They Did it Their Way: Good Meds LLC July 14, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories, Cultivation, Processing, Retail 0 Comments They did it Their Way: Good Meds LLC Have you ever met someone who is infectiously determined and committed to her vision of living a balanced, give-back-to-others life, who has the energy of a dynamo, is outgoing, straightforward, honest and… Read More→
Trade Show Growing Pains and Headaches Continue to Mount July 7, 2015 Rob Meagher Marketing, Opinions 4 Comments Earlier this year, I wrote a piece called Trade Show Mania that outlined the relative inefficiency of, as an ancillary business provider, solely relying on event marketing to reach your target buying audience to attain adequate reach and frequency. After… Read More→
Blazing Fertile Green Trails with CBE June 30, 2015 Rob Meagher News & Insights 0 Comments Ah, I'm finally free to do what I have always enjoyed most -- hitting the road again to meet with the owners and operators of Producers, Processors, and Retailers to visit their sites ,learn more about the local regs and… Read More→
Rocky Road to Real Revenue: Wellness Connection of Maine June 24, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories, Cultivation, Processing, Retail 0 Comments After a highly publicized and tumultuous beginning, Wellness Connection of Maine has righted its ship and has become one of the largest vertically integrated operations in the country under the direction of CEO Patricia Rosi (see CBE’s 100 Most Influential… Read More→
The Godfather’s Family Business: New Mexicann June 16, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories, Cultivation 3 Comments The Godfather’s Family Business: New Mexicann One of the things I like about New Yorkers (that includes residents of the five boroughs and the surrounding commuter population) is that they are very direct, they tell it like they see… Read More→
A long and renowned tradition of compassion, care, and success: Berkeley Patients Group June 1, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories, Retail 1 Comment By Rob Meagher CBE Press had the good fortune of landing an exclusive interview last week with Tim Schick, Executive Director of Berkeley Patients Group, and we had the privilege of learning from one of their longest employees/contractors who helped… Read More→
The Top Edible Brands CBE would carry on our shelves May 18, 2015 Rob Meagher Cultivation, HotLists, Processing 3 Comments CBE HOTLIST: 2015 Edible Brands The Top Edible Brands CBE would carry on our shelves by: Rob Meagher Even though state licensing for adult use and medical marijuana is only functioning in 23 states in the U.S., the development, packaging,… Read More→
Marriage Made in Heaven: High Country Supply LLC May 11, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories, Cultivation, Retail 0 Comments After opening their respective new cannabis businesses in 2009-2010, Tim Cullen, then owner of The Colorado Harvest Company, and Ralph and Heidi Morgan, owners of Evergreen Apothecary and Organa Labs, met and decided that they would be better off merging… Read More→
The Inventor, the Sales & Marketing Executive and Legalization: Eden Labs takes off May 4, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories, Science and Technology 0 Comments Eden Labs was founded way back in 1996, in Columbus, Ohio well before the current Green Rush (but at the outset of medical marijuana legalization in California), to create extraction equipment for botanicals. Before that, Fritz Chess, Founder, was a… Read More→
Three Times a Charm: Northwest Patient Resource Center April 27, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories, Retail 0 Comments Activist and business owner John Davis has been around the cannabis world most of his life, in 1993 when he got his hands on The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse: Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding or… Read More→
The Costco of Cannabis: Medicine Man Inc. April 21, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories, Cultivation, Retail, Science and Technology 1 Comment The Costco of Cannabis: Medicine Man Inc. In 2009, two brothers from a family of entrepreneurs set out on an adventure that would turn into a multi-million dollar venture fueled by the dramatic growth of the Colorado Cannabis Industry and… Read More→
A Little bit of Cuba has Come a Long Way: G FarmaLabs April 13, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories, Cultivation, Processing 1 Comment A little bit of Cuba has come a long way: GÂ FarmaLabs One of the great things about my job is the number of hardworking, risk taking, visionary entrepreneurs that I literally get to interview every day. They share the stories… Read More→
Move over Coca Cola, CVS, Berkshire Hathaway – Here are the 10 Most Important Companies in the Cannabis Industry February 10, 2015 Rob Meagher Company Stories 6 Comments By Rob Meagher Anytime a new industry emerges, regulators and speculators become very active. In the case of the Cannabis Industry, state governments have been charged with the task of playing the regulator role with each state having successes and… Read More→
CBE Lab Testing Services HotList 2014 December 16, 2014 Rob Meagher HotLists, Lab Testing 0 Comments Welcome to the Cannabis Business Executive Lab Testing Services HotList. With most states that have legalized medical or recreational marijuana production and sales mandating that the product be tested for a variety of results (potency, pesticides and other contaminates etc.)… Read More→
The 100 Most Influential People in the Cannabis Industry November 12, 2014 Rob Meagher HotLists Anytime you take on the task of attempting to identify the most powerful, the richest, the most famous, the biggest, the best (you get the idea) or the most influential, you start with the standard-bearer and build from there. With… Read More→