High Rise: Cannabis MSOs, Products & Market Analysis

With loopholes and grey market challenges in many legal states, there’s been quite a bit of chaos around how certain types of THC(ish) compounds make their way into various cannabis products—specifically in the edible category. On this episode, Cy and Emily take a dive into how the state of Minnesota deftly created a unique way of establishing a regulatory framework in how cannabis edibles are pro...

Each year during the summer months music festivals pop up everywhere for many music lovers to take part in. It seems that primarily in the state of California we have seen innovative music-meets-cannabis experiences as part of the line up.  Why doesn’t this happen at more festivals across the U.S. in states where cannabis is legal? On this episode of the High Rise, Cy and Emily dig into this topic...

Independence Day 2022 is days away and as far as summer holidays go in the United States, it’s a day of celebration with family, friends, food, drink, and cannabis products. On the this episode of the High Rise Cy and Emily get into some stats, compare product categories, look at various markets, and high light a couple of brands that see significant bumps in sales around the 4th of July. There’s...

Welcome back to another conversation about all things cannabis here on the High Rise. We are joined by a very special guest, Bryan Gerber CEO and founder of Hara Supply. Bryan, Cy, and Emily to talk about the state of Pre-Rolls and the category’s interesting journey to scale over the years. https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanmgerber/ https://harasupply.com Headset

On this episode of the High Rise Cy and Emily talk about what the Federal Government has been up to lately with the ‘War on Drugs’. Intelligence agencies might be about to relax on hiring employees who’ve used cannabis in the past. The DEA has been seizing more illegally grown cannabis than ever before. The Secretary of Transportation is looking to fly Air Force One around the country to visit law...

Cy and Emily give us a classic ‘laid back data backed’ convo exclusively around the beverage category on this episode of the High Rise. There is a soon to be released in low dose THC drink called Leisuretown, from celebrity skateboarder Rob Dyrdeck and super star DJ/producer Diplo via HERBL in California. Our hosts get into the how and why a small but mighty cannabis beverage category is an import...

In this episode Cy and Emily delve into the recent news of Parallel, one of the largest privately-held, vertically-integrated, multi-state cannabis operators in the U.S. Parallel. In 2018 Beau Wrigley Jr (heir to Wrigley’s chewing gum) had envisioned building a cannabis MSO juggernaut that could one day surpass the success of his family’s chewing gum business. There was lots of hype built up aroun...

In this episode Cy and Emily delve into the recent news of Parallel, one of the largest privately-held, vertically-integrated, multi-state cannabis operators in the U.S. . In 2018 Beau Wrigley Jr (heir to Wrigley’s chewing gum) had envisioned building a cannabis MSO juggernaut that could one day surpass the success of his family’s chewing gum business. There was lots of hype built up around Parall...

On this episode of the High Rise, Cy and Emily talk about Ascend Wellness Holdings (AWH) banding together with other prominent cannabis businesses to sue the federal government over what they believe to be unconstitutional policies that are impending their operations. AWH has tapped the famous law firm Boies, Schiller Flexner to help them bring this case all the way up SCOTUS if they can garner en...

Welcome back to the High Rise! We are very excited to try out a new format that’s quite a bit more focused and attention span friendly for everybody.    So what is this new format exactly? We are shorting our laid back data back conversations to be about 15 minutes each and dropping 2 episodes per week.    With so much happening in the industry on any given week, we think snack-sized episodes that...

Hello and welcome back fellow High Risers! We have another industry information packed episode for you once again. Cy and Emily get right into it with a little cannabis business events recap from MJ Unpacked in New York to Lyft&Co in ’Trono’  After that our hosts talk about the state of New Jersey’s successful first month of adult use legal cannabis ($5 per week) amazing.  Continuing on, the c...

Hello High Risers! Welcome back to another great week and another great episode of our small but mighty podcast. Cy and Emily get right into the latest news cycle in the world of cannabis by cracking into some 420 data — apparently people like shopping at stores vs online. The brand Houseplant showcased it’s actual house in Architectural Digest and there were no cannabis products in sight strangel...

And we’re back! Our ‘famous’ High Rise hosts return from many action packed, data backed, poolside sessions and into the regular cannabis news cycle of the week. In this episode Cy and Emily start out by giving us a little debrief of the poolside sessions at Benzinga — a huge success but no actual swimming happened. Into the news, our hosts talk about the freshly open for business, adult use sales...

The High Rise podcast is once again on location, this time for the week of 4/20 at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference in beautiful Miami Beach Florida.   Our hosts Cy and Emily set up poolside to have more laid back, data-backed conversations with some of the industry’s movers and shakers.    On this episode, we have Brady Cobb CEO of One Plant back on to talk more about the investing and finance si...

The High Rise podcast is once again on location, this time for the week of 4/20 at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference in beautiful Miami Beach Florida.   Our hosts Cy and Emily set up poolside to have more laid back, data-backed conversations with some of the industry’s movers and shakers.  On this episode, we have Karson Humiston CEO over at Vangst join us to talk about her experience at Vangst, he...

The High Rise podcast is once again on location, this time for the week of 4/20 at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference in beautiful Miami Beach Florida.   Our hosts Cy and Emily set up poolside to have more laid back, data-backed conversations with some of the industry’s movers and shakers.    On this episode, we have Nancy Whiteman CEO over at Wana join us to talk about her experience at Wana, her o...

The High Rise podcast is once again on location, this time for the week of 4/20 at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference in beautiful Miami Beach Florida.   Our hosts Cy and Emily set up poolside to have more laid back, data-backed conversations with some of the industry’s movers and shakers.     On this episode, we have Kim Rivers CEO of Trulieve back on  to join us and talk more about some current de...

The High Rise podcast is once again on location, this time for the week of 4/20 at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference in beautiful Miami Beach Florida.   Our hosts Cy and Emily set up poolside to have more laid back, data-backed conversations with some of the industry’s movers and shakers.    On this episode, we are stoked to have US Representative Nancy Mace from South Carolina join us to talk abou...

The High Rise podcast is once again on location, this time for the week of 4/20 at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference in beautiful Miami Beach Florida.    Our hosts Cy and Emily set up poolside to have more laid back, data-backed conversations with some of the industry’s movers and shakers.   On this episode, we have Aaron Miles CIO and Sammy Dorf Co-Founder, President & Chief Growth Officer ove...

The High Rise podcast is once again on location, this time for the week of 4/20 at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference in beautiful Miami Beach Florida. Our hosts Cy and Emily set up poolside to have more laid back, data-backed conversations with some of the industry’s movers and shakers.    On this episode, we have Abner Kurtin founder & CEO of Ascend Wellness Holdings join us to talk about his...

The High Rise podcast is once again on location, this time for the week of 4/20 at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference in beautiful Miami Beach Florida.    Our hosts Cy and Emily set up poolside to have more laid back, data-backed conversations with some of the industry’s movers and shakers.    On this episode, we have Morgan Paxhia co-founder & managing director of Poseidon join us to talk about...

What’s good High Risers! We have another fun episode in store for you this week. No guest this time but Cy and Emily hold down a fun fact, laid backed, data backed conversation that covers a lot of ground from the world of cannabis.  The state of New Jersey has finally been able to open up some adult use retail shops across the state — bong-a-bing! New Mexico has also launched their adult use sale...

Hello and welcome to the High Rise! In this episode we bring back financial analyst Matt McGinley to help break down earnings season as it wraps up in April.  As always our hosts Cy and Emily keep the laid back data-backed flowing around the latest news of the week in world of cannabis. They crack right into a few major industry updates with the MORE Act passing the house. The state of New Jersey...

Welcome to the 50th episode of the High Rise! So many great conversations with so many fascinating guests already, we’re excited to keep it going to at least 500! And to help mark the occasion, we have yet another fascinating guest who will be joining Cy and Emily for episode 50 — Scott Kenyon CEO of Wurk. This conversation is centered around the cannabis workforce and the various aspects of what...

This week, the High Rise is on location at SXSW bringing another laidback data-backed set of conversations we call the Poolside Sessions.  On this episode we are pleased to have Brett Heyman join us as our special guest. Brett is the Founder & Creative Director at Flower by Edie Parker. Ms. Heyman has plenty of experience under her belt and we’re excited to learn more about her journey and the...