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Weed Wonks Podcast: Mike Hennesy of Wana Brands on the “One-plant Solution” and Bridging the Marijuana-hemp Policy Divide

February 9, 2026

In our latest episode, host Jordan Wellington sits down with Mike Hennesy, Vice President of Innovation at Wana Brands, one of the nation’s leading marijuana and hemp product manufacturers, to discuss those challenges and what can be done to resolve them. 

They dive into Strategies 64’s recently published white paper, “The One-plant Solution,” which offers recommendations for advancing a unified national cannabis policy that regulates all cannabis—marijuana and hemp—as one plant. It also proposes a federal regulatory framework that respects state sovereignty and leverages existing federal regulatory structures to set national standards and guidelines that prioritize public safety and reflect the realities of today’s legal markets. 

Jordan and Mike also look at Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and what it will take to develop a system that empowers responsible operators and weeds out bad actors.

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