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Improving Safety And Manufacturing Regulations with Arnaud Dumas de Rauly, co-founder and co-CEO of The Blinc’s Group. Today, we speak with one of the world’s most renowned experts in vapor technology, regulations, manufacturing, and distribution. He is also a vocal proponent of improving safety and manufacturing regulations. Chairman of the International ISO committee on Vaping Standards, Chairman of the European CEN Committee on Vapor Products, former President of FIVAPE in EU, and one of the world’s most renowned experts in Vapor Technology, regulations, manufacturing and distribution.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today, we learn the findings from a new Pricing Trends Industry Report that gives us an indication on where prices will head in newly legal states and how much people are willing to pay for certain cannabis products. Cy has been involved in the professional cannabis industry for over five years. In 2010, Cy co-founded Leafly, and helped grow the company into one of the most well-respected brands in cannabis and had a successful exit with Privateer Holdings. Cy’s latest venture is Headset, a SaaS platform providing actionable insights and business intelligence services for the emerging cannabis industry. Cy has experience in building companies, product management and engineering and development.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Facilitate the evolution of the United States family farm with Evo Hemp President and Co-Founder Jourdan Samel and Co- Founder and CEO Ari Sherman Today, we talk about tribal hemp with a company working with those who are working with Native Americans who have been harvesting hemp for centuries. Ari Sherman and Jourdan Samel have set their sights on a goal bigger than product development, bigger than making money and even bigger than helping someone feel relief using their products. The natural foods brand Evo Hemp and its parent company, Hemp Health LLC, were created “to facilitate the evolution of the United States family farm,” Sherman says. “The Hemp Health mission is to lift rural communities out of poverty with industrial hemp farming.” Evo Hemp is the retail arm of that mission, developed to deliver hemp-based products to the consumer market, from energy bars to protein powder to hemp hearts, oils, snacks and extracts. Today, the Evo brand can be found in more than 3,000 retail stores, including big na

Streamlining of the cannabis harvesting process with Cullen Raichart, Founder & CEO at GreenBroz, Inc. Today, we talk a veteran of the US Navy, a mechanical engineer, and has more than 12 years of experience as an entrepreneur and inventor in the cannabis industry. Prior to founding GreenBroz, Inc., Cullen worked in the corporate world for a Fortune 500 company until realizing his passion for creating innovative products. His goal became the streamlining of the cannabis harvesting process and, in turn, reducing growers time and costs. Cullen is considered a distinguished inventor whose drive has earned him a reputation as a pioneer in automation in the emerging agricultural cannabis industry. GreenBroz, Inc. won the inaugural Marijuana Business Pitch Slam in 2014. Cullen’s vision for end-to-end harvesting technology has led GreenBroz, Inc. to become a world leader in automated harvesting solutions.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cannabis Real Estate with Rick Payne President & CEO of Cannabis Real Estate Consultants. Our guest this week runs a cannabis real estate company whose website ranks 1 on google worldwide for the search term "Cannabis Real Estate" and as a result receives over 1k visitors a day with 20% month over month growth. They’ve only been in business for nearly two and a half years. Rick Payne is a San Diego native with almost a decade in real estate experience. He has been focused on commercial real estate for the last several years, although he is still in tune with other markets such as residential. In that time he has had the opportunity to work extensively with clients looking to purchase or lease retail space, office, industrial, and land as well. In addition to helping several entrepreneurs secure property for their businesses, he has worked with various commercial property owners looking to lease or sell their property all over California and has consistently helped them achieve their goals. His bac

What cannabis could learn from tobacco marketing with Jim McCormick-President of Ignite International. Our guest this week joined the cannabis industry by way of the home to such legendary tobacco brands as Newport, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Camel. Jim McCormick spent 16 years in senior management roles with British American Tobacco (BAT) including 14 years overseas living in 7 different countries. During his tenure with BAT he successfully led market entry initiatives, driving global brand expansion and optimizing international supply chain operations. Now he has been appointed the President of Ignite International, the world's first super-premium cannabis lifestyle brand, currently for sale in dispensaries across California with their CBD products sold nationally online. The tobacco industry has started to make inroads by developing products including vape pens and incorporating cannabis and cbd oils into the mix. We speak about the comparisons that made his expertise at BAT the right fit for Ignite,

How the reputation of cannabis has Changed with Anthony Franciosi, Founder and Head Grower for Honest Marijuana Company. This week we welcome a cannabis industry expert who recently made some comments about the Importance of Buying Legal Marijuana, How the reputation of cannabis has Changed and Pot Rules at Social Gatherings. Let’s welcome the Founder of Honest Marijuana Company. The vision for Honest Marijuana came to mind in 2008. Anthony had moved to Colorado, just a couple of years after the medical marijuana movement lit up. The laws were still fairly new and not many doctors there were writing up scripts. Anthony, with his slew of sports injuries, and his inquisitive nature, was the perfect patient for medical marijuana. He had the right medical history to get doctors into the swing of writing scripts for spliffs. But, Anthony wasn’t interested in being a patient; he wanted to be a producer. Having worked as a landscaper for close to a decade, Anthony had surrounded himself with quality, like-minded peo

Publicly traded cannabis delivery service with Chris Boudreau, CEO of Driven Deliveries, Inc. Welcome to Blunt Business. Our guest this week has more than 15 years of corporate experience that includes executive bank management along with a deep level of proven experience and demonstrated success in both the wholesale and retail cannabis sectors, and now he is taking a company from concept to a successful publicly traded operation. Driven Deliveries, Inc. is the only publicly traded cannabis delivery service operating within the United States. Founded by experienced technology and cannabis executives, the Company provides on-demand marijuana delivery, in select cities where allowed by law. Driven provides the legal cannabis consumers the ability to purchase and receive their marijuana in a fast and convenient manner. By 2020, legal cannabis revenue in the U.S. market is projected to hit $23 billion. In leveraging consumer trends, and offering a proprietary, turnkey delivery system to its customers, manage

Cannabis Law and Policy with Lisa L. Pittman. This week, we’re speaking with an accomplished business attorney who has been in the Cannabis business since the mid-2000s. She is a rapidly Rising Star as a legal advisor and fighter for cannabis freedom. At Tannenbaum, Trost & Burk, She focuses on the legal cannabis industry in the US & over the world. Lisa has handled breach of contract, employment, commercial banking, fraud, fiduciary duty, construction defect, deceptive trade practices, premises liability, professional liability, product liability, & complex insurance coverage disputes, which helps her broadly advise clients. Lisa works with the American Bar Association, giving me access to a nationwide network of elite attorneys. She presented the ABA's first marijuana law CLE at its annual meeting in NYC in 2017, resulting in the creation of a Task Force on Cannabis Law and Policy, with Lisa on Steering Committee.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https

This week we welcome a problem solver, the co-founder and COO of Blue Label Labs, the largest mobile apps and digital product developer in NYC. They are looking to help cannabusinesses overcome these challenges with their mobile app Muncheez, informally referred to as the “Yelp for the marijuana industry. Blue Label Labs builds products. They're a 64-person mobile, tablet, watch, TV, AR/VR, IoT and web design, development and marketing agency based in New York City, Seattle and San Francisco. Over the last 7 years, they have partnered with enterprises, entrepreneurs and digital/full-service agencies to build over 250 products across a multitude of devices.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The medicinal side of cannabis cultivation. This week we showcase another great cannabis business in the legalized constitutional monarchy of Canada. That business is Atlas, an Edmonton-based LP, or limited partnership, that is focused on the medicinal side of cannabis cultivation. They have a 38,000 square foot controlled-environment agricultural facility in Alberta with 9 microclimates. Their goals are to pioneer genetics, grow pharmaceutically viable cannabis, and to educate patients and consumers about the qualities, types, and uses of cannabis. We speak about the size of his outfit and the regulations and obstacles the government Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation throws at him. As well as one of the greatest challenges cultivating medical cannabis is maintaining a standardized product from one harvest to the next.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Forecasting the growth of cannabis on the global stage with Mark Collins. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week we’re going to talk about the performance of cannabis as a global market commodity with my guest who is the Vice President of the leading creative agency and media network dedicated to legal cannabis. The global legal marijuana market is expected to reach USD 146.4 billion by the end of 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research. We speak about forecasting the growth of cannabis on the global stage. On this network we have spoken at length about a number of Canadian companies are fostering some import and export relationships between countries in Europe and Asia and in Australia. We take a deep dive into how Mark sees these plans panning out, especially when the UN estimates more than 38,000 tonnes of cannabis are produced across Africa each year, which results in a black market worth billions.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/

The modern cannabis industry. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week we're joined by Ted Lichtenberger, Co-founder & CEO of Flower Co. We focus on discussion on Southern California and the idea of wholesale cannabis pricing to the largest legal cannabis market in the world, Los Angeles. They are committed to the communities they serve. They work with small business in each market to get the product to you and believe that the modern cannabis economy can be an equalizing force that provides high-quality jobs. Also, they are excited to shape the emerging face of modern cannabis industry and culture. FlowerCompany's mission is to provide its members with quality cannabis products and exceptional customer service at the most competitive prices.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Women to Watch in the cannabis industry. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we talk to Naomi Granger, CPA, MBA and Co-Founder of DOPE CFO. We speak to a real power player in the world of accounting and finance. Our guest has managed large global teams responsible for planning, performing and managing audits of financial statements and internal controls over financial reporting. She was also featured in MJ Biz’s Jan 2019 issue as part of their Women to Watch section. A former “Big 4” accounting professional, Naomi has over 12 years of experience in both public accounting and industry accounting. She has managed large global teams responsible for planning, performing and managing audits of financial statements and internal controls over financial reporting. Naomi recognized a void in the cannabis industry and co-founded DOPE CFO in order to bring proper accounting and bookkeeping practices to cannabusinesses. DOPE CFO provides educational tools for accountants and financial professionals to enter into the ca

Advanced tools to enhance the buying experience for customers. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we’re talking to Matthew Cutone, Founder, President, and CEO of Seed.io about the need for critical education. Our guest has an in-store cannabis education solution designed to fulfill dispensaries’ legal requirement to educate their clients about their product while taking the burden off of the dispensary staff members. What began as an idea fueled by the desire to see a new industry adapt and excel by educating its customers, Seed was developed to provide dispensaries with advanced tools to enhance the buying experience for customers, support their staff, and sell more product. To create Seed, their team of researchers logged thousands of hours, across several states speaking to scientists and industry specialists to compile the most up-to-date information about cannabis and cannabis-related products.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Newly emerging adult use cannabis marketplace. This week, we are speaking with Tim Keogh, CEO, AmeriCann. He is being described as a “forward-thinking entrepreneur in this new cannabis landscape”. Their “new generation of environmentally sustainable, state-of-the-art cannabis cultivation and processing with his publicly-traded agricultural technology company that started in Colorado is now expanding into Massachusetts. AmeriCann has started construction on the Massachusetts Medical Cannabis Center (MMCC) on a 52-acre parcel located 30 miles from Providence, R.I., and 50 miles from Boston. They are building nearly a million sq. ft. of cannabis cultivation and processing infrastructure, which will be developed in phases, and plans to support both the existing medical cannabis and the newly emerging adult use cannabis marketplace.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Canadian cannabusiness companies teaching us to expand. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we’re very happy to have a rockstar in the cannabis space. Let’s cut to the chase, I’m joined by Colorado cannabis entrepreneur and industry advocate Dan Anglin, the CEO & Co-Founder of CannAmerica Brands. CannAmerica Brands announced on Valentines Day its new licensing agreement and brand partnership with Flower One, the largest cannabis cultivation greenhouse in Nevada, to expand production footprint. We have been seeing what Canadian cannabusiness companies have been doing with large scale expansion of facilities and staff, but for many of them, it is to support a global expansion to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Some of those company executives I have interviewed have not stated American expansion was not necessarily a priority.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A vertically integrated cannabis company. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we are pleased to bring on a new power player from the lucrative beverage industry that has found his way into the cannabis industry. My guest is the newly appointed President of INDUS Holding Co, a vertically integrated cannabis company with world-class capabilities, including cultivation, extraction and manufacturing, brand sales, marketing, and distribution. He most recently was Chief Executive Officer of global beverage leader VOSS of Norway. On top of being CEO at Voss, he was also previously held a Senior VP position at Cadbury, where they make all those great chocolates, and they had a beverage division which you managed to split off their parent company to create the standalone Dr. Pepper Snapple Group which is now the Keurig Dr. Pepper Group.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Wealth management in the cannabis industry. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we speak with an entrepreneur with a background in finance and technology, a graduate of Science in Finance and International Business from NYU's Stern School of Business. Raul Moreno, CEO & Co-Founder, iBillionaire is a former financial analyst for a boutique wealth management firm for ultra high net worth clients called GFG Capital whose assets under management only increased from $200 million to $1 billion. iBillionaire was founded by Raul Moreno and Alejandro Estrada in 2013 as a mobile application that tracks the investment strategies of the world’s top billionaires. Investors themselves, they decided to look to billionaire investors for guidance and quickly realized how time-consuming it is to continuously follow all of their investment decisions. IBillionaire is a pioneer in mobile finance at the forefront of the movement towards mobile as a primary vehicle for investing. It boasts the largest mobile community of

Building the Hemp and CBD industry. This week, we are going out to Minnesota to speak with the makers of a new collection of CBD products that are PURE CERTIFIED™ and made with organic cannabinoid oil, that hope to provide relief with anxiety, pain, insomnia, inflammation, skin conditions, and other health concerns. Our guests have a combined 70 years experience in marketing and advertising and they are looking to lead the way in creating and building the Hemp and CBD industry in Minnesota. We speak to Jim Zimmerman, Co-Founder and President of C4Life and Dave Rye, Co-Founder and Vice President of C4Life . We speak about what makes branding hemp let alone any product based on a region. As well as meeting with federal state government officials, the response and what progress has been made since said meetings.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy