Marijuana Opportunity Today with Adam Goers, VP of Corporate Affairs at Columbia Care. Our next guest is here representing one of the nation's largest fully-integrated, multi-state, medical cannabis companies. This includes pharmacies, dispensaries, home delivery, cultivation, and manufacturing facilities. Columbia Care operates one of the largest portfolios (16 U.S. states + the EU) of highly regulated, licensed medical cannabis product development, research, manufacturing, and dispensing operations in the United States. The company produces industry-leading pharmaceutical quality products and has research and clinical partnerships with top academic and medical institutions including Columbia University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Adam was a long-time Senior Advisor to then-Governor O’Malley of Maryland as well as a Senior Advisor to the Democratic Governors Association. Amongst others, he worked for then-Governor Tim Kaine, Senator Hillary Clinton, and Congresswoman Tubbs Jones. We talk about his interactions with policymakers and their understanding of the cannabis industry. The U.S. House of Representatives is planning a floor vote in September on the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act that would federally decriminalize cannabis by removing it from the Controlled Substances Act. The new legislation would also require federal courts to expunge prior cannabis-related convictions and establish funds for small businesses in the marijuana industry to flourish.

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The 8th Annual Marijuana Business Factbook with Jenel Stelton-Holtmeier, Editorial Director at MJBizDaily. MJBiz recently published the 8th Annual Marijuana Business Factbook and we look at the overall scope of findings. “Though the long-term outlook for the recreational side of the industry is more bullish than for medical, MMJ sales are expected to grow at roughly the same pace in 2020. New MMJ markets including—but not limited to—Florida, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania are booming, more than offsetting lost medical sales in markets that have legalized adult-use sales, such as Illinois, Massachusetts, and Michigan. “ Four states are voting on adult-use (recreational) cannabis legalization: Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota. However, the medical cannabis industry’s upside is limited, as more than two-thirds of U.S. states have legalized medical markets; only around one-fifth currently allow adult-use sales. Programs in states that have recently legalized medical marijuana are restrictive in nature with limited access to dispensaries, tightly controlled lists of qualifying conditions, and severely constrained product selections. Generally speaking, the handful of states left that have yet to legalize medical marijuana are politically conservative and, if they do enact MMJ programs, might adopt a similarly onerous model that dampens their sales potential. Three states are voting on medical marijuana legalization: Idaho (maybe), Mississippi, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

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Tax and CFO Services for Cannabusiness with Jason Brown Founder and CEO of Foresight Financial CPA. Our next guest has over 20 years of experience in the accounting profession, specializing in providing customized tax, accounting, CFO, and consulting services and solutions for businesses, startups, venture-backed companies, estate and trusts, and high net-worth individuals. He has been serving the Cannabis Industry with Tax and CFO Services for Dispensaries, Growers, Technology, CBD, & PEO Companies across the US. Extensive knowledge in 280E. We understand the unique challenges in this industry. We talk about when he decided to take on clients in the sector and what led to the new direction. These factors create an enormous need for CPAs who are excited about entering a fast-growing and intricate niche, which consists of farming, chemical manufacturing, food production, and retail. Equipped with a specialized skill set and sophisticated financial knowledge, CPAs have the opportunity to enter a burgeoning market—projected to reach an economic impact of $70 billion in the U.S. by 2021—where they can access a new realm of clients in dire need of their help, not to mention a substantial new source of revenue for their firms. Meanwhile, one company that doesn’t even deal with cannabis has profited handsomely at that time. KPMG, a “Big Four” accounting firm based in the Netherlands with nearly $30 billion in revenues last year, was awarded nearly $7 million in no-bid contracts to grade applications for new recreational pot licenses, according to records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. KPMG is getting nearly $4.2 million through a contract with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which oversees dispensaries, and $2.5 million from the Illinois Department of Agriculture, which is tasked with regulating cultivation operations and other cannabis businesses.

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Cutting edge retail technology with Jeremy Jacobs, CEO & Chairman of Enlighten Dispensary Solutions. Our next guest manages the first full-scale enterprise solution in the cannabis space and is already working with over 700 cannabis businesses, including dispensaries, cultivators and producers, head shops, cannabis lounges, and medical facilities. Enlighten is a full spectrum enterprise solution managed by a team with a collective 20 years of experience serving Fortune 500 companies, first-class retailers, and top-end brands all over the world, bringing cutting edge retail technology to the cannabis industry. Jeremy recently added to his suite of products with the launch of Enlighten SMARTHUB, a first-of-its-kind centralized management platform that allows retailers to sync real-time product updates to in-store digital displays and their eCommerce suite. The platform seamlessly integrates information across major POS providers and gives dispensaries the ability to automatically push standardized inventory updates to customer touchpoints. Enlighten SMARTHUB puts an end to the disconnect between the front-end menus and the back-end stockroom and eliminates the need for dispensary employees to manually input inventory data. Enlighten currently works with over 1,000 retail partners, many of whom are already utilizing Enlighten SMARTHUB to streamline their operations.

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4Front Ventures with CEO and Co-Founder, Kris Kane. Our next guest runs one of the leading multi-state operators ushering in cannabis and fierce public advocate for cannabis decriminalization and legalization. He believes the correlation between ending prohibition and legalizing cannabis is undeniable. Having founded 4Front Advisors in 2011, Kris now serves as president of 4Front. Prior to forming 4Front, Kris served as director of client services for CannBe, a pioneer in developing best practices within the medical cannabis industry. Kris has dedicated his career to reforming the nation’s misguided drug policies, having previously served as associate director of NORML (2000-2005) and executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (2006-2009). He currently serves on the National Cannabis Industry Association board of directors and pens a column about the cannabis industry for Forbes. Kris’ pioneering roots in cannabis advocacy and policy provides a deep understanding of the evolving regulatory environment, which often provides 4Front a head start on seeing and evaluating opportunities. We have talked about how cannabis legalization now would serve as a means to the end of the current economic disaster we are currently facing.

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Virtual Versus In-Person Conferences with Matt Hawkins Founder/Managing Partner at Entourage Effect Capital. Our next guest has over 20 years of private equity experience and has founded multiple $500+mm alternative firms. He has an extensive background in building large alternative investment firms and scaling the companies he invests in. Matt brings an extensive background in building large alternative investment firms and scaling the companies he invests in. In 2014, Matt had the vision to create the leading private equity firm focused specifically on investing in the legalized cannabis industry.

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The Ever Booming Cannabis Business with Nick Tennant, Founder & CTO of Precision Extraction Solutions. Our next guest is a cannabis entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience developing and operating companies in the cannabis industry. His expertise is in cannabis and hemp extraction, code regulation, lab design, extract product and process development, and extraction equipment engineering. Precision is actually the world's only provider of turn-key extraction labs, and more award-winning concentrates are made with Precision than any other brand. Precision recently unveiled two new hemp and cannabis extraction technologies- patent-pending T-SEP and L-SEP processes that provide scalable and cost-effective solutions to manufacturers that optimize the extraction and purification of cannabis and hemp oil. Nick recently spoke at Benzinga’s Virtual Cannabis Capital Conference about the current state of the industry and the obstacles extraction companies are currently facing. He told Benzinga you’re still bullish on the cannabis market and its future. “If there’s any business to be in right now, it's obviously the cannabis space. There's nothing that's going to stop or inhibit the cannabis industry.

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The many uses of industrial hemp with Luke Dandrea, founder of DRIHP. Our next guest’s mission is to educate the consumer one product at a time on how industrial hemp is the game changing component in the science of global warming. He recently launched a new environmentally-safe hemp line and he has signed on actress/philanthropist, Bella Thorne, influencer Rachel Cook and model and social media personality, Jay Alvarrez to serve as brand ambassadors for DRIHP.

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The impacts of legal cannabis sales with Cy Scott, Founder, and CEO of Headset. Today we welcome the Founder of CEO of Headset, the leading provider of data and analytics to the cannabis industry, who recently announced the launch of an ongoing weekly report to make sense of the impacts of legal cannabis sales. The report provides a week-to-week overview, of how cannabis sales are affected by changes in regulations, consumer sentiments, and economic trends. Cy said "The COVID-19 pandemic has created a dynamic and shifting cannabis retail landscape. We felt the best way we could help our clients was to provide them with a better understanding of changing customer purchasing behaviors in order for them to supply their needs safely."

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The first all organic herbal wrap company with Paola Fernandez, Founder & CEO of High Hemp. The hemp industry as a whole has faced tremendous economic pressures and worries in recent months, but now, the industry – like many others – faces doubt, economic distress, and overall concern due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our next guest represents the first all organic herbal wrap company. Paola started High Hemp-based primarily on the need for organic products within the industry with the goal of providing consumers with tobacco-free organic hemp wraps that contain zero traces of nicotine, tobacco, or toxic additives.

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