Apartment 113 Cannabis & Psychedelics Industry Podcast

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Hang out at Apartment 113 with Rob and a different guest to talk shop about the industry and learn about all of the people that make it possible. Cultivation, manufacturing, extraction, accounting, consulting, media, events, education and more. Listen in for a conversational look at the origins of different businesses and projects in the space along with unique perspectives and occasional tangents.

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October 26, 2026Episode 24848 min

Episode 248 - Shaggy & AK, Death Row Cannabis

Episode 248 is the 46th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Shaggy and AK of Death Row Cannabis, Snoop Dogg’s brand launched under Death Row Records. Shaggy is Snoop's longtime sound engineer and handles quality control for the brand, a job he had been doing unofficially in the studio for years before Snoop asked him to make it official. AK runs cultivation. He has been growing for more than twenty years, starting in Seattle, and joined Death Row in late 2022 alongside CEO Tiffany Chin. In this one, AK tells us about his first grow. He was seventeen, his parents were out of the country for almost three months and he turned their laundry room into a garden with security lights and his mom's garment racks. He got within a few weeks of harvest before they called to say they were coming home early. Shaggy and AK explain why they pick flower on terpenes before THC. They walk us through how they vet a partner before the Death Row name goes on a bag, which starts with gloves on and a walk down every row of the grow. We wrap up with the Nevada launch and their presence in Las Vegas, and new loyalty app available on iOS and Android. Follow Death Row Cannabis on Instagram at @deathrowrecords_cannabis, learn more at deathrowrecordscannabis.com and find the Death Row Rewards app at deathrowrewards.com . Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

October 19, 2026Episode 24737 min

Episode 247 - Robb Harmon, Veterans Cannabis Care

Episode 247 is the 45th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Robb Harmon, founder of Veterans Cannabis Care and president of Marijuana Express M.D., a medical cannabis certification office outside Orlando that has seen about 8,000 patients since 2019. Veterans Cannabis Care covers the doctor visit and the state fees so qualified veterans can get a Florida medical card at no cost. Robb is not a veteran himself, but his father and brother both served and he has been giving back to the community. In this one, Robb tells us how the free card program came together. He spent about a year hearing veterans in his office say they wanted to try cannabis and could not afford the card. He added a day with the doctor and opened it up for free. The first month, fewer than half of the veterans who signed up showed up. The monthly event is now booked months out. He walks us through what happens in that room. Each veteran gets about twenty minutes with the doctor and a first lesson in reading a COA, starting with the terpenes instead of the THC number. The room is full of other veterans on purpose. We wrap up with his November 29 event at a VFW in Orlando, where 100 veterans get cards and nothing is for sale. Connect with Robb on LinkedIn, learn more or sponsor the November 29 event at veteranscannabiscare.org and find the office at marijuanaexpressmd.com . Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

October 12, 2026Episode 24646 min

Episode 246 - Hilary Brown, SōRSE Technology

Episode 246 is the 44th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Hilary Brown, the Director of Research and Development at SōRSE Technology, which makes water-soluble cannabis emulsions for beverages and edibles. She came up through pastry kitchens and ran her own chocolate company. When Washington legalized, people went looking for chocolatiers, and that is how she ended up in cannabis. She formulated edibles for a Seattle producer, where she helped build the Mr. Moxey's mints line. She joined SōRSE in 2019, where she and her team put the emulsions into finished products and test how they hold up. In this one, Hilary tells us how chocolate brought her into cannabis. She was doing the chocolates for a restaurant group's pop-up, and a couple of weeks later the chefs showed up at the kitchen with distillate to see what would happen. "Everybody got way too high." She started her first cannabis job with a $50,000 tempering machine nobody had used yet, and took it apart to find out how much chocolate stayed stuck inside. She walks us through how she builds a product, starting from a flavor she finds interesting and then finding the form that carries it best. She explains why cannabis flavors run a step behind the rest of the food world. She tells us to taste with other people so you end up with the same words for a strawberry. We wrap up with her culinary trick for truly smelling a sample. Connect with Hilary on LinkedIn and learn more at sorsetech.com . Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

October 5, 2026Episode 24545 min

Episode 245 - Breeder Piff, Piff Coast Farms

Episode 245 is the 43rd episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Lance DiMaria, better known as Breeder Piff, the founder of Piff Coast Farms, a New York seed brand built around the East Coast haze lines. He started as a hobby grower on the forums, gave seeds to his friends and went full time in 2020. He says he holds more than 250 mothers and runs his cuts in facilities in New York and New Jersey for the legal market. He also puts on PiffCon, the haze competition and convention he started in New York. In this one, Piff tells us what haze means in New York. Most of the world knows the terpinolene hazes, and the Piff is a different plant that smells like the incense they light in church. He ordered all the hazes he could find from the seed banks and kept getting terpinolene. He went to the neighborhoods it came from and tracked it back to the growers. A friend gave him his first Cuban Black Haze clone and he built his library from there. He crossed it to Blue Dream to make Harlem Dreams, the plant a lot of his later work runs through. Now he is hunting a Piff that finishes in 55 to 63 days for the commercial market. "It's all about the hunt, man." He tells us how PiffCon grew from a breeder meetup of about 300 people into a convention that now draws thousands. We wrap up with his low-trellis tips for home growers and where to catch him this fall and at PiffMas in December. Connect with Breeder Piff on Instagram at @piffcoastfarms and find the seeds at piffcoastfarms.com . Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

October 2, 2026Episode 2441 hr 2 min

Episode 244 - September 2026 Special

Episode 244 is the 42nd episode of Season 4. We're joined on this one by Matt Jerome, from Meristem Cannabis Consulting and Founding Contributor of the Connoisseurship Roadshow, and we're running through September's cannabis and psychedelic headlines. We start in the Netherlands, where ten cities now have coffeeshops selling only regulated cannabis from licensed growers. Customers say the quality is better, and the growers could not make enough hash. We stay in Europe for Ireland, where the neurologists who prescribe under the medical program say they want to use cannabis in their practice and that the path for patients is still hard to follow. Missouri held its third microbusiness license lottery this month, and we walk through how the program got here and the new rules that came out of the first two rounds as well as my attempt win each lottery along the way. We get into the $61.5 million award two investors won against Cookies. We talk about the dispute over Sherbinskis and ask whether the person is the brand. We turn to a museum guide on how the art world decides whether a painting is legitimate and we try its five steps on cannabis flower. We look at an entomology lab's five-year count of the insects living on outdoor cannabis and hemp. We wrap up with a nurse practitioner's guide for parents on what party substances do in the brain and when to call 911. Connect with Matt Jerome on LinkedIn and learn more at meristemcannabis.com . Read the party substance saftey guide at npfady.com . Sit down, roll one up and enjoy the ride. IG: apt_113 apt113.com

September 28, 2026Episode 24348 min

Episode 243 - Victoria Cvitanovic, Rudick Law Group

Episode 243 is the 41st episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Victoria Cvitanovic, an attorney and data privacy officer at Rudick Law Group, where she started the firm's psychedelics practice. She practiced law in Louisiana for ten years, most of that time as a prosecutor, before moving into healthcare and tech law. A back injury brought her to psychedelic-assisted therapy, and her first ketamine session left her curious to explore and support the space. She lives in Santa Fe now and represents ketamine clinics, cannabis doctors and psychedelics operators. In this one, Victoria tells us how she built a psychedelics law practice. She started in the courthouse believing in progressive prosecution and kept seeing people on the docket who she thought should have been patients. She left to learn how money, technology and healthcare work. Then a client called and told her to try psychedelic-assisted therapy, and her priest followed up with the question that changed her mind. “Are psychedelics about connection or escapism?” She gives us her read on Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, and we wrap up with a few reading recommendations including translated literature and The Rose of Paracelsus. Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn, follow her on Instagram at @victoria_verified and learn more at rudicklawgroup.com . Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

September 21, 2026Episode 24248 min

Episode 242 - Zina Brown, The Faerie Rings

Episode 242 is the 40th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Zina Brown, the writer and director of The Faerie Rings, a live-action feature film he describes as a fairytale about the war on drugs, somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and 1984. He is a New York director who came up making music videos and moved into short films, including Dreams of the Last Butterflies, which screened at festivals around the world and picked up a run of awards. He has worked with plant medicines for most of his adult life and sees the film as a way of giving back to them. The screenplay has won 17 awards across 55 festivals, including Best Screenplay in Mexico City, Vienna, Kyiv, Amsterdam and San Antonio, and the film recently secured its first investment. In this one, Zina tells us the story of The Faerie Rings. Simon is a young artist living in a grimmer version of America run by three overlords called the Truthsetters, and the one thing they cannot control is a ring of mushrooms said to grow deep in the forest. He finds the last one, steps inside and meets the cannabis, mushroom and ayahuasca faeries, who Zina is quick to say are not the Disney kind. We talk about how the script grew from a short into a feature and how many of its turns came to him in the middle of a ceremony. He tells us about the Shipibo tradition he sits with and why he thinks a hopeful story about resisting tyranny matters right now. He also gets into the real cannabis faerie costume his partner Madeline Bell made out of silk leaves. We close on where the film stands now that producer Gavin J. Behrman is on board and the first investment is in. Connect with Zina on Instagram at @zinarcotics and see the concept art at thefaerierings.com . Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

September 14, 2026Episode 24148 min

Episode 241 - Adam Temple, Evolved Extraction Solutions

Episode 241 is the 39th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Adam Temple , the CEO at Evolved Extraction Solutions. He grew up outside Vancouver and came back to cannabis after a back injury. He learned the equipment side during the open-source era, building extractors from brewery parts alongside a group of mostly pseudonymous tinkerers trading designs online, then went on to bring the first film evaporator to the country and co-founded Flyte, one of Canada's first national vape brands. He launched Evolved in 2016 once enough people started asking him to build them a machine, and the company now builds modular ethanol and hydrocarbon systems and runs the Genome Technology Centre, which he describes as the only federally licensed research facility of its kind for cannabis extracts. In this one, Adam walks us through the arc of the extraction business, from the CO2 and ethanol epochs into the hydrocarbon and solventless phases running now. He explains why he chased processing instead of cultivation and how the modular system lets an operator scale by adding pieces rather than replacing a line. We get into the Genome Crystallizer and the bet-the-company move behind it: a cold in-line process that pulls THCA isolate out of one valve and keeps a terpene fraction intact instead of running it through heat and turning it into what the industry calls hot dog water. He also talks about watching both of his main competitors close in 2025, why he stocks their replacement parts anyway and how his team helps Customers. Connect with Adam Temple on LinkedIn and learn more at evolvedextraction.com . Enjoy the show!

September 7, 2026Episode 24057 min

Episode 240 - Michou Olivera, Psychedelic Guidance & Integration

Episode 240 is the 38th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Michou Olivera, a trauma-informed psychedelic guide and relational mycologist working out of western Massachusetts. Her history with psychedelics goes back to about 1985, when she was fifteen and following the Dead around Northern California, followed by roughly thirty years away from them. Mushrooms found their way back into her life in early 2018, what stayed with her was not the journey itself but the three weeks of unusual clarity that followed it. She taught herself mycology beginning in 2019, and she is now in her fifth year of cultivation and her seventh year of practice, having grown twenty-four varieties for patients. In this two-part conversation, Michou takes us through that arc, from working with a monthly macrodose during a stretch when very little was going right to what she describes as a clear instruction to grow the medicine herself for the people who would eventually find her. She explains how she treats mushroom varieties the way a cannabis connoisseur treats cultivars, matching a gentler one to someone fragile and a heavier one to someone with the resilience to go deep, and her stated aim throughout is to make herself unnecessary. We turn to integration, which she argues matters more than the medicine does and which she says looks less like a video group call and more like moving to music in the kitchen while you cook for family. We wrap up discussing moderation, where she reads heavy cannabis and vice use as a signal that someone is carrying too much rather than as the problem itself. Connect with Michou on LinkedIn or visit michouolivera.com . She also hosts a monthly in-personintegration group in Westfield, Massachusetts. Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

September 1, 2026Episode 23959 min

Episode 239 - August 2026 Special

Episode 239 is the 37th episode of Season 4. We’re joined on this one by Dustin Hawksworth founder of Fat Nugs Magazine and Daniel Crawford COO, we’re running though the cannabis and psychedelic headlines once again. In this one we start with the DEA's closing brief in the rescheduling hearing and the strange position of watching that agency argue cannabis has accepted medical use, then set it against the FBI crime report showing more than 200,000 possession arrests last year. We go international for Germany, where imports have climbed sixfold in two years and a new government is already looking to tighten the medical route back down. From there we get into the New Mexico operators suing the state over a track and trace cutover that halts all legal product movement for six days, and a South African policy paper that put roughly 900,000 small cannabis farmers on the map while only about a thousand of them have made it into the legal program. We close on the research pile with a Colorado State study on cannabis and exercise, a look at how people run their own set and setting outside the clinic, and a paper on mind wandering that pulls cannabis, psychedelics and the default mode network into the same conversation. Connect with Dustin Hawksworth and Daniel Crawford on LinkedIn, Instagram or fatnugsmag.com Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

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