Nick Weeks, VP of Sales, Service, and Operations at N2 Packaging System, a sustainable packaging company that provides packaging solutions for the legal cannabis sector.

He discusses how brands in emerging markets can profit from being early adopters of sustainable cannabis packaging principles when regulators integrate sustainable packaging standards into licenses that businesses will need to open by this year.

Before joining N2, Nicholas worked as an independent cannabis and hemp consultant. When big retailers like Jacksons Food Stores, Tobacco Connection, and Big Smoke introduced new CBD and hemp SKUs, he worked with them to ensure the product assortment was successful. In addition, he held educational seminars and in-store training sessions with retail level staff to cover the ins and outs of these relatively unknown product lines. Nick also collaborated with CBD producers on brand building and product development plans.



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Grassroots Marketing discusses Wandering Bud ceramic smoking accessories with the founder Riley Brain.

Wandering Bud is a line of ceramic smoking accessories handmade in Kansas City, Missouri. Wandering Bud pipes, trays, bongs, and other accessories are designed to be beautifully displayed on your coffee table or alongside your best art and home decor.

 At the core, Wandering Bud solves problems. Gone are the days of hiding away grimey bongs or pipes creating an eyesore. Wandering Bud pieces offer a smooth hit, high design, and easy cleaning every time.

Wandering Bud’s products are elevated above what you might find at a local head shop. These handmade slip-cast ceramic creations start conversations and elevate your smoke sesh.

 Wandering Bud lives at the intersection of what the ever-conscious consumer cares about: quality, equity, and investing in our communities.

 In 2016, founder Riley Brain left her career in teaching to start making functional art for cannabis consumers out of her basement. Today Wandering Bud employs a team full of women, many of whom are graduates of the local art institute, in their home-grown studio in Kansas City.

 Wandering Bud is a leader in the space by paying their employees a living wage with benefits, participating in profit sharing with employees, donating a portion of their profits to equity-oriented organizations Kansas City GIFT and Floret Coalition.

 With hundreds of thousands of followers across social media, Riley and the Wandering Bud team are experts in growing a brand, hacking the anti-cannabis algorithm, and cultivating a faithful community willing to fight for them amid increasing censorship online.

 

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Grassroots Marketing talks about Creating Vape Technology With Design Luxury with Drew Henson, Founder/CEO of TOQi.

Drew is a Formula 1, Red Dot and iF Design Award-Winner, CLIO Cannabis Award Recipient and SXSW Interactive Innovation Award Finalist who recently started a fellowship dedicated to advocating for the pardoning Canadians with cannabis possession charges and helping them retake their lives. 

Drew entered the market with a goal to design luxury cannabis accessories equivalent to being the "Dyson of the cannabis industry," and since then has gone on to build a million dollar business.

Founded by award-winning designers, TOQi creates premium industry leading cannabis consumption technology from their headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. Inspired by the intersection of design and culture, TOQi believes that attention to detail and user experience are of the utmost importance.  

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Grassroots Marketing talks about NABIS Marketing and Partnerships Explained with their director Jen Seo.

Jen Seo brings over seven years of cannabis industry experience to Nabis, where she oversees the company’s partnerships and establishes avenues to facilitate growth. A well-connected cannabis professional and trained visual artist, Jen applies her uniquely discerning eye to identify innovative marketing strategies and robust revenue streams, and champions an agnostic approach to sales that maintains the potent diversity of products and brands in the Nabis portfolio.

Previously, Jen held a management role with Kiva Brands, where she formed lasting partnerships that elevated Kiva Sales & Service beyond the basic distributor model to an innovative hub of brand development and sales. Her background includes the retail sector, where she successfully managed the integration of adult-use sales for a pioneering medical cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles. An L.A. native, Jen embraces the outdoors in her free time and has a strong appreciation for diverse design, art and experiences.

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The Home Gallery Offers Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) for Cannabis Cultivating and we learn more Or and Joseph Michaelo (Co-Founders) and Corey McGuire (Director of Operations) of The Home Gallery.

The demand for rental properties and accessory dwelling units has also grown as people seek an additional income stream and an alternative to purchasing a home on a new piece of property, according to Or Michaelo, chief executive of Orbit Homes. He runs the Malibu, California-based company with his older brother, Joseph Michaelo.

Orbit Homes creates high-end ADUs, and the Michaelo brothers said their products are seeing high demand thanks to factors including the aftermath of the 2018 Woolsey fire, the pandemic and the threat of an economic slowdown.

Homes available under The Home Gallery umbrella are perfect for ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) to drive passive income or for Ag land development.

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We speak with Stephen Steele, author of The Cannastar Factor: A Miracle Cure for Viruses That Big Pharma Will Kill to Stop.

The Cannastar Factor was originally published under the title A Cure to Die For. This rewritten, revised, expanded and updated edition is now part of a 3-book series entitled The Trouble with Miracles.

Alex Farmer, M.D. is a former drug addict trying to put his tortured life behind him. Cyd Seeley is a brilliant botanist and rancher in dire financial straits. Inadvertently, they are thrown together when a mutual friend is murdered after developing an inexpensive, organically grown cure for viral diseases.

The miracle plant is called Cannastar and it cures all manner of viruses from Coronavirus and cancer, to HIV and herpes. Cannastar costs next to nothing to grow, returns the hopelessly ill to good health, and threatens to bankrupt the pharmaceutical industry. Big Pharma will stop at nothing to keep it off the market.

Aided by faithful Native Americans from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana and the Navajo Nation in Arizona, Cyd and Alex fight to grow Cannastar and bring it to a desperate world. Their harrowing and perilous journey ranges from the Rocky Mountain wilderness, to the political corruption of Washington D.C., to the jungles of Mexico, to the deserts of the Southwest.

Filled with mystery and suspense, The Cannastar Factor is part adventure and part love story; a timely thriller that unfolds with endless surprises and heartwarming relationships; an epic novel about the resolute passions of two people who stand against a broken world. 

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We talk about how Snoop Dogg and Hempacco and Their Mission of Disrupting Tobacco™ with with Jorge Olson, Co-founder and CMO of Hempacco and Green Globe International Inc.

Together they will develop, manufacture, and market a line of various consumer packaged goods, including smokable hemp products, hemp paper, blunts, vapes, and edibles.

Hempacco not only supplies and produces rolling papers for some of the largest brands in the world but also has extensive R&D capabilities with its team of chemists and innovative services, including vending machine kiosks. Hempacco operates out of a 50K square foot facility which is NSF, GMP, and FDA-certified (Certified Organic), ensuring the highest standards when it comes to consumer products.

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We talk about high-CBD, low-THC Bogart Hemp Cigarettes with cannabis entrepreneur and founder Jeff Gonick.

Jeff Gonick is a cannabis entrepreneur and founder of Bogart, a hemp cigarette brand that offers high-CBD, low-THC smokes that make for the perfect cigarette or joint replacement you can enjoy anytime without getting high. With a background in advertising, writing and directing, Jeff has worked at agencies and tech companies supporting brands such as Apple, Liquid Death, Whole Foods, Samsung, Google and more. Having been a long-time cannabis consumer, a move from Brooklyn, NY, to the Lower Hudson Valley inspired Jeff to grow his own cannabis, developing an even deeper appreciation for the plant. After working with Seth Rogen to help him launch his cannabis company, Houseplant, where he still helps out as a writer, Jeff set his eyes on creating his own line of cannabis products he couldn’t find anywhere else - something that could be enjoyed as full smoke, but without the harmful ingredients of cigarettes or the high of a full joint. Bogarts are good enough to share, but are made to be Bogarted.

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As the FDA Declines to Regulate CBD. What's Next? We speak about this and more with Chase Terwilliger, CEO of Balanced Health Botanicals

The Food and Drug Administration recently said there are too many unknowns about CBD products to regulate them as foods or supplements under the agency’s current structure and called on Congress to create new rules for the massive and growing market.

The marijuana-derived products have become increasingly popular in lotions, tinctures and foods, while their legal status has been murky in the U.S.

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We learn about Kannabu Hemp-Infused Products and Hemp Infused Superfoods with with Jose Allende, CEO and Co-Founder of Kannabu.

Kannabu, Latinx-Owned and operated hemp company, is challenging the status quo in wellness by optimizing health through easy-to-use hemp-infused superfood options. Based in the United States and Latin America, Kannabu offers consumers products of the highest quality and nutritional value.

For over a decade, brothers and co-founders of Kannabu conducted rigorous research on the cannabis industry, mental health, autism, and the long-term effects of prescription drugs.

“Nature not only offers excellent products with exceptional nutritional properties, but it also offers wisdom,” comments Jose Allende, CEO, and Co-Founder of Kannabu. “It [nature] helps us understand cycles, processes, and harmony. We do not have to rely solely on high-tech health systems to support a healthy way of life. The hemp plant can be used entirely, from seeds to leaves, and humans can benefit from the incredible superfood.”

Kannabu focuses on quality over quantity. All products are 100% USA-grown hemp, ranging from Premium Hemp Protein Powders, Premium Hemp Hearts, Premium Hemp Oils, to Premium CBD Tinctures. All products are rich in essential fatty acids, nutrients, and antioxidants and are all-natural, vegan, and gluten-free.

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