The Cannabis Accounting Podcast

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Mark Waller, Director of Client Accounting Services at SAX and former owner of Moore & Waller CPAs. Mark has one simple belief: if you don't fix cash flow first, nothing else matters. Not 280E. Not tax strategy. Not compliance. Cash flow kills more cannabis businesses than any of those combined. Mark spent...

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Art Massolo, founder of Big Hug Strategies and former President of the US Hemp Roundtable, to break down the battle for THC playing out between big alcohol, big pharma, and the cannabis industry itself. Art spent 30 years scaling wine brands globally before pivoting into cannabis. As head of business development a...

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, Andrew Hunzicker, founder of DOPE CFO, recaps the biggest cannabis industry news from June 2026. Listen to learn about: ✅ Trulieve becoming the first cannabis company to uplist onto the New York Stock Exchange, with Curaleaf right behind them ✅ Why Q1 2026 capital raises are already up almost 10X year-over-year, with the biggest months still ah...

So you've seen the headlines: AI is coming for bookkeeping, tax prep, and data entry. The accountants who thrive won't be the ones doing that work faster. They'll be the ones doing work AI can't touch. With cannabis newly rescheduled to Schedule III and tens of thousands of new companies coming over the next 12–18 months, there's never been a better window to build an AI-proof...

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with @marianalarrea.mlaw (Mariana Larrea), founder of MLA Legal and Consulting Boutique and STIGMA Hospitality Group, to map the global cannabis supply chain and explain why Mexico, with the most complete pharmaceutical-grade legal framework of any country, is still waiting for its market to move. Mariana has spent a d...

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In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with @luna_stower (Luna Stower), founder of Luna Stower Strategies and cannabis brand-marketing expert, to explore what it actually takes to build credibility and lasting impact in this industry. Luna was employee #1 at both Jetty Extracts] and Ispire Vape, helping navigate two very different public exits. She has been...

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Nick Kenny, Founder of KBS Strategic Advisory, to pull back the curtain on how the world's largest, most established companies have been quietly studying — and entering — cannabis for nearly a decade. Nick spent 18 months inside Imperial Brands educating a FTSE-listed boardroom on cannabis before anyone could...

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Mark Waller, Director of Client Accounting Services at SAX and former owner of Moore & Waller CPAs. Mark has one simple belief: if you don't fix cash flow first, nothing else matters. Not 280E. Not tax strategy. Not compliance. Cash flow kills more cannabis businesses than any of those combined. Mark spent...

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Griffin Basden, Senior Client Manager at AlphaRoot, a cannabis-specific insurance retailer. Griffin has one simple warning: your insurance policy might not actually cover you. Cannabis operators are paying for policies with cannabis exclusions buried in the fine print. And most don't find out until they file a...

Cannabis is moving toward a true global market where every country plays to its strengths. Where the industry will be in another ten years should be quite awesome — and anyone who's been in it long enough knows the difference between hype and a real shift. In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Chris Day, co-founder of the Global Cannabis Network Colle...

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, Andrew Hunzicker, CPA, founder and CEO of DOPE CFO, recaps the biggest cannabis industry news from April 2026. Listen to learn about: ✅ The historic rescheduling of cannabis to Schedule III: what the April 23rd DOJ order means and why it's the most significant federal development in 15 years ✅ The end of 280E: how Schedule III eliminates on...

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Amanda Metzler, owner-operator of Bigsby Farms in Oregon, and Matt Kennicott, Executive Director of the Cannabis Association of New Mexico. Amanda has one simple belief — if you don't control your costs, the market will control you. Matt knows another truth — bad policy kills more businesses than bad operators...

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Most cannabis companies in the global supply chain aren't failing because of regulation — they're failing because they're running businesses like magpies. Chasing whatever's shiny. No strategy. In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Atiyyah Ferouz, founder and CEO of AgCann Consultancy and one of the most globally connected compliance e...

In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, host Raymond Guns sits down with Jim Ickes, Partner at Frantz Ward and one of the most experienced cannabis and hemp attorneys in the country, to break down the legal and financial reality facing the hemp beverage industry right now — and why the longer arc still points toward normalization. Jim has been practicing law for 26 years, working in ca...

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👉 Finance professionals looking to get into cannabis accounting, check out our free training here: https://go.dopecfo.com/specialized-cfo-yt 👉 Cannabis business owners looking for specialized accounting solutions, check out DOPE CFO here: https://www.dopecfo.us/ In this episode of the Cannabis Accounting Podcast, Andrew Hunzicker, founder of DOPE CFO, recaps the biggest cannabis industry news fr...

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