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By the Numbers: Headset CEO Cy Scott on the Future of Industry Data

October 18, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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Seattle-based Headset has been plowing the cannabis retail point-of-sale data fields since 2015, when it exclusively focused on Washington state. Over time, the company steadily expanded its analytic chops to include more markets, and today it tracks product sales and…

One small cannabis grower’s survival plan? To be the best

Six years ago, just weeks before California voters legalized cannabis for adult recreational use, I visited a couple named Swami Chaitanya and Nikki Lastreto in a remote part of Mendocino County, where they’ve grown high-quality, organic cannabis for the medical…

Greenlight is Flying High Under the Radar

September 29, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded in 2019, Greenlight is a lesser-known MSO with operations ongoing in Missouri, Arkansas, and West Virginia. An Illinois dispensary also is awaiting imminent approval from the state, and in South Dakota construction is underway on cultivation and six dispensaries.…

From Pearls to Pips, Grön is Reshaping the Infused Edible

September 27, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, News & Insights, Spotlight
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The word “fun” is often used to describe the Grön brand, and with good reason. The name of the company, which means “green” in Swedish, is a lot of fun to mispronounce, but more than that, the company’s products are…

An Essential Metrc Adjusts for the Future

September 19, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Compliance and Regulations, News & Insights, Seed-to-Sale, Spotlight, Supply Chain
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If there is an all-encompassing company in cannabis, it has to be Metrc. With more than 20 state governments (and one American Territory) under seed-to-sale contract, the Lakeland, Florida-based technology company is the dominant provider of cannabis track-and-trace solutions in…

Curio Wellness: Maryland’s Thriving Family Business is Expanding

September 13, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Curio Wellness is a leading Maryland-based vertical cannabis company co-founded in 2014 by CEO Michael Bronfein and his daughter, Wendy, currently the Chief Brand Officer and Director of Public Policy. Another daughter and a son also work in crucial roles…

Wyld CEO Aaron Morris on Marching to a Different Gummy

September 5, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, News & Insights, Spotlight
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As we began a recent interview, Wyld CEO Aaron Morris warned me he was a very fast talker, and he was right. Conversing at the speed of light from Portland, Oregon, where he lives and where Wyld is headquartered, Morris…

CULTA is Mining the Maryland Medical Market

September 1, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, From Mainstream to Cannabis, News & Insights, Spotlight
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CULTA is a Bethesda, Maryland-based vertically integrated cannabis company founded by Mackie Barch and Matt Bickel to achieve a specific goal. Per the company, the pair “vowed in 2017 to create a Maryland-based, craft cannabis brand that focuses on product…

Rusty Wilenkin on Making New Friends with Old Pal

August 29, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, Spotlight
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Maybe it’s the name, but it feels as though Old Pal has been around for a long time. Based in Venice, California, the cannabis brand known mostly for its roll-your-own pouch of pre-ground, affordable weed was founded in 2018 by…

The Content Aggregator: Seed Talent and the Growth of an Educated Industry

August 25, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Training & Education
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Founded in 2020, Illinois-based Seed Talent is a platform that aims to reimagine how the cannabis industry educates itself, but even that description fails to convey the scope of what the founders of this unique offering consider its far-reaching potential.…

The Long-Term Plans of THC Design

August 23, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Ryan Jennemann is the 41-year-old founder and CEO of THC Design, a Los Angeles-based producer of quality flower and prerolls that since 2015 has become one of the state’s leading brands, available everywhere. I first became aware of THC Design…

Advanced Nutrients Reorganizes for the Future

August 8, 2022
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded in 1999 by CEO Michael “BigMike” Straumietis, West Hollywood, California-based Advanced Nutrients has been a staple of the cannabis industry for as long as there has been an identifiable industry. Straumietis is not called BigMike for nothing, of course.…

Laying the Liposomal Groundwork: Quicksilver Scientific on the Future of Emulsions

July 28, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded in 2005 by Christopher Shade, Louisville, Colorado-based Quicksilver Scientific is a leading provider of advanced nutritional systems with a focus on detoxification and liposomal delivery whose core business is in the nutraceuticals sector of the health and wellness industry.…

Morris Denton is Still Bullish on Texas and Original

July 26, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Morris Denton, CEO of Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation, has been leading his company and state to the promised land of wide-spread medical cannabis acceptance since the beginning of its tentative experiment with a legal industry, which started with the Texas…

Dispatch From a Happy Warrior: Mitch Baruchowitz from Merida Capital Holdings

July 21, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Merida Capital Holdings Managing Partner Mitch Baruchowitz launched the New York-based private equity firm in 2016 after several years investing in and learning about the cannabis industry. His very first effort, in Connecticut, resulted in a cultivation license, after which…