NEPA Scene Podcast Ep. 103 - Growing challenges of the Pennsylvania Cannabis Festival in Scranton

Описание: In Episode 103, we sit down with Jeff and Mandy Zick, the founders of the Pennsylvania Cannabis Festival and the owners of Big Yield Hydroponics in Scranton. The free festival returns to Nay Aug Park in Scranton for its fifth year on Saturday, April 20.

Welcoming them back to the show, we get some updates and talk about why they took up this fight to legalize cannabis, what their small business Big Yield Hydroponics does, attending Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's listening tour on marijuana and what they witnessed, Lackawanna County Commissioner Laureen Cummings and her misguided crusade against legalization, corporatization of cannabis growing and distribution, the Department of Health's recent decision to ban dispensaries and growers from the Pennsylvania Cannabis Festival and how this will affect the event, how the festival and support for it has grown over the years, and more.

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