Running A Successful Dispensary With Purpose

We’ve been on a mission to legalize cannabis, for more than just creating a good livelihood for ourselves, but for making the planet a better place…

Local Culture

Gather your information before making any big decisionsWhen you enter a new market or economy, it’s always important to make sure..

Ep. 409: Mitch Baruchowitz, Merida Capital

Mitch Baruchowitz joins us with a brisk-paced narrative of his foray into the world of cannabis, with the same velocity and passion he has found in the innovations of the industry. He touches on a range of topics including investment strategies, tragic events with unexpected influence, misconceptions about legality and regulation of cannabis, organizational differences […]

Regulations

When I first got into the cannabis movement, that was back in 2014, we were operating under prop 215. That piece of legislation is what…

Ep. 408: Kris Krane, 4Front Ventures

Kris Krane is back to talk about the big win that democrats -and thus cannabis- have had in the House election and general politics, and what that really means for cannabis reform. Even with strides being made in politics, there are still hurdles to surpass. With the slow process of bureaucracy, four states are the […]

Ep. 407: Tjalling Erkelens, Bedrocan

Tjalling Erkelens, based in the Netherlands with one of the oldest semi-recreational cannabis programs in the world, compares the global development of cannabis. Change and progress towards legalization, particularly for medicinal marijuana, are happening on all continents across the globe. But each country seems to be taking a different approach, whereas we should be aiming […]

How Retail Informs The Industry

Looking at how retail can inform the industry, I see two things: Retail is the chokepoint for the industry in the West of the U.S.Retail is the…

What We Should Fix In 2019

What should we fix in 2019? We really have our work cut out for us in terms of cannabis policy and business, make no mistake about it…

Ep. 405: US Senator Cory Gardner

Senator Cory Gardner talks about the path of the STATES Act, which has been surprisingly, and perhaps ironically, cleared by the helping hand of Jeff Sessions. His rescindment of the Cole Memorandum of the Obama era tried to quash states rights on the issue of cannabis, but only led to the more simplified STATES Act. […]

How Easy It Is To Make Money In Cannabis

Time is a very funny thing in the cannabis industry. We’re navigating the tides, and boy do they ever change, and change fast. It seems…