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Cannabis Xpress CEO Chris Jones Keeps it Simple

Utilizing a strategy that puts a road-less-traveled philosophy into literal practice, Toronto-based Cannabis Xpress has placed its current 14 (soon to be 15) cannabis retail stores in less-populated areas of Ontario that other retailers have all but ignored. The build-them-where-they-ain’t…

Texas Original CEO Nico Richardson Wants Better Access for Patients

Texas is not exactly on a fast track when it comes to medical cannabis, but significant advances are afoot during the current legislative session, which ends May 30. The Texas Compassionate Use Act, which was passed into law in 2015,…

High Tide: Catching Up With The Costco of Cannabis

April 10, 2023
Tom Hymes
Canada, Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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A lot has happened in the seven long dog years since Cannabis Business Executive last profiled Calgary, Alberta-based High Tide Inc., Canada’s cannabis retail juggernaut whose expanse of stores spans provinces and time zones and is only getting larger. In…

MPG Consulting: Time Travelers for the Cannabis Industry

April 6, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Interstate Commerce, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Since its founding by Adam Orens in 2014, Colorado-based MPG Consulting, formerly The Marijuana Policy Group, has been helping industry stakeholders with an array of professional services that include market research and analysis, business plan creation, strategic investments, licensing, and…

The Power Couple of Oregon Cannabis Bankrolled Top Democrats Even as Their Companies’ Taxes and Bills Went Unpaid

A WW investigation finds trouble at La Mota, the second-largest cannabis dispensary chain in Oregon. On a crisp evening last May, Rosa Cazares threw a party. It was a fundraiser for Oregon gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek, hosted in an 7,048-square-foot…

MariMed CEO Jon Levine and the Making of a Cinderella Story

March 27, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Norwood, Massachusetts-based MariMed Inc. (MRMD; OTCQX) underwent a profound loss in December of last year with the unexpected passing of Bob Fireman, its co-founder and chief executive and a man who, as I quickly learned during an interview in December…

Superstate Operator: Glass House Brands’ Graham Farrar on the Supremacy of California Cannabis

March 20, 2023
Tom Hymes
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It has been one year since Long Beach, California-based Glass House Brands (NEO:GLAS.A.U) (NEO:GLAS.WT.U) (OTCQX:GLASF) (OTCQX:GHBWF) announced the start of cultivation at the 5.5 million square-foot facility located in the Santa Barbara County city of Carpenteria that it had bought…

James Nichol, Senior Director Of Retail Operations At Inspired Cannabis, And Jesse Dhami, Co-founder And President Of Inspired Cannabis, Standing In Front Of The Company's

Inspired Cannabis: Canada’s Next Big Dispensary Chain?

On Robson Street in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, just a couple of city blocks away from a Tiffany & Co. jeweler, a Coach purse retailer, and one of Canada’s largest Lululemon stores, sits a dispensary with a brightly lit sign…

Securing Cannabis: A Conversation with Sapphire Risk CEO Tony Gallo

Security has been a defining factor for cannabis practitioners long before a legal industry existed, including to protect one’s stash or grow from the prying eyes of thieves and law enforcement. Today, as the legal cannabis industry expands state by…

VJ Scientific Aims to Bring 30+ Years of X-Ray Experience to Cannabis Remediation

Most individuals don’t know about VJ Group, but many have directly or indirectly interacted with its X-ray technologies at the doctor’s office or at a dental appointment, or via having their bags scanned at airports, or even by using technologies…

Petalfast Brings a Disruptive Growth Model to Cannabis Brand Building

February 23, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Marketing, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Irvine, California-based Petalfast is a multistate sales and marketing agency for the cannabis industry, sort of. On its website, the company refers to itself as a “full spectrum growth agency, part cannabis launch pad, part cannabis accelerator, a canna-launcherator, if…

Paybotic Is Quietly Building a Financial Services Ecosystem for the Cannabis Industry

February 20, 2023
Tom Hymes
Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Company Stories, News & Insights
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Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, where it recently celebrated the relocation of its corporate headquarters, financial services provider Paybotic has been focused on the cannabis and hemp industries since 2013, when it serviced its first cannabis merchants in Colorado’s…

They’re Betting the Family Farm on Weed

The Hepworth sisters are famous in the organic food world, but like other farmers, they’re struggling. They hope their new venture will change things. Come summer, the warehouse at Hepworth Farms will be filled with Cherokee Purples, Pink Berkeley Tie-Dyes…

Canopy Growth: How We Got Here

On Feb. 9, 2022, Canadian cannabis titan Canopy Growth announced its latest round of layoffs and facility shutdowns, including its departure from its flagship facility at the former Hershey’s chocolate plant in Smiths Falls, Ontario. “The Canadian business transformation plan,”…

CEO Gary Santo on TILT Holdings’ Pivot from Competitor to Collaborator

Phoenix, Arizona-based TILT Holdings Inc. (NEO: TILT) (OTCQX: TLLTF) began life in 2018 with plans to become a vertically integrated, multiple state operator and see where destiny took it. It took it in short order to Gary Santo, who joined the…