In this episode of The High Rise, we delve into the latest news in the cannabis industry regarding a trademark infringement case. Tune in as we discuss the case involving the popular marijuana strain Zkittlez, which recently faced legal pressure from confectioner Wrigley, the owner of the Skittles trademark. Don't miss this episode that sheds light on the evolving landscape of intellectual property in the cannabis space. https://mjbizdaily.com/wrigley-wins-lawsuit-to-keep-skittles-name-off-...
Jul 12, 2023•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join Cy and Emily as they uncover some of the buzz around Maryland's initial weekend of legal cannabis sales. Plus, get a nice little breakdown on 4th of July sales trends across the U.S. cannabis industry, delving into the evolving dynamics of cannabis consumption that occurs during this festive summertime holiday. Headset
Jul 07, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of The High Rise, Cy and Emily are joined by special guest Mitch Trellis, co-founder of Remedy, a leading retail chain in Maryland. Join them as they dive into an exciting discussion about Maryland's highly anticipated launch into adult-use recreational cannabis. Mitch provides valuable insights into the state's regulatory framework, market dynamics, and the potential impact of this milestone on the industry. Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the preparations, ...
Jun 28, 2023•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of The High Rise, Cy and Emily delve into the latest cannabis news and industry updates. They start by discussing the significant development that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is conducting an administrative review of cannabis scheduling, with plans to present President Joe Biden with a federal cannabis scheduling decision later this year, as revealed by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. Join our hosts as they analyze the potential implications of this revie...
Jun 21, 2023•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of The High Rise, Cy and Emily explore the exciting developments surrounding Alabama's upcoming medical marijuana program. Join them as they discuss the state's journey, from the signing of the program into law in 2021 to the preparations for the launch expected this year. Delve into the details of Alabama's medical marijuana program, including the licensing process, product categories (gelatinous cubes any body?) its potential impacts, and the overall cannabis lan...
Jun 15, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this exciting episode of The High Rise, Cy and Emily bring their insights straight from New York City as they delve into the rapidly evolving cannabis market in the state. Joining them is special guest Jeffrey Schultz, an attorney and investor with extensive knowledge of the industry. Together, they explore and analyze the unfolding landscape of the New York cannabis market. From regulatory updates to investment opportunities, they provide a deep dive into how the market is taking shape and w...
Jun 06, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode of The High Rise, Cy and Emily dive into the latest update on the SAFE Banking Act. Join them as they discuss the recent developments and insights gained from Emily's investigating the hearings in Washington D.C. Get an inside look at the progress and potential impact of the SAFE Banking Act on the cannabis industry. Headset
May 23, 2023•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this special rerun episode, we're revisiting our conversation with US Representative Nancy Mace from South Carolina. Pulled from the archives, we sit down with Representative Mace to discuss The States Reform Act, a bill she introduced that seeks to remove cannabis as a Schedule I drug. We also dive into her personal journey in the cannabis industry and the potential positive impacts that cannabis legalization could bring to Americans in the future. Don't miss this insightful and ti...
May 09, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on The High Rise, we're discussing recent bank failures and closures and their potential impact on the SAFE Banking Act. As more states legalize cannabis, the need for secure banking solutions for cannabis businesses becomes increasingly pressing. Join Cy and Em for a timely discussion on the latest developments in cannabis banking and the potential impacts on the SAFE Banking Act. Headset
May 03, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode of The High Rise, we're covering 4/20, the unofficial holiday celebrated by cannabis enthusiasts worldwide. Join us as we examine the cultural phenomenon of 4/20 and its impact on the cannabis industry, including exclusive insights into sales numbers from Headset's Insights platform. Don't miss out on this highly informative and fun post 4/20 breakdown. https://www.headset.io/posts/a-look-at-last-years-4-20 Headset...
Apr 25, 2023•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode of The High Rise, we're thrilled to welcome back Andrew Carter, Director and Consumer Analyst at Stifel. Andrew joins us to delve into the latest notable moves being made by Canadian cannabis LPs (Licensed Producers) and to provide his expert analysis on these developments. Tune in for an insightful and engaging discussion on the current state and future of the Canadian cannabis market, exclusively on The High Rise. https://www.greenmarketreport.com/canopy-growth...
Apr 18, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode of The High Rise, we're excited to welcome back Matt McGinley, a Managing Director at Needham & Company and a regular guest host on the show. With his wealth of cannabis industry analysis and financial knowledge, Matt joins Cy and Emily to dive into the latest earnings news from major industry MSOs, as well as insights into the current state and future of the cannabis market. With so much to unpack, you may want to listen twice to catch all the valuable info ...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast So the market for T-shirts, hats, paintings and even motivational speeches is going to get a lot smaller in Washington D.C. and for good reason! They are finally building out their ‘adult-use’ market. For a city known for its dysfunction, the news this week on the new law around DC shows some meaningful progress. https://www.marijuanamoment.net/d-c-medical-marijuana-expansion-bill-eliminating-licensing-caps-becomes-law-following-congressional-review/ https://gentlemantoker.com/how-do-i-get-weed-...
Mar 28, 2023•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast It seems like with each new legal adult use recreational market that opens up, there’s usually some kind of litigation involved—and the state of New York is no exception. On this episode of the High Rise, Cy and Emily shed some light on some of the drama happening in NY and why several major cannabis companies have had it with the way policy makers are trying to run things. https://cannabis.ny.gov/dispensary-location-verification Headset...
Mar 22, 2023•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Pi Day! Speaking of numbers, banking in the cannabis industry is still a total mess. In light of the recent collapse of Silicone Valley Bank, Cy and Emily felt compelled to talk about the ever persistent banking issues that plague the industry, as well as the historic (now 10 years old) Cole Memo. Headset
Mar 15, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast If any category has the ability to differentiate and innovate itself more than most others, its Vapor Pens. Give this episode a full stream to hear Cy and Emily’s data backed analysis on this highly adaptive product category. https://www.headset.io/industry-reports/a-look-at-cannabis-vapor-pen-sales-trends#form https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-02-27/vape-ip-center-of-attention-as-blinc-faces-off-against-chinese-competitor Headset...
Mar 07, 2023•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the High Rise, Cy and Emily dive into the topic of pricing trends around the industry at large. MJBizDaily recently published an article that scratches the surface on cannabis sales in California falling in 2022. Our hosts decided it would be a good idea to drill into this story much further and look at the pricing data in each market to find out why dollar sales are falling amid these inflationary times the world is going through right now. https://mjbizdaily.com/californias-annual...
Feb 28, 2023•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Twitter has just announced that they will now open up advertising on its platform to cannabis companies. This is huge news for an industry that's been previously prohibited to advertise on mainstream social media channels. Cy and Emily get into all the interesting details and data points around this positive news, as well as kindly critique a Marvel movie or two along the way. Headset
Feb 22, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to the High Rise! We’ve got another great episode for you as Cy and Emily welcome a very special guest, Kyla Sirni CEO and co-founder of Dispense. Dispense is an e-commerce software that empowers cannabis dispensaries to list and sell products on their own website, giving owners the ability to utilize their online menus to increase SEO, drive sales, all while creating and owning their own customer database. Prepare you ears for some fascinating cannabis tech talk, where Cy, Emily, a...
Feb 15, 2023•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Missouri wasted absolutely no time in setting up its legal cannabis program — the state even opened its doors ahead of schedule! Cy and Emily marvel at this refreshing example of how a new adult use market can legislatively get out of its own way and get things done — unlike many other states that shall not be named here. https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/thc-infused-red-hot-riplet-brownies-st-louis-missouri/63-f512c8e2-db4c-4508-ab66-83c067f5dbbd https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/i...
Feb 08, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of the High Rise Cy and Emily talk about Emily's recent winter trip to New York where she had a chance to visit a couple of the new fully legal cannabis shops in NYC. Our hosts also get into the top of interstate commerce from California and how that ties into other markets on the East Coast. https://twitter.com/mkarnes/status/1620215988519313409 https://www.syracuse.com/marijuana/2023/01/finally-some-information-about-nys-200m-cannabis-fund-managers-sees-the-light-of-day.ht...
Feb 02, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Already at the top of the year we’re seeing 4 new states that will soon take us to 25 total states in the US with legal cannabis programs—almost halfway there! Stream the whole episode as Cy and Emily reveal who’s on the docket for legalization and some interesting insights that only the High Rise can give ya. Headset
Jan 19, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Now you can legally buy recreational cannabis in New York! The first legal sale of recreational weed took place in a dispensary in Manhattan, just meeting the state’s deadline to open a store in 2022. Housing Works Cannabis Co., on Broadway and East 8th Street, and the dispensary’s first customer before the doors were opened to the public at 4:20 p.m. Cy and Emily dig into the all the details behind this one of a kind store with a couple other headlines to roll it all up. https://hwcannabis.co h...
Jan 04, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to the High Rise! On this episode we wanted to share a Q&A session from a webinar series produced by Trailblazers, a cannabis content community that seeks to advance the industry, unified by a shared ethos and vision of the future. We hope you enjoy hearing from Cy and Emily while they field some great questions around a 2022 recap and some forward looking predictions for 2023 https://www.trailblazerspresents.com https://alpharoot.com Headset...
Dec 27, 2022•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the High Rise we are very excited to have two great guests join us on the pod. Sara Stewart CEO and Co-founder of Ritual Cannabis Hospitality and Scot Rutledge Partner at Argentum Partners who'll be breaking how cannabis consumption lounges will work in the great state of Nevada. https://ritualteam.com https://www.instagram.com/mssarastew/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mssarastew/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/scot-rutledge/ https://argentumnv.com/scot-rutledge/ https://ctrust.io H...
Dec 20, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast As the holiday season has gotten into full swing, we are starting to take notice of cannabis brands rolling out some festive holiday specific products. Cy and Emily are taking this as a great sign that this small but mighty industry is starting to normalize by slowly taking on some proven tactics that many well established CPG companies have done for decades. https://www.kivaconfections.com/flavor/holiday-punch https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z84u4dBEQPq9P9_U4yctmw Headset...
Dec 13, 2022•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe Biden turns the Medical Marijuana Research Bill into law, changing how American scientists can do research on the plant. This is another very positive step forward in cannabis legislation getting passed at the federal level. While this doesn’t change things instantly overnight for rescheduling or full legalization, Cy and Emily posit that this will be instrumental in speeding up the machinery to get everything done soon. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ https://www.marijuanamoment.net/bidens...
Dec 06, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nevada marijuana regulators announced on Wednesday that they will be holding lotteries at the end of the month to select 20 independent cannabis consumption lounge licensees. The state’s Cannabis Compliance Board anticipates the first lounges to be licensed and able to open during the first half of 2023. Cy and Emily can barely contain their excitement around all the potential upside, hospitality innovations, and interesting brand plays that this can bring to the industry. https://www.marijuanam...
Nov 28, 2022•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast New York issued its first 36 cannabis dispensary licenses on Monday which is great right? Absolutely. There are a quite a few things around the state’s regulations however that has Cy and Emily wondering how this is all going to play out. Are we looking at fiasco similar to what happened with California in 2016, or will things be totally fine? Stream this information dense episode of the High Rise to find out! Headset...
Nov 22, 2022•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast House Democrats and Republicans have co-published a ‘joint memo’ ahead of a congressional subcommittee meeting on cannabis this Tuesday. Here at the High Rise Cy and Emily dig into the details of what will be presenting at this meeting and why it’s taking so long to seize the day on cannabis reform ahead of the upcoming lame duck session in congress, the answers will simply amaze you. https://www.marijuanamoment.net/booker-says-marijuana-reform-can-pass-now-during-lame-duck-or-many-years-from-no...
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