MariMed Inc with COO Tim Shaw today on Blunt Business with Jorge Hermida only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest represents one of the largest multi-state cannabis and hemp operators in the US. Across its branded products, this company is at the forefront of precision-dosed branded products for the treatment of specific medical symptoms. They currently distribute its branded products in select states and are expanding licensing and distribution to numerous additional markets encompassing thousand...
Nov 24, 2021•28 min
Cannabis Department at Greenberg Glusker with founder Priya Sopori today on Blunt Business with Jorge Hermia only on Cannabis Radio. Celebrity endorsements are a popular marketing tool for brands seeking to gain wide attention from targeted consumers in a relatively short period of time. Within federally regulated industries, these endorsement deals are often straightforward. This week we will talk about the ever-changing legal landscape of trademark and copyright enforcement to the possible per...
Nov 17, 2021•39 min
Senior-High with Karen Lustman, founder and CEO, and Lewis Lustman, Chief Marketing Officer today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guests run a woman-owned health and wellness company that advocates for safe and effective cannabis products for seniors. They recently opened their website at www.senior-high.com providing information that enables seniors to confidently choose the right cannabis products to help relieve sleeplessness, aches and pains, anxiety, and other ailments co...
Nov 10, 2021•39 min
Safe hemp and CBD products with Jonathan Miller General Counsel of the U.S. Hemp Roundtable and Member-In-Charge at the Frost Brown Todd Law Office in Washington, D.C. today on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest serves as general counsel for the hemp industry’s national advocacy organization, a coalition of dozens of leading companies and organizations committed to safe hemp and CBD products. From a recent press release, The U.S. Hemp Roundtable applauds the California Legislature for its overwhelmi...
Nov 04, 2021•37 min
Turning Point Brands with Eric Anwar (Sr. Director of Marketing) and Lorenzo De Plano (Vice President) today on Blunt Business with Jorge Hermida only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest markets one of the most widely sold cannabis adjacent products on the market. When you think of rolling papers you are most likely thinking of their majorly featured brand, Zig-Zag. We start by talking about the importance of Zig-Zag to the Cannabis Industry. Seeking Alpha wrote: How does Turning Point Brands fact...
Oct 27, 2021•45 min
US Cannabis Council with President & CEO Steven Hawkins today on Blunt Business with Jorge Hermida only on Cannabis Radio. In 2020, just $4 million was spent on marijuana lobbying, according to Open Secrets. That’s measly compared to the $27 million that was spent by tobacco lobbyists, and roughly $30 million from the beer, wine, and liquor industry. Happy to welcome this week the President and CEO of the United States Cannabis Council, an omnibus group that includes many of the largest indu...
Oct 20, 2021•49 min
HERBL with Founder And CEO Mike Beaudry today on Blunt Business with Jorge Hermida only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest founded California's largest cannabis supply chain solutions company servicing more than 850 storefront and non-storefront retail licensees. They also boast exclusive brand partnerships with the #1 selling flower, vape, and concentrate brands. Recently the company announced its acquisition of Blackbird, a premier cannabis distributor and direct-to-consumer software solutions ...
Sep 29, 2021•34 min
Dymapak with CEO Ross Kirsh today on Blunt Business with Jorge Hermida only on Cannabis Radio. The U.S. cannabis industry is expected to add $92 billion to the country's economy in 2021, according to MJBizDaily. As the industry continues its upward momentum, producers of cannabis products that range from mints to gummies to dissolvable powders are seeking ways to reduce plastic packaging while remaining compliant. Dymapak is the leading solution provider to meet the growing need for safety packa...
Sep 22, 2021•35 min
Unrivaled Brands CEO Frank Knuettel today on Blunt Business with Jorge Hermida only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest has decades of experience in working with and advising public and private companies on financial management and controls, M&A, capital markets transactions, and operating and financial restructurings. Bob Hoban in Forbes recently wrote: There are indicators, not the least of which was the House’s passage of the MORE ACT, that senior members of the Biden administration, like S...
Sep 20, 2021•41 min
FlowerHire with CEO David Belsky today on Blunt Business with Jorge Hermida only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest runs a leading staffing and talent strategy firm serving the regulated cannabis industry. It has filled over 300 positions in 10 states since its inception in 2017. To bring listeners up to speed, David built his career in executive search over the course of 16 years. During that time, he spent 13 years with the same company, focusing on tech. Since our chat last June, he launched t...
Sep 08, 2021•48 min
Nirvana Group with CEO Arshad Lasi today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest runs one of the most prominent and well-known cannabis companies in Oklahoma, which boasts a sprawling 30-acre cultivation facility, 3,000 square foot production center, wholesale distribution company, multiple house brands, and an ever-expanding roster of medical dispensaries. Delays in implementing Oklahoma’s “seed-to-sale” tracking system for medical marijuana have sowed confusion for businesses ...
Sep 02, 2021•30 min
Pure Craft CBD with CEO Jason Navarrete today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest is a serial entrepreneur, real estate investor, and adjunct professor, who recently sold his cannabis growing company for $250 Million and is now launching a CBD company with nanotechnology that he has developed with MIT engineers. seed to sale approach and hybrid business model is said to be a precursor to the evolution of the cannabis industry in the coming decades. “We only partner with farm...
Aug 25, 2021•50 min
Flourish Software with Colton Griffin and Pam Pho today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Flourish started with a trip to California in 2017. The creators of Flourish met a team of experienced cultivators who were impressed with their supply chain and enterprise software background. They discovered that while cannabis was set to explode, the industry lacked sophisticated systems to support this growth. At that time, we were working on supply chain analytics and process improvement projec...
Aug 18, 2021•43 min
Emjay with CEO Chris Vaughn today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest is a serial entrepreneur and leader in the tech, lifestyle, and Bev-alcohol industries, who has redefined how the Bev-alcohol industry connects with consumers online. He has consulted the likes of AB-InBev, Pernod Ricard, Universal Music Group, Tesco, Diageo, Bevmo, and 7-Eleven. Emjay is a vertically integrated cannabis retail and delivery company that, thanks to a merger with Saucey last October, has exi...
Aug 04, 2021•46 min
Hub International Senior Vice President Jim Clements based in Tucson, Arizona and Jay Virdi, HUB Chief Sales Officer of Cannabis Insurance and Risk Services today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guests represent the fifth largest privately held, a full-service global insurance brokerage in the world. They provide risk management, insurance, employee benefits, retirement, and wealth management products and services. They provide risk management, insurance, employee benefits, re...
Jul 28, 2021•42 min
ABSTRAX with Max Koby and Kevin Koby today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guests founded a leading manufacturer of award-winning, naturally derived terpene blends that are procured from plants found all around the world.. They are producing some groundbreaking advancements in the cannabis and terpene industry. ABSTRAX has officially become the First Terpene Distributor on Weedmaps' WM Exchange, the Wholesale Cannabis Platform from WM Business. Part of the WM Business product ...
Jul 28, 2021•42 min
ONE Cannabis Group with Andrew Bowden, CEO of Item 9 Labs, and Mike Weinberger, Chief Franchise Officer of Unity Rd. today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. ONE Cannabis Group, the parent company to the cannabis dispensary franchise Unity Rd., recently announced that it had been acquired by Item 9 Labs Corp. The newly formed entity becomes the first vertically integrated cannabis franchisor in the United States. The combined business will escalate lead flow for Unity Rd. franchise develo...
Jul 21, 2021•33 min
Drop Delivery with CEO Vanessa Gabriel today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our guest is a self-described serial entrepreneur who runs the cannabis industry’s only all-in-one delivery technology solution for delivery companies and retailers. Drop provides a complete suite of software for Cannabis delivery services. Their software provides your company its own branded e-commerce app, customizable rewards and loyalty program, SMS texting to communicate with your customers, smart deals t...
Jul 14, 2021•41 min
AphriHelios Global, LLC with CEO Darin Hickman today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest runs a new startup company that seeks to become a pan-African vertically integrated cannabis company that not only leverages Africa’s prime position as a low-cost producer of quality cannabis-related products but also brings African (continental and diaspora) brands to the global market. AphriHelios Global is a full-value-chain focused, Southern Africa producer, processor, and distributo...
Jul 07, 2021•49 min
Eybna with Matthew Mograbi Director of US Operations today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest joins us representing a pioneering technology company and terpene manufacturer with two locations in California and in Israel, is expanding its U.S. footprint with the opening of new production and R&D facilities as well as strategic partnerships with leading companies across the consumer packaged goods supply chain. With Vertosa Labs, for product innovation and expanding acces...
Jun 30, 2021•44 min
Bespoke Financial with CEO & Co-Founder George Mancheril today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest runs the first licensed commercial lender in the United States focused on the legal cannabis industry, offering short-term lending options to fuel business growth. Bespoke Financial is a VC-backed financial solutions provider that offers custom-tailored funding within the niche business environments of the cannabis industry. They provide immediate access to liquidity for th...
Jun 16, 2021•41 min
Global Cannabis Applications Corp with CEO Brad Moore today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest runs a publicly traded company and global leader in designing, developing, SaaS licensing, and acquiring innovative data technologies for the medical cannabis industry. Brad's team recently launched a Uniswap Marketing Token, which adds Ether Cryptocurrency as an Alternative Asset to the Balance Sheet. The Uniswap-inclusion marketing initiative is to commit to marketing spend of 1...
Jun 02, 2021•37 min
Morning Dough with CEO Itay Paz today on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest is an entrepreneur, an international speaker, and a world expert in digital marketing and affiliate marketing helping entrepreneurs & business owners worldwide to grow their businesses using the power of the internet. When we met our guest he was hosting an affiliate conference in Israel called Affilicon. Israel has a very active cannabis market and a lot of research is being conducted. We talk about his entry into incor...
May 26, 2021•37 min
Rosinbomb with CEO Fred Angelopoulos and Rosinbomb President and Founder Ryan Mayer today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. In the modern age of weed, few things are as exciting as making your own dabs, and my next guests have a product line that gives the ever-growing concentrate community the opportunity to do just that. The Rosinbomb Rocket is widely acclaimed as the best personal, solventless rosin press in the world. As part of this innovative initiative to merge creative design and...
May 19, 2021•38 min
Dr. Dina: Coughy Talk, Cannabis Confidential And More today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radi0. Once Snoop Dogg lays a nickname on you, it sticks for life – just ask “Dr. Dina,” his longtime friend, confidante, and business associate. Dr. Dina is not a board-certified M.D., nor did she go to medical school. Rather, Dr. Dina received her nickname from Snoop for being one of the pioneers of the movement in Southern California to provide safe access to medical cannabis in accordance with stat...
May 05, 2021•41 min
Kimberly Leonard, the Senior Health Care Policy Reporter at Insider, joins us today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest is the senior healthcare reporter for Insider's DC bureau, focused on policy and politics, and she joins us to talk about her recent reporting surrounding legalization and what our elected officials are doing to decriminalize cannabis, legalize cannabis, or both. Kimberly (and Jeremy Berke, one of our previous guests and cohort at Insider) recently reported...
Apr 28, 2021•42 min
MJBizCon with Chris Walsh, CEO MJBizDaily, MJBizCon today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest is the founding editor of Marijuana Business Daily during the company’s launch in 2011, becoming the first journalist in the United States to focus exclusively on covering the business of cannabis. Last year he was promoted to CEO where he the strategic vision of the company and its sister publication – Hemp Industry Daily – while educating mainstream industries about the marijuana ...
Apr 21, 2021•40 min
Tommy Chong joins Blunt Business to talk about his new collaboration with Rosinbomb on the new limited-edition Tommy Chong Rocket rosin press. The actor, musician, comedian, activist, and cultural icon also chimes in on the passage of adult-use cannabis legalization in New York state and how it could lead to nationwide legalization. Plus, Tommy also gives his take on the new collaborative lobbying efforts for cannabis (with the assist of Tobacco and Alcohol) and what effects if any it could have...
Apr 15, 2021•49 min
Consensus Strategies with CEO Patrick Fox today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. While 61% of New York State residents support the legalization of adult-use recreational marijuana sales, more than half (52%) of those living in New York City would oppose its sale in their neighborhood. This disparity between general support and willingness to actually live near one is a significant problem when communities decide where, if anywhere, they want to allow marijuana retail sales. With 61% of ...
Apr 07, 2021•43 min
GrowFlow with CEO, Travis Steffen today on Blunt Business only on Cannabis Radio. Our next guest is the bestselling author of Viral Hero: How To Build Viral Products, Turn Customers Into Marketers, And Achieve Superhuman Growth. He is a serial entrepreneur with 7 successful exits (and a few crash-and-burn failures) to his name. He now serves as CEO of GrowFlow, a cloud-based software suite for cannabis businesses. We start by talking about GrowFlow. Travis told Warren Bobrow at Forbes: “Many com...
Mar 31, 2021•44 min
