Ah Warner is the founder and CEO of Cannabis Basics, a premium hemp and cannabis topicals producer since 1995. Cannabis Basics formulates lotions and topicals for both the medical cannabis and skin care markets, producing everything from pain relief creams to beauty products and tattoo treatment balms. Cannabis Basics is one of the leading cannabis topical manufacturers in the USA, and it was an honor to speak with Ah about how she has grown the business, the difference between her products and many of the other cannabis topicals on the market, as well as how she comes up with her unique formulations.

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Ah Warner is the founder and CEO of Cannabis Basics, a premium hemp and cannabis topicals producer since 1995. Cannabis Basics formulates lotions and topicals for both the medical cannabis and skin care markets, producing everything from pain relief creams to beauty products and tattoo treatment balms. Cannabis Basics is one of the leading cannabis […]

As the Executive Director of Harborside Health Center, the largest and most well-known medical cannabis dispensary in the world, as well as the co-founder of Steep Hill, The ArcView Group, and many other cannabis industry titans, Steve DeAngelo needs no introduction. He is a true pioneer of the cannabis legalization movement, and has worked as hard to educate the public about the health benefits of cannabis as anyone else. Recently, we had the honor of speaking with Steve on the day that his new book, The Cannabis Manifesto, was released.

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Jeremy Silva is the founder of BuildASoil.com, a website that offers handmade, small-batch custom soils to growers. Jeremy is an innovator and entrepreneur who is passionate about providing a valuable service and high quality product. BuildASoil curates natural ingredients from around the world to produce nutrient-rich soils that growers can use to grow sustainably, and they are also an advocate of recycling soil to minimize waste.

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Jeremy Silva is the founder of BuildASoil.com, a website that offers handmade, small-batch custom soils to growers. In this podcast, Jeremy and our host Shango Los discuss the origins of BuildASoil and how it has grown, why Jeremy isn’t concerned with the supposed conflict between profitability and sustainability, and what it takes to knuckle down […]

Mary’s Medicinals is a cannabis company based out of Colorado which focuses on unique, innovative products that challenge common notions about medical cannabis. Best known for their Transdermal Cannabis Patch, Mary’s Medicinals has crafted their brand as a reflection of early American apothecaries that found medicinal solutions in nature. They are currently offering their medical products in multiple states, as well as a line of CBD products that are available nationwide.

In this podcast, Shango connects with Graham Sorkin, the company’s Director of Communications and Business Development, who discusses how their product development pipeline works, how they have laid the foundation to build a national cannabis brand, and how they are working to protect their intellectual property as they pioneer new products.

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Mary’s Medicinals is a cannabis company based out of Colorado which focuses on unique, innovative products that challenge common notions about medical cannabis. Best known for their Transdermal Cannabis Patch, Mary’s Medicinals has crafted their brand as a reflection of early American apothecaries that found medicinal solutions in nature. They are currently offering their medical products in multiple states, […]

Jim Makoso is the Vice President of Business Development at Vuber Technologies, a vaporizer manufacturer based in Washington State. In this podcast, Shango and Jim discuss how vaporizing cannabis differs from smoking it, how carcinogens come into play when combustion occurs, and how Vuber Technologies has worked with physicists and extract producers to ensure a high-quality product and vaping experience.

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https://www.ganjapreneur.com/topic/concentrates/

https://www.ganjapreneur.com/topic/technology/

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Wes Abney is the founder of The Northwest Leaf, a medical cannabis industry magazine based out of Washington. He and show host Shango Los discuss how he grew The Northwest Leaf over time, how the cannabis industry has begun to trade prohibition-era isolation and paranoia for a willingness to come out in the open, what he thinks about cannabis advertisements that exploit women’s bodies, and how cannabis specific media outlets can “set the record straight” when the mainstream media butches the topic.

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David Rheins is the founder of the Marijuana Business Association, a national association of cannabis businesses which provides business intelligence, networking, and commercial opportunities to members. Today, David and show host Shango Los discuss the ways that prohibition-era growers and new entrants to the cannabis space can work together, how competition comes into play when cannabis businesses work side-by-side, the differences in how the industry has been accepted by different regions, and how many cannabis growers have decided to take their knowledge and skills to states that are about to legalize.

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