EPISODE · Jun 1, 2026 · 0 MIN
Quick Sips: Cannabis Research Is Rigged - 75% of $1 Billion Studies Risk, Not Benefits
from Ready To Drink Podcast · host The FreeMind Group
Send us Fan MailMadicyn Marinaro, Executive Director and Principal Researcher at the Cannabis Council for Advertising Transparency (CCAT), breaks down one of the most overlooked structural problems in cannabis policy: the research funding gap.Nearly 75% of $1 billion in cannabis research funding goes toward studying harm, not benefit and when benefit research is attempted, federal law restricts it to isolated cannabinoids - not whole plant cannabis. The result is a biased information environment where patient stories, positive outcomes and counter-narratives cannot scale.This is not an accident. This is structural disinformation.Full episode with Madicyn Marinaro drops soon on Ready To Drink Podcast!Subscribe so you do not miss it.Ready To Drink Podcast is hosted by Nate Fochtman, founder of The FreeMind Group, a strategic advisory firm serving adult beverage brands since 2008.Follow Ready To Drink Podcast: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube | ReadyToDrinkPodcast.comSupport the showPresented by The FreeMind Group - FMGStrategy.com
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Send us Fan Mail Madicyn Marinaro, Executive Director and Principal Researcher at the Cannabis Council for Advertising Transparency (CCAT), breaks down one of the most overlooked structural problems in cannabis policy: the research funding gap. Nearly 75% of $1 billion in cannabis research funding goes toward studying harm, not benefit and when benefit research is attempted, federal law restricts it to isolated cannabinoids - not whole plant cannabis. The result is a biased information enviro...
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