High on Home Grown, The Cannabis Podcast

This week on High on Home Grown, we take a look at another collection of cannabis stories from around the UK and beyond, covering everything from neighbours complaining about cannabis smoke to a major cannabis importation case, the continued expansion of the UK medical cannabis market and potential changes to insurance for cannabis businesses.

Macky looks at a story from Wales Online about a neighbour smoking cannabis and what someone can actually do if cannabis smoke is affecting their home. We look at the legal position surrounding nuisance, what options residents may have and where the line sits between someone's cannabis use and it becoming a problem for their neighbours. My neighbour is smoking cannabis - lawyer explains what to do about it | Wales Online

Smee covers a major UK drugs case involving gang members jailed over a plot to import cannabis worth an estimated £13.8 million into the UK. We discuss the scale of the alleged operation, the court case and the sentences handed down. Gang members jailed over plot to import cannabis worth £13.8m into UK | LBC

Billy looks at the continued development of the UK's medical cannabis industry, with Canopy Growth entering the UK medical cannabis market through a new distribution deal. We discuss what the move could mean for the growing medical cannabis sector and the companies looking to establish themselves in the UK. Canopy enters UK medical cannabis market with distribution deal | MJBizDaily

John brings us a story from the United States looking at proposed legislation that could make it easier for cannabis businesses to obtain insurance coverage. We discuss why insurance remains such a complicated issue for the cannabis industry and what changes to the rules could mean for businesses operating legally within the sector. New Rules: This bill could help cannabis companies finally get insurance coverage | Tucson Weekly

And Dr. Margaret looks at a new study examining the potential health effects of cannabis edibles compared with smoking cannabis. The study has generated headlines around whether edibles should automatically be considered a safer alternative, so we take a closer look at what the research actually found and what it does, and doesn't, tell us. New Study Finds Weed Edibles Aren't Safer Than Smoking | Men's Journal

As always, we break down the stories, discuss the wider implications and give our thoughts on what's happening across the cannabis world.

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It’s a big one on High on Home Grown this week as we reach the final Listener Mail episode of the series! From next week, we’re heading back into the full Grow Guides, but not before answering one last batch of questions from the community.

Billy Bong is trying to keep his grow going through the winter in an unmodified shed, and asks how to deal with low temperatures, humidity and condensation without having to heat the entire building. We discuss winter growing, keeping the environment stable and the challenges of running tents in an outdoor structure.

He also has a suggestion for the strain name that came out of last week's show: Terpish Delight. We may have accidentally created a monster.

Lobby Lobster returns with another question about the growing world becoming increasingly automated. With AI-powered grow equipment, automatic watering, environmental controllers and smart systems becoming more common, are we making growing easier and reducing burnout, or are we slowly removing some of the hands-on enjoyment that makes the hobby so rewarding? We discuss where automation helps and where we might still want to get our hands dirty.

FreeNugz has the classic outdoor-grower's dilemma: when you're getting close to harvest and the trichomes are still developing, is the extra potency worth risking bud rot? We talk about the difficult decisions growers sometimes have to make when the weather turns against them and whether waiting for the "perfect" harvest is always the right move.

SKD asks a question that pretty much every grower eventually asks themselves: when do you finally feel like you've got this figured out? After experimenting with soil, coco, different plant sizes, SCROGs, training, nutrients and drying methods, how many grows does it take before you find your preferred style and settle into a repeatable routine?

We also get into the daunting world of choosing cannabis strains. With thousands of varieties, ridiculous names, endless seed banks and increasingly questionable AI-generated pictures, where does a newer grower even begin?

And finally, Phil Me Bowls gives us another one of those questions that could only have been invented while high, before we finish the Listener Mail series with some truly terrible dad jokes.

After all the questions, laughs, arguments and bizarre scenarios we've covered throughout this Listener Mail run, it's time to close the book on the series for now.

Next week, Grow Guides are back! 🌱

Thanks to everyone who has sent questions in, listened, watched, commented and been part of the community. The Listener Mail episodes have been a brilliant way of hearing directly from the people who make High on Home Grown what it is.

Now let's get back to growing.

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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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