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With Its Fast-Onset Formulations, Time is on Azuca’s Side

Founded in 2018, Azuca is one of a handful of companies offering cutting-edge delivery systems to edibles manufacturers in the cannabis industry. The brainchild of founder and Chief Creative Officer Ron Silver, who also is the chef-owner of Bubby’s restaurant,…

All is Rosie at Mattio Communications

To engage with RMPR founder Rosie Mattio about marketing cannabis is to enter a worm hole of sorts as time doubles back on itself and I find myself transported back to 2014 when I started writing about the industry. Mattio…

CANN Co-founder Luke Anderson on Staking a Claim to the Microdose Infused-Beverage Sector

By all accounts the infused-beverage sector of the U.S. cannabis industry has only begun to hit its stride and should only expand in the years ahead, even if its share of cannabis sales remains relatively stable. According to the Cannabis…

The World According to Kiva

(UPDATED: An additional question on the subject of pricing pressures in the industry has been added to the end of the article.) Founded in 2010 by Kristi and Scott Palmer, San Leonardo, California-based Kiva Confections has over the years become…

Troy Datcher Brings the Focus of a Grownup to The Parent Company

A SPAC formed early last year to build upon the combined power of three California cannabis brands – most notably, the multifarious Caliva – San Jose, California-based The Parent Company (TPCO) (NEO: GRAM.U) (OTCQX: GRAMF) certainly employs any number of…

How this 154-year-old company became one of the biggest players in cannabis

The US cannabis industry is flush with fledgling companies and many unfamiliar brands. In that mix, however, is a 154-year-old company that is a household name: Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG). Over the past decade, the lawn and garden giant has quietly…

Justice Cannabis Co. CEO Darin Carpenter is on a Mission to Do Good in a Big Way

May 24, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, Spotlight
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It took several attempts to connect with Darin Carpenter, the CEO of Chicago, Illinois-based Justice Cannabis Co., but that is only because of his hectic and peripatetic schedule. Jumping around the country at a dizzying pace, the former Army medic…

Standard Wellness CEO Jared Maloof Takes a Methodical Approach to Scaling

April 12, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, Spotlight
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Founded in 2017 by CEO Jared Maloof and friends, Cleveland, Ohio-based Standard Wellness is a vertically integrated multistate operator of modest size that as much as any of its larger peers has its finger on the pulse of local cannabis…

From WeWork to Weed: Artie Minson Joins LeafLink as President, COO

LeafLink, the New York-based online wholesale marketplace for the cannabis industry whose platform links and provides services to over 40 percent (10,000+) of the industry’s brands, distributors, and retailers, recently announced the addition of Artie Minson to its executive team…

Cannabis Ancillary Würk Adds 401(k) to Its SaaS-based HCM Toolbox

March 28, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, HR and Staffing, Spotlight
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As the industry’s overall reach and the relative size of its companies continue to grow, ancillary companies like Denver, Colorado-based Würk add much-needed guarantees and efficiencies to cannabis operations that managers in other industries take for granted. A SAAS-based Human…

Cannabis company confronts history of war on drugs by growing marijuana inside a prison

COALINGA, Calif. — Halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, baking in the 100-degree heat of the Central Valley, a former prison is in the midst of an unlikely second act. Inside its cinderblock walls, a company is growing the…

Ascend Wellness Holdings: A Vertical MSO with an East Coast State of Mind

March 2, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, Multiple State Operators, Spotlight
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Ascend Wellness Holdings Inc. (AWH) (CSE: AAWH.U, OTCQX: AAWH) is a vertically integrated MSO with retail operations in five states – Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Ohio – and eyes firmly set on New York. Founded in 2018 by…

With Its Fast-Onset Formulations, Time is on Azuca’s Side

All is Rosie at Mattio Communications

CANN Co-founder Luke Anderson on Staking a Claim to the Microdose Infused-Beverage Sector

The World According to Kiva

Troy Datcher Brings the Focus of a Grownup to The Parent Company

How this 154-year-old company became one of the biggest players in cannabis

Standard Wellness CEO Jared Maloof Takes a Methodical Approach to Scaling

From WeWork to Weed: Artie Minson Joins LeafLink as President, COO

Cannabis Ancillary Würk Adds 401(k) to Its SaaS-based HCM Toolbox

Cannabis company confronts history of war on drugs by growing marijuana inside a prison

Ascend Wellness Holdings: A Vertical MSO with an East Coast State of Mind

The risky financial deals that shook up one of America’s most promising weed companies

A High Tide of Discount Club Cannabis is Headed to the U.S. from Canada

IM Cannabis is Building a Brand-based Supply Chain for the EU (and Maybe the World)

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