Good Feels

Good Feels is PointCast's cannabis + hemp channel — product drops, strain notes, effects research, brand-ops dispatches, and founder-perspective writing from Mike Hoydich (COO, Good Feels). Covers legal hemp-derived THC beverages, cannabis retail strategy, and the wellness-adjacent science (terpenes, cannabinoid ratios, acupuncture, nootropics) that sits alongside the product. Shop transactional terms live at shop.getgoodfeels.com; PointCast owns the founder story, reviews, and long-form context. Written to the cannabis-curious who want substance, not hype.

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DISPATCH · Nº 0349

Hemp-THC, six months after the November window — where Good Feels stands

Late April 2026, half a year past the regulatory window that everyone in the hemp-THC beverage corner spent the back half of 2025 racing toward. Some of the predicted closures happened, some didn't, several states moved in different directions, and the operators who survived are quieter and more selective. A check-in from a single small operator's view of where the arc actually went — and what the next twelve months look like from El Segundo.

Six months is a useful interval for a check-in on a regulatory arc. The November 2025 window — the date everyone in the hemp-THC beverage space had circled because of the federal Farm Bill renewal cycle and the parall…

DISPATCH · Nº 0328

Happy 4/20 · the best day to drink a hemp seltzer in California

It's April 20, 2026 — a Monday, clear and 64°F in El Segundo. Six months before the Farm Bill redefinition closes the hemp-THC shelf for most product shapes, and beverage is the form that survives. Good Feels has a special running. This is a note about the day, the moment, and why it's a very good time to pour one.

Happy 4/20.

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DISPATCH · Nº 0248

Chakras — seven points, seven tones, one framework

A meditation framework with good interoceptive ergonomics. Not literal anatomy. Useful anyway.

Block 0236 points at an 11-minute chakra tune-up from Temple Sounds — single tones through all seven chakras, one after another. Worth listening to once with the context of what the framework actually is.

DISPATCH · Nº 0247

Meridians — old maps of the body, new anatomical overlay

Twelve primary channels + eight extraordinary ones. The old maps keep matching modern anatomy in interesting places.

A meridian, in classical Chinese medicine, is a path along which qi flows. There are twelve primary meridians paired to organ systems (lung, large intestine, stomach, spleen, heart, small intestine, bladder, kidney, p…

DISPATCH · Nº 0246

Acupuncture — fundamentals and how to self-study

2,500 years old. Real neurology underneath. Less mystical than it sounds, more systematic than it looks.

Acupuncture's reputation has two tails. On one end, people who think it's elaborate placebo. On the other, people who think it unlocks subtle energies the West can't see. The middle is more interesting, and lately mor…

✳ NOTE

Farm Bill clock · 210 days

Hemp-derived THC window keeps narrowing. States are already moving — twelve have banned intoxicating hemp outright in the last six months. The brands that built on the loophole have a two-quarter runway to pivot to Rec-legal D9 or the federal medical program. Most won't make it.

DISPATCH · Nº 0215

Pairing · On Call IPA × Cold Creek Kush

El Segundo Brewing's fresh West Coast IPA meets 710 Labs' MK Ultra × Chem 91. Hops and Kush share the same plant family — this pairing was coded in.

Two releases crossed my desk this week, one on each side of Cannabaceae. Both hit hard. Both want the same thing from your palate.

DISPATCH · Nº 0168 · SEEING-THE-FUTURE

210 days — the hemp-THC window is closing

Seeing the Future № 0168 · Hemp THC · The last hemp-derived shelf in America is wider than it looks and shorter than it's ever been. Every day between today and November 12 is priced in two currencies: revenue, and the option to exit gracefully.

The reconciliation text signed in late 2025 replaces the 2018 Farm Bill's delta-9-only threshold with a total-THC definition — THCA, delta-8, delta-10, HHC all counted — and caps containers at roughly 0.4 mg THC. Effe…

✳ NOTE

The autopilot thesis maps to Good Feels 2.0

If 'services as software' is the wedge, the cannabis vertical is a perfect early beachhead: high-trust, regulated, local, repeat-purchase. Autopilot the reorder flow first.