Growing With Fishes Aquaponic Cannabis Podcast!

In loving memory of Wayne Justmann, a San Francisco cannabis pioneer, HIV advocate, and longtime champion for people living on the margins. This memorial compilation brings together every episode of Growing With Fishes that Wayne joined us on, so his words, stories, and history live in one place for the community he helped build. Wayne’s public work was inseparable from the AIDS and medical cannabis era in San Francisco. After moving to San Francisco, Wayne was diagnosed HIV positive in July 1988, during the early years of the epidemic, when available treatments often came with brutal side effects. He spoke openly about using cannabis to help with appetite and nausea from HIV medications, and about how many people with HIV and AIDS were searching for relief and basic dignity at a time when both were hard to find. Wayne became part of the early medical cannabis movement centered around the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, widely described as one of the first public dispensary models in the United States,