NCIA Cannabis Industry Voice

Lobbying Congress Virtually as an NCIA Evergreen Member with Khurshid Khoja is founder of Greenbridge Corporate Counsel, P.C., a California business law firm. Khurshid founded the law firm in 2012, which represents clientele from across numerous sectors in the legal cannabinoid industries, on regulatory, start‐up, corporate, intellectual property, finance, and other commercial and transactional ma...

Bethany Moore interviews two renowned social justice activist in Solonje Burnett (Co-founder at Humble Bloom) and Marc Ross (Head of Impact and ESG for Vicente Sederberg) Solonje Burnett is a community leader, humanist, cannavist, and Co-Founder at Humble Bloom where it is her mission to give the underrepresented a seat at the table in the cannabis industry and beyond. She was recognized as 15 Wom...

DEI in the Cannabis Industry and at NCIA with Mike Lomuto today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Prior to his hire as the DEI Manager, Mike volunteered for two years in leadership of the NCIA’s DEI Committee. In his current role, Mike is tasked with building sustainable DEI at NCIA, supporting Social Equity members, and implementing initiatives to fo...

Insights into the Cannabis Extraction Market with Dominick Monaco, City Trees/CLS Holdings today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice. Dominick Monaco, Pharm. D. is Director of Laboratory Operations at CLS Holdings, Inc. (City Trees). He manages City Trees’ production and distribution activities in Nevada. Dr. Monaco oversaw formulating and manufacturing Louisiana’s first-ever Medical Marijuana t...

Blunts And Moore with Tucky Blunts today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Alphonso (Tucky) Blunt Jr. is the owner of both Proud Papas clothing and Blunts + Moore dispensary, is a 5th generation Oakland native, that has opened the 1st dispensary under Oakland’s Cannabis Social Equity Program. Blunts + Moore opened its doors on November 24th, 2018and i...

In Studio at #CannaBizSummit: Next Level Edibles And BALCA today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. At the premiere cannabis business event, industry entrepreneurs, experts, and thought leaders will come together to learn, network, and discover new products & services to help their businesses grow. With unique content presented by the best and brig...

The Full Spectrum And Gray Areas, of the Hemp Industry Hemp Committee with Liz Mason and Keith Butler today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice only on Cannabis Radio. Liz Mason is the Director of Operations at Aurum Labs and Aurum Hemp. Both companies focus on compliance testing for Marijuana and Industrial Hemp products. They were one of the first certified cannabis testing labs in Colorado an...

SEO Optimization for Cannabis Websites with Dmytro Syvak today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Dmytro Syvak, Business Development Specialist at MjSeo Agency. The mission of MjSeo agency’s cannabis marketing experts is to help our customers become world-famous by means of a well-thought-out SEO strategy, and increase their profits hundreds of times....

Allay Consulting And Precision Extraction Solutions with Kim Stuck and Nick Tennant on this Best OF Episode of NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Future of Cannabis Consumerism And Marketing Technology of Cannabis with Dr. Tara Couch and John Shearman today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. The Following episode is a "Best of" episode showcasing the highlights of two amazing NCIA Episodes. First up is The Future of Cannabis Consumerism with Dr. Tara Couch, EAS Consulting Senior Director...

Perspectives on Social Equity in Cannabis and R&D Horizons with Jim Makoso today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice only on Cannabis Radio. We saw Jim in Detroit recently where we hosted a social equity workshop and Jim and I chatted a lot about what’s happening in the industry. NCIA has a DEI Committee as well as a DEI Scholarship Program for licensees. We start by talking about those stat...

Hello Manito and Paragon Payroll: In Studio at #MWCannaBizCon today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Moving Toward Earth-Digestible Packaging in Cannabis with Nick McCormick and Kelly Williams today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice today on Cannabis Radio. So there’s a lot of packaging in our industry and our guests are on the PLC, and while some of the packagings is really interesting and innovative. What’s also true is contributes to waste and there’s an environmental sustainability issue...

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The Intersection of Banking Reform and Cannabis Retail Alexander Lipnik, AeroPay, and Peter Su today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice only on Cannabis Radio. Alex Lipnik is the Head of Strategic Partnerships at AeroPay, a digital payments platform for the cannabis industry. In his role, he works with ancillary technology companies – including delivery, eCommerce, and POS providers – to create...

Elite Athletes as Cannabis Advocates at #CannaBizSummit today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Generally speaking, more and more athletes have been coming forward to help destigmatize, and also advocate for the plant to be used for health issues like chronic pain and injury. It’s a little different than celebrity-like a musician or actor coming forwa...

Harnessing Terpenes, Sensory Effects + Replacing Opioids with Eybna, Nadav Eyal today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Nadav Eyal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eybna, a pioneering cannabis technology company, and terpene manufacturer headquartered in California and R&D Center in both Colorado and Israel. Nadav's professional background is root...

Insights into National and International Market Trends with Kelly Nielsen today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice only on Cannabis Radio. Kelly is the Vice President of Insights and Analytics with BDSA. She leads the Insights and Analytics team and engages with clients to generate insights from a vast quantity of data to make informed business decisions and drive results. Together with her tea...

Rocky Mountain Reagents And Indica LLC with Liz Geisleman and Chris Jackson, Live from MWCBC today on Ncia's Cannabis industry Voice only on Cannabis Radio. In this series of episodes, we are asking people how they liked being at the #MWCannaBizCon show after 18 months of not hosting in-person events because of COVID-19. As well as what issues in cannabis policy are most important to them, and...

The Journey From The Illicit Market to Regulated Industry with Tony Frischknecht today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Tony is the founder of Essential Extraction Corporation, based in Loveland, Colorado, which supplies the necessary tools and knowledge for anyone to be able to extract their own botanical essential oils. In 2005, Tony got his start...

A Deeper Dive Into Standards Development In Cannabis with David Vaillencourt, GMP COllective today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice. David Vaillencourt, CEO of The GMP Collective, and his team at The GMP Collective bring decades of pharmaceutical and food industry best practices to cannabis and hemp. He also chairs NCIA’s Facilities Design Committee. We’ve talked a bit about standards develop...

The Science of Standardization in Cannabis, Darwin Millard, The Spock of Cannabis joins us today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Darwin Millard (aka The Spock of Cannabis) is cannabis (marijuana and hemp) industry thought leader with over 14-years of hands-on extraction and product manufacturing experience. Darwin specializes in mechanical and solve...

Future-Proofing Environmental Sustainability in Cannabis with Will Vizuete and David Vaillancourt today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry. Dr. William Vizuete, Ph. D., is Chief Scientific Officer, and co-leads the Byers Emissions Analysis division, and is a key member of the Byers Mitigation Technologies division product research and development team. Dr. Vizuete is also a radio DJ on WXYC 89.3 FM a...

How COVID has Changed Recruiting And Hiring in the Cannabis Industry with Kara Bradford of Viridian Staffing, and Bryan Passman, Hunter + Esquire. Kara is Co-Founder and Chief Talent Officer of Viridian Staffing. Founded in 2013 as the first professional, full-service staffing, recruiting & HR consulting firm in the Cannabis industry. Bryan is the Founder of cannabis industry talent acquisitio...

Standards in Cannabis Food Manufacturing And Merril Gilbert And Rhiannon Woo today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice with Bethany Moore only on Cannabis Radio. Merril Gilbert is the Co-founder and CEO of TraceTrust TraceTrust is a nationwide cannabis and hemp manufacturing compliance company advocating for safe consumer experiences through HACCP training and Good Manufacturing Process (GMP) Ce...