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Forecasting the growth of cannabis on the global stage with Mark Collins. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week we’re going to talk about the performance of cannabis as a global market commodity with my guest who is the Vice President of the leading creative agency and media network dedicated to legal cannabis. The global legal marijuana market is expected to reach USD 146.4 billion by the end of 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research. We speak about forecasting the growth of cannabis on the global stage. On this network we have spoken at length about a number of Canadian companies are fostering some import and export relationships between countries in Europe and Asia and in Australia. We take a deep dive into how Mark sees these plans panning out, especially when the UN estimates more than 38,000 tonnes of cannabis are produced across Africa each year, which results in a black market worth billions.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/

The modern cannabis industry. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week we're joined by Ted Lichtenberger, Co-founder & CEO of Flower Co. We focus on discussion on Southern California and the idea of wholesale cannabis pricing to the largest legal cannabis market in the world, Los Angeles. They are committed to the communities they serve. They work with small business in each market to get the product to you and believe that the modern cannabis economy can be an equalizing force that provides high-quality jobs. Also, they are excited to shape the emerging face of modern cannabis industry and culture. FlowerCompany's mission is to provide its members with quality cannabis products and exceptional customer service at the most competitive prices.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Women to Watch in the cannabis industry. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we talk to Naomi Granger, CPA, MBA and Co-Founder of DOPE CFO. We speak to a real power player in the world of accounting and finance. Our guest has managed large global teams responsible for planning, performing and managing audits of financial statements and internal controls over financial reporting. She was also featured in MJ Biz’s Jan 2019 issue as part of their Women to Watch section. A former “Big 4” accounting professional, Naomi has over 12 years of experience in both public accounting and industry accounting. She has managed large global teams responsible for planning, performing and managing audits of financial statements and internal controls over financial reporting. Naomi recognized a void in the cannabis industry and co-founded DOPE CFO in order to bring proper accounting and bookkeeping practices to cannabusinesses. DOPE CFO provides educational tools for accountants and financial professionals to enter into the ca

Advanced tools to enhance the buying experience for customers. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we’re talking to Matthew Cutone, Founder, President, and CEO of Seed.io about the need for critical education. Our guest has an in-store cannabis education solution designed to fulfill dispensaries’ legal requirement to educate their clients about their product while taking the burden off of the dispensary staff members. What began as an idea fueled by the desire to see a new industry adapt and excel by educating its customers, Seed was developed to provide dispensaries with advanced tools to enhance the buying experience for customers, support their staff, and sell more product. To create Seed, their team of researchers logged thousands of hours, across several states speaking to scientists and industry specialists to compile the most up-to-date information about cannabis and cannabis-related products.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Newly emerging adult use cannabis marketplace. This week, we are speaking with Tim Keogh, CEO, AmeriCann. He is being described as a “forward-thinking entrepreneur in this new cannabis landscape”. Their “new generation of environmentally sustainable, state-of-the-art cannabis cultivation and processing with his publicly-traded agricultural technology company that started in Colorado is now expanding into Massachusetts. AmeriCann has started construction on the Massachusetts Medical Cannabis Center (MMCC) on a 52-acre parcel located 30 miles from Providence, R.I., and 50 miles from Boston. They are building nearly a million sq. ft. of cannabis cultivation and processing infrastructure, which will be developed in phases, and plans to support both the existing medical cannabis and the newly emerging adult use cannabis marketplace.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Canadian cannabusiness companies teaching us to expand. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we’re very happy to have a rockstar in the cannabis space. Let’s cut to the chase, I’m joined by Colorado cannabis entrepreneur and industry advocate Dan Anglin, the CEO & Co-Founder of CannAmerica Brands. CannAmerica Brands announced on Valentines Day its new licensing agreement and brand partnership with Flower One, the largest cannabis cultivation greenhouse in Nevada, to expand production footprint. We have been seeing what Canadian cannabusiness companies have been doing with large scale expansion of facilities and staff, but for many of them, it is to support a global expansion to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Some of those company executives I have interviewed have not stated American expansion was not necessarily a priority.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A vertically integrated cannabis company. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we are pleased to bring on a new power player from the lucrative beverage industry that has found his way into the cannabis industry. My guest is the newly appointed President of INDUS Holding Co, a vertically integrated cannabis company with world-class capabilities, including cultivation, extraction and manufacturing, brand sales, marketing, and distribution. He most recently was Chief Executive Officer of global beverage leader VOSS of Norway. On top of being CEO at Voss, he was also previously held a Senior VP position at Cadbury, where they make all those great chocolates, and they had a beverage division which you managed to split off their parent company to create the standalone Dr. Pepper Snapple Group which is now the Keurig Dr. Pepper Group.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Wealth management in the cannabis industry. Welcome to Blunt Business. This week, we speak with an entrepreneur with a background in finance and technology, a graduate of Science in Finance and International Business from NYU's Stern School of Business. Raul Moreno, CEO & Co-Founder, iBillionaire is a former financial analyst for a boutique wealth management firm for ultra high net worth clients called GFG Capital whose assets under management only increased from $200 million to $1 billion. iBillionaire was founded by Raul Moreno and Alejandro Estrada in 2013 as a mobile application that tracks the investment strategies of the world’s top billionaires. Investors themselves, they decided to look to billionaire investors for guidance and quickly realized how time-consuming it is to continuously follow all of their investment decisions. IBillionaire is a pioneer in mobile finance at the forefront of the movement towards mobile as a primary vehicle for investing. It boasts the largest mobile community of

Building the Hemp and CBD industry. This week, we are going out to Minnesota to speak with the makers of a new collection of CBD products that are PURE CERTIFIED™ and made with organic cannabinoid oil, that hope to provide relief with anxiety, pain, insomnia, inflammation, skin conditions, and other health concerns. Our guests have a combined 70 years experience in marketing and advertising and they are looking to lead the way in creating and building the Hemp and CBD industry in Minnesota. We speak to Jim Zimmerman, Co-Founder and President of C4Life and Dave Rye, Co-Founder and Vice President of C4Life . We speak about what makes branding hemp let alone any product based on a region. As well as meeting with federal state government officials, the response and what progress has been made since said meetings.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The most powerful PR firms in Cannabis. This week, we want to address the influx of professionals within the public relations realm that have taken on cannabis industry clients. We here at Cannabis Radio are flooded monthly by hundreds upon hundreds of emails from PR firms reaching out to us. We even featured a number of those PR professionals in featured interviews on the network, and now we welcome another. We welcome Harrison Wise, the Founder, and CEO of Wise Public Relations, Inc. - a full-service marketing communications agency which was recently named as one of the most powerful PR firms in Cannabis. Don’t read a lot of bios, but I want to highlight a few things. Harrison has twenty-four years of agency and corporate communications experience. You mentored at Techstars and you’re a member of the NCIA. You’re also a Chairman of The Bluntness Media, that helps readers navigate the rapidly-evolving world of legalized cannabis.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https:

Huge Canadian cannabis conglomerate. This week, we are talking with the CEO of what is being called a huge Canadian cannabis conglomerate. Diversified in its holdings, Biome is steered by leaders in the cannabis space - in finance, growing technologies, regulatory affairs, business building, and marketing. Khurram Malik, CEO of Biome brings us through myriad of topics. Were joined by Khurram Malik, CEO of Biome. Malik's company, Biome, is going to be pairing with CBD Acres for a deal of 80,000kg of hemp CBD over the next 5 years with plans to bring it to markets in other places like Africa and Asia, which haven't fully implemented medical programs utilizing THC. Europe and the LATAM region are attractive regions for many companies to establish operations. Europe's overall cannabis market is projected to reach USD 66.8 Billion within the next five years, while the LATAM region is expected to reach USD 12.7 Billion in sales by 2028, according to Prohibition Partners. The research notes that several

Growing pharmaceutically viable cannabis with Jeffrey Gossain, Chief Operating Officer at Atlas Biotechnologies Inc. Jeffrey is a business executive experienced in the Canadian medical cannabis production industry. Executive level involvement in the tech sector, namely the mobile application industry. Professional Engineer specializing in asset management of a multi-faceted fleet of equipment for a large construction company. This week we showcase another great cannabis business in the legalized constitutional monarchy of Canada. That business is Atlas, an Edmonton-based LP, or limited partnership, that is focused on the medicinal side of cannabis cultivation. They have a 38,000 square foot controlled-environment agricultural facility in Alberta with 9 microclimates. Their goals are to pioneering genetics, growing pharmaceutically viable cannabis, and educating patients and consumers about the qualities, types, and uses of cannabis.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: ht

Today on Blunt Business we are joined by founder and CEO Kevin Hart to learn how GCV has solved the biggest pain point in the entire legal cannabis space, unlocking the true potential of the largest addressable market we’ll see in our lifetime. The cannabis industry is booming. So why can’t consumers pay with “plastic” when buying legal cannabis? Why are there machine gun-carrying guards inside of legal cannabis businesses (dispensaries), and a constant stream of armored cars coming and going? Why are cannabis business owners hoarding mattresses—and entire houses—full of loose cash? Both the legal cannabis and banking industries want each other badly: dispensaries crave access to banking services. Without those services, the capabilities of dispensaries are severe, painfully limited for owners, employees, customers—and even regulators, who crave organization and documentation in order to do their compliance audits. And about those banks… Community banks and credit unions are on the decline, and desperately n

Today on Blunt Business we are joined by Jessie Gibson,Co Founder and Head of Marketing of Greenery Map. This week we’re going to jump into digital marketing and more importantly search marketing by way of a new Cannabis app called Greenery Map. Greenery Map is the world’s first and only cannabis search engine and the ONLY app that provides consumers with a platform to search for products based on desired mood, medicinal use and method of consumption.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Blunt Bussiness were joined by Jacob Levin, COO of Best in Grow Presented by USCC Expo 8/3-4 Miami Hyatt. We usually bring on the show various thought leaders and power players in the cannabis industry from Silicon Valley to Hollywood to Madison Avenue, but how often do you get to meet an Ivy Leaguer who has joined the space. Were joined by a a clinical psychologist from Harvard, who has brought robust analytics and behavioral science to the cannabis industry. We talk about what his collective experiences in private equity Jacob and hedge funds that helped him in what he planned to do in the cannabis industry or wherever your entrepreneurial venture landed at.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Blunt Business we speak with John Yang, CEO, and Co-founder of Treez.io. They are tackling one of the biggest issues they think has always put a cloud on the legitimizing of the cannabis industry to the mainstream fabric. John provides research and data findings that debunk some the largest stigmatic stereotypes looming in cannabis to those on the outside looking in and downplaying the amazing progress and potential the cannabis industry holds.They talk about what compelled John to not only compile and research data but mainly for the purpose of stomping out the stigmatization of cannabis. As well as making a dent on the cannabis stigma in his opinion vs. the mainstream putting those names into the same tired stereotype.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Blunt Business we are joined by Eric Rice, CEO of Quanta, Inc. Quanta uses a combination of Quantum Physics and Bio-Chemistry to increase the performance of plant matter in the body. Their patented technology increases the vibration, or bio-energy, within targeted elements to create resonance effects in the human body. We talk about CBD and the Process of Polarization. Polarization is a technology that is applied to CBD, using quantum physics to manipulate and stabilize electron spin in naturally occurring elements, such as cannabinoids, to increase performance in the body. Thus, Polarization controls the effects of CBD, making the experience reliable and consistent every time you use it.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Blunt Business we’re joined by Danny Keith, the CEO of Cannabis Club TV, Danny has built, operated, and sold numerous businesses and has also raised over $20M in nonprofit and corporate fundraising. He’s worked in social media, Internet development, nonprofits, surf and action sports, and professional sports with the Golden State Warriors minor league affiliate Santa Cruz Warriors before founding Cannabis Club TV. We speak about the steps you took to make Cannabis Club TV into reality. As well as deep dive in the sales pitch used for advertising on CCTV.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Blunt Business were joined by the Founder and CEO of AdLoop, Josh Segal. AdLoop is a leading advertising technology platform servicing both enterprise companies and consumer brands, which recently announced the launch of AdLink, a new tool that allows advertisers the ability to effectively target consumers for digital consumption. We speak about effectively targeting specific demographics that are appropriate for cannabis content consumption, the response from dispensary owners and the feedback from their customers, and given the friction, we see between these tech company giants and Congress would there be a solution you see we can make without necessary intervention or regulation.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Blunt Business were joined by the founder of Potsoul, Sam Poirier. Potsoul is a family-owned business in Quebec, Canada founded to foster cannabis education, culture, and a community of like-minded cannabis enthusiasts. Sam is an expert in growing practices and takes a unique approach to cannabis consumption. He has a master’s degree in botany and produces cannabis using sustainable, environmentally safe, and wholly organic practices. We speak about some of the obstacles that are being experienced in Quebec in regards to Canadian legalization. Also, we speak of the coalition of Quebec health professionals who have teamed up to denounce the province's plan to raise the legal age for smoking cannabis to 21 the highest in the country.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy