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Here’s what you need to know! Missouri lawyer, Dan Viets, stops by to explain new gun rights for medical marijuana patients as we cannabis legalization news with host Tom Howard.

Tom Howard~ host of Cannabis Legalization News https://www.youtube.com/cannabislegalizationnews

Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabis business podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshkincaid/

Episode 727 of The Talking Hedge: Your Cannabis Business Podcast. ​Covering cannabis products, reviews, business news, interviews, investments, events, and more. https://www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com

Music Info: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

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Josh is not an investment adviser. The Talking Hedge is long gold and silver. Listeners should always speak to their personal financial advisers.

Show Notes: Custom Cannabis Pitch Deck Package Includes: 15 slide pitch deck Complete explanation of each slide Created by legal and financial Subject Matter Experts in the cannabis industry. Complete & customizable pitch deck Hours of content explaining how to customize pitch deck for your team 3 hours of Josh Kincaid’s time 3 hours of Tom Howard’s time Customized pitch deck for your Team in a few weeks. https://www.cannabisindustrylawyer.com/cannabis-pitch-deck/

Guest: Katrina Glogowski, Seattle Attorney & Angel Investor https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-glogowski-711a985/

Host: Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabis business podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshkincaid/

Episode 728 of The Talking Hedge: Your Cannabis Business Podcast. ​Covering cannabis products, reviews, business news, interviews, investments, events, and more. https://www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com

Music Info: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

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Josh is not an investment adviser. The Talking Hedge is long gold and silver. Listeners should always speak to their personal financial advisers.

Summary: *Flora Growth is the first plant touching cannabis company to IPO via direct listing on Nasdaq. *CEO Luis Merchan joins us to discuss Colombia's advantages of cost-effectiveness and experience with growing and exporting commodities. *Cannabis companies are ready to go from regional players to global players. Different barriers of entry across different sectors.

95% of Flora Growth (NASDAQ:FLGC), the first plant-touching cannabis company to list as a direct IPO on Nasdaq, operations are set up in Colombia. CEO and President Luis Merchan, a veteran of retail and sales, most notably with Macy's (NYSE:M), knows the salience of delivering on revenue growth and having a strong supply chain. Advantages of Colombia, cost-effectiveness and experience with growing and exporting commodities. Plans for regional and global expansion. Various barriers of entry across sectors and regions.

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Guest: Luis Merchan, Chief Executive Officer at Flora Growth Corp https://www.linkedin.com/in/merchanluis/

Host: Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabis business podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshkincaid/

Episode 727 of The Talking Hedge: Your Cannabis Business Podcast. ​Covering cannabis products, reviews, business news, interviews, investments, events, and more. https://www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com

Music Info: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

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Josh is not an investment adviser. The Talking Hedge is long gold and silver. Listeners should always speak to their personal financial advisers.

The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., owned by the candy behemoth Mars Inc., filed a lawsuit in May against five companies for selling cannabis-infused edibles that look like Skittles, Starburst and Life Savers. Although the suit focuses on intellectual property rights, the plaintiffs also argue that the copycat products could lead people, particularly children, to mistakenly ingest drugs.

A spokeswoman for Mars Inc. wrote in an email that the company is “deeply disturbed” by the products.

America is at an interesting crossroads: one where Big Candy, vilified in the wellness era as a primary source of refined sugar, has become an unlikely sheriff in the Wild West of recreational marijuana consumption roamed by pandemic-stressed adults.

In recent years, similar lawsuits have been brought by the Hershey Co. (against TinctureBelle for products resembling Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Heath bars, Almond Joy bars and York peppermint patties), Mondelez International (against a company hawking Stoney Patch Kids) and Ferrara Candy Co. (against a store selling Medicated Nerds Rope). These lawsuits have all been settled, with the smaller companies agreeing to halt production and sales of the offending products.

Show Notes: Big Candy Is Angry https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/style/edibles-marijuana.html

Guest: Katrina Glogowski, Seattle Attorney & Angel Investor https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-glogowski-711a985/

Host: Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabis business podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshkincaid/

Episode 726 of The Talking Hedge: Your Cannabis Business Podcast. ​Covering cannabis products, reviews, business news, interviews, investments, events, and more. https://www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com

Music Info: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

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Josh is not an investment adviser. The Talking Hedge is long gold and silver. Listeners should always speak to their personal financial advisers.

Delta-8 is a variant of the delta-9-THC cannabinoid that everyone is familiar with. Though still psychoactive, delta-8 is reportedly less potent than delta-9. This makes it attractive to consumers who want less of an edge from their high. But unlike delta-9, delta-8 is being sold in CBD-friendly channels like vape shops and specialty retailers. This appeals to consumers in states without legal adult-use cannabis sales who are still looking for psychoactive effects.

The extraction process is not “natural” even though brands claim it is “naturally derived.” As Politico's article states “The vast majority of Delta-8 products aren’t extracted from cannabis. Instead, producers convert plant-derived CBD into Delta-8 THC using a chemical process called isomerization. The process combines CBD with a solvent, acid, and heat to cause the reaction that turns CBD into THC.” And because the FDA has not yet provided any regulations, there is a lack of standardization in lab testing across the board. This means lab results will vary, further inciting the complexities of delta-8.

Show Notes: Delta-8: The Good, The Bad, and the Insights (+ How Consumers are Reacting) https://blog.brightfieldgroup.com/delta-8-thc

Guest: Katrina Glogowski, Seattle Attorney & Angel Investor https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-glogowski-711a985/

Host: Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabis business podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshkincaid/

Episode 725 of The Talking Hedge: Your Cannabis Business Podcast. ​Covering cannabis products, reviews, business news, interviews, investments, events, and more. https://www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com

Music Info: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

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Josh is not an investment adviser. The Talking Hedge is long gold and silver. Listeners should always speak to their personal financial advisers.

Washington’s weed industry is owned overwhelmingly by white people, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention—the industry was designed that way.

Unlike other states with MMJ and legal marijuana, Washington’s government has never even attempted to boost diversity in cannabis with any social equity programs. Seven years after legal pot first went on sale, lawmakers and the state’s top pot regulator have yet to create a cannabis equity program. Social equity should have been a priority as an attempt to send some of the benefits of the legal cannabis industry to the communities of color who were most victimized by the War on Drugs.

Aaron Bossett joined The Black Cannabis Commission as an attempt to utilize the full potential of the community, to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity. Initially, he believed the community based cannabis equity programs would provide universal access, and full participation in the culture, with full vertical integration as a sustainable job source for the community.

However, Washington’s leaders appear to be going about this process with little or no buy-in from the minority communities they claim to want to help. Black people make up 3.7% of the state’s population, according to the 2019 census, but currently own only 1% of pot farms and processors and less than 4% of retailers, according to a survey from the state’s Liquor and Control Board (LCB).

Aaron's frustration with the lack of progress establishing a social equity program has put him between a rock and a hard place. His response has been to create a branding and distribution company for Black owned businesses, as well as establishing a grassroots program absent of regulatory authority approval.

Show Notes: A Fight Is Brewing Over Diversity in Washington's Legal Weed Market https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/11/27/42107458/a-fight-is-brewing-over-how-the-state-can-increase-diversity-in-the-legal-weed-market

Guest: Aaron Bossett, CEO at Axum Analytics https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-bossett-46487761/

Host: Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabis business podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshkincaid/

Episode 724 of The Talking Hedge: Your Cannabis Business Podcast. ​Covering cannabis products, reviews, business news, interviews, investments, events, and more. https://www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com

Music Info: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

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Josh is not an investment adviser. The Talking Hedge is long gold and silver. Listeners should always speak to their personal financial advisers.

Two Republican congressmen in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would legalize marijuana federally in a manner similar to alcohol.

The measure would remove marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act, provide explicit banking protections for the cannabis industry, allow military veterans access to state-legal MJ programs and expand research.

The new Congress, seated in January, must start from scratch in terms of passing marijuana legislation. The House took the first step in April by passing cannabis banking reform.

More than 108 million Americans aged 21 and over, 43.2% of the country’s adult population, now have access to legal cannabis. While expansion of access to any new states is cause for optimism, these recent moves are notable due to the momentum they will add to further legalization efforts.

BDSA expects that cannabis will be legalized federally by 2022, but as many states still have laws criminalizing cannabis, legalization will also need to take place on a state-by-state basis before the country can truly leave prohibition behind. The spread of adult-use legalization to more markets in the South and Southwest could provide momentum for legalization in states where cannabis reform now seems like a pipe dream.

Show Notes: How New Adult-Use Markets Accelerate the Expansion of Legal Cannabis https://blog.bdsa.com/new-adult-use-markets Two US House Republicans pitch federal marijuana legalization bill https://mjbizdaily.com/daily-news/#two-us-house-republicans-pitch-federal-marijuana-legalization-bill

Host: Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabis business podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshkincaid/

Episode 723 of The Talking Hedge: Your Cannabis Business Podcast. ​Covering cannabis products, reviews, business news, interviews, investments, events, and more. https://www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com

Music Info: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

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Josh is not an investment adviser. The Talking Hedge is long gold and silver. Listeners should always speak to their personal financial advisers.

Once a month the Chronic Club meets up to review a cannabis product sold somewhere in Washington State at a legal adult-use pot shop. Last month we rated GLW Durban Limes flower a 49% out of 100%.

Join Josh Kincaid of The Talking Hedge, Steve Cominski of Baked & Awake, and Miggy420 of Cannabis Legalization News as we do a blind taste-test with a dozen vape carts from the Sun Grower's Cup.

Guest: Steve Cominski, Baked and Awake https://bakedandawake.com YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/huckersteve

Miggy420, Editor-in-chief, Cannabis Legalization News www.cannabislegalizationnews.com YT: https://www.youtube.com/cannabislegalizationnews

Host: Josh Kincaid, The Talking Hedge podcast www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com YT: https://youtube.com/c/TalkingHedge

CANNABIS JUDGING CRITERIA: Judge’s scoring can be influenced by test results as well as the following 7 categories: Appearance Aroma Taste Strength / Effect Cure Quality / Care Branding / Packaging

Music: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

Once a month the Chronic Club meets up to review a cannabis product sold somewhere in Washington State at a legal adult-use pot shop. Last month we rated ORGROW's Puna Orange Moon Rocks a 46% out of 100%.

Join us~ Josh Kincaid of The Talking Hedge, Steve Cominski of Baked & Awake, and Miggy420 of Cannabis Legalization News as we judge Fleek Leaf's Gelato 33 (20.63% THC) recommended by budtender Issah of Natures Sea Change Cannabis in Discovery Bay- Washington State's smallest cannabis shop.

Guest: Steve Cominski, Baked and Awake https://bakedandawake.com YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/huckersteve

Miggy420, Editor-in-chief, Cannabis Legalization News www.cannabislegalizationnews.com YT: https://www.youtube.com/cannabislegalizationnews

Host: Josh Kincaid, The Talking Hedge podcast www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com YT: https://youtube.com/c/TalkingHedge

CANNABIS JUDGING CRITERIA: Judge’s scoring can be influenced by test results as well as the following 7 categories: Appearance Aroma Taste Strength / Effect Cure Quality / Care Branding / Packaging

Music: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

During the pandemic, migrants who lost their jobs moved to a remote city on the Navajo Nation Indian reservation in New Mexico, to do what they thought was legal agricultural work. Instead, they and the local Native community found themselves pitted against one another in a bizarre cautionary tale about the boom in cannabis production in the US, and the impact on Asian migrant laborers.

It was part of a recent, surprising expansion of Chinese-American investment into the US cannabis industry. Investors sought to recoup losses from shuttered restaurants, spas and tourism businesses by ploughing millions into cannabis - all despite the fact that marijuana remains a social taboo in the Chinese immigrant community.

While hardly the only minority community interested in cannabis, in rural parts of the US, the Asian workforce stood out. This set the stage for a bitter fight with locals on the Navajo Nation, where unscrupulous entrepreneurs took advantage of the complex and confusing laws governing the industry, and set the farms on course for disaster.

The situation was yet another example of just how complex law enforcement in Indian Country can be. Tribal hemp laws got the farm started, however, since workers were non-Native, the tribal police had no authority to charge them with anything. Similarly, the county sheriff and the local police department had no jurisdictional power on the reservation or over Native workers.

The next steps got the federal authorities involved like the Bureau of Indian Affairs & the FBI - but with limited staffing and notoriously slow response, it took 3 years. Ultimately operations moved from NM to OK without skipping a beat.

Show Notes: Chinese dreams on Native American land: A tale of cannabis boom and bust https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56835897

Guest: Katrina Glogowski, Seattle Attorney & Angel Investor https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-glogowski-711a985/

Host: Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabis business podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshkincaid/

Episode 718 of The Talking Hedge: Your Cannabis Business Podcast. ​Covering cannabis products, reviews, business news, interviews, investments, events, and more. https://www.theTalkingHedgepodcast.com

Music Info: Song: Beat | Keep On | 2020 Artist: Milochromatic Beats & Song: Dark Trap Beats Hard Rap Instrumental | Gang | 2018 Artist: LuxrayBeats

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Josh is not an investment adviser. The Talking Hedge is long gold and silver. Listeners should always speak to their personal financial advisers.