There are many challenges to getting the cannabis industry off the ground, and one is getting doctors on board to study the endocannabinoid system. But getting overworked doctors to study is a challenge.

After working for 15 years in a VA Hospital treating many veterans whose health and wellness had been compromised by alcohol abuse, Dr. Jordan Tishler, a Harvard-educated medical doctor, started to explore cannabis medicine as an alternative treatment. Today he is a cannabis activist and practicing cannabinoid specialist.

He started InhaleMD, where he and his team treat patients through cannabis therapeutics. And he is the President of The Association of Cannabis Specialists.

https://inhalemd.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-tishler-md/

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Ben Gilbert was a journalist and editor at the Business Insider newspaper before he burned out on the work and pivoted to cannabis to start the media company ALL CAPS™, where he specifically works with the LEGACY market in New York.

Ben said that All Caps is not only a MEDIA AGENCY that produces EVENTS, GHOSTWRITING, MARKETING and PUBLIC RELATIONS but an incubator or accelerator program that helps the person growing weed to be a person who is operating a legitimate company.

Ben kicked off All Caps last year with the inaugural NY Growers Cup that was featured in the NY Times.

Ben also gives us a recap of his trip to Barcelona for Spannabis.

https://www.thisisallcaps.com/what-is-all-caps

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminrgilbert/

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What does it take to go from legacy to legal in Arizona?

Meet Chris Martin, he grew up in foster care in Kansas and moved to Arizona, where he was busted for cannabis, served time, and had another brush with the law and faced life in prison.

Most people would crush under these circumstances, but Chris fought back for himself and his family. He now owns multiple cannabis CPG brands, a non-profit, and was recently awarded licenses for a vertical operation in NM. He claims Arizona is not welcoming to mom-and-pop or legacy operators because operating costs are prohibitive for anyone other than a well-funded corporation. Lots to talk about!

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Today we speak to Joe Schafer, a lawyer with Lippes Mathias Law Firm in Buffalo, NY, for his insights into how entrepreneurs are dealing with the states slow industry rollout. We talk about the legal injunction holding up social equity licenses, and why Upstate NY urgently needs dispensaries open for farmers and brands to sell their products and to get money flowing through the marketplace. Farmers are sitting on 300,000 pounds of cannabis crop from their last harvest and are at risk of losing one billion dollars in resale value if they don't sell it.

Meet Joe Schaefer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-schafer-63339a90/

Joe's Law Firm: https://www.lippes.com/

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If you have a website and running an e-commerce business, you need SEO to drive website traffic and build brand awareness. I interviewed Efrain Sanchez, CEO of Growth Logiq, a cannabis-focused SEO company that will get your brand ranking high on Google. We talk about:

* How to make Sure Your Website Content Has Topical Authority on Google.
* The lack of content quality in the cannabis space.
* How websites are killing their SEO with duplicate content.
* The importance of knowledge graphs.
* Symantec keyword research tactics and more...

https://growthlogiq.co/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/efrain-sanchez/

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Today our guest is Thanisorn Boonsoong, the young CEO of Eastern Spectrum Group. He is from a family of manufacturers at the helm of one of Thailand's few integrated hemp cultivation and manufacturing facilities. They plan to lead the world in producing industrialized hemp and to be Thailand's top-producing seed-to-sale CBD manufacturer.

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Nohtal Partansky is a former NASA engineer turned cannabis entrepreneur who raised a few million dollars to start his company, Sorting Robotics. He invented a patent-pending infused pre-roll machine and recently introduced automated robot machines that can fill and cap vape pens. 

My favorite part of the conversation was when he explained how infusing pre-rolls changes the physics when it burns, and how he sees the market moving toward rosins and why you get the most out of rosin when infused in pre-rolls.

Nohtal explains how highly variable IOT manufacturing is the future and his plans to build it. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nohtal/

https://www.sortingrobotics.com/

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Today our guest is Tanya Griffin, CEO of OhYess, a CBD sex product, and Uh Huh Honey, a patented process that produces CBD honey by feeding cannabis to bees. Before she started the two CPG brands, she opened and sold multiple dispensaries in Illinois and other states. She also heads Water and Trees Cannabis Consulting based in Denver.

And finally, she recently found time to launch a nonprofit that distributes free Narcan, a life-saving Fentanyl overdose treatment.

Wow, lots of experience and advice from Tanya.

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Our guest today is Sarah Hashkes, head of scientific research into psychedelics at Red Light Holland and CEO of Radix Motion, a technology company advancing psychedelic research.

Sarah talks about her research into how VR and psychedelics can increase plasticity in the brain. Her and her team at Red Light Holland are ahead of science in understanding psychedelics. Listen to the latest episode to take a deep dive into the newest tech in psychedelic research.

Tune into a fascinating conversation!

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https://redlight.co/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarit-sarah-hashkes-4a86b977/

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Today we meet Ryan Douglas, a sought-out expert on cannabis cultivation. Before launching Canopy Growth's cultivation program, he spent 15 years cultivating flowers and hydroponic vegetables. He started his own consulting company, advising others on building and operating cannabis cultivation facilities.

We talk about how to get clean, quality genetics, costs to build out a cultivation facility, how to make your grow stand out, and the importance of automating post-harvest production, to name a few.

https://douglascultivation.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandouglascultivation/

Ryan's book: From Seed To Success: https://douglascultivation.com/seed-to-success

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