Podcast appearances and mentions of debby goldsberry

In this episode, I'm joined by Debby Goldsberry, a seasoned drug policy advocate and founder of the Cannabis Action Network. We cover Hash Wednesday, her cannabis industry journey, and discuss the crucial reforms needed in cannabis policy. Read full show notes here: http://thecolememo.com/2024/01/12/episode-44-debby-goldsberry-hash-wednesday-illinois-cannabis-history/

Debby Goldsberry is a distinguished figure in the cannabis industry, celebrated for her unwavering commitment to advocacy, education, and entrepreneurship. With a fervent dedication to cannabis reform and a strong emphasis on social justice, Goldsberry has carved out a significant impact on the evolving landscape of cannabis legalization. Her tireless efforts extend beyond business ventures, focusing on creating a more inclusive and equitable cannabis community. Renowned for her involvement in various cannabis-related enterprises, Goldsberry's expertise spans dispensary management, product development, and customer education.Goldsberry is the author of Starting and Running a Marijuana Business (Idiot's Guide), a well-known industry guide. She developed and implemented standard operating procedures for procurement, product safety, patient relations, and business management and operations, which have been replicated by dispensaries around the nation. She has proven experience in nonprofit business management, public and government relations, and product development and marketing.As a community leader, Goldsberry is active in the campaign to reform the cannabis laws and protect patients' rights. Goldsberry was a Commissioner on the Oakland Cannabis Commission from 2020 - 2021. She is a former board member of California NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project and a former professor at Oaksterdam University. Goldsberry has been a staff writer at DOPE Magazine, High Times Medical Marijuana Magazine, and Cannabis Dispensary magazine, and was a featured writer at Smell the Truth, Ladybud, and Freedom Leaf.She is currently a professional and technical writer and advisor helping small companies succeed in a big business world. She also works with Sapphire Risk Management to ensure that cannabis businesses are safe and secure. Goldsberry has been on winning cannabis application teams in CA, MA, NV, IL, OR, MO, WV, NM, OH, NJ, and MD. She is also the Chief Administrative Officer at Digamma Consulting, a cannabis testing lab consulting firm, and is the Chief Compliance Officer at Hi Fidelity dispensary in Berkeley, CA.

Debby Goldsberry And Bryan Passman join us for our 10 Years Of NCIA episode series talking about Community And Cannabis and talent acquisition. Debby Goldsberry, CEO of Magnolia Wellness, has nearly 30 years of experience as a leader in the medical and adult-use marijuana industry. Magnolia Wellness, an award-winning dispensary in Oakland, CA, and also co-founded the Berkeley Patients Group (BPG) medical cannabis collective in 1999, directing its growth for over 10 years, from 1999 - 2010. Goldsberry is the author of Starting and Running a Marijuana Business (Idiot’s Guide), a well-known industry guide, and was also a top-rated mentor at Gateway Incubator in Oakland, CA, and is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed. She is a former board member at California NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project and is a Professor Emeritus at Oaksterdam University. We brought Debby on the show, partially, because her dispensary is one of several stories we heard about being impacted by civil unrest and protests. We wanted to check-in and see how everyone is doing and what they have been doing to recover as well as deal with damage to her dispensary. Typically Oakland is a very competitive sport for dispensaries, even though hers has been around a very long time. Adult-use means lots of new spots have popped up in the neighborhood that was also impacted by property damage in recent months. Outside of what she's doing with her specific business, she's also very involved in the community in general. We talk about what she and her team are doing as far as conversations with the city and law enforcement.

Well let's be honest its been way too long since we last gathered for Hash Church. I have had some incredible shows via the DEM pure family and Selena wongs Flower of Life show. But we need a CHURCH. so I have gathered SkunkMan Sam. Dr. Mark Scialdone. Valerie Corral, Soma, Alec from Sclabs, Collin Palmer from Vessel Life Sciences.. Etienne Fontan, Debby Goldsberry, Hemp OG Richard Rose, and some other incredible guests. Please join us and share this link out so we can have a great live audience.Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/groups/482235631949402/)

Community And Cannabis with Debby Goldsberry, CEO of Magnolia Wellness. Debby has nearly 30 years of experience as a leader in the medical and adult-use marijuana industry. Magnolia Wellness, an award-winning dispensary in Oakland, CA, and She also co-founded the Berkeley Patients Group (BPG) medical cannabis collective in 1999, directing its growth for over 10 years, from 1999 - 2010. Goldsberry is the author of Starting and Running a Marijuana Business (Idiot’s Guide), a well-known industry guide and was also a top-rated mentor at Gateway Incubator in Oakland, CA, and is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed. She is a former board member at California NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project and is a Professor Emeritus at Oaksterdam University.

Community And Cannabis with Debby Goldsberry, CEO of Magnolia Wellness. Debby has nearly 30 years of experience as a leader in the medical and adult-use marijuana industry. Magnolia Wellness, an award-winning dispensary in Oakland, CA, and She also co-founded the Berkeley Patients Group (BPG) medical cannabis collective in 1999, directing its growth for over 10 years, from 1999 - 2010. Goldsberry is the author of Starting and Running a Marijuana Business (Idiot’s Guide), a well-known industry guide and was also a top-rated mentor at Gateway Incubator in Oakland, CA, and is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed. She is a former board member at California NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project and is a Professor Emeritus at Oaksterdam University.

Todays show was a blast. I invited my friends Alice and Maria from the @girlsinGreen on instagram. They are These awesome Brazilian activists who have really been catching my attention since i hung out with them in Jamaica at the Conference in MO Bay last year. They are extremely knowledgeable and very much into Hash. so My time spent with them was well spent. Dragon Fly Earth Medicine dropped some great perspective as always Josh and Kelly are just amazing people. Skunkman sam wowed us more than a few times with historical context and stories of his amazing life. Dr mark Scialdone and Brian Schroeder from dnail get into a very scientific discussion about the surface area's and heat and how they effect our dabs.Debby Goldsberry shares her new dab bar with us in California and invites her mom one of their bi weekly registered Nurses who work at the dab bar come in for some fun stories. Also on the panel was Wade Laughter, Johnny Berfelo, Collin Palmer Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/groups/482235631949402/)

Well here we go again.. now into our 3rd rendition of Hash Church. I have invited some of the old and some new. Dr Mark has some news he wants to share with us, D420k and johnny B will both be in the house. Debby Goldsberry from the Berkleys patient group and now Magnolia's is coming in live from her new dab Bar.. Our old Friend Etienne fontan will of course be here as well sharing all his wonderful stories and updates with us. Also invited is Forrest and Wade Laughter. hoping they can both make it. I invited my good friend Jack who is going to share his story about our old days selling herb in Vancouver, and then onto his struggle as a drug addict and finally to his new project that he is running helping street folks get off drugs and get the help they need by giving away a shit load of cannabis monthly in Victoria BC. Seibo Shen from hanu labs is going to come share whats been going on with him, as well as my good friend Collin from Massachusetts can tell us whats going on with his projects with Happy Valley . The grows sisters are going to come share with us how the Emerald Cup was, and all things California. Dragon Fly Earth Medicine is going to come in and share with us all of their beauty and wonder. I am so looking forward to this, i hope you can all make it. please realize Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/groups/482235631949402/)

We delve deep into the realm of analytic testing on cannabis and even foods. Alec Dixon from Sc Labs comes in and along with Dr Mark Scialdone a wonderful conversation Erupts. At 42 minutes Mike West drops a serious knowledge bomb in regards to the realtionships living soils produce and how cannabis uses the roots to exchange terpenes for sugars , and explaining why Organic living soil profiles produce a more expressive profile than salt nutes. Also in the room is Skunkman Sam , John Berfelo, D420K for a few bong rips, and Debby Goldsberry and Josh and Kelly from Dragon Fly Earth Medicine. Hope you enjoy the podcast Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/groups/482235631949402/)

Debby Goldsberry joins us and shares her concerns over new regulations on the California Cannabis Industry: "This is prohibition 2.0. It's a regulated market that's designed to keep most people out of the regulated market, and put cannabis into the hands of fewer and fewer people. I think there has been a lot of lobbying done at the legislature here in California by big business trying to keep cannabis in their hands."

Debby Goldsberry returns to discuss California and the rescission of the Cole & Ogden Memos. She notes that AG "Sessions knows the toothpaste is out of the tube, marijuana will be legalized, prohibition will end nationally, it might take us another 20, 30 years to do it but we’re going to get there- he might want to try to turn back time a little bit, but his time is limited. We’re going to keep moving forward. Every single thing that he did only empowered us more, to do more advocacy, to change laws faster and more furious and to get where we need to go.” That said she also mentions that “we were getting too soft, we were forgetting how to be advocates we were starting to sell marijuana as though we had attained freedom when in fact we’re far from where we need to be.” The two-sides of the coin from a lifetime activist.

Debby Goldsberry joins us to discuss raid preparedness. Debby has been in the industry since before it was an industry and highlights what she and her team are used to doing. These are principles which the entire industry used to do back before Colorado and Washington legalized adult-use cannabis. Since then, the industry has been operating under the guidance of the Cole Memos. Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memos yesterday. Incidentally, the 10th amendment reads: The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people. 

This week, Ben welcomes industry icon Debby Goldsberry, co-founder of the Berkeley Patients Group, Executive Director of Magnolia Wellness, and author of “The Idiot’s Guide to Starting & Running a Cannabis Business.” We discuss Debby’s 30-year journey as a leader in the cannabis industry and get advice about operating a business in the era of legal, regulated cannabis. As always, you can reach out to us—or to our intrepid studio audience—during the live show on Facebook, or via Twitter (@gatewayvc) or Instagram (@gateway.vc) with questions or comments using the hashtag #GatewayOH. Like us on Facebook to get notified when we go live each week, or visit OfficeHours.tv, where you can subscribe to our YouTube channel or podcast.

Debby Goldsberry joins us to discuss raid preparedness in the wake of the press secretary saying the administration sees adult-use cannabis as different than medical. In his comments, he referenced adult-use cannabis in relation to the opioid crisis- which it has absolutely nothing to do with…and if anything is a potential solution. The ignorance is stunning.  The 10th amendment reads: The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.  The 10th amendment has been referenced for the past 50 years in relation to personal and corporate liberty. Where’s the consistency in the philosophy as it relates to state cannabis laws?The hypocrisy is mind blowing.

Barbara Blazer, mother of Debby Goldsberry and RN at Magnolia joins us to discuss her philosophy on cannabis. She shares her very first experience with cannabis and what exactly she’s doing now to educate fellow boomers. Programming note- we do a quick change after Barbara and we’re in the main room at Magnolia so it’s active around us. Following her mother, Debby Goldsberry then brings us through her journey which of course includes the early days of cannabis legalization advocacy. Debby shares how Barbara, civics class and redirect helped lead her to the being on the road with Jack Herer among other familiar notables. And Debby reminds us that after election day is when the actual work begins on legislation passed.

Etienne Fontan runs the storied Berkeley Patients Group in Berkeley California.  It’s right up the road from Oakland which is East of San Fransisco if you’ve never been…or looked at a map of the region.  Etienne takes us through his history which coincides quite nicely with the history of the cannabis movement.  Listen for stories focused on Jack Herer, Ed Rosenthal, Steve DeAngelo and one of BPG’s founders Debby Goldsberry among others.

Russ moderates an International Cannabis Business Conference Special Panel with featured speakers Anthony Johnson, Debby Goldsberry, and Ngaio Bealum

Longtime marijuana reform activist Debby Goldsberry sits down with the Hash's Max Savage Levenson to chat 30-foot bongs, the wrath of Reagan, her inspiration to join the fight for legalization and where she's headed next.

Today on Hempresent Vivian McPeak is joined by Debby Goldsberry of Berkley Patient's Group. They discuss Debby's start-up in cannabis which has led her to receive several award in her career as a cannabis activist. Debby also shares some upcoming expectations for cannabis in the fight against prohibition.

Today on The Grow Show Kyle Kushman is joined by Debby Goldsberry. They chat about how she became a cannabis activist, her expectations for the upcoming election, and her hopes for the progress of cannabis in the next five years.

In this episode Brandon interviews Debby Goldsberry, the current Ambassador for Magnolia Wellness and a long-time cannabis activist and legend. Debby also co-founded the Berkeley Patients Group and is a professor of Patient Relations at Oaksterdam University. Brandon and Debby discuss a wide range of topics, including her early activist days, the current cannabis legalisation movement, and the pros and cons of delivery v the dispensary experience.

In this episode, we sit down with both Sabrina Fendrick and Victor Pinho from the Berkeley Patients Group. The Berkeley Patients Group is a well known and respected name in the cannabis industry, as the longest continuously running medical cannabis dispensary. It was founded by activists Jim McClellan and Debby Goldsberry, as a way to provide quality access to quality medicine for patients, and to this day the core mission remains the same. Sabrina and Victor tell us a little bit about how they wound up at BPG, give us a tour of their facility, and catch us up on everything the BPG has been working on as California looks poised to consider new regulations for their medical marijuana market.

HIGH TIMES Presents "Free Weed from Danny Danko" Episode 5 provides a bumper crop of marijuana cultivation information as well as news, politics, stoner sports and in-depth interviews with Debby Goldsberry, longtime marijuana activist and founder & director of United Cannabis Collective, comedian Rob Cantrell of Marijuana-logues & Last Comic Standing and pot scientist Addison DeMoura of Steep Hill Labs on THC, CBD and much more. As always, Strain of the Week, our grow segment (about the crucial middle weeks of the flowering period and Dear Danko questions and answers from our listeners. Fire it up! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.