High Rise: Cannabis MSOs, Products & Market Analysis

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 Julia Germaine join us as our special guest. Julia is the Operating Partner at Kindrun. Ms. Germaine has plenty of experience under her belt and we’re excited to learn more about her journey and the experience she has brou...

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 Dustin Moore join us as our special guest. Dustin is the CoFounder & Chief Strategy Officer of Embarc. Mr. Moore has plenty of experience under his belt and we’re excited to learn more about his journey and the experie...

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 Tahira Rehmatullah and Jacqueline Bennett join us as our special guests. Tahira is the CoFounder & CEO and Jacqueline is the Chief Growth Officer at Commons. Both of these strong leaders  have plenty of experience unde...

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 Valda Coryat join us as our special guest. Ms. Coryat is the CMO at Trulieve. Valda has plenty of experience under her belt and we’re excited to learn more about her journey and the experience she has brought to the cannab...

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 Aaron Trahan join us as our special guest. Aaron is the Head of Customer Operations at Texas Original. Mr. Trahan has plenty of experience under his belt and we’re excited to learn more about his journey and the experience...

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 Mikaela McLaughlin join us as our special guest. Mikaela is the VP Of Business Development at springbig. Ms. McLaughlin has plenty of experience under her belt and we’re excited to learn more about her journey and the expe...

This week on the High Rise we are pleased to bring back one of our regular guest hosts Matt McGinley. Matt is a managing director at Needham & Company who brings a trove of cannabis industry analysis and financial knowledge — just in time to report on some earnings news with Cy and Emily. This episode is dense with interesting insights from some of the major industry MSOs and their recent quar...

This week on the High Rise we had the great privilege of talking with Joe Bayern CEO of Curaleaf. Joe has an expansive background in leading the success of many well known traditional CPG brands such as VOSS, Dr. Pepper, Snapple, and Cadbury. This is another great conversation you won’t want to miss! Our hosts Cy and Emily dive into Joe’s background and get some stories of what his life was like b...

This week on the High Rise our hosts Cy Scott and Emily Paxhia have a fun and fascinating conversation with Troy Datcher, CEO of The Parent Company. Datcher represents the first time a Black CEO has lead a major public U.S. cannabis organization. Previously in his career he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at The Clorox Company where Troy was responsible for the Company’s...

This week on the High Rise our hosts cover yet another packed news cycle in the cannabis world. Cy and Emily are joined by this week’s special guest Dai Truong. Dai  is the Managing Director at Arlington Capital Advisors as well as the editor and host of Highly Objective, a hugely informative Substack and weekly podcast.  The discussion starts with even more projections and predictions as 2022 get...

Here we are again with another great episode of the High Rise! This week our hosts Emily and Cy cover some big news coming out of Delaware and Wisconsin. Both states have bills in place to legalize cannabis, but with a couple of interesting caveats to consider.  The state of New York is    refreshing its rules around medical marijuana which is shaping up to be a better experience for doctors, pati...

We’re changing things up a little bit here at the High Rise and jumping into to Twitter Spaces for this episode. Our guest host Jason Wild will be joining the discussion with Cy and Emily. Jason is the Chairman of The Board over at TerrAscend. He has a long history in the cannabis space as well as a previous life in heath care and pharmaceuticals. He has a fascinating history with getting many bus...

Now that we are about to see 2021 in our collective review mirrors, our hosts Cy Scott and Emily Paxhia devote most of this episode of the High-Rise to reflect on this past year and a few predictions for the year ahead. We hope you enjoy the discussion as the new year kicks off. Thanks as aways for listening, please remember to rate and review, and continue to share the High-Rise with all your goo...

We are back for another week of the High-Rise! This will be the last episode of 2021 and to help us end it on a high note, we have a special guest Andrea Cabral who will be joining in.  Andrea is the Massachusetts CEO of Ascend Wellness Holdings and was listed by Forbes Magazine as one of Fifteen Powerful and Innovative Women in Cannabis. Andrea has had thus far a long standing career in governmen...

This week the High-Rise comes at you Live from Palm Springs for another Poolside Session. Our hosts Cy Scott and Emily Paxhia bring you coverage from the Hall of Flowers event to discuss all the major highlights around the latest retail and product innovations to come out of the Souther California market. Also up for discussion as always is the latest MSO news. In the Canadian market Tilray just a...

Greetings High-Risers! We are excited to share this latest episode with you. Our special guest Matt Hawkins who is the founder and managing partner of Entourage Effect Capital gives us a bit of an inside scoop behind the recent Harborside/StateHouse Holdings definitive agreement in California. In essence, this is a three way merger between Harborside, Urban Leaf, and Loudpack that will fall under...

Make some room just before the Thanksgiving Holiday for another episode of the High-Rise! Cy and Emily as always bring in another laid-back, data-backed conversation around the latest newsworthy events in cannabis. This week in MSO news, our hosts discuss the Terrascend/Gage acquisition and how this will help give Terrascend some proper expansion into the Michigan market. Speaking of Michigan, rig...

On this episode of the High-Rise, we are excited to be joined by Kim Rivers from Trulieve. Kim’s is the CEO of this successful vertically-integrated “seed-to-sale” MSO. She’s been there since the start and has been a champion for the company’s customer-centric vision, growth, and strategic initiatives.  Trulieve is headquartered in Florida and has dispensaries in over 8 US states. Before her life...

We say this often, but this week we have a very special episode of the High-Rise. Our hosts Cy and Emily along with a returning guest host — the founder of One Plant, recovering lawyer, and cannabis insider Brady Cobb. The conversation stays focused on a single topic this week which is the States Reform Act. What does this mean for the cannabis industry? In essence this legislation would federally...

Do we have an exciting episode of the High-Rise in store for you this week!    We are honored to have Matt McGinley join us as a guest host. Matt is the Managing Director at Needham & Company and his experience in covering the markets is quite extensive. Before he started focusing solely on the cannabis industry, Matt worked at Evercore ISI and Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, he worked in brand...

The cannabis industry just had itself another interesting week and our hosts of the High-Rise are here to tell you all about it. For this episode we are honored to have a special guest host W. Andrew Cater Vice President at Stifel to join us in the conversation. To start off, it was discovered that MJBizDaily published an article which misinterpreted data provided by Headset. As a result the artic...

We are back for another week of all things High-Rise!  In this episode our hosts Cy and Emily give a good recap of MJBizCon in Las Vegas and some the goings ons and sentiment adjacent to the conference.  In US MSO news Columbia Care is the first to offer whole flower to the state of NY. Our hosts dig into some of the initial pricing consumers should expect, as well as potential effects of medical...

The drop in California’s wholesale Flower pricing is a hot topic, with mainstream outlets covering the steep decline seen in 2021. Cy and Emily sit down with Steve Albarran of Confident Cannabis, a wholesale trade and testing platform in a special Trailblazers Ojai poolside session to talk about what is causing the decline in wholesale pricing and what might be ahead for California. https://www.li...

Hot off the heels of the Coastal retail acquisition announcements, Cy and Emily sit down with Dennis O’Malley, COO of The Parent Company to discuss the California market, omnichannel sales and how the market is developing longer term. In this special Trailblazers Ojai poolside session we cover the latest from The Parent Company, including their new CEO, Troy Datcher who comes to the cannabis indus...

Recording from what is essentially Glass House Brand’s backyard in Ojai California, Emily and Cy sit down with Graham Farrar to talk all things Glass House in this special Trailblazers Ojai poolside session. Graham talks about their new facility which is the second largest greenhouse in the U.S. in Camarillo, genetics, terpenes and growing cannabis for your audience. https://ir.glasshousebrands.co...