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Episode 204: From Freight Trains to Bob Marley's Official Strain | Ben, Humboldt Seed Company

2026-10-1301:49:08

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...

Episode 203: Fake Toad, Real Lessons: Preferred Gardens Founder Dave on the Grind Behind the Brand

2026-10-0601:54:06

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 build...

Episode 202: CJ Humboldt Breaks Down Every Type of Person Ruining the Cannabis Industry

2026-09-2901:37:24

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...

Episode 201: Anonymous That Dude Got Extradited for Weed, Built a Cannabis Empire, and Came Back

2026-09-2203:42:50

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 Sherbin...

Episode 200: Ed Rosenthal: 50 Years of Cannabis History From the Man Who Wrote the Book

2026-09-1501:50:06

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 pati...

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