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Cultivating Coachella: CEO Mike King is Committed to Kings Garden’s Desert Roots

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 4:30 PM EST on 7/22/21 I tend to mistakenly assume that large-scale Riverside County cannabis operations must be in the city of Desert Hot Springs, and did so with Kings Garden, which, I…

HERBL CEO Mike Beaudry Sees a Natural (Food) Arc in Cannabis Distribution

July 6, 2021
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Distribution, Spotlight, Supply Chain
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In California, the nation’s largest legal (and traditional) cannabis market, distribution, the literal lifeline of any CPG industry, is kind of a free-for-all. If you want to do it, get a license, and do it. Whatever floats your boat. It…

Planet 13 Puts Its Big Foot Down in Southern California

June 28, 2021
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, Retail
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California is about to experience Planet 13 up close and personal when the Las Vegas, Nevada-based company officially opens its Orange County superstore on July 1. To commemorate the occasion, Planet 13 threw a media and friends bash on Thursday,…

Generation GrowGen: CEO Darren Lampert Is Building a Business for the Long Term

June 23, 2021
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, Cultivation, Retail, Supply Chain
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Denver, Colorado-based GrowGeneration Corp. (NASDAQ: GRWG), or GrowGen, is a rapidly expanding chain of national retail outlets, or specialty hydroponic and organic garden centers, that caters to the increasingly sophisticated needs of cannabis cultivators at all levels of growing. Servicing…

CEO Josh Genderson Discusses Holistic Industries’ Privately Funded Trajectory of Growth

June 16, 2021
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, Multiple State Operators, Spotlight
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The way CEO Josh Genderson sees it, the company he founded eleven years ago, Washington, D.C.-based Holistic Industries, is on track to become the largest privately owned and operated cannabis multistate operator (MSO) in the country. Driven by a growth…

Ten Years Of Patient Data Supports Israeli Company’s Global Expansion

ONE of Israel’s oldest cannabis companies has set out on a path to further rapid growth with a quick-fire run through the early part of 2021. Earlier this month IM Cannabis announced the launch of Wagners its first adult-use cannabis…

Jushi Holdings CEO Jim Cacioppo on the Benefits of Being a Fast Follower

June 2, 2021
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, Spotlight
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Boca Raton, Florida-based Jushi Holdings Inc. (CSE: JUSH) (OTCMKTS: JUSHF) is deemed one of the smaller publicly traded cannabis MSOs, with a market cap around $1.05B CAD, but it is beginning to get increased attention as the company ramps up…

‘Patient Capital’ Backing LSE Debutant As It Eyes A Multi-Billion Pound Prize

LONDON Stock Exchange debutant Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies is aiming to emulate the success of GW Pharmaceuticals. Its founders Gavin Sathianathan and Neil Mahapatra were two of the UK’s first cannabis entrepreneurs, entering the space in 2015. It didn’t take long…

The Ubiquity of Bud: Canndescent Refocuses on Flower

May 24, 2021
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Cultivation, Multiple State Brands, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Canndescent is a privately held cannabis company of such ubiquity on Golden State dispensary shelves that it long ago achieved the status of anchor brand in a market where precious few exist. Its stand-out orange box denoting the original brand,…

Vireo CEO Dr. Kyle Kingsley on Building a Science-Driven, Plant-Embracing MSO

May 3, 2021
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Medical Marijuana, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights
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Vireo Health International Inc. (CNSX: VREO, OTCQX: VREOF), a Minnesota-based MSO currently trading on Canadian exchanges, has been busy of late reinforcing its footprint in a handful of U.S. states that Vireo Chairman and CEO Dr. Kyle Kingsley, in a…

As the Worm Turns: CEO Nicholas Kovacevich is Bullish on KushCo/Greenlane’s Future

April 20, 2021
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, Mergers & Acquisitions, News & Insights, Newsletters
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For KushCo CEO Nick Kovacevich, the cannabis industry is evolving at warp speed and scale, and companies that mean to succeed need to adapt in kind if they have not done so already. Many are not going to make it,…

Heavy Metal: GreenBroz Founder and CEO Cullen Raichart Loves to Disrupt

April 7, 2021
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, Cultivation, Hemp Industry News
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CBE last profiled Las Vegas, Nevada-based GreenBroz Inc. in 2015, when the producer of automated solutions for cannabis growers was shipping 20 trimmers a month to outfits in dire need of faster production output. Fast forward six years, and the…

Green Goods is newest local medical cannabis dispensary

April 6, 2021
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Company Stories, Medical Marijuana, Retail
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FREDERICK, Md. — Dr. Paloma Lehfeldt dreams of a world where the stigma around medical cannabis is gone, cannabis crimes are expunged and patients are swiftly able to get the care they need. It might be a long shot, but…

With cannabis use an open secret in the NBA, this ex-player is pushing the league to allow CBD

Al Harrington had seen this day coming for years. As the former NBA forward was in Las Vegas and strolling through MJBizCon, the largest convention for the cannabis trade in the United States, a friend texted him an Instagram post…

The Unlikely Cannabis Mogul: Darren White of PurLife Management Group is On the Move

Prior to becoming the Co-founder and CEO of PurLife Management Group (PurLife), native New Yorker Darren White spent the majority of the first 30 years of his working life in a variety of military, law enforcement and high-level public service…