Plant Prophets

Tami Wahl, Strategic Policy Advisor in Washington, D.C. with Market Access Today joins us today to talk about Sound policy solutions in cannabis. With over twenty years of legal and legislative experience, Tami Wahl is proud to represent forward-thinking clients from a diverse business landscape. Innovators from Hemp, Wearable Tech, Fashion Tech, Banking, FinTech, Cannabis, and other industries ha...

How Cannabis will affect the beverage industry with Steve Luttman from Tortoise & Volt Marketing and Ventures. Steve Luttman started his career at Unilever, working in Europe, the United States, and Brazil on various brands including Lipton Iced Tea, Ben & Jerry’s, Bertolli, and Ragu Pasta Sauce. In 2003, he joined Diageo & Moët Hennessy’s Schieffelin & Somerset as Senior VP Market...

Rachael Rapinoe joins us for our holiday specialImproving Recovery For Athletes Using Cannabis with Rachael Rapinoe, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mendi. Our next guest runs an athlete-built and women-owned company with a mission of improving recovery for all athletes. She continues to apply her expertise in training, competition, and recovery in an effort to better understand the role...

Ball Family Farms with Chris Ball. Ball Family Farms flower is hand-crafted from the finest raw and organic nutrients. Cultivated with meticulous attention to detail, each component of our genetics is pheno-hunted, developed, and produced in-house to the most precise standards. Ball Family Farms currently offers premium in-door flowers as well as hand-rolled glass tip pre-rolls. Their ready-to-smo...

Elegance Brands with CEO Raj Beri today on Plant Prop. Elegance Brands is a global beverage company that develops, markets, and distributes premium products with a focus on innovation. The company currently has assets and brands in two verticals: Non-alcoholic beverages, and Alcoholic beverages. Their vision is to innovate, lead, and succeed in the development of our company, its brands, and its p...

Weedmaps with COO and Veteran Steven Jung. Founded in 2008, Weedmaps is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry. Their suite of cloud-based software and data solutions includes point of sale, logistics, and ordering solutions that enable customers to scale their businesses while complying with the complex and disparate regulations applicable to the cannab...

Nothing But Hemp with CEO Steven Brown. Nothing But Hemp is one of the first hemp dispensaries in the midwest. In under a year, his company grew from one location to 11 nationwide. Steven has been featured on MPR, Marijuana Ventures, Tom Bernard show, and Ministry of Hemp. Steven is a founder of the Minnesota Hemp Association and former United States Marine. Steven has over 20 years of retail expe...

C21 Investment is an ecosystem of leading brands in strategic markets. They are focused on consumer value creation through supply chain optimization, superlative manufacturing processes, brand equity, distribution, and retail channels in North America and abroad. Their mission is to unlock the environmental, social, and economic utility of cannabis by developing, producing, and delivering premium...

Hi-Cone is a leading supplier of ring carrier multi-packaging systems for the global Beer & Non-Alcoholic Ready to Drink (NARTD) beverage markets, providing sustainable packaging solutions to major Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies. Hi-Cone has set ambitious goals to become 100% recyclable, biodegradable or compostable by 2025. They realize they cannot do this alone and need to work coll...

Gage Cannabis Co. With Jason Desentz, EVP of Human Resources. Gage Cannabis sets the standard for quality cannabis products, bar none. They cultivate and curate experiences that empower patients to make the most of the plant’s benefits and amplify their lives. They operate three licensed cultivation and processing centers in Michigan that serve 13 provisioning centers throughout the state with mor...

House of Saka was founded in 2018 when cannabis industry insider, Cynthia Salarizadeh and wine industry veteran, Tracey Mason, came together with a mission to create the world’s most advanced line of luxury, cannabis-infused products made by and for women. Discovering a shared passion for wine, beauty products, and the boundless properties of the sacred cannabis plant, the pair assembled an unpara...

Canopy Growth with Sol Clahane, Vice President and General Manager, U.S. Region for Canopy Growth. Sol oversees all of Canopy Growth's commercial operations and brands available in the U.S. market, including BioSteel, First & Free, This Works, and much more. With a deep background in beverages and CPG, our hosts sat down with Sol to talk about making the switch to the cannabis industry, th...

Improving Recovery For Athletes Using Cannabis with Rachael Rapinoe, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mendi. Our next guest runs an athlete-built and women-owned company with a mission of improving recovery for all athletes. She continues to apply her expertise in training, competition, and recovery in an effort to better understand the role recovery has in performance and the human body....

Humble Bloom With Co-Founder and Cannavist Solonje Burnett. Solonje 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. She believes that we can shatter stereotypes, structural inequities, and biased business practices through culture curation and by providing strategic brandin...

The youngest black dispensary owner with Seun Adedeji, CEO and Founder of Elev8 Cannabis. Our guest today is the youngest black dispensary owner in the country. A recent feature proclaimed him “the epitome of a self-made businessman who created his own opportunities.” At three-years-old, Adedeji migrated from Nigeria to the Southside of Chicago and later to the state of Texas, where he spent his t...

Corporate Social Responsibility In Cannabis with Dr. Chanda Macias, CEO of Ilera Holistic Healthcare and Chairwoman of the Board of Managers and CEO of Women Grow. Our guest today has been utilizing her knowledge and skills in academia, government, technology, and the cannabis industry to successfully leverage business implications and opportunities. Before finding her way to the cannabis industry...

Canndescent with CMO Sam Arellano. Our guest is an accomplished, entrepreneur-minded executive and award-winning accelerator of lifestyle brands. He’s created and produced nationally recognized campaigns for some of the world’s leading brands including Nike, Red Bull, and Incase. His 20-year work history spans men’s contemporary apparel, sporting goods, and consumer electronics. In 2006 Sam co-fou...

Ensuring diversity in the cannabis industry with Jeff Gray, CEO of SC Labs. Today's guest is one of the few African American industry executives in cannabis, who has made diverse hiring practices a priority long before the current news cycle. He and his team see the opportunity to take a young industry like cannabis and ensure that diversity is built-in from the beginning. Jeff Gray, CEO, and...

The Cannabis PR Queen, Rosie Mattio, Founder & CEO of MATTIO Communications joins us today on Plant Prophets. Rosie is the CEO and founder of MATTIO Communications, one of the top cannabis PR firms in the country and has been named a High Times Female 50 and Forbes Fifteen Powerful And Innovative Women In Cannabis. When Rosie moved to Seattle with her family in 2014, Washington had just legali...

Curbside and in-store cannabis pickup with Erich Mauff, President and co-founder of Jushi Holdings. Our guest today spent over 20 years in the banking sector with Deutsche Bank, first heading their Capital Markets & Treasury Solutions group, then serving as Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Corporate Finance for North America. When Jushi Holdings was founded by Erich Mauff and his partner...

Health is the Truest Wealth with Kelly Dooley, CEO of Kanna Kingdom. Our next guest is currently developing female friendly CBD and THC goods that invite all women to experience cannabis, and working to build a unique online community that celebrates the new legal lifestyle. Her father had a business manufacturing oil pans and her mother ran a swimming pool supply firm, and Dooley had accompanied...

The hottest market segment in the cannabis industry with Pranav Sood, Founder, and CEO of Trellis. Seed-to-sale is arguably the hottest market segment in the cannabis industry. My next guest’s company is one of the hottest startups in the cannabis industry thanks to a seed round of funding that was led by Snoop Dogg’s venture capital firm, Casa Verde Capital. Trellis has origins in Toronto but was...

Cannabis Is A Basic Human Right with CEO & Co-Founder of The People's Dispensary, Christine De La Rosa. The People's Dispensary was created to serve the most vulnerable of our population. The People's Dispensary creates spaces and curates products that enhance the lives of our communities, individually and collectively. They believe that cannabis is an alternative medicine that is...

Redefining Cannabis For Women with Erin Gore (Founder and CEO) and Karli Warner (Co-Founder and CMO) of Garden Society. The Garden Society is not your average cannabis company. They're here to break the stigma while completely redefining cannabis for women. They understand how to bring cannabis into women's daily life in ways you will relate to. And get excited about it. Their all about ma...

Social equity in cannabis with Karim Webb the CEO of 4thMVMT and multi-unit Franchisee of Buffalo Wild Wings. 4thMVMT is a Los Angeles based firm that seeks, vets, trains, finances, and partners with individuals from “underserved communities” to own and operate competitive retail businesses. Webb’s entrepreneurial experience and history of engagement within “at-risk youth” in Los Angeles has lead...