Chains & Lanes

Supply chains don’t work, as the theory goes, without communication and a unified sense of purpose. I think it’s really important, when…

EP. 430: Boris Blatnik, KannaSwiss

Boris Blatnik joins us and shares just how a participants must be in the Cannabis industry: “With business in general, you have be adaptive, but in this space that’s moving so lightning fast, you’ve really got to be able to pivot and change.”

1284

I fell backwards into the cannabis industry. I was not involved in Colorado House Bill 1284 back in 2009 when a lot of that leg work was happening…

Size vs. Direction

Size vs. direction means something different to me now than it used to mean. We started up in 2009. The initial business model was very…

Ep. 428: Haleli Sharir, Cannabis Pharmeceuticals

Most of us know that cannabis can be used for things like pain relief, but what most of us certainly don’t know is that it can also be used to kill cancer cells. Dr. Haleli Sharir discusses the use of cannabis as an alternative to chemotherapy when done in the context of personalized medicine (as […]

Ep. 427: Lilach Power, Giving Tree Dispensary

As an Israeli living in the United States, Lilach Power, founder of Giving Tree Dispensary, has a unique perspective on the way regulations work in both countries. Because of the way regulations in the United States are going, Power predicts that the industry will eventually segment into three categories: pharmaceutical, wellness, and recreational. In addition […]

Risk As Reward

Take the Risk, or Take NothingIf you don’t take a risk, you’re not going to get the reward. This applies to all aspects of life, no matter the importance…

Ep. 426: Peter Miller, Slang

Peter Miller joins us and shares his perspective on the transformation of the Cannabis industry: “I watched the dispensary experience go from a mason jar with cannabis with kind of a label maker that said Super Lemon Haze, to more sophisticated finished good. And this was not a thing in Canada, and I thought, “This […]

Company vision = Industry mission

I am auditing the quarter and looking at the things that I wanted to do. Things I set out to do. Some things I may have not planned for…

Ep. 425: Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak joins us and shares his excitement for the forward momentum of Cannabis research: “It’s a huge world of science waiting for exploration. We have here highly disciplined growers. We have here top-quality scientific community, and a lot of interest. And we see it from day-to-day.”