The Green Rush

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Kris Kane is back in the host seat for a new episode with special guest Laura Bianchi, Founding Partner of Bianchi & Brandt. Laura joins us this week to discuss how her firm helps operators navigate the unique busine...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Anne Donohoe and Lewis Goldberg are back for a new episode with special guest Melissa Lavasani, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Psychedelic Medicine Coalition (PMC) and Founder and President of Psychedelic Med...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Anne Donohoe and Phil Carlson are back for a new episode with special guests Jason Raznick, CEO of Benzinga, and Elliot Lane, Head of Benzinga Cannabis & Psychedelics. Jason and Elliot join us this week to preview th...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production,a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich are back for a new episode with special guest Jeremy Berke, Cannabis Journalist and the Founder of Cultivated. Jeremy joins us to discuss his new Substack newsletter covering the cannabis i...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week our hosts Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich are joined by the incomparable Betty Aldworth, Director of Communications and Marketing for MAPS. An activist and advocate since her first anti-nukes demonstration as a pre-teen,...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week our hosts Lewis Goldberg and Phil Carlson are joined by Ken Belotsky and Hayim Raclaw of Negev Capital, an Israeli-based psychedelic medical intervention investment fund that targets companies that are at an early st...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week our hosts Nick Opich and Phil Carlson are joined by Bill Healy, Co-Founder of Silver Spike Capital (NASDAQ: SSIC), a specialty finance company formed to invest across the cannabis ecosystem through investments in the...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week our hosts Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich are joined by Eric Offenberger, CEO of Vext Science (OTCQX: VEXTF; CSE: VEXT), a vertically integrated operator with roots based in the blooming cannabis market of Arizona. In th...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week our hosts Anne Donohoe and Phil Carlson are joined by Hillary Lin, Co-Founder & CEO of Curio, a hands-on and complete mental health virtual clinic for ketamine treatment. In this episode Anne and Phil sat down with H...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich are joined by Bethany Gomez, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Brightfield Group, a leading consumer insights and market intelligence SaaS platform for Cannabis, CBD and the emerging wel...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week our hosts Anne Donohoe and Phil Carlson are joined by David Traylor, Senior Managing Director of Golden Eagle Partners, a Cannabis Investment Bank and trusted advisor to cannabis leaders worldwide. After advising on...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Kris Krane chatted with Ira Weinstein, Managing Principal of Cannabis Industries for CohnReznick, a leading advisory, assurance, and tax firm that helps clients seize emerging opportunities and change the game in the...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Anne and Lewis Goldberg chatted with Adam Shapiro, Cannabis Executive, Hearst Newspapers & GreenState, a national platform navigating the new cannabis culture powered by Hearst. In this episode our hosts spoke with A...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Anne and Phil Carlson chatted with Kyle Kazan, CEO of Glass House, one of the fastest-growing, vertically integrated cannabis companies in the U.S., with a dedicated focus on the California market.  In this episode,...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week is a very special episode featuring interviews at the Marijuana Business Conference. Nick Opich went out to Las Vegas to attend the show and was able to sit down for conversations with two great guests in Gary Santo,...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, and a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture This week Nick Opich and Lewis Goldberg are back for a new episode with special guest Liesl Bernard, Founder and CEO of the industry’s premier cannabis staffing firm - CannabizTeam.  CannabizTeam recently published a Tri-Sta...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, and a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture For an end of the year special treat for our loyal Green Rush listeners our hosts got together to commiserate, celebrate, bicker and pontificate on the year that was 2022 and forecast some of our expectations for 2023.  This...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production,a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Nick Opich and Lewis Goldberg are back for a new episode with special guest Amanda Siebert, Forbes Contributor and Cannabis and Psychedelics Journalist. Amanda joins our hosts this week to discuss her new book Psyched...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, and a weekly conversation hosted by Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich. This week Anne and Nick are back for a new episode with special guest Kristi Palmer, Co-Founder of Kiva Confections an award-winning edible brand producing some of yours and ours favorite chocolates, mints, chews and gummies. Founded in 2010, Kiva is dominating th...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, and a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week host Kris Krane is back in the booth for a new episode with guests Matthew Walter and Steve Balogh of HedgeRow Analysis, a data analytics company delivering qualitative and quantitative analysis to cannabis compa...

Welcome to The Green Rush, a podcast about the intersection of cannabis, the capital markets, and culture. On a weekly basis, hosts Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich of KCSA Strategic Communications speak with the business leaders, financial experts, cultural icons, legislators, and generally interesting people moving the cannabis and psychedelics industries forward. Very few companies in this space nee...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, and a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week hosts Anne Donhoe and Nick Opich are back with a new episode with special guests Bryan Wickersham, Chief Development Officer, and Jerome Crawford, Chief Legal Officer, of Pleasant Trees, the first michigan founde...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, and a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Anne and Nick had the honor of speaking with Stephanie Shepard, Partnerships Manager and Director on the Board with Last Prisoner Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to cannabis-related criminal justice...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, and a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets and culture.  This week Anne and Kris are back for a new episode with special guest Chris Walsh, CEO of MJ Biz, one of the leading publications covering the burgeoning cannabis industry. Chris served as the founding editor of Marijuana...

This week on The Green Rush, host Kris Krane is back with a new episode with special guest Michael Reardon, Co-Founder and CEO of Happy Valley, a vertically integrated cannabis company serving adult-use and medical customers in Massachusetts.   In this episode, Kris connects with Michael to discuss how Happy Valley has grown since 2015 when it was an original client of Kris’ consulting firm, 4Fron...