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Podcast: Apartment 113 Cannabis & Psychedelics Industry Podcast
Episode: Episode 138 - Luke Scarmazzo, Prophet Brands
Description: Episode 138 is the 1st episode of Season 3!
We’re back again for a third season and starting things off strong with a repeat guest who joined us way back on episode 10, Luke Scarmazzo, co-founder of Prophet Brands Cannabis.
In 2004, the partners opened the first medical cannabis dispensary in Modesto under the Medical Marijuana Program Act. They were highly successful and provided a much needed service to the community. However, they faced resistance from local officials and were raided and arrested by federal drug agents in 2006. Undeterred, they stood resolute and fought the archaic U.S. drug laws they were charged with...