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Hi, everybody.

It's Bean. Welcome to an all-new great moments in weed history. Get ready to get in the weeds this week as we explore an exciting and emerging development in the world of cannabis, Appalachians. What's that mean? Well, the same way you can only call sparkling wine champagne,

if it comes from the Champagne region of France, a new cannabis appellation program about to launch

in California is going to give producers in traditional weed cultivation regions that very same

consideration for their crops and their products.

For starters, this will prevent some corporate weed bro from growing a shitload of mids in a warehouse out in the desert someplace, and calling it Humboldt County Gold, while also helping true legacy farmers get a premium at the marketplace for their artisanal flour and concentrates.

My guest to help explain this new program has been working for the past decade to bring cannabis appellations to life,

and she first started growing her own weed a decade earlier than that.

Janine Coleman is the founder and executive director of Origins Council, a California nonprofit advocacy, education, and research organization

dedicated to sustainable economic development for rural cannabis producing regions. As you're about to hear, she's also been

working directly with the California Department of Food and Agriculture and Researchers at Cal

Poly Humbold University to develop and implement a statewide appellation system where

local communities can create their own standards and have them recognized nationally

and even internationally as legal cannabis sales evolve around the world.

Now, before we get into my very weedy conversation with Janine, I do want to stop and very

quickly say a huge thank you to everyone who supports this podcast on Patreon.

You are the reason we are rolling into our eighth year of great moments in weed history.

I truly could not do it without you financially, spiritually, and otherwise,

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