For the second straight year, Illinois News Joint is partnering with The North American Weed Tour (NAWT) to help showcase legal cannabis products in Illinois. Illinois News Joint will appear on several NAWT podcast in the upcoming months to discuss several products, including a “Best Of” podcast in which News Joint reviewers select they’re favorite Illinois products.

Respect My Region, a Seattle-based award-winning media, music, and cannabis company, will host the tour from July 10 to December 15, 2022. The NAWT will host 250 podcast episodes and Instagram Live Streams showcasing cannabis products, retailers, farms, labs, kitchens, ancillary services, and technology.

The NAWT will review 500+ products and showcase brands across every category in select recreational markets. Respect My Region will feature more than 100 industry leaders on the company’s YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch.

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“After last year’s overwhelmingly successful tour, we’re excited to scale the campaign to include more than just product reviews and podcast interviews,” said Joseph Brabo, Co-owner of Respect My Region. “This year, we’ve added 420 University, an educational series with Betty Krocker Bakes and myself, the Legacy Cannabis Podcast hosted by Adam Ill, and the Gas or Trash Instagram Live Stream and Podcast series hosted by Mistah Cannabis. Additionally, our team is launching the Canadian Cannabis Podcast, Northeast Cannabis Podcast, and the Midwest Cannabis Podcast.”

Media and PR partnerships for the 2022 North American Weed Tour include 40 Tons, AZ Cannabis News, Beard Bros Pharms, The Bluntness, The Cannabis Library, The Cannigma, Ganjapreneur, Heady NJ, Honeysuckle Magazine, Illinois News Joint, Puf Creativ, and Skunk Magazine.

“Scaling the tour with these new series will allow us to magnify the stories of new brands and businesses across North America even more,” said Respect My Region CEO and Founder, Mitch Pfeifer. “This year, the tour has been specially crafted to have a greater impact on cannabis brands in emerging markets while also amplifying the success of industry leaders and innovators.”

Last year, Publisher of Illinois News Joint, J. L. Brown, joined podcast host Joey Brabo, as well as Ben Pfeifer, who grows aeroponic cannabis for the southern Illinois cultivator Aeriz to discuss the Illinois industry. We also discussed other Illinois industry news here.

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