf camp! An amazing episode you don’t...

Episode 32: Richard Daley, Reggae Great and Founder of Third World

April 11, 2021 18:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MB

Richard Daley, reggae great, bass player, and founding member of Third World, the world’s reggae ambassadors, joins Cali High for an amazing talk about his career, and his early days in Kingston. He talks about working with various producers, Lee Scratch Perry, Chris Blackwell, and Damian Marley as well as amazing gigs and staggering crowds! We also discover tunes that he played on we never knew about and more! A real cool chat!  Just dropped on Youtube  with subtitles (type: Cali High Epis...

Episode 31: Big Arson

March 23, 2021 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB

This week Cali High features local hip hop artist and talented young writer, BIG ARSON aka Justin Klaus. Justin started writing at 15 and is now 22 with three self-produced albums up on iTunes. Two of which were released during this last year, titled The Stimulus Tape 1 & 3 (Stimulus Tape 2 is actually an EP). In this candid interview, Justin talks about his influences, song writing techniques and subject matter, as well as developing themes, his mentors and his family. Featured in the inter...

Episode 30: BIG mike

March 12, 2021 21:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MB

 Cali High is proud to have as our guest local hip hop artist BIG mike! BIG mike, aka Michael Angelo Ruiz, is SFV raised and we are proud to present this dynamic and talented young writer. We talk with him about early writings, inspirations, goals and future projects. He also talks about his community and one day being able to give back and inspire its youth. You will find Mike engaging and his music is genuine.   Support the show

Episode 29: Master Grower Chris Koljan of LA Cannabis Company

February 22, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB

Episode 29: Master Grower Chris Koljan of LA Cannabis Company joins Cali High for an enlightening lesson on indoor growing. We talk about types of lighting, light cycles, grow cycles, growing mediums, trimming, flushing, curing and some very interesting grow room set up information. Chris takes Cali High through the cloning process and his best practices for best results! The discussion includes current strains available at LA Cannabis, and the differences in their flower cycles as well as t...

Episode 28: Cullen Raichart, CEO of GreenBroz Inc

January 11, 2021 22:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MB

GreenBroz harvesting systems are leaders in the cannabis industry. They are makers of trimming, sorting, extracting and now rolling, curing and cone-stuffing machines, which aid cannabis businesses in the processing of product. Cali High speaks with CEO Cullen Raichart about his Navy days, designing machines, starting a business, as well as some of the best techniques for using GreenBroz machines. We talk about made in America by Americans, using top quality steel and plastic, and making mac...

Episode 27: Armen Paronyan, CEO of LA Cannabis Co

December 15, 2020 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB

Cali High Episode 27: Armen Paronyan, CEO LA Cannabis Company This week we talk with Armen Paronyan, of LA Cannabis Company, one of the most knowledgeable cannabis entrepreneurs in Los Angeles and California, and Cali High’s first guest back in February, 2020. We speak of new licenses for new cannabis businesses in Los Angeles, Covid and the effects on, and actions of the cannabis businesses in Los Angeles. We talk about the new California Energy Commission’s lighting standards that are cha...

Cali High Episode 26: In The Trees Podcast with Cali High

December 09, 2020 03:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

Cali High Episode 26: The first East-West collaboration with Roots of the In The Trees Podcast from Maine, a state where recreational cannabis just became legal. We talk a little bit about cannabis and reggae, growing, east-coast and west-coast strains and a few of the differences between the two states, California and Maine as far as legalities of cannabis are concerned.  Support the show

Episode 25: Roger Steffens -a Revisit

November 17, 2020 20:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MB

Cali High checks back with reggae archivist and Bob Marley biographer, Roger Steffens, and we talk about the late Frederick “Toots” Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals who died on September 11, 2020, and the effort to get him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Roger shares stories of times spent with Toots. We also briefly discuss efforts to buy the voluminous reggae archives from Roger for a seven-room reggae museum in Montego Bay, Jamaica and his new memoir about his time in Vietnam. Suppor...

Episode 24: Lesa Slaughter, California Cannabis Attorney

October 31, 2020 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

Cali High welcomes California cannabis attorney, Lesa Slaughter for a discussion about where the cannabis industry in California is going, mistakes to avoid as a cannabis business, and the move to a federally legal environment. We also discuss the licensing process, and how the social justice program fits into that and much more. If you’ve thought about getting into the business, or you have one currently, this episode certainly recommended listening! Support the show

Episode 23: Nathaniel Pennington of The Humboldt Seed Company

October 11, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB

This week Cali High speaks with Nathaniel Pennington of The Humboldt Seed Company. We talk about his beginnings 25 years ago in Humboldt and efforts in habitat restoration for salmon, in coordination with the Yurok Tribe along the Klamath River, efforts at dam removal along the river, and the Humboldt’s transformation to legal cannabis. We also get great information about the techniques of seed production, as well as how to produce feminized and autoflower seeds and the difference. We also l...

Episode 22: Peter's Garden and Cenzo Reads

September 27, 2020 17:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB

Cali High returns to Peter G’s Garden and Cenzo reads from the fireplace! Coming back to Peter’s garden after a visit for the second episode back in February, we now get a look at his unique growing techniques. Also your host, Cenzo Nico reads an excerpt about Thai weed from the Great Books of Cannabis, Volume 1, Book II by Laurence Cherniak -in front of the fireplace. Support the show

Episode 21: 90 Degrees to Zamboanga Part 2 with author Rick Bibbero

September 20, 2020 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MB

90 Degrees to Zamboanga part 2, with author and former cannabis smuggler, Rick Bibbero. Rick returns with the rest of the smuggling adventures from Thailand, chased by pirates in the Sulu Sea, chipping off deck ice in the Pacific Ocean, betrayal by associates, eating durian and the exciting conclusion of his smuggling life.   Support the show

Episode 20: 90 Degrees to Zamboanga

September 10, 2020 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MB

Cali High returns with episode 20:  90 Degrees to Zamboanga, Part 1, recounts adventures with author and former cannabis smuggler, Rick Bibbero. A fascinating look into smuggling cannabis in the seventies from Mexico and Thailand. Bibbero recounts the trrips that took him from walking over the Mexican border with kilos of bunk to sailing across the Pacific with the highest quality Thai sticks.  Support the show