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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…

Steve DeAngelo is Listening (to the Plant)

July 18, 2022
Tom Hymes
Industry People, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Steve DeAngelo’s paternal responsibilities as “The Father of the Legal Cannabis Industry” – as Mayor Willie Brown Jr. famously christened him – are far from done, and in fact have entered a critical phase. To hear DeAngelo explain the situation,…

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…

Darnell Smith is Courting Cocktail Culture with MXXN

A new age of infused-beverages has arrived courtesy of advances in emulsion technologies that have unleashed the imaginations of beverage-makers far and wide. Most of the sub-categories in the sector already teem with brands with more arriving every day, and…

Beating the Benchmarks: How to Maximize Profits From Your Outdoor Grow

Growing cannabis outdoors is a gamble. The upside is a high return for a relatively small investment. Outdoor cultivation requires the lowest capital and operational expenditures compared to indoor or greenhouse growing, with the potential for equal or greater yields…

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…

CEO Dan Barton on Forian’s Unique Data-Driven Solutions for the Cannabis Industry

June 23, 2022
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Point-of-Sale, Seed-to-Sale, Spotlight
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Headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, Forian Inc. (Nasdaq: FORA) delivers cutting-edge technology, analytic and data science-driven solutions for the healthcare and cannabis industries, as well as state governments regulating the cannabis industry via the company’s track-and-trace software, BioTrack, an all-in-one technology…

How Cultivation Businesses Can Use Incentives to Reduce Labor and Increase Productivity

Cultivation companies should be careful when offering growers production-based incentives because even world-class cultivators can only increase production by so much. Every plant has an inherent production capacity, and once that is reached, crop output will plateau. A cultivator may…

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…

From Coke to Cannabis: Green Mill Supercritical CEO Wes Reynolds’s Road to Extraction

The fact that Pittsburgh-based Green Mill Supercritical CEO Wes Reynolds made the decision to upend a 20-year career at Coca-Cola for the uncertainty of cannabis is probably incredible to consider for most people, but the way he explained his thinking…

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…

Why We Need to Dispel the Myth That Cannabis Can Only Be Grown Indoors

In the United States, most licensed commercial cannabis cultivation occurs indoors. However, the energy consumption of indoor grow-ops can be mind-boggling, with lighting, HVAC, and dehumidification being the three major energy-consuming culprits. This situation presents a challenge for our industry…