Shea Gunther, Founder, Producer and Host at MJ Today Media - a podcast by MJToday Media

Shea Gunther, the creative mind behind MJ Today Media and the Marijuana Today podcast is this week’s guest on The Green Rush! In addition to his role as the unfailing Program Director for the Green Rush, Shea is himself a podcaster, writer, activist and entrepreneur who, from behind the scenes, has for decades helped drive the cannabis industry forward.







As an activist, Shea had a hand founding the first chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy back in 1998, and is currently leads up MJToday Media, a publishing company focusing on creating content for legal marijuana business nerds. He’s the host of “Marijuana Today Daily” and produces the weekly show “Marijuana Today“.







Lewis and Anne sat down with Shea to discuss some of the latest headlines within the industry including the lack of capital facing the industry and the age-old tensions between the suits and the “stoners”. In addition, Shea gave us a peak at what it was like to be on the front lines of the cannabis movement in the 90s and his thoughts on what kind of legislative and regulatory support it’s going to take to for a healthy cannabis marketplace to take shape.  







Don’t sit back, lean forward and enjoy!















Shea Gunther, Founder, Producer and Host at MJ Today Media







Shea Gunther helped kick off the student drug reform movement in 1998 by founding Students for Sensible Drug Policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Since then, he’s built his career around media, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. He worked with Kris to start one of the nation’s leading providers of wind power and has been a top featured writer for the Mother Nature Network, the #1 environmental news site on the web, since its launch in 2009. He frequently consults on a wide range of topics in social marketing, editorial design, and media architecture. Shea is a truly multimodal designer and communicator and handles all the technical aspects of the show as well as maintaining the social media accounts and this website.







Links and mentions in the show







http://mjtodaypodcast.com/http://mjtodaymedia.com/http://mjtodaydaily.com/http://www.weedwonks.com/https://ssdp.org/







Links to the guest’s company and social media accounts







MJ Today Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjtodaypodcast 







Show Credits:







This episode was hosted by Lewis Goldberg and Anne Donohoe of KCSA Strategic Communications.







Special thanks to our Executive Producer Nick Opich.







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