Episode 01 – Beach

Beach has been involved in the hemp world since the early days, founding Hemptations in the mid-90s, long before hemp re-entered mainstream conversation in the U.S.In this conversation, we get into what those early years actually looked like, what it meant to build a store centered entirely around hemp products in Cincinnati, Ohio, and how his perspective has taken shape over decades of advocacy, culture, and industry change.This is a conversation about being early, about holding a certain kind of energy over time, and about what it looks like to stand behind something long before it becomes widely accepted.