Trendsetters in Cannabis Technology with Socrates Rosenfeld, CEO & Co-founder at Jane Technologies, Inc. Today, we welcome back a familiar guest to Cannabis Radio who is a former Apache helicopter pilot and Army captain, and MIT graduate who is one of the trendsetters in Cannabis Technology. Let’s welcome back the CEO & Co-founder at Jane Technologies, Socrates Rosenfeld! Jane Technologies believe in the cannabis industry's ability to bring well-being, health, and love into this world, a...
Apr 24, 2019•47 min
Political and financial obstacles surrounding cannabis companies with Ray Lehmann, director of finance, insurance and trade policy for R Street. Today, we speak about the legal and political and financial obstacles surrounding cannabis companies and their access to banking solutions. R Street is a non-profit public policy research organization that supports free markets; limited, effective government; and responsible environmental stewardship. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. with five regional...
Apr 19, 2019•33 min
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 ...
Apr 18, 2019•51 min
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...
Apr 12, 2019•35 min
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 ...
Apr 12, 2019•37 min
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 an...
Apr 12, 2019•37 min
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 ...
Apr 12, 2019•30 min
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 ex...
Apr 10, 2019•37 min
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...
Apr 05, 2019•40 min
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 del...
Apr 05, 2019•40 min
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, ...
Apr 05, 2019•34 min
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. Ov...
Apr 05, 2019•36 min
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 cons...
Apr 03, 2019•35 min
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 cann...
Mar 29, 2019•51 min
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 hig...
Mar 22, 2019•35 min
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” accountin...
Mar 15, 2019•43 min
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 e...
Mar 15, 2019•50 min
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 Cent...
Mar 14, 2019•42 min
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 footpr...
Mar 01, 2019•46 min
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 b...
Mar 01, 2019•30 min
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. ...
Mar 01, 2019•49 min
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 s...
Feb 22, 2019•38 min
The most powerful PR firms in Cannabis. This week, we want to address the influx of professionals within the public relations realm that have taken on cannabis industry clients. We here at Cannabis Radio are flooded monthly by hundreds upon hundreds of emails from PR firms reaching out to us. We even featured a number of those PR professionals in featured interviews on the network, and now we welcome another. We welcome Harrison Wise, the Founder, and CEO of Wise Public Relations, Inc. - a full-...
Feb 22, 2019•38 min
Huge Canadian cannabis conglomerate. This week, we are talking with the CEO of what is being called a huge Canadian cannabis conglomerate. Diversified in its holdings, Biome is steered by leaders in the cannabis space - in finance, growing technologies, regulatory affairs, business building, and marketing. Khurram Malik, CEO of Biome brings us through myriad of topics. Were joined by Khurram Malik, CEO of Biome. Malik's company, Biome, is going to be pairing with CBD Acres for a deal of 80,000kg...
Feb 22, 2019•42 min
Growing pharmaceutically viable cannabis with Jeffrey Gossain, Chief Operating Officer at Atlas Biotechnologies Inc. Jeffrey is a business executive experienced in the Canadian medical cannabis production industry. Executive level involvement in the tech sector, namely the mobile application industry. Professional Engineer specializing in asset management of a multi-faceted fleet of equipment for a large construction company. This week we showcase another great cannabis business in the legalized...
Feb 11, 2019•37 min
Today on Blunt Business we are joined by founder and CEO Kevin Hart to learn how GCV has solved the biggest pain point in the entire legal cannabis space, unlocking the true potential of the largest addressable market we’ll see in our lifetime. The cannabis industry is booming. So why can’t consumers pay with “plastic” when buying legal cannabis? Why are there machine gun-carrying guards inside of legal cannabis businesses (dispensaries), and a constant stream of armored cars coming and going? W...
Feb 07, 2019•40 min
Today on Blunt Business we are joined by Jessie Gibson,Co Founder and Head of Marketing of Greenery Map. This week we’re going to jump into digital marketing and more importantly search marketing by way of a new Cannabis app called Greenery Map. Greenery Map is the world’s first and only cannabis search engine and the ONLY app that provides consumers with a platform to search for products based on desired mood, medicinal use and method of consumption. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com...
Feb 06, 2019•32 min
Today on Blunt Bussiness were joined by Jacob Levin, COO of Best in Grow Presented by USCC Expo 8/3-4 Miami Hyatt. We usually bring on the show various thought leaders and power players in the cannabis industry from Silicon Valley to Hollywood to Madison Avenue, but how often do you get to meet an Ivy Leaguer who has joined the space. Were joined by a a clinical psychologist from Harvard, who has brought robust analytics and behavioral science to the cannabis industry. We talk about what his col...
Feb 04, 2019•38 min
Today on Blunt Business we speak with John Yang, CEO, and Co-founder of Treez.io. They are tackling one of the biggest issues they think has always put a cloud on the legitimizing of the cannabis industry to the mainstream fabric. John provides research and data findings that debunk some the largest stigmatic stereotypes looming in cannabis to those on the outside looking in and downplaying the amazing progress and potential the cannabis industry holds. They talk about what compelled John to not...
Jan 18, 2019•33 min
Today on Blunt Business we are joined by Eric Rice, CEO of Quanta, Inc. Quanta uses a combination of Quantum Physics and Bio-Chemistry to increase the performance of plant matter in the body. Their patented technology increases the vibration, or bio-energy, within targeted elements to create resonance effects in the human body. We talk about CBD and the Process of Polarization. Polarization is a technology that is applied to CBD, using quantum physics to manipulate and stabilize electron spin in...
Jan 16, 2019•35 min
