Grassroots Marketing

Grassroots Marketing talks about new in-house brand GoodGood with Jeffrey Garber, Founder and CEO of Yellow Dream Farm. Recently launched the company’s first in-house brand, GoodGood. GoodGood is a suite of premium THC cannabis-branded products that captures the intersection of culture of cannabis, hailing from CEO and Founder Jeffrey Garber’s vision to bring craft, boutique grown cannabis to a la...

Grassroots Marketing discusses Glass Blowing, Retail and the Cannabis Industry with Chris Piazza of CannaDevices. CannaDevices now consistently supplies 10 publicly traded cannabis companies along with numerous other operators.  Throughout this growth Chris has never wavered from his dedication to support American artists and independent small businesses.  Even during the course of a global pandem...

Grassroots Marketing discusses Cultivation to Consumption with Eric Robichaud, CEO of Green Goddess Supply. Green Goddess Supply is a “cultivation to consumption” cannabis lifestyle brand offering a line of high-quality products to grow, store, prep and consume hemp flower and cannabis products. The company sells direct to consumers at MSRP through its website, and also offers wholesale and distri...

Grassroots Marketing discusses Groundbreaking Video Intelligence with Tanuj Thapliyal, CEO of Spot AI Tanuj Thapliyal is a multidisciplinary IT engineer, academic researcher, and entrepreneur. He’s also the CEO and cofounder of Spot AI, a groundbreaking video intelligence company. He'd be honored to chat with you about how cannabis labs and facilities can leverage the awesome power of AI-enabl...

Cannabis Brand TSUMo Snacks Debuts Line of Savory Snacks into the California Market and their CEO and Co-founder Caroline Yeh fill us in. The cannabis snack brand aims to elevate the way people snack with a line of low dose cannabis-infused salty snacks. TSUMo Snacks, a cannabis-infused edible brand with salty and savory offerings officially launched today in California. The Company’s snack portfo...

We speak with Ankur Rungta, the Founder & CEO of C3 Industries as part of our NCIA Cannabis Business Summit 2021 coverage. C3 Industries, a multi-state, vertically integrated cannabis company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with several product brands including the award-winning Cloud Cover Cannabis and Galactic Meds, and a retail network, High Profile Boutique Cannabis. C3 Industries la...

Grassroots Marketing is joined by The Leading Canadian Women In Cannabis. International Speaker & Cannabis Business Consultant. She is a Forbes 30 under 30 scholar and international speaker on cannabis and sexual health. The Founder & CEO of PleasurePeaks, Antuanette Gomez. Peak Pharm Labs is a cannabinoid sexual health and wellness company with the mission of enhancing intimacy and sexual...

Elizabeth Corbett, VP of Sales for AE Global, is on a mission to build sustainable packaging & supply chain programs for Cannabis and CBD companies that honor their brand identity, drive revenue growth, protect the product and do so cost-effectively. Cannabis Industry Journal recently reported: Since early 2020, the pandemic has shined a spotlight on the global supply chain and its shortcoming...

Grassroots Marketing talks with Steve Malito, a partner at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, where he chairs the Cannabis Department and the New York State Government Relations Group.  In that role, he advises clients on a range of issues affecting the cultivation, processing, distribution, and sale of Cannabis. He provides counsel to businesses seeking licenses to operate within the industry, as wel...

Grassroots Marketing speaks with Ryan Forrestal, an actor-turned entrepreneur and founder of the latest innovation to hit the cannabis market; Blunt Bowls. He incepted this venture at a UFC fight with longtime friends, ambling to roll a blunt on the fly when it occurred to him that there was a cleaner, more efficient, and better quality route to experience a blunt.  Blunt Bowls combines the refine...

-CannGen Insurance Services is one of the largest cannabis insurance providers in the US and Canada. CannGen underwrites for most of the top revenue-generating MSOs in the space (in the US and in Canada) and is the first Managing General Underwriter (MGU) exclusively focused on the legal cannabis industry. Talk to me about the issues surrounding MSOs and what those companies seeking to expand into...

Lowell Farms Inc. (CSE:LOWL; OTCQX:LOWLF) is a company establishing a large presence in the California cannabis market. In general, the company has advanced production capabilities, grows artisan craft cannabis, and built a portfolio of award-winning licensed cannabis brands for cannabis consumers with an extensive portfolio of award-winning originals, including Lowell Herb Co, Cypress Cannabis, M...

Drnq Budz Launches a Beverage Revolution with Joe Wallace, CEO of Drnq Budz and Dan "DanO" OBryan, Founder of ROCO plants S.A. Costa Rica. Drnq Budz Launches a Beverage Revolution: THC Lined Drinking Straws. The radical new delivery mechanism for THC is eco-friendly, discreet, and can enhance any beverage, thanks to an exclusive patent for an “active coating” technology. Drnq Budz launched...

Comprehensive Financial Services for the Cannabis Industry with Steve Morss Chief of Cash Operations with Dama Financial How Dama Financial Is Offering the Cannabis Industry Comprehensive Financial Services https://www.newcannabisventures.com/how-dama-financial-is-offering-the-cannabis-industry-comprehensive-financial-services/ Dama Financial serves the entire spectrum of the cannabis industry, in...

Gary Hess, founder and Executive Director of Veterans Alliance for Holistic Alternatives (VAHA) Gary Hess is a former marine and founder of VAHA (Veterans For Holistic Alternatives), an organization that seeks to educate and empower veteran’s about the efficacy of medical cannabis. You use cannabis which he says allows him to explore his trauma and process it rather than anesthetize it—and he advo...

Supply Chain Issues for Packaging with  John Hartsell, CEO & Co-Founder of DIZPOT Talking points discussed in this interview include: Why packaging branding is so important for cannabis companies and how DIZPOT is helping? Supply Chain issues for packaging and how DIZPOT is helping Department of Weights and Measures and how DIZPOT is helping brands to meet these requirements with their experti...

Cannabis Packaging Trend: Biodegradable Plastics - Are They Actually That Sustainable? In the packaging industry at large, many are beginning to use biodegradable plastics as a sustainable solution to single-use plastics. For these reasons and more, Sana Packaging — a leader in sustainable packaging — is not: Biodegradable additives in these plastics break down into microplastics. They are not ide...

Grassroots Marketing speaks with Skip Motsenbocker, CEO of Pacific Stone, Pacific Stone is a premier seed to sale company producing 6.5 percent of the licensed California market’s cannabis flower. Pacific Stone was founded in 2015 and is comprised of cannabis cultivators and sixth-generation Dutch greenhouse growers who built the coastal indoor greenhouses we cultivate in. Pacific Stone has been r...

Grassroots Marketing talks with Zeyead Gharib (Founder & CEO) Zack Iszard (President & CSO) Harvest Direct about the gap between cannabis flower and all other product types and how they are filling this gap with their innovations/tech. Harvest Direct Enterprises is the first and only company in the world to make strain-specific cannabis edibles. You are the first company in the world to de...

Grassroots Marketing talks about Veterans Access to Cannabis with Gary Hess, founder and Executive Director of Veterans Alliance for Holistic Alternatives (VAHA). Gary Hess is a former marine and founder of VAHA (Veterans For Holistic Alternatives), an organization that seeks to educate and empower veteran’s about the efficacy of medical cannabis. You use cannabis which he says allows him to explo...

Grassroots Marketing speaks with Jonathan Ghiz, Co-Founder and CEO of Supurb about their On-demand Medical Marijuana Delivery Service in Arizona. Supurb is an on-demand medical marijuana delivery service that allows medical marijuana patients safe and convenient access to medicine from our carefully selected state licensed dispensary partners legally, effortlessly, and discreetly through your mobi...

In 2018, Los Angeles announced that ⅔ of all cannabis retail licenses would be set aside for Black and brown folks disproportionately targeted by the War on Drugs. And like many in South LA who qualified, a young woman from the Jungles saw it as a chance to gain economic parity and generational wealth for her family.  But if you're lucky enough to get a license, where do you get the resources,...

We speak about the Cannabist Retail Experience with Jesse Channon, Chief Growth Officer of Columbia Care. Columbia Care Unveiled National Retail Experience with Launch of Cannabist, a National Dispensary Network Leveraging Proprietary Technology Platforms to Support the Customer Journey Anytime, Anywhere. We learn about the brand change and the onus to create this national retail experience.  The...

Discussion on Competitive Cannabis Licensing at the State Level with Jay Czarkowski, Founding Partner of Canna Advisors. Jay was interviewed in an article he was featured in from Boulder Weekly.  Here's a portion that stands out to me that I would like to focus on.  Some cautious states are choosing to only legalize medicinally, while their neighbors leap at the opportunity to go full rec. Som...

Expanding Payment Solutions for Banks and Financial Institutions with Steven Kemmerling of CRB Monitor CRB Monitor and PayQwick have formed a Partnership to Expand Payment Solutions for Banks and Financial Institutions. This will bring best-in-class cannabis payment solutions to clients by expanding the tools and infrastructure needed by banks and financial institutions to manage CRB portfolio ris...