Green Rush Podcast

Kevin Smith, world-renowned filmmaker and cultural icon is joins The Green Rush! Most well-known for his rise to prominence as the character Silent Bob in his classic film “Clerks” in 1994 (which he also wrote, directed and co-produced) Kevin Smith has since become a household name as...

Dr. Jordan Lewis, founder, CEO and Executive Chairman of Fotmer Life Sciences is this week’s special guest on The Green Rush. A global cannabis cultivator and extractor, Fotmer is one of the world’s largest cannabis exporters. Fotmer was the first fully-licensed company in Uruguay to...

Award winning journalist and author Heather Cabot is today’s guest on the Green Rush! Heather joins our hosts Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich to talk about her new book, The New Chardonnay: The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream, a deeply reported journey into the new world of legal...

4Front Ventures CEO Leo Gontmakher is today’s special guest on the Green Rush. Our hosts Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich are talking with Leo, who was recently installed as CEO of the multi-state operator, to chat with him following the Company’s earnings report that boasted impressive full...

Jim Belushi, actor, musician, comedian, all around entertainer as well as cannabis entrepreneur and the founder of Belushi’s Farms is this week’s special guest on the Green Rush! Jim has long been a household name due to his distinguished acting career but he’s also incredibly...

Aaron Silverstein, Managing Director of BevZero, is this week’s guest on The Green Rush! BevZero’s mission is to create high-quality non-alcoholic product options for consumers in North America. Their primary focus is cannabis and hemp-infused de-alcoholized beverages. BevZero enables...

Javier Hasse, the Managing Director for Benzinga Cannabis, and CEO and founder of Spanish language news site El Planteo, is this week’s guest on The Green Rush! Through his vocal social media presence and dutiful reporting over the years, Javier has quickly risen to being one of the most...

Tyler Robson, the CEO and Executive Director of The Valens Company, a global leader in the end-to-end development and manufacturing of innovative, cannabinoid-based products, is this week’s guest on The Green Rush! Valens is the largest third-party extraction Company in Canada with an annual...

Earl Blumenauer, a House Democrat from Oregon and one of the preeminent voices in the cannabis legalization movement returns for another episode of The Green Rush! Congressman Blumenauer has represented Oregon as a congressman for over 20 years, a state where voters first legalized medical...

Adam Orens and Sal Barnes from MPG Consulting (formerly the Marijuana Policy Group), are this week’s guests on The Green Rush! MPG Consulting is an internationally recognized cannabis and hemp corporate strategy and policy advisory firm that has completed strategic projects in 27 states and 7...

Anthony Coniglio, CEO of New Lake Capital Partners, an independent investment vehicle focused on acquiring a diversified real estate portfolio of industrial and retail properties in the cannabis industry, is this week’s guest on The Green Rush! To date, NewLake has acquired a real estate...

Punit Seth, CEO, Director and Co-Founder of Toast, a forward thinking cannabis brand delivering full-spectrum CBD and some low-dose THC products, is this week’s guest on The Green Rush! Toast’s has made a lot of noise in the nascent cannabis branding space through its mission of...

Bruce Linton, formerly the CEO of cannabis behemoth Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC) and now Director of Mind Medicine (OTC: MMEDF) is this week’s guest on The Green Rush! Since his departure from Canopy in 2019, Bruce has since moved onto several new ventures within the cannabis and psychedelics...

This week, The Green Rush is publishing a very special JOINT episode with the Eat Well, Travel Often Podcast hosted by Lewis’ better half Melissa Goldberg. In this episode the Goldbergs are chatting with Jeff the 420 Chef, author of The 420 Gourmet: The art of Elevated Cannabis Cuisine....

Matthew Anderson, the Founder and CEO of Vanguard Scientific Systems, a systems and solutions provider servicing the botanical industry, is this week’s guest on The Green Rush! Launched by Matthew in 2014, Vanguard’s mission is to deliver the capability to manufacture the highest...