Welcome to The Whole Gamet. This column is designed to provide cannabis entrepreneurs, executives, and those thinking about getting into the business, with real-world advice from someone who has been on the front lines. I am your host, Greg Gamet, and I have founded, operated, or been involved with a wide variety of businesses in […]
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Five key tips for readying your facility for final inspection
After months of planning, team-building, raising capital, and overseeing construction and build-out, you are finally ready for your state’s regulators to inspect your site and declare your cannabis facility operational. Inviting inspectors to your site without adequate preparation and an understanding of common pitfalls is not only dangerous – a failure can derail your timeline […]
Is your Company Operating at Its Full Potential?
By Simone Cimiluca-Radzins, CPA What sets great companies apart? Operational excellence. Although operational excellence is sometimes hard to quantify and measure, it’s easy to identify when a company is not operating at its full potential. From disgruntled employees, to product backlogs and missed re-order points, operational disfunction hurts a business. There are four main pillars to operational […]
Top 5 Compliance Infractions: Colorado Medical and Recreational Cultivators
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on top regulatory compliance infractions for medical and recreational retailers, manufacturers and cultivators. See here for the first part on Retailers. The Cannabis Industry is one of the most highly regulated industries in the world, on par with banking, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and health care with regard to […]
