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More than your average CEO, as a lobbyist and advocate, Kyle Sherman is changing the narrative.

Cannabis Tech had the opportunity to sit down with Kyle Sherman, CEO, and Founder, of Flowhub. This daring software company went from being operated out of a garage in 2015 to the first company to launch mobile retail apps in the cannabis industry.

After spending time as a compliance officer, Sherman made it his mission to enable cannabis legalization nationally, and for him and his company, that meant making a more transparent industry.

Paragon Processing continues to innovate solutions to help hemp farmers across the nation from losing valuable biomass.

Several weeks ago, Cannabis Tech had the opportunity to tour Paragon Processing’s massive facility in southern Colorado. Designed to help farmers post-harvest, the massive, 256,000 square foot facility can accommodate 20 million pounds of hemp biomass in a climate-controlled environment that helps protect the product from molds, mildews, and other contamination factors.

In this episode of A Tech Moment, we get a few minutes with Billy Chavis, Partner and Lead Process Engineer at Paragon, to talk about their facility and their extended biomass drying capabilities, which could help farmers save thousands of acres of valuable hemp crops all over the nation.

An interview with Albert Gutierrez, CEO of MedPharm, discussing recent movements by the DEA to move forward with medical cannabis research.

In light of the DEAs recently announcement to start processing new cannabis research applications, Cannabis Tech sat down with Albert Gutierrez, the CEO of MedPharm Research, a leader in cannabis research and formulation development, who has recently received notice that they are one of 32 applicants selected to move forward in the process.

Recently, in the wake of Dr. Sue Sisley’s lawsuit against the DEA, the federal government has been moving forward by approving companies as federally recognized cannabis suppliers. MedPharm is one of the first companies to be selected to move forward with this program.

his week on A Tech Moment, Gavin Kogan of Grupo Flor spoke with Cannabis Tech’s Kristina Etter. Kogan, Chairman of the Board at Grupo Flor and currently working as VP of Government Affairs, is a fierce advocate for entrepreneurs in cannabis. His opinion, however, does not come without caveats.

It's this view detailed within his recent article for GreenEntrepreneur, "Cannabis: The Afghanistan of Entrepreneurs?" that sets him apart from the current flood of traditional executives transitioning to cannabis.

Kogan's career before launching Grupo Flor was as an attorney. He fell into cannabis almost by accident after an unplanned work-trade resulted in him owning a piece of a business operating in the sphere. Soon, this serendipitous agreement transformed his entire law practice into one that works strictly with the cannabis sector.

Cree Crawford, President of Ionization Labs, discusses the importance for quality testing throughout the cannabis supply chain.

Testing in cannabis remains clunky, complicated, and expensive. As cultivators and producers know all-too-well, testing for potency is a process in need of modernization. Ionization Labs, the brainchild of Cree Crawford, who was a former cultivator himself, addresses this dilemma head-on.

Their first product, the Cann-ID, is "The first affordable, highly scalable, accurate, and simple to use in-house marijuana and hemp testing unit." No more cumbersome and overly technical laboratory testing equipment, the Cann-ID has simplified the process, without compromising accuracy and data analysis.

Crawford, in his recent interview for A Tech Moment, explained the three core principles behind the Cann-ID product: accuracy, and simplicity. Without those three core values, Cann-ID wouldn't have been able to make the impact it has across the full breadth of the industry.