Cannabis Equipment News
157 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCannabis Equipment News is an interview series with growers, processors, manufacturers, distributors and other professionals who work within the legal cannabis industry. We provide answers to the challenges cannabis professionals face every day and discuss the industry as it continues to develop.
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Cullen Raichart: Become Focused & Tight, or Die
May 12, 2022 19:00 - 52 minutes - 36.7 MBEditor's Note: Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Cullen Raichart, founder and CEO of GreenBroz, joins the podcast to discuss the equipment manufacturer's move to Vegas and his efforts to clean up shop operationally without sacrificing company culture. Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out by giving the podcast a positive review. Finally, to email the podcast or suggest a potential guest, you can reach David Mantey at Davi...
Charles Pyfrom: How to Protect Against Worst-Case Scenarios
May 05, 2022 17:00 - 33 minutes - 23.6 MBEditor's Note: Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Charles Pyfrom, CMO with CannGen Insurance Services, joins the podcast to discuss how his company insures the livelihoods of cannabis operators. Fire damage, theft and even repetitive injuries, cannabis operators face many risks, and industry-specific insurance presents an opportunity to protect companies from unforeseen events. Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out by giv...
Jason Reposa: Good Feels Goes Bigtime After Being Born with a Homemade Bottler in the Basement
April 28, 2022 18:00 - 50 minutes - 35.1 MBEditor's Note: Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Jason Reposa, Founder and CEO of Good Feels, joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss why he built a bottling machine in his basement after getting laid off. Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out by giving the podcast a positive review. Finally, to email the podcast or suggest a potential guest, you can reach David Mantey at David @cannabisequipmentnews.com.
Jeff Luciano: Big Victories for Cannabis in a Small NY Town
April 21, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBThis week, Jeff Luciano, CEO of High End Group and High End Multi Processing, joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to talk about how he rallied a community to open its doors to cannabis after the village board banned dispensaries. Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out by giving the podcast a positive review. Finally, to email the podcast or suggest a potential guest, you can reach David Mantey at David @cannabisequipmentnews.com.
Thomas Winstanley: The Future of Cannabis Commerce
April 14, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBIn July 2018, Thomas Winstanley joined Theory Wellness. The company was medical-use only at the time with a pair of stores, but Winstanley wanted to work for a small, independent operation that was still cutting its teeth. It has been a fast and sometimes challenging four years. The company has evolved a lot since Winstanley came onboard. As Theory moved into recreational sales, its store in Great Barrington, MA, was just the sixth recreational dispensary on the east coast and the closes...
Brandon Bahr: The Industry Has a Solvent Problem
April 07, 2022 19:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week, Brandon Bahr, co-founder and CEO of Simple Solvents joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcasts to discuss his evolution to a supplier of premium solvents for botanical extraction. Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out by giving the podcast a positive review. Finally, to email the podcast or suggest a potential guest, you can reach David Mantey at David @cannabisequipmentnews.com.
Ginger Sloan: Opportunities Abound for Women in Cannabis
March 31, 2022 18:00 - 31 minutes - 22.3 MBEditor's Note: Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Ginger Sloan, founder of Zliderz, discusses how she came to believe in cannabis when it helped her mother kick the narcotics she had been taking for 30 years. Now, she sees big opportunities on the horizon. Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out by giving the podcast a positive review. Finally, to email the podcast or suggest a potential guest, you can reach David Mantey at ...
Narbé Alexandrian: Cannabis is a Once in a Lifetime Opportunity
March 24, 2022 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBEditor's Note: Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Narbé Alexandrian, president and CEO of RIV Capital, joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss his move from venture capital in the tech industry to the head of a cannabis investment and acquisition firm that recently made a strategic shift to the U.S. market. Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out by giving the podcast a positive review. Finally, to email the podc...
David Kessler: A New Approach to Cultivation
March 17, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBEditor's Note: Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, David Kessler, Chief Science Officer of Agrify discusses how intentional production will solve one of cannabis producers’ biggest challenges: making a consistent product. Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out by giving the podcast a positive review. Finally, to email the podcast or suggest a potential guest, you can reach David Mantey at David @cannabisequipmentnews.com.
Steve Gutterman: It's Better to Be Deep Than Broad
March 10, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBThis week, Steve Gutterman, CEO of Falcon Brands, joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss life at the helm of California's largest cannabis company. Steve Gutterman spent most of his career in financial services, but the cannabis industry enticed him because it was the first industry that reminded him of the early days of online financial services. Although he says cannabis is no different from any other industry, you have to run a good business to be successful. To remain Ca...
Haitham Al-Beik: How to Automate Cannabis Retail
March 01, 2022 22:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBThis week, Haitham Al-Beik, CEO and Founder of Wings, joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss his efforts to remove the biggest pain points in cannabis retail with automation.
Milan Patel: We Are at War with Pathogens
February 22, 2022 18:00 - 53 minutes - 37.3 MBEditor’s note: While we have continued to do the podcast weekly, it has jumped around a bit as we have scaled up our newsletter. Next week, it will return to its traditional slot on Thursdays. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for continuing to support the podcast. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Milan Patel, co-founder and CEO of PathogenDx, joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss high-speed cannabis testing. How it works, who uses it, and what (...
Mikhail Sagal & Gary Arnold: The Industry Has a Glaring Knowledge Gap
February 15, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBEditor's Note: Download the audio version below and click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Mikhail Sagal and Gary Arnold, co-founders of TSRgrow, discuss how they engineer, design and manufacture LED lighting solutions for thousands of operators in the industry. According to Gary Arnold, TSRgrow doesn't just sell lighting, but a total grow solution, which also happens to be the name of the company's product (TOTALgrow Solution™). The company isn't looking for customers but ...
Dan Horowitz: Cannabis Companies Can't Neglect Shredding, Milling Equipment
February 08, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBEditor's Note: Download the audio version below and click here to subscribe to our newsletter. Dan Horowitz had been in the packaging business for eight years when he wanted a change. He was looking for something new when a recruiter asked, "Have you ever thought about cannabis?" He met with Schutte Hammermill, a company with a more than 90-year legacy making milling and shredding equipment, and decided to come aboard as the sales manager for the company's new cannabis division, KannaMill.
Brandon Barksdale: Even When You're Great, You Could Be Better
January 27, 2022 14:00 - 47 minutes - 33.2 MBEditor's Note: Download the audio version below and click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Brandon Barksdale, CEO of Dalwhinnie Farms, discusses his transformation from finance to leading a premium cannabis company focused on growing the cleanest product in the market. Brandon Barksdale wants to increase operational excellence and maturity in the cannabis industry. The new CEO of Dalwhinnie Farms has spent time improving operations in various markets, from retail to manufac...
Kenny Morrison: I Was Not Cut Out for Retail
January 19, 2022 20:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBThis week on the Cannabis Equipment News podcast, Kenny Morrison, founder of VCC Brands, discusses how he was pulled out of a basement grow and into the nascent California cannabis industry, where he helped lead one of the first five dispensaries in Los Angeles County. Kenny Morrison is a risk-taker. In 2006, he was working with friends growing cannabis in a basement when he decided to try his hand in the upstart California retail market. Morrison landed a partnership helping the Farmacy in...
Kenny Morrison: I Was Not Cut Out for Retail
January 19, 2022 20:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBThis week on the Cannabis Equipment News podcast, Kenny Morrison, founder of VCC Brands, discusses how he was pulled out of a basement grow and into the nascent California cannabis industry, where he helped lead one of the first five dispensaries in Los Angeles County. Kenny Morrison is a risk-taker. In 2006, he was working with friends growing cannabis in a basement when he decided to try his hand in the upstart California retail market. Morrison landed a partnership helping the Farmacy in...
Terry Van Gelder: Hybrid Design Addresses Problems with Conventional Greenhouses
January 12, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBEditor's Note: Download the audio version below and click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Terry Van Gelder, president at AGT Technologies, discusses why, after more than 40 years in the construction industry, he turned his attention to hybrid greenhouses for the cannabis industry. Van Gelder's hybrid greenhouses have a dual membrane system; essentially, it's a building inside a building insulated by a constant flow of hot air. In 2019, the innovative design received an Edi...
Paulo Sobral: Cannabis Beverages Will Be the Largest Consumer Segment
January 07, 2022 17:00 - 46 minutes - 32.5 MBThis week, Paulo Sobral, a consultant at Drink Cannabis LLC, discusses why he left Pepsi in 2014 to join an upstart cannabis industry. Sobral is a "cannabis beverage fanatic" focused on helping develop and market innovative products that change the way people consume cannabis. While Sobral was at the Hall of Flowers event in Palm Springs, California, he stepped away from the show to talk about why he left Pepsi's corporate environment and jumped into an industry he found more inspiring. H...
James Eaves: A Fundamentally New Type of Electricity
December 21, 2021 20:00 - 47 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week, James Eaves, Ph.D, director of indoor agriculture at VoltServer, discusses what he calls the first innovation to electricity since the current wars between Tesla and Edison. VoltServer produces equipment and software that drastically reduces the cost, danger and time associated with installing and maintaining power systems. They call it "Digital Electricity™." Digital Electricity™ offers the characteristics of high-power electricity but uses the same wiring and installation meth...
Mark Doherty: Solving Traditional Problems with Racking Systems
December 17, 2021 16:00 - 53 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week, Mark Doherty, partner at Doherty Agriculture and advisor to Dual Draft Integrated Airflow discusses what he's encountered in more than 10 years in the controlled environment agriculture market. He built his first commercial indoor farm in 2010 and made every mistake imaginable, but he learned a lot. Since then, the market has changed drastically. Now, he works with Dual Draft to solve some of the traditional problems with racking systems in the cannabis industry, like water pool...
Wes Reynolds: Subpar Equipment Doesn't Help Anybody
December 10, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBThis week, Wes Reynolds, President and CEO, Green Mill Supercritical discusses his transition from a 20-year Coca-Cola vet to the head of Green Mill Supercritical, a company that specializes in CO2 extraction. Reynolds discusses why his company is fully invested in CO2 extraction and how, by the end of 2022, ethanol-free CO2 extraction stands to become the standard for all others to meet. Green Mill recently released its outlook for the extraction industry in 2022 and while the industry ha...
Mitch Galton: Building a Cannabis Facility is Like Buying a Car
November 19, 2021 15:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBThis week, Mitch Galton, Director of Business Development at urban-gro, discusses why he left college early to start a career in cannabis. Galton's new cannabis path commenced in LED lighting with Fluence, but has since graduated into a role that has him working closer to the plant at urban-gro, a company that specializes in architectural, engineering and cultivation systems integration for commercial cannabis and controlled environment food facilities. Urban-gro has worked on more than 45...
Luke Costello: Filling Gaps in Cannabis Equipment & Innovation
October 29, 2021 19:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBEditor's Note: Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Luke Costello discusses why Mach Technologies entered the cannabis business after noticing some glaring gaps in equipment and innovation. Mach Technologies has been making highly automated equipment for more than 80 years. The company's experience ranges from the automotive to pharmaceutical industries. Three years ago, the company looked at the cannabis industry and noticed some gaps in the equipment and support. For ex...
Christian Hageseth: Cleaning Up the Cannabis Industry's Dirty Secrets
October 22, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes - 37.3 MBEditor's Note: Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Christian Hageseth, chief operating officer of VIST Labs, discusses how a game of golf permanently changed the trajectory of his career. In 2009, Hageseth was an out-of-work real estate finance professional who was a casualty of the economic crisis in 2008. He was invited to play a round of golf where he met an individual opening a dispensary in the up-and-coming Colorado cannabis industry. Hageseth started in the cann...
Jeffrey Thorn: Aeroponics Is Our Differentiator
October 15, 2021 16:00 - 53 minutes - 37.2 MBEditor's Note: Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Jeffrey Thorn, CEO of 420 Kingdom, discusses why he sold his HR outsourcing company to start a high-end cannabis delivery service based on aeroponic cultivation. In 2000, Jeffrey Thorn founded a human resources outsourcing company that specialized in helping cannabis companies with payroll and benefits. A few years ago, he lost his passion for the business. He’d show up at 10 a.m. and be gone by 3 p.m. What’s worse, he d...
Andrew Thut: Cutting Corners is a Deadly Mistake
October 08, 2021 19:00 - 57 minutes - 39.9 MBEditor's Note: Download the audio version below and click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Andrew Thut, chief investment officer of 4Front Ventures discusses how he moved from a career in finance to become a leader at a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator. 4Front Ventures has a reputation for hitting high product quality standards with low-cost cultivation and production, but it wasn't without significant investment in automation and human capital. Please m...
Cannabis Manufacturing in a Box
October 01, 2021 16:00 - 51 minutes - 36 MBEditor's Note: Download the audio version below and click here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Grant Schuster and Jacob Dooley from Accelerant Manufacturing discuss their Production as a Service (PaaS) business model that offers "cannabis manufacturing in a box." Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out a lot by giving the podcast a positive review on Apple podcast or whatever platform you use. Finally, to email the podcast or suggest...
Dave Nestoff: Cannabis Compliance is a Labor-Intensive Burden for Operators
September 17, 2021 16:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBThis week, Dave Nestoff, director of product and engineering at Simplifya, discusses how he landed at a cannabis compliance software company after two very different careers — and why he loves working for startups. Nestoff is a self-described renaissance man, and the nature of startups allowed him to wear many hats during his career. At Simplifya, he not only works on software engineering, but he also has a chance to flex writing skills cultivated during stints as a journalist and teacher....
Building a Better Cannabis Facility Like Lego Bricks
September 10, 2021 20:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week, Tim Vrieling and David Wolf, founders of Greenbox Builders, discuss how their pre-engineered, pre-designed and pre-specified facilities can get cannabis operators up and running faster by cutting out 85% of the design and development time. In June, Vrieling and Wolf founded Greenbox to solve a common problem in the cannabis industry: facility construction. The pair had experience building in technical environments, working on everything from medical device and pharmaceutical lab...
Matt Cohen: Cracking the Premium Cannabis Cocktail Code
August 27, 2021 16:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBThis week, Matt Cohen, founder of Lively Spirits, discusses his transformation from a college student activist to an entrepreneur trying to crack the premium cannabis cocktail code. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out a lot by giving the podcast a positive review. Finally, to email the podcast or suggest a potential guest, you can reach David Mantey at David @cannabisequipmentnews.com with “Email ...
Trent Woloveck: Automation Equipment Isn’t There Yet
August 17, 2021 21:00 - 57 minutes - 40 MBEditor's Note: Clck here to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Trent Woloveck, chief commercial director at Jushi Holdings, discusses his evolution from a finance guy who dabbled in product development to a leader of a multi-state cannabis operator. llease make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help us out a lot by giving the podcast a positive review on Apple podcast or whatever platform you use. Finally, to email the podcast or suggest a potential guest, ...
Aaron Silverstein: A Leading Expert in Cannabis-Infused Wine
August 05, 2021 20:00 - 44 minutes - 31.2 MBThis week, Aaron Silverstein, vice president of production and business development at the House of Saka, discusses how he became one of the world's leading experts on cannabis-infused wine by accident.
Jim Higdon: Exposing Shady CBD Practices
July 26, 2021 18:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBThis week, Jim Higdon discusses his evolution from journalist and author to co-founder and chief communications officer of Cornbread Hemp, a company dedicated to manufacturing USDA organic-certified, whole-flower CBD products.
Rob Sechrist: How to Navigate Complex & Costly Cannabis Real Estate Financing
July 15, 2021 17:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBThis week, Rob Sechrist, president of the Pelorus Equity Group, discusses his role leading one of the cannabis industry's largest commercial real estate lenders. Sechrist has focused on the cannabis industry for more than four years, but the company has been in business for more than two decades. Since 1991, Pelorus has participated in more than $1 billion of commercial real estate investment business across 5,000 transactions. The company is an asset-based lender that focuses on value-ad...
Colin Ferrian: Cannabis is a Generational Opportunity
June 08, 2021 21:00 - 49 minutes - 34.6 MBThis week, Colin Ferrian, co-founder and analyst at MJResearchCo, discusses why, as an investment analyst, he is working to generate more empathy for the cannabis industry. Empathy in the cannabis industry is rare, especially among the investment community. According to Ferrian, the industry has two types of people: those with money — investment capital — and those with experience. Ferrian works as a hybrid that can steer capital investment in the right direction while understanding of how...
Zach Pitts: Pandemic Permanently Changed the Cannabis Consumer Mindset
June 02, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBThis week, Zach Pitts, CEO and founding partner of Ganja Goddess, discusses graduating during a recession and stumbling into a cannabis career that has now spanned more than 13 years. When Pitts graduated from college, he pursued a career in urban planning, but he failed to find regular work. In 2007, developers weren’t hiring and he was at a loss. Around the same time, Tara Wells, Ganja Goddess’ co-founder, was cultivating and manufacturing edibles for the legal medical market — traditiona...
Jill Ellsworth: Creating the Cannabis Kill Step
May 25, 2021 17:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBThis week, Jill Ellsworth, founder and CEO of Willow Industries, talks about her transformation from running a successful cold-pressed juice company to creating startup Willow Industries, a manufacturer and service provider dedicated to cannabis decontamination. Ellsworth is a registered dietician with a Master’s degree in food science nutrition. About seven years ago, she started a cold press juice company in Santa Barbara, California, with another location in Denver. She pivoted the compa...
Andrew Lange: How to 'Do it Right' in Cannabis
May 11, 2021 17:00 - 43 minutes - 30.5 MBThis week, Andrew Lange, president of Ascendant Management, discusses his work designing more than 1.5 million square feet of indoor cannabis facilities across more than 56 projects. When he started out, he primarily saw smaller projects of less than 20,000 square feet, but as the industry has evolved, he now rarely works on anything less than 50,000 square feet. Lange started off in Washington state building fully automated aquariums that ranged from $30,000 to $80,000 installations. He m...
Jesse Elkins: The Henry Ford of the Cannabis Industry
May 04, 2021 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBThis week, Jesse Elkins, founder of Grow Industries, discusses how he became one of the most sought-after designers of cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facilities. Much of Elkins' story is being at the right place at the right time. When he graduated high school in Washington State, he enrolled in refrigeration school to become an HVAC professional. At the same time, the state legalized medical-use cannabis. A few of his friends started small home grows, and he helped them off with HV...
Bryan Wilson: Fiber Is the Future
April 27, 2021 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.8 MBThis week, Bryan Wilson, co-founder and president of Environmental Living Industries (E.L.I.), discusses his journey from an overseas government contractor to the driving force behind an industrial hemp fiber processing startup. Wilson's wife, Candice, was a pediatric emergency nurse. A few years after the couple was married, Candice became incredibly ill, suffering from several autoimmune disorders. At the time, Wilson was working as a paramedic and a firefighter. The couple consulted mo...
John Davis: Designing Realistic Extraction Systems from a Processing Perspective
April 13, 2021 15:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBThis week, John Davis, CTO of Entexs, discusses his move from the oil and gas industry to the helm of an engineering and fabrication company focused on end-to-end extraction systems. Entexs (pronounced "en-techs") was founded with the sole purpose of providing custom engineered extraction solutions for the cannabis industry. The company assembled a team of machinists, fabricators and engineers with decades of experience building breweries and food manufacturing plants — who were well-verse...
Jeremy Luciano: Veteran Combats Fear in the Hemp Industry
April 01, 2021 21:00 - 53 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week, Jeremy Luciano, founder and CEO of GHS Industries — formerly Global Hemp Solutions — tells the incredible story of his journey to the cannabis industry. GHS conceptualizes, designs, builds and installs everything from buckers and drying systems to harvesters and extraction systems. Although the company works in the hemp sector, it is a food-grade manufacturer that also serves other industries. Luciano founded the company about 2.5 years ago, including a manufacturing facility ...
Ash Ganley: LED Tech Breaks the Glass Ceiling in Cannabis Cultivation
March 24, 2021 21:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBThis week, Ash Ganley, CEO of GrowRay Technologies, discusses his collaborative manufacturing R&D effort to create patented LED lighting solutions for cannabis cultivation. Ganley is the former CTO of NOBO, a small, vertically integrated multi-state operator based in Boulder, Colorado. During his time at the cultivator, he observed the fractured, isolated nature of cannabis cultivation product development, particularly in lighting, and figured that he could find a better way of doing busine...
Ben & Vinnie Celani: Big Cannabis Is Coming
March 17, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21.7 MBThis week, Ben and Vinnie Celani, co-founders of High Life Farms, discuss their operations in California and Michigan — and continued expansion. The brothers take a divide-and-conquer approach to operations, with Vinnie overseeing sales and marketing and Ben leading the cultivation side of the multi-state operator (MSO). High Life primarily conducts cultivation, manufacturing and distribution in California, while its Michigan operations are more vertically integrated. Upon founding the bu...
Josh Malman: Keep Your Eyes on the Crop
March 12, 2021 21:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week, Josh Malman, vice president of cultivation at Jushi Holdings, discusses how he fell into cannabis. As a student, Malman studied international horticulture, and even spent a semester abroad building systems to provide cheap water to local farms in Africa. His focus on greenhouse production horticulture eventually led him to a position with The Clinic in Colorado as it was starting up in 2009. When he first started with The Clinic, his first harvest was around 50 pounds. Over the...
Donna Wamsley: Cannabinoids are Tricky to Work With
March 01, 2021 20:00 - 30 minutes - 21.4 MBThis week, Donna Wamsley, Director of Research and Analytics at SōRSE Technology, discusses her role at one of the leading emulsion technologists in the industry, as well as the many difficulties in working with cannabinoids in the food and beverage industry. Cannabinoids (like THC and CBD) offer a sensory experience that can vary. Dosage control is difficult to make reliable and repeatable, as well as onset and duration, which presents challenges for edible and infused-beverage manufacturi...
Dr. David Cunic: All 50 States Should Legalize Medical Cannabis
February 23, 2021 21:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBThis week, Dr. David Cunic, CEO and founder of UCS Advisors, discusses his life as a medical professional and serial entrepreneur. In the industry, he's known as "Dr. David," and he's been a cannabis advocate since 2009 — "before it was cool to be in cannabis." As a doctor of physical therapy and pain management, he is an advocate for the benefits of medical marijuana. As an entrepreneur, he has started seven cannabis businesses in five different states; overall, he's founded 13 companies i...
We’re Not Trimmers, We’re Trichome Preservers
February 18, 2021 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week, Bella McCreary, president and CEO of High Maintenance Trim Co. talks about her transition from the banking industry to leading a company that provides onsite harvesting, bucking, trimming and packaging services. McCreary has several years experience working with cultivators of all sizes. She's overseen trimming operations for harvests as small as 12 pounds as well as clients with rolling 500-pound harvests. Cultivators often have difficulties staffing trim teams. While some ope...
Oil Application Products Set to Skyrocket
February 11, 2021 21:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBHosted by David Mantey. This week, Mike McDonald, president of Ammonite, discusses his fascinating path to the cannabis industry following careers in cycling and outdoor adventuring, as well as stint in Taiwan, where he moved after college just to learn Mandarin. Ammonite was spun out of Jetty Extracts, one of the largest concentrates and vapes companies in California. Jetty’s product development department had created a new device they called the “Dablicator,” an oil application product d...