High on Home Grown, The Cannabis Podcast

This week on High on Home Grown, we welcome back a very good friend of the show, Jordan River, host of GrowCast!

Jordan has been on the show before, so this isn't your typical interview where we sit down and run through a list of cannabis questions. Instead, we catch up with an old friend and end up talking about just about everything!

We do, of course, discuss the upcoming US seed ban and what Jordan thinks it could mean for the American cannabis community, breeders and the wider industry. But from there the conversation heads in all sorts of directions.

We get into Texas Hold'em poker, chess, coffee, the trauma inflicted on us by 80s movies, and plenty of other random topics that somehow seemed perfectly sensible at the time.

Jordan also tells us about his new coffee brand, including his THC-infused coffee, and we talk about the idea of combining two of life's greatest pleasures: caffeine and cannabis!

This is less of a formal interview and more of a proper catch-up between friends. There’s cannabis, but there’s also poker, chess, coffee, movies, business, nostalgia, the changing US legal landscape and plenty of completely unexpected tangents.

If you've listened to Jordan's previous appearances on High on Home Grown, you'll know exactly what you're in for. If you haven't, this is a great introduction to one of our favourite conversations to have when the microphones are switched on.

A relaxed, funny and wide-ranging conversation with a good friend of the show. Grab a coffee, settle in and enjoy the ride!

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This week on High on Home Grown, we dive into another packed collection of cannabis stories from the UK, US and beyond, covering policing, cannabis farms, medical cannabis regulation, the new US federal seed legislation and fresh research into cannabis use among teenagers.

Macky: It's still illegal yet the police simply don't seem to care why the whole country stinks of weed: PETER HITCHENS 

Smee: The empty shop on the high street might be a cannabis farm, and insurers are picking up the bill  

Billy:  UK Medical Cannabis Under Review: Where is the ACMD Report? 

John: The New Federal Hemp & Cannabis Seed Law — Full Text (Effective Nov 12, 2026) | Grow Weed Easy 

Margaret: Adolescent cannabis use disorder diagnoses rise after legalization

Macky looks at Peter Hitchens' latest piece asking why, despite cannabis remaining illegal in the UK, police seemingly aren't taking much notice of the increasingly obvious smell of cannabis across the country. We discuss the wider question of how Britain's cannabis laws are actually being enforced and the growing gap between legislation and what people see happening on the streets.

Smee looks at an interesting side effect of the UK's struggling high streets. Empty shops are increasingly being targeted for illegal cannabis farms, and insurers are reportedly being left to pick up the bill when these properties are damaged. We discuss the growing problem of commercial properties being converted into cannabis farms and who ultimately ends up paying for the damage.

Billy asks a question that has been hanging over the UK's medical cannabis industry for some time: where is the ACMD report? With the UK's medical cannabis system continuing to develop, we look at the ongoing review and what a long-awaited report could mean for patients, doctors and the wider industry.

John brings us the full text and implications of the new US federal hemp and cannabis seed law, which is due to take effect on 12 November 2026. With the legislation potentially having major consequences for cannabis seeds, breeders and the wider American cannabis industry, we discuss what the new rules actually say and what they could mean for growers and businesses.

Dr. Margaret brings us the latest research looking at adolescent cannabis use disorder diagnoses following legalization. The study reports an increase in diagnoses among adolescents, giving us another opportunity to look at what the research actually measured, what it can tell us about cannabis use and young people, and where the limitations of the findings lie.

From Britain's increasingly awkward relationship with cannabis law to empty high-street properties becoming grow sites, the future of medical cannabis regulation and a major change to US federal seed legislation, there's plenty for the panel to get stuck into this week.

Another week of cannabis news, research, law, regulation and plenty of discussion from the High on Home Grown panel.

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This week on High on Home Grown, we're back with another Listener Mail episode, answering questions from the community covering everything from making your grow more comfortable on your back to dealing with heavy rain outdoors, genetic variation between plants and the growing advice we've completely changed our minds about over the years.

SKD, the grower with the SCROG and the dodgy back, is back looking for more ways to make growing more ergonomic. We discuss ways of making the grow room easier on your body, whether raising plants can help, and whether automatic watering systems are actually worth the investment or just another gadget taking up space in the grow room.

Free Nugz has a much more immediate problem, with tall outdoor plants being hit by unexpected heavy rain and already showing the first signs of bud rot. We discuss what growers can realistically do when the weather turns against them, how to reduce the chances of losing an outdoor harvest, and what to look out for when you're trying to get big plants through the final stretch of the season.

Toploader has perhaps the most important question of the episode: Does anyone have Milky Amber's phone number? We're still waiting for the appropriate authorities to respond.

ChronicG asks why two plants from the exact same packet of seeds can sometimes finish looking, smelling and even behaving completely differently. We get into genetics vs environment, phenotype variation and how much influence the growing conditions can actually have on the final expression of a cannabis plant.

Finally, BudsAndBeans asks the panel to look back at their own growing journeys and reveal one thing they used to believe about growing cannabis that experience completely changed their mind about. Sometimes the best lessons aren't the things you learn from a book, but the things you learn after doing something wrong for five years!

Another episode of community questions, grow-room experience, practical advice, genetics, outdoor growing and the occasional question that absolutely should not have made it onto the podcast.

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This week on High on Home Grown, we’re joined by Ben Owens, a cannabis content creator, ghostwriter and business advisor who has worked behind the scenes across the cannabis media and business world.

We start by talking about one of the biggest changes happening in online media right now: AI. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of creating articles, content and even entire websites, what does that mean for writers, publishers and the future of cannabis media? We get Ben’s perspective from someone who has experience working on both the content and business sides of the industry.

We also get back to what we really like talking about on High on Home Grown: growing cannabis. Ben talks us through his own growing methods, including how he approaches cloning and the techniques he uses to keep plants going from one generation to the next.

And, of course, we couldn't let Ben on the show without discussing the elephant in the room for the US cannabis seed industry: the upcoming seed ban. We talk about the potential impact on seed sellers, breeders and growers, how businesses are dealing with the uncertainty, and what the future could look like for the US seed market if the proposed changes come into effect.

It's another relaxed conversation covering growing, cloning, cannabis media, AI, business and the rapidly changing legal landscape in the USA.

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In this week’s episode of High on Home Grown, we dive into the biggest cannabis stories from around the world, with two very different UK cannabis factory stories, a look at the future of medical cannabis research, concerns over a proposed US hemp ban, and some promising research into medical cannabis and endometriosis.

Macky starts things off with a rather unusual discovery in Slough, where Thames Valley Police uncovered a huge cannabis growing operation inside an abandoned former BHS store. Around 1,700 plants were found, with the crop estimated to have a potential yield of around 150kg and a street value of approximately £1.3 million. Two men involved in the operation have been jailed.

Smee brings us another UK cannabis factory story, this time involving the director of an estate agency who used rental properties to set up cannabis grows. Several properties were used as part of the operation before police eventually caught up with him, resulting in a prison sentence.

Billy looks towards the future of medical cannabis as Professor David Nutt prepares to explore the future of medical cannabis research at a symposium in London. We discuss where the science is heading and what questions researchers still need to answer as medical cannabis continues to gain attention.

John takes us across the Atlantic for a look at the potential impact of the proposed US hemp ban. A new report suggests that as much as 68% of the US hemp industry could be affected, raising serious questions about what the legislation could mean for businesses, consumers and the wider hemp market.

Finally, Margaret brings us some more encouraging medical cannabis research, with a study linking medical cannabis use to sustained improvements in endometriosis symptoms. We take a look at what the research found and what it could mean for people living with endometriosis.

So we've got abandoned department stores, estate agents running grow houses, the future of medical cannabis research, a potentially huge shake-up of the US hemp industry and some promising medical research.

Another busy week in the world of cannabis!

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