The concept applies not only to sports, but to enterprises too. The best talent for your business versus the best talent demonstrated…

Ben Kovler gives a rundown about the reasons behind his involvement in cannabis, emphasizing the same core goals now that he had five years ago. He focuses on distributing brands of scale as a winning strategy, thinking of cannabis as a consumer packaged good in need of a consistent and authentic branded experience. Taking advantage […]

 The Farm BillThe Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (the farm bill) was a hugely impactful piece of legislation for any producers of cannabis…

Let’s go back on a journey here to 2014. Let’s re-discover what the landscape looked like back then in the context of how it looks today….

The Necessity of Both Vision and PragmatismThe world is expected of a business founder. There is a dichotomy in it. You’re constantly…

Joel Milton talks about his journey leading one of the first cannabis tech companies through a selective startup accelerator and into the market in 2014. At the time, cannabis still held a lot of stigma for professionals, and his company was alone in the group of startups. Investors were hard to find, so the company […]

Balancing Business, Family, and Community2019 marks 10 years of attempting to balance business, family, and community. I’ve had some…

Cy Scott covers the normalization and de-stigmatization of cannabis from a data and analytics perspective. Increasing entrepreneurial tendencies in the industry have built up business through partnerships across the country, focusing on improving how retail systems work and how they interact with customers. The cannabis industry has unique opportunities for testing new ideas and new […]

Jeannette Horton talks about the benefits that cannabis tax money can have by making investments in the communities most disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs. This money can fund expungements, job training, and businesses. But it’s often distributed to the wrong areas, so it’s important to have oversight to ensure that the funds are […]

Advocacy and CapitalismThese ideas are not necessarily mutually exclusive. If we get the capitalist part right in the cannabis industry,…