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Deep Roots Harvest Doubles Down on Nevada

December 4, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Nevada, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Deep Roots Harvest was founded in 2014 as a cultivator-first operation in Nevada’s medical cannabis market that from the get-go favored the customer loyalty that comes with more rural locations over the fast-paced, impersonal, tourist-based cannabis economy found in Las…

Muha Meds Marries Opportunity and Efficiency

October 9, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Muha Meds is a Los Angeles-based cannabis MSO that was started in 2015 as a “traditional” market delivery service by entrepreneur brothers Ali and Muhammad Garawi, who went legal a few years later with a collection of vape cartridges. Building…

Fighting Dirty Weed Through OCal Cannabis Certification

September 11, 2024
Tom Hymes
News & Insights, Spotlight, Standards and Certification
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The introduction of regulated medical and adult-use cannabis markets was supposed to guarantee that legal weed was clean weed, but somewhere along the line that message got reinterpreted as legal weed is tested weed, which is supposed to mean the…

Metrc CEO Michael Johnson Talks Retail ID and Securing the Cannabis Supply Chain

September 3, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, News & Insights, Seed-to-Sale, Spotlight
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Earlier this month, Lakeland, FL.-based Metrc announced the launch of Metrc Retail ID, "a new solution designed to enhance supply chain transparency, bolster compliance, simplify brand processes, and reduce labor for retailers and brands through item level identification with serialized…

The Expanding Tao of Shangri-La

June 12, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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The fictional Shangri-La was a hidden valley tucked into the western end of Tibet’s Kunlun Mountains; a mystical paradise isolated from the world. For brothers Nevil and Kepal Patel, however, Shangri-La means the opposite of isolation. Instead, they are in…

Watch the Skies! Nova is Coming!

May 28, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Massachusetts-based Nova Farms is a very unique, if recognizable, breed of cannabis company, a throwback from the future, if you will, legacy at heart, sustainable by choice, modern in its thinking, wholesale but also retail, rooted to the soil but…

C3 Industries’ Brotherly Model for MSO Success

May 7, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded in 2018, Michigan-based C3 Industries is a privately owned, vertically integrated cannabis company that has in short order expanded its retail, cultivation, and manufacturing operations from one state to five states, with a sixth on the way. The brainchild…

Dug In: Big Island Grown’s Deep Cannabis Roots

March 27, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Hawaii, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Big Island Grown (BIG) is a vertically integrated cannabis company based in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii County, on the Big Island of Hawaii, whose reach now extends to several islands in the archipelago, with plans to develop more wholesale trade as the…

Root & Bloom’s House of Startups

March 18, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Salisbury, Massachusetts-based Root & Bloom is a locally and independently owned producer of quality cannabis products whose relatively recent entrance into a quickly maturing Massachusetts market has resulted in a string of achievements that include a steady increase in the…

A Conversation with Canna Provisions’ Meg Sanders

March 12, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Meg Sanders is co-founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based Canna Provisions, which currently boasts two popular retail outlets, one in the Berkshire/Western Mass. town of Lee, the other in the small nearby city of Holyoke. The company also produces products under…

Cannabist CEO David Hart on ‘Sweating the Assets’

February 20, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Cannabis Business Executive has covered New York-based Columbia Care (NEO: CBST) (OTCQX: CBSTF) (FSE: 3LP) many times over the years, including lengthy profiles in late 2021 with co-founder Nicholas Vita, and in September of last year with then Chief Commercial…

BDSA Augurs Cautious Optimism for 2024

As 2023 ends, the focus of the cannabis industry shifts to 2024 and the trends that will determine the health of individual markets, specific market sectors, and the overall industry, which could possibly see movement at the federal level in…

Where the Cannabis C-Suite is Missing The Mark on Automation

By Nohtal Partansky, Co-Founder, CEO of Sorting Robotics Throughout the cannabis industry, automation has become a critical driving force for business growth, efficiency, and sustainability. Yet, as the green rush continues to expand, the cannabis C-Suite often finds itself facing…

Three Tips for Improving the Resource Use Efficiency of Your Cultivation Business

A recent survey among flower and vegetable growers revealed that cost of production is among the top four most pressing concerns for commercial greenhouse operators. Why does this matter? Because these growers aren’t cultivating quasi-illegal crops subject to sky-high excise…

Timeline to the Finish Line: How Long Before a New Grower Should Have Sellable Product?

When launching a cultivation business, time is of the essence. The sooner a new licensee has product to sell, the sooner they can start enjoying attractive wholesale prices in limited markets. Even in mature states, if demand is strong, a…

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