Jill Polster from Cohen Law Maine talks advocacy and the Maine market
Release Date: 10/08/2020
Entrepreneurship & Women in Cannabiz w/ Desiree King of DK CannaConsulting
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Raised within the cannabis community on the hippie communal plant life path. Desiree’s mother was an advocate and educator of plant medicines. Her father was a skilled craftsman in addition to cultivating both hemp and cannabis. Desiree was your typical hippie GenX stoner youth - traveler, followed "The Dead", trim-igrated around the Northwestern region until she finally pursued a business degree to engage in the average 9-5 grind in such industries as Commercial Development and Renewable Energy. And then Desiree was diagnosed (and beat) cervical cancer. For years, she lived a double life...
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Internal CannaTech & Building a Massachusetts Vertically Integrated Cannabis Company with Gregg Weiss of Happy Valley
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Gregg Weiss is the VP of Technology and Strategic Growth at Happy Valley, a vertically integrated cannabis company in Massachusetts. Gregg has been involved in the cannabis industry since 2016 and has lived in Florida and Colorado. He previously started and sold a mobile app development company and has been involved in several start-ups. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rmcc_cannaconsulting/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rocky-mountain-cannabis-consulting Subscribe to Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4TaI1xJHpRgvTXT92Jfv4W?si=HTTsEiO3Tq6FdhBlWju9Uw ...
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Winning A New Jersey Cannabis Business License with Michael McQueeny of Foley Hoag LLP | Elevated Businesses #8
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As counsel in Foley Hoag’s national Cannabis Practice, Mike has provided trusted counsel to start-ups and multi-state operators alike on issues associated with legislative/regulatory development and compliance. Michael has assisted clients in drafting and securing competitive state cannabis permits, having worked on winning applications in multiple states. Michael counsels clients on complex issues of regulatory compliance, including advising companies on regulatory considerations associated with anticipated mergers and acquisitions. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rmcc_cannaconsulting/...
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Cannabis, Leadership, The Military, & Extreme Ownership with KJ Saffold of Red Ball Express
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KJ Saffold is a decorated US Army Combat Veteran, a graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and a Georgia Tech EMBA candidate. KJ brings high-level executive leadership, strategic planning, distribution logistics, IT management, and proven operational excellence to the cannabis industry. In addition, he is a fierce advocate for social justice, social equity, and veteran medicinal cannabis use. In August 2021, Illinois awarded his company an adult-use dispensary conditional license. Instagram: LinkedIn:...
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Standardize & Scale Through Compliance Software w/ Dede Perkins of ProCanna
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Dede Perkins, Co-Founder and CEO of ProCanna, joined the cannabis industry in 2013 as a member of the application team that won one of the first competitive vertically integrated applications in Massachusetts. After that, she helped win cannabis licenses in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Arkansas, North Dakota, and Nevada. A regulatory specialist, Dede is passionate about combining compliance with operational excellence; safe, standardized products; empowered employees; strong company culture and brands. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 6:03 Solutions ProCanna Solves ...
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Solving Complex Compliance Problems with Rose Elliott of Komplyd
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Rose Elliott is the co-founder and CEO of Komplyd, an API-first cannabis compliance-as-a-service platform. With over two decades in engineering and product, she is bringing her experience of delivering large scale platforms and complex compliance initiatives at companies such as PayPal, Netflix, UpWork, and Tenable to the cannabis industry. Her passion for health and wellness led her to the cannabis plant and ultimately to the industry where she is committed to making cannabis compliance work. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 4:20 Cannabis The Disruptor 6:10 Komplyd Solving Complex...
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Making It In The Emerald Triangle with Brittany Massaro of Humboldt Logistics
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Brittany Massaro is the Compliance Director for Humboldt Logistics, representing 45 farms around Northern California, including some distributors, manufactures, and retailers. She is transitioning into an ownership position in a vertically integrated distribution and cultivation center throughout the State of California, and is based in Humboldt County and Los Angeles. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rmcc_cannaconsulting/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rocky-mountain-cannabis-consulting Subscribe to Podcast:...
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Launching Colorado's First Delivery License with Ari Cohen of Doobba
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Happy 420! In this special episode, BriAnne has a conversation with Ari Cohen, a Cannabis Operations Executive & Entrepreneur, Co-Founder at doobba - Colorado’s 1st Social Equity Business & Cannabis Delivery Company. Ari brings in-depth knowledge from his global executive experience in Cannabis, Restaurant, Bakery, Retail, and Airport industries. He has held leadership roles at BellRock Brands, Dixie Brands, Le Pain Quotidien, OTG Management, and Danny Meyer’s Union Square Café and launched infused product manufacturing operations in Canada and 6 US states. If you are dreaming...
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Security Risks & Solutions with Chris Eggers of CC Security Solutions
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Chris Eggers, Founder & CEO of CC Security Solutions is an experienced former law enforcement officer with the Oakland and San Francisco Police Departments. He has a deep understanding of cannabis compliance, and law enforcement operations and capabilities. Mr. Eggers is an increasingly relied upon and trusted resource within the cannabis community and contact for various California and national media outlets on cannabis industry security matters. Learn more about RMCC: Subscribe to YouTube: Free 40-minute compliance operations masterclass:...
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Maine Operators Fighting Back in Policy Reform with Matt Bayliss of Garden of Gelle
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Matt Bayliss is the Founder and CEO of Gele, a licensed adult-use brand, currently cultivating 800 square feet of canopy in the great state of Maine. Matt has been an active participant and advocate of cannabis culture since 1992, and has been cultivating in regulated markets for over ten years. BriAnne and Matt unpack how unique the state of Maine is in their cannabis policy, the hurdles Matt has overcome in becoming a licensed operator, and what Matt hopes for the industry going forward. Matt mentioned the advocacy group he is a part of, the Maine Cannabis Industry...
info_outlineOn this week's edition, we sit down with Jill Polster, a cannabis lawyer out of Maine who works with a number of cannabis operators in the state. We discuss advocacy and it's importance, (Support the Last Prisoner Project here) as well as what adult-use in Maine means for the rest of the North East.
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