| Cannabis Planet | |
|---|---|
| Genre | News, infomercial |
| Created by | Brad Lane |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 27 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Brad Lane |
| Location(s) | Los Angeles, California |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Cannabis Planet Productions, Inc. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | KJLA (first episode aired on KDOC-TV) |
| Original run | July 2009 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Cannabis Planet is an American television program created by Brad Lane with the intent to promote the benefits of marijuana.[1] According to producers, the show covers "the merits of the cannabis plant (medicinally, industrially, agriculturally), and the benefits this plant brings to planet earth, mankind and the United States."[2] The Los Angeles-based program first broadcasted in July 2009 on the television station KJLA, which airs throughout most of Southern California.
Cannabis Planet was originally co-hosted by West Coast Cannabis Magazine publisher Ngaio Bealum and medical marijuana activist Sarah Diesel,[2] but is now hosted by Brandon Stone and Jean Marie Tolkien.[3] The program also features news presenter Patrick Finerty, field reporters Seirah Royin and Dragonfly de la Luz, horticulturist and author Ed Rosenthal as a cannabis "expert", and chef Mike Delao to illustrate the preparation of cannabis foods.[2][3]
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The idea of Cannabis Planet came to Brad Lane in May 2009 after he observed an increasing number of advertisements in OC Weekly relating to marijuana and alternative medicine.[4] With some background in television programming (Lane developed The Mammoth Channel, a tourist-oriented program that aired in local hotels), he worked quickly to get the program broadcasted just three months later. KDOC-TV aired the first episode in July 2009, but the station "got cold feet", allowing KJLA to continue broadcasting the series.[4]
In the San Francisco Bay Area, KOFY-TV picked up Cannabis Planet in 2010 and aired it on Fridays at midnight, but was unable to remain on the air following their post proposition 19 election episode in November due to lack of sponsors.[5]
The show also aired in Sacramento on KTNC television and in San Diego on Cox Channel 14 following the KTLA news broadcast each Friday evening at 11:00 p.m. Season 4 of Cannabis Planet is in current production and is scheduled to air in Jan. 2011 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, in addition to Phoenix, AZ, Detroit, MI, Las Vegas, NV and Denver, CO.
According to Lane, Cannabis Planet costs about $10,000 a week to produce.[4][6] Based in Los Angeles, the series also airs in Denver, Sacramento, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area.[7] Lane hopes to eventually air the program in every state that allows medical marijuana.[6]
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| # | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| # | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | September 2009 | |
| October 13, 2009 cannabis crusader (farmers and hemp industry leaders) protest industrial hemp farming ban at DEA Headquarters, Rick Steves | ||
| # | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | ||
| Children using cannabis as medicine, Harvard's Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Ed Rosenthal tours a medical marijuana garden | ||