High Rise: Cannabis MSOs, Products & Market Analysis

Get an inside look at JAY-Z and Poseidon’s recent investment into cannabis payments company Flowhub valuing the organization at $200M. Emily and Cy sit down with Kyle Sherman in a special Trailblazers Ojai poolside session to discuss cannabis tech, fundraising, social equity and ‘chewing glass and staring into the abyss’. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylesherman/ Headset

With some of the most notable brands in the cannabis industry as clients, MATTIO Communications has brought the industry to mainstream outlets. Emily and Cy sit down with Rosie Mattio in a special Trailblazers Ojai poolside session to discuss the cannabis industry, what’s happening on the east coast and New Yorks’ ‘High Line’ cannabis district. Coopetition! https://www.mattio.com/rosie-mattio http...

Welcome back to another fresh episode of the High-Rise! Our hosts Cy Scott and Emily Paxhia jump right into some exciting acquisition news with Truilieve completing the purchase Harvest. Truilieve/Harvest will now have 149 shops across 11 states with 3 major hubs in AZ, FL, and PA. In other acquisition news The Parent Company has just purchases Coastal (a retail license holder/operator with 11 loc...

Welcome to October! This week’s High-Rise is another remote episode — this time from The Business of Cannabis New York event.     Our hosts Cy Scott and Emily Paxhia discuss New York’s’ rollout into the industry. From lack of vertical integration, a trifecta of channels, microlicenses, to the influence of New York culture and how that will make for some memorable brands the world has yet to see! ...

High-Rise is back on the road once again, this time in California for the Hall of Flowers event in Santa Rosa. Our hosts Cy Scott and Emily Paxhia keep this episode California forward as they discuss the uniqueness of how Hall of Flowers hosts the best of established and emerging cannabis brands from across the state, showcasing premium licensed products. The trade show also features a handpicked...

SPECIAL EPISODE: High-Rise host Cy Scott is on the road exploring parts of the cannabis industry in Europe. He got the chance to have a discussion with two of the managing partners of Óskare Capital a cannabis investment firm based in Paris France. Alexandre Ouimet-Stores a chemical engineer and venture capitalist, and John Rogers a clinical neurologist, share the story of how treating epilepsy wa...

In this week’s High-Rise, Cy Scott and Emily Paxhia have a continued discussion around the state of New Jersey as new regulations begin to develop and certain municipalities choose to opt-out. Then the conversation shifts over to California where they delve into the newly formed and consolidated state agency known as the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) and why this signals as a good sign for...

Join Cy Scott, Emily Paxhia and Jamie Mendola in a laid-back, data-backed conversation as they discuss what to expect with the recently announced structure for the New Jersey adult-use market before sales begin happening within 6 months or less. From there, a deep-dive into the beverage category, discussing Cann’s latest caffeinated cannabis drink and Levia’s sale to Ayr. We close with some MSO st...

It’s earnings season and this episode of the High-Rise comes at you with a full roster of earnings news from many of the major cannabis companies in the industry. Our special guest host Brady Cobb, a veteran cannabis entrepreneur, advocate, and former CEO/Founder of Bluma Wellness joins us to help provide some fantastic takes on the performance of these major cannabis CPG companies. Make sure the...

On this week's High-Rise we cover some positive news from the Golden State — 35 cities and counties elected to loosen marijuana restrictions and expanding the number of licenses for cannabis businesses — normalization acceleration here we come! We also get into the sales numbers for the month of July for various cannabis markets. Illinois in particular, there are restrictions on how much a co...

This week on the High-Rise Cy and Emily get right into the brass tax of recent market news and projections both in the U.S. and Canada. They also cover the latest update on banking for the cannabis industry and why Senator Cory Booker is walking back his stance a bit on this issue.  Cowen Group a financial services and investment banking firm just announced their market size projections for the in...

We are back for another High-Rise episode and this week we welcome a new special guest host Matt Hawkins, managing partner at Entourage Effect Capital. Matt brings some great perspective to the conversation as we delve into some of the latest developments on the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act. It is still to early to pass this important legislation, but we break down two of its key as...

On this week’s High-Rise Cy and Emily discuss the termination of the $50M strategic investment between The Parent Company and Glass House, and some of the complex details around that decision. Jeffires Group investment banking firm and one of their top analysts Owen Bennett, released a 200 page report covering U.S. MSOs and what things can start looking like from an investment POV in the near futu...

Welcome back to another week of the High-Rise Podcast! In this episode Cy and Emily are joined by Jeremy Berke , senior reporter at Insider. Jermey recently published a report which examines "The Cost of Inequity" in the cannabis industry. The High-Rise crew delves into some of the details from this report and digs a little deeper. In other news, our hosts talk a little bit about a recen...

In this latest episode of the High-Rise we are excited to have with us Todd Harrison as a special guest host. Todd hails from a diverse background in finance, risk management, and investing that spans over three decades. He is the founding partner and CIO for CB1Capital as well as author of the book, “The Other Side of Wall Street” and is also the founder & president of The Ruby Peck Foundatio...

We are back for another news packed episode of the High-Rise with Cy and Emily. Big headlines in the MSO world as Columbia Care acquires CO heritage retail chain Medicine Man. Texas incrementally upgrades their MMJ program by a half a percentage — literally.  The state of California makes a $100M investment in their cannabis industry, even though the state has enjoyed tax revenues from cannabis sa...

Here we are again for another week of our laid back data backed conversation on all things cannabis. In this episode we are joined by the one and only Alan Brochstein of New Cannabis Ventures and 420investor. Our discussion leads us to Illinois and Michigan where we get into the some of the constrains and dysfunctions these 2 US states are facing in what should be booming legal markets. We talk ab...

Amazon makes an announcement that has the industry talking.  We dive straight into what it all could mean with a special guest journalist from Forbes Will Yakowicz and how this might effect legalization and the industry going forward. The MORE Act has returned to Congress and we discuss the huge potential benefits if this gets passed into law soon, finally. In earnings news, we talk about Canopy G...

This week we get into the weeds with AYR and Cresco to see how their earnings might pan out.  We talk about Gen Z share of wallet in an adult use world, plus a Sunnyside retail X YouGov study that shows 25% of Americans now consume cannabis. Lastly we get into a side effect of high tax rates known as 'looping'. As always there's never a dull moment in our break down of the cannabis...

In this episode we talk a bit about some recent US cannabis legalization news as it relates to members of the Republican party and about Chuck Schumer. We also talk about GTI with their G.A.R.P. and their earnings call, where GTI utilizes some groovy/dubby jams via Spotify. We get into Curaleaf and their potential investment moves into interstate commerce and some other MSO news. Lastly we talk ab...

A special episode covering the Cookies x GTI collaboration with the launch of their new location on the strip.  Headset

In this episode we are joined by Emily Paxhia of Poseidon Asset Management and Matt Karnes of GreenWave Advisors where we talk about the Sundial Growers acquisition of Inner Spirit Holdings, the latest news with OrganiGram's CEO, banking rates potentially lowering as a trend as seen with GTI, and 'Tilapia' High-Rise Cannabis MSOs, Products & Market Analysis is a laid-back, data-...

In this episode we are joined by Emily Paxhia of Poseidon Asset Management and Matt Karnes of GreenWave Advisors where we talk about Canada's upcoming CBD strategy and MSO expansion. High-Rise Cannabis MSOs, Products & Market Analysis is a laid-back, data-backed discussion on the cannabis market with notable industry leaders.  Headset