State level symposiums on hemp throughout 2019 with Christie Lunsford, The Hemp Biz Conference. Christie has been involved in the cannabis and hemp movement for more than a decade and provides consulting and education. She is currently holding state level symposiums on hemp throughout 2019 and hosting an add-on workshop called NCIA’s Hemp Biz Conference at our upcoming Cannabis Business Summit. Christie has also served as a consultant during the licensing, development, and formulation phases of multiple cultivations, medical cannabis centers and infused product manufacturers in California, Colorado, Illinois, and Washington State.

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Allowing exportation of cannabis out of Oregon with Adam Smith from Craft Cannabis Alliance. In a career spanning more than two decades, Adam has been sole or collaborative founder of a series of successful non-profits and public policy campaigns, has served on the boards of directors for statewide and national civic engagement organizations, led teams of nurses in collective bargaining negotiations across Oregon, lobbied members of Congress and state legislatures, advised non-profit and for-profit clients on a range of issues, and was a founding partner in a company bringing Pacific Northwest craft beer and artisan wine to Hawaii. Adam’s writing on drug policy and civic engagement has appeared in more than 40 print and online publications, including REASON Magazine, The Guardian UK, Mother Jones Online, Alternet, and The Razorwire. He has also produced chapters for the books Busted; Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords, and America’s War on Drugs, Drug Trafficking and How To Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. Oregon is seeking the legislative process surrounding allowing exportation of cannabis out of Oregon, we speak about that process and much more. 

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More sophisticated supply chains with Vince Ning, Nabis CEO. Nabis a distributor of cannabis products servicing hundreds of licensed businesses in California. Prior to starting Nabis, Vince began his career as an engineer at Microsoft before founding a software company called Scaphold, which was later acquired by Amazon. Jun started as an engineer at Facebook before founding an artificial intelligence company called Allganize. We talk about how the cannabis industry’s structure is maturing. We started off seeing vertical industries where companies were required to grow, process, and sell their own cannabis, but now we’re seeing more sophisticated supply chains which include distributors, like NABIS.

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Advancing marijuana law reform legislation with Aaron Smith. Aaron is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA). Before the organization’s launch, he was a public advocate for cannabis policy reform. Initially, Smith worked with Safe Access Now, a group of medical cannabis advocates based in California. He then went on to become the California State Policy Director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). In addition to his work with the NCIA, Smith has written a number of opinion articles that have been featured in newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.

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Helping businesses understand the emerging marijuana market with Jeffrey Stein, VP of Sales of Consumer Research Around Cannabis, based in Houston, TX. The company’s goal is to help marketers connect the dots between cannabis customers and the broader North American consumer economy. Consumer Research Around Cannabis provides client-focused research, designed in helping businesses understand the emerging marijuana market. The company offering insights into this category while attitudes and legislation evolve in the US and Canada. Their research facilitates decision making for clients such as investors, legislators, lobbyists, advocacy groups, advisors, product developers, competitive product companies, and other associated industries. Consumer Research Around Cannabis furnishes credible research to make timely, solid, well-informed decisions. There’s lots of polling out there, such as Gallup and Pew Center polls about legalization. Based on their research, we talk about what are we seeing as far as public opinion or approval in various markets of either adult-use and medical cannabis. As well as what other data points are interesting as Jeffrey looks into this research.

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Cannabis Focused Sales with Francesca Vavalva, a co-founder of Alias Cann. Alias is a cannabis sales and marketing company based out of Delaware. They offer cannabis focused sales, planning, processing, and marketing services. With cannabis legalization in a majority of states across the country, the time to adapt and innovate has arrived. Alias Cann marries our years of expertise in sales and marketing, knowledge of the cannabis industry, and your product or service to create mutual growth. Integrating with Alias Cann is seamless and offers powerful advancement in a quickly growing field. We operate within your existing structure, so you can continue to do what you’re good at, and we’ll take care of what you’re not so good at.

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The solar development project withTom DiGiovanni. Today on NCIA we are joined by Tom DiGiovanni, with California-based Canndescent. Some big news from Canndescent recently is the solar development project, which is a first of its kind in the cannabis industry. Bethany and Tom go into detail about the project and how ti can change the future of the cannabis industry. Sustainability is a big issue for everyone, not just in cannabis, and Earth Day being right around the corner some cannabis companies are stepping up their game to address ways to become more sustainable for the future. Canndescent is working hard to inspire such sustainability in an attempt to help the entire industry flourish. Tom specializes in providing top-notch finance, operations, and accounting expertise to fast-growth companies with a primary focus on consumer products, technology, real estate, and renewable energy. With more than two decades of Executive level experience in a variety of high growth business environments, his career has been mainly focused on helping high growth startups and middle market companies deal with critical business needs - ranging from creating and implementing major strategic plans to dealing with tactical issues like cash flow, expense reduction, sales growth, etc.

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Disadvantages the US have in cannabis legalization with Oscar Velasco-Schmitz of Dockside Cannabis. Aaron Varney, Maria Moses, & Oscar Velasco-Schmitz are the heart and soul of Dockside Cannabis, and the reason the company exists. All of them stem from backgrounds in either business, technology, or both- and their unique stories are what brought Dockside to life. In 2009, Oscar had been advocating for cannabis rights for years and was able to establish lasting relationships with people and policymakers like city attorney Pete Holmes, which helped to shape bits of the conversation around what cannabis policy for Washington could look like. He later connected Maria with someone who ran a medical collective, and the two of them agreed to move forward with their own cannabis shop. The U.S. is basically falling behind in the global market now with other countries legalizing cannabis for adults or at least medical use, and of course, they’re not subject to U.S. tax laws. They discuss if the US is at a disadvantage due to these restrictions. As well as the fact that we’re seeing cosponsors on our legislation from BOTH sides of the aisle, both democrat and republican. That's due to our industry getting out there and educating them about our issues and putting a personal face on it. They speak about what kind of anecdotes or research we need to be sharing with those who are not yet signed on to our issues.

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The Future of Cannabis with Ari Cohen, Vice President of Operations with Dixie Brands. Dixie began as a smaller operation about ten years ago and has since then has expanded exponentially and is in almost every dispensary in Colorado. That means a lot of fast scaling up and hiring a lot of people. At Dixie, they believe that cannabis is powerful, that quality is important and that accurate dosing is everything. Which is why, since 2010, they've been leading the industry through research, education, and advocacy. Dixie has also established ourselves as the trusted source for innovative, safe, effective and delicious cannabis products along the way. Dixie handcrafts every product with pure-extracted THC and a process they are proud of. They go far above and beyond the mandated batch testing and triple lab test every product they sell. Because when it comes to cannabis, consistency, and accuracy are highly important. Given Ari's experience in the restaurant industry prior to joining Dixie, where restaurants are launching and expanding and scaling upo, we talk about how the skills gained in that sector have helped him at his position.

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Cutting-edge and versatile vaporizer products. We are joined by Ali Abouzalam of Bee Nails based in Fort Collins, Colorado, producing vaporizer products. Bee Nails has donated to and volunteered with with local charities and beekeepers such as the National MS foundation and Colorado Beekeeper’s Association. Bee-Nails was founded in 2015 and is the Colorado Vaporizer Company that puts its people before its profits. Their passion is to deliver "The Buzz Effect" through providing cutting-edge and versatile vaporizer products. They are an industry leader because of you, the Colony. Bee Nails continuously innovate their designs for their E-nails, E-Nail Kits, Wax Vaporizers, and Dab Rigs primarily based on Colony feedback.

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