Sessions Cast

Sit down, spark up, and live the highlife with Jamie Norrish.   Join host Jamie Norrish, the rest of the Sessions crew, and fellow pioneers and leaders of the cannabis community as we dive into the culture, people and products that make up Canada's ever-changing cannabis industry.   In part 2 of a 3 part budtender series, Jamie brings in managers from different dispensaries across Kelowna to discuss how important budtenders are in the industry and what they really think about company reps.    This episode is brought to you by the following: Pistol and Paris Cake & Caviar Shroomology   A special thanks to our guests:  Amber from Cheeba Cheeba's Cas from Flora     #livethehighlife #highlifepodcast #canadiancannabis     Web: https://sessionshigh.life/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sessionshighlife Twitter: https://twitter.com/sessionshigh

Sit down, spark up, and live the highlife with Jamie Norrish.   Join host Jamie Norrish, the rest of the Sessions crew, and fellow pioneers and leaders of the cannabis community as we dive into the culture, people and products that make up Canada's ever-changing cannabis industry.   In part 1 of a 3 part budtender series, Jamie brings in 4 budtenders from different dispensaries across Kelowna to discuss how important their role is in the industry and what it takes to be a budtender in today's Canadian legal market.    Today we talk about how to get started as a budtender and what training is necessary to thrive in the industry. We discuss everything from packaging to popular products, brands to company reps and how to get the best bud for your buck.    If you have ever wanted to go inside the brains of a budtender, you need to watch this!    This episode is brought to you by Pistol and Paris.    A special thanks to our guest bud tenders:    Max from Glenmore Cannabis Devon and Emma from Starbuds Skylar from Spirit Leaf   #livethehighlife #highlifepodcast #canadiancannabis   LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to our channel for more killer content!   Web: https://sessionshigh.life/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sessionshig... Twitter: https://twitter.com/sessionshigh

Sit down, spark up, and live the highlife with Jamie Norrish. Join host Jamie Norrish, the rest of the Sessions crew, and fellow pioneers and leaders of the cannabis community as we dive into the culture, people and products that make up Canada's ever-changing cannabis industry. In today's episode Jamie is joined by Josh Udala ( CEO, Owner of Organnicraft), Kayla Mann (CFO of Cake & Caviar/Habitat) and Sessions team member Tom Stevens, to discuss Organnicraft's recent success on the market, Reddit reviewers and the impact they can have on a brand, and what it takes to produce premium quality cannabis, consistently.   LIKE and SUBCRIBE to our channel for more killer content! Web: https://sessionshigh.life/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sessionshighlife/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sessionshigh

Sit down, spark up, and live the Highlife with Jamie Norrish. Join host Jamie Norrish, the rest of the Sessions crew, and fellow pioneers and leaders of the cannabis community as we dive into the culture, people and products that make up Canada's ever-changing cannabis industry. On this week's episode, Jamie is joined by Quinn Shishkin (Director of Products and Innovation at Valens) and Kayla Mann (CFO, Cake & Caviar/Habitat) to discuss edibles, their expiry dates and past and future products from the Canadian market.   

On this week's episode, Jamie is joined by Michael Adams (Owner of Spiritleaf, West Kelowna) and Kayla Mann (CFO, Cake & Caviar/Habitat) to talk fresh drops to the market, supply chain issues, and discuss the current industry from the perspective of both the producer and the retailer.

Jamie shows the rest of us some old legacy cannabis products from the grey market days. Some products are over 4 years old... but that didn't stop us from trying them out. In the spirit of "Make Weed Illegal Again" we talk about the many ways the legal market falls short and where it's strengths lie. Show your support and get a "Make Weed Illegal Again" hat from our shop! https://sessionshigh.life/product/make-weed-illegal-again-snapback-hat/ Website: https://sessionshigh.life/ Shop: https://sessionshigh.life/shop-main/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sessionshighlife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sessionshighlife/ 

The gang is joined by Jonathan Fernandes, the President of Green Amber Canada. They interview Taser Wraye, creator of Cannabis Defender, and Ryan Murray, a long time cannabis grower and seven time cannabis cup winner. They discuss the Cannabis Defender product, it's usage, and the many effects it may have on the cannabis plant. Website: https://sessionshigh.life/ Shop: https://sessionshigh.life/shop-main/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sessionshighlife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sessionshighlife/ 

Hey you! Curious about who we are? What goes on behind the scenes? Or maybe even what Sessions does outside of reviews? Well, we have the answers for you. Today we have Jamie, Vince, Jared, and Matthias, the core members of the Sessions team. We discuss the topics listed above and many other things. Created by Sessions Website: https://sessionshigh.life/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sessionshighlife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sessionshighlife/  

Jamie and Jared sit down with Rick Best, a cannabis content creator famous for his firey dabs. They discuss Instagram, dabs, his appearance on Worldstar, and Rick gives Jamie a dab he'll never forget. Bring your fire extinguishers, this one is a little hot.     Follow Rick Best on Instagram @cannabisgames Check out his apparel at bcbudboys.co Watch out for the BC Bud Boys Podcast coming soon too!   Created by Sessions Website: https://sessionshigh.life/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sessionshighlife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sessionshighlife/ 

Jamie and Vince are joined by Shawn Lafond and Dan Heaton from Eco Growtech, Shawn's LED grow light company. They discuss the benefits and differences of growing with LED lights.    For more information on LED's and growing with them visit grow.ecogtech.com     Created By Sessions Website: https://sessionshigh.life/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sessionshighlife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sessionshighlife/  

Jamie and Vince sit down with Cole Fouillard, the CEO of Veteran Express Secure Logistics. Veteran-owned and operated, VEXSL specializes in transporting high-value, high-risk and climate sensitive products. This puts them in the perfect space for transporting legal cannabis. Listen as Cole shares some stories and insights in what it takes to transport such a sought after product through the wild land known as Canada.   Check out VEXSL www.vexsl.com    Created By Sessions Website: https://sessionshigh.life/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sessionshighlife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sessionshighlife/ 

Today Jamie and Vince are Joined by Jonathan Fernandes, a BC based grower and President of Green Amber Canada. His vast experience in growing coupled with his expertise in cannabis activism/production makes him an industry leader. Also he brought a nice bottle of whisky so that's a plus.   For more info on Green Amber visit https://greenamber.ca

And... we're back! Our first podcast in the new Sessions Highlife studio goes as well as expected. Jamie and Vince are joined by Sham, an Okanagan based organic cannabis grower. They discuss the ups and downs of growing organically while tasting Shamir's sweet hash rosin.

What did we do when Spannabis was cancelled and the whole country of Spain was put on lockdown? How did we get weed when coffee shops closed and personal supplies dwindled? We share some of our experiences and stories from Spain and now that we're back in Canada and out of quarantine we're continuing our hunt for quality legal cannabis. This time we open up and compare two cannabis products grown in the same facility, same strain, but from two separate companies/brands - Gage's Strawberry Fire OG and Ignite's Fireberry Haze.

We're back from Europe, in Quarantine, and talking with Tristan Becker who joined us over Skype. Tristan, an emergency room nurse in Vancouver, is one of the many healthcare professionals working on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic response.

Chris Gayford sits down with Jamie Norrish to talk about his journey through the cannabis industry as a young entrepreneur. First up: the purchase of Mary Jane's Headquarters (with one location in Kelowna and another in West Kelowna). Then in 2018, Chris started working with both municipalities to navigate the uncertain and uncharted territories of the cannabis retailer application process and finally opened Cheeba Cheebas in December 2019.

Shawn Piernitzki is the founder and CEO of Eco Growtech - a Kelowna, B.C. based company focusing on cutting edge and eco-friendly LED grow lighting technology. He joins us to talk about the history and future of LEDs in the grow space and Eco Growtech's research and development into LED technology.

In this session Jamie, Sham, and Jared are joined by Eli, a casual home grower out of Saskatoon, and James a seasoned grower in the Okanagan to talk about some common issues encountered by first time growers. Also in this episode... we smoke two of the first legally LP produced cannabis products to get our approval and recommendation - Qwest Reserve Mac 1 and Citizen Stash Mac 1.

This episode Jamie, Jared, Alex, and Dan talk about Aurora Cannabis Co. and their recent firing of 500 employees. More interesting though are the tweets coming from the twitter account of these disgruntled former Aurora employees (twitter handle @iwasauarora). Other subjects covered by the gang include microdosing psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA), novel coronavirus (COVID-19), fighting giant moths every 17 years, red lobster biscuits, and Chowie Wowie chocolate edibles.

For obvious reasons legalization has drastically changed how recreational users can access cannabis. Less discussed though is how it has also affected medical patients and how they access their medicine. On this episode Mark, a medical cannabis patient, joins us to talk about his history with cannabis and how he gets his medicine post legalization.

Cannabis 2.0 is finally here and with it both legal edibles and concentrates are now available to Canadians. So, of course, we got our hands on some of the first and most expensive concentrate to hit the market - Whistler Cannabis Company's Live Rosin. On this episode Sham, Jay, and Alex crack open and review Whistler Cannabis Co.'s product and compare it to Sham's personal collection of live hash rosin.

In the cannabis industry it's not uncommon to consume while at work. In some cases consuming cannabis might even be in your job description. However, in other industries and professions being high at work - or even after work - is viewed as a problem in the eyes of some employers.This episode we're talking about weed, the workplace, and working.

We're back from the Lift Expo in Vancouver - this episode we talk about who and what we saw at Canada's biggest cannabis business conference.

Sham and Jay bring in the new year with a bang and go over what Sessions is up to in 2020 - followed by an experiment for 'science.' Three mystery joints are spun up and given to Sham and Jared for a blind examination.

This week Sham and Jay discuss Jay’s recent adventure into a Starbuds Cannabis store in Lake Country and four other dispensaries on the ‘Green Mile.’ They discuss the differences between legal cannabis stores that exist under the Canadian Cannabis Act and the First Nations dispensaries that operate under their own legislation on their own land. Tantalus Labs and Citizen Stash products are examined alongside products from the ‘Green Mile.’

Jamie, Alex, Marcus, and Jacob hangout in the studio, smoke some Canaca Blend 14 pre-rolls, and share some stories about doing drugs in other countries.

On this episode Sham and Jay speak to some criticism of the previous episode and then unbox and review Seth Rogen and Canopy's Houseplant Sativa.

Sham and Jay sit down to unbox and inspect four different Licensed Producer (LP) recreational weed strains - a year after legalization - to see if there has been any improvements in the products available to Canadian consumers. Whistler Cannabis Co., Broken Coast, Qwest, and Doja are reviewed in this episode.

Jamie, Alex, Marcus, Jonathan, and Sham get blazed on BC homegrown and sit down on the mics to go over a range of topics including the state of publicly traded licensed producers, mass employee layoffs, what can and can't be said in legal dispensaries, sampling legal Canadian cannabis, and some of the problems with the current state of legal cannabis in Canada.