How's it growing folks!? It’s a new year and a new episode of Here Weed Go!, streaming to you live all over the world!

Before I jump into my interview, I want to give a quick shout out to the HousingWorks Cannabis Co. dispensary in New York City. It made history over the holiday break when on Dec. 29, 2022, it became the first legal cannabis dispensary in the Empire State to open and serve customers.

You might be asking yourself why it’s taken that long for the state to set its regulatory guidelines, issue various licenses and establish an industry testing regimen? Those are good questions I'll explore soon.

In that time it's taken to get legal cannabis off the ground, the so-called “gray” market has exploded, with technically-illegal store-fronts, consumption lounges and even mobile, food-truck-like operations proliferating throughout New York City.

I’ll be checking in with a deep smoke sesh focusing on New York’s cannabis journey in a few months, part of my goal of covering every single adult-use state at some point in 2023.

Now, on to my interview with Jorge Olson, the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer for Hempacco Co., one of the largest manufacturers of hemp rolling papers and cigarettes in the United States.

Based out of San Diego and hailing from Tijuana, Mexico, Olson explains how he came to the industry from a background in fast-moving consumer goods sales, what the differences are between cannabis and hemp, and why he believes Hempacco is uniquely positioned not to compete with cannabis but to disrupt the trillion dollar global tobacco industry.

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