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Metrc CEO Michael Johnson Wants a Reputation Redo for the Track-and-Trace Platform

December 20, 2022
Tom Hymes
News & Insights, Seed-to-Sale, Spotlight
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As 2023 approaches, the cannabis industry as we know it is going through what is generally referred to as “tough times,” with many companies – but not all – wondering if and how they will survive. Budgets have been slashed,…

Fluent in Florida: CEO Robert Beasley’s Strategy of Growth by Contraction

December 12, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded in 2016, Cansortium Inc. is the publicly traded parent company of Florida-based Fluent, which was rebranded from Knox Medical in May 2019. Fluent is a multistate operator with a reach as far west as Texas and as far north…

Utah Synthetic: Lezli Engelking and FOCUS for the Audit (Part Two)

December 7, 2022
Tom Hymes
Cannabis & Hemp Research, News & Insights, Spotlight, Utah
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In Part 1 of this two-part look at Utah’s ongoing struggle with synthetic cannabinoids, Christine Stenquist of TRUCE, a Utah-based patient advocacy group, outlined the roots of the situation, the reasons why the issue is coming to a head, and…

Utah Synthetic: A Deep Dive with the Erin Brockovich of Cannabis, Part One

December 5, 2022
Tom Hymes
Cannabis & Hemp Research, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Christine Stenquist, the founder/president of Utah’s Together for Responsible Use and Cannabis Education (TRUCE), said on a recent call that she tells people she is the Erin Brockovich of cannabis. The statement was made a good half-hour into our interview,…

Presidential Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary with Multistate Expansion

December 1, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Presidential Cannabis Company is as deeply rooted as any cannabis brand in California, especially in the southern half of the state, where its distinctively packaged high-end infused prerolls have held a place on store shelves since the 215 days, when…

The Flower Shop Looks Beyond Arizona and Utah

November 17, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Arizona-based TFS Brands, aka The Flower Shop, began life as SKY Dispensaries in 2017 only to rebrand to its current name in 2019 following the promotion of Greta Brandt from General Counsel to her current role as President of the…

Jane Technologies: Digitizing the Cannabis Retail Experience

November 11, 2022
Brian MacIver
E-commerce, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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One of the books that most influenced Socrates Rosenfeld, CEO of cannabis e-commerce platform Jane Technologies, is “The Infinite Game” by Simon Sinek. In the book, Sinek splits the different games that humans play into two categories: finite, and infinite.…

Dutchie: A 3-Billion-Dollar Cannabis E-Comm Giant

November 10, 2022
Brian MacIver
E-commerce, Point-of-Sale, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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Dutchie certainly has made headlines with its rapid growth over the last few years. An e-commerce platform focused on facilitating dispensary operations and transactions, Dutchie enables more than $14 billion in sales annually across 5,500 dispensaries in the U.S. and…

Brightfield Group Harnesses the Power of Consumer-Centric Data

November 7, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Marketing, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Understanding the customer is the professed bedrock of every company with a consumer product to sell, but what do you do when the industry is brand spanking new, many of its consumers are also new, and the ones that are…

Balancing Act: Why Both Art and Science Are Vital to the Success of Your Cultivation Business

By Ryan Douglas How do growers balance the art of cultivation with the science of plant production to create the best cannabis possible? Why is this important? Because both are vital to the success of a profitable cultivation business. An…

Nabis Plans to Deliver More Market Share and More Markets

November 1, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded by Vince C. Ning and Jun S. Lee, California wholesale cannabis delivery platform Nabis has seen steady growth since it first hit the ground driving in 2018 with a model that over time has added helpful services such as…

All About the Execution: A Conversation with Curaleaf CEO Matt Darin

October 24, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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With over 6000 employees, 144 dispensaries, and over 2,200 wholesale dispensary accounts across 21 states, and counting, Curaleaf is an MSO in constant motion, launching new stores here, buying new companies there, expanding its footprint not only nationally but internationally…

CEO & Founder Gary Cohen Delivers Cova’s Point-of-(Compliant)-Sale Software Secret Sauce

October 19, 2022
Brian MacIver
Company Stories, Point-of-Sale, Spotlight
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By Brian MacIver When Gary Cohen, founder and CEO of cannabis industry point-of-sale (POS) software company Cova, was working for another large POS company operating in the retail cellphone market, he never dreamed he would one day be making the…

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…

Mass. Cannabis Regulator Confirms It Learned About Workplace-Related Death in January

In response to an inquiry, the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission has confirmed that it first learned about the work-related death of Trulieve employee Lorna McMurrey "on or around January 10." McMurrey, who worked at Trulieve’s cultivation facility in Holyoke, died…