The Green Rush

This week on The Green Rush, Anne Donohoe is back for a new episode with Joe Moore, co-founder and CEO of Psychedelics Today, a leading media and educational platform that explores and discusses the necessary academic/scientific and other research in the field of psychedelics.  Joe has been active for 20 years in the psychedelic space and works to help steward the psychedelic movement in an optima...

This week on The Green Rush, our hosts Anne Donohoe and Kris Krane are back with a new episode with special guest Ankur Rungta, Co-Founder and CEO of C3 Industries, a multi-state, vertically integrated cannabis company headquartered with a portfolio including brands like award-winning Cloud Cover Cannabis and Galactic Meds, and a retail network, High Profile Cannabis Shop.  In this episode, Anne a...

This week our trusted host Anne Donohoe is back with a new episode of The Green Rush with special guest John Mueller, Chief Executive Officer of Greenlight, one of the fastest growing multi-state operators in the United States,  with operations in Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia, Illinois and South Dakota. John has previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Acres Cannabis and Acres Cultivat...

This week Nick and guest host Phil Carlson of KCSA Strategic Communications are back with a new episode with special guest Drew McManigle, Founder and CEO of MACCO Restructuring Group, a national, middle-market focused interim leadership and financial advisory firm, with expertise in the cannabis industry. MACCO provides financial advisory, interim management, fiduciary, and operation improvement...

This week on The Green Rush, Anne and first time host Kris Krane are back with a new episode with special guests Jigar Patel and Doug Cortina, CEO and Chief Strategy Officer of NorCal Cannabis, one of the leading producers of indoor grow cannabis in the highly competitive California market.  In a market filled with companies that have struggled or shuttered in the wake of the transition from gray...

This week on The Green Rush, Nick is joined by guest host Lewis Goldberg and is back with a new episode with special guest Debra Borchardt, Executive Editor and Co-Founder of Green Market Report, a national news outlet focused on covering the financial news of the rapidly growing cannabis industry.  In addition to its award winning news coverage, Green Market Report has established itself as a lea...

This week on The Green Rush, Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich are back with a new episode with Olivia Mannix, Founder and CEO of Felicity Pharma, a biotech company focused on drug development for the treatment of mood disorders in women, working with novel compounds to create solutions for various female-specific disorders. After founding one of the first ancillary cannabis marketing companies Cannabra...

Today, the Green Rush is back with a crossover episode from our good friends at MJ Today.  In this episode, guests Brian Adams and Max Simon speak with host Heather Sullivan about the worlds of legal marijuana education and training. The  Marijuana Today is a podcast about the business and politics of marijuana. It is a nerdy and in-depth discussion for those who want a behind the scenes look at t...

Today, the Green Rush is back with an all new episode as Anne and guest host Lewis Goldberg sit down with special guest Adam Stettner, Founder and CEO of FundCanna, a leading provider of reliable banking and financing solutions to the cannabis industry.  FundCanna provides flexible, highly customizable, short term funding solutions to all levels of the cannabis industry and supply chain, cultivato...

This week on The Green Rush we're running it back to our conversation with Judy Yee, CEO and Co-Founder of KZen, a leading cannabis beverage company. Judy brings 20+ years of health and wellness, food and beverage experience to the cannabis industry having previously worked for brands like The Clorox Company, Nestle, Earthbound Farm and Crystal Geyser. Her hope is that in founding K-Zen and sharin...

Today, Green Rush guest host and KCSAer Sirita Wright sits down with Kiernan Ringgenberg and Ben Larson as part of another crossover episode with our friends at MJ Today to talk about the latest news in the cannabis industry.  Kieran, Sirita, and Ben got together this week to discuss Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s just-introduced Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA), Presiden...

We have another special treat for our Green Rush listeners, courtesy of our friends at MJ Today. Featuring MJ Today host Heather Sullivan and Ben Larson to talk about the latest news in the cannabis industry.  In this episode, Heather and Ben discuss the accidental legalization of marijuana edibles in Minnesota as well as the current state of legal cannabis investing and venture capital. The  Mari...

This week we're running it back with an episode that was a recent favorite of ours, our interview with guest John Mazarakis, Co-Founder and Chairman at Chicago Atlantic, a market-leading publicly traded commercial mortgage REIT utilizing significant real estate, credit and cannabis expertise to originate senior secured loans primarily to state-licensed cannabis operators in limited-license states...

This week on The Green Rush, Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich are back with a new episode with Margot Micallef, Founder and CEO of GABY Inc., a California-focused retail consolidator and the owner of Mankind Dispensary, one of the oldest licensed dispensaries in California. Margot has been the recipient of numerous business awards and recognition, including being named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most P...

We have another special treat for our Green Rush listeners, courtesy of our friends at MJ Today. Featuring MJ Today host Heather Sullivan and Dr. Jahan Marcu to talk about the latest news in the cannabis industry.  In this episode, Heather and Dr. Marcu discuss the recent bibliometric study on cannabis finding an increase in legal marijuana research as well as the science behind a recent appeals c...

This week on The Green Rush, Anne Donohoe and Sirita Wright are back with a new episode with guest Jim Gilligan, Interim Chief Executive Officer & Chief Scientific Officer of Tryp Therapeutics (CSE: TRYP) (OTCQB: TRYPF), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing psilocybin-based compounds for diseases with unmet medical needs.  Jim Gilligan Ph. D. has over 35 years of experience...

We have another special treat for our Green Rush listeners, courtesy of our friends at MJ Today. Featuring KCSA’s very own Kris Krane alongside Heather Sullivan and  Ben Larson to talk about the latest news in the cannabis industry.  In this episode, Kris, Heather and Ben discuss the recent court ruling finding that Delta 8 THC is legal, the vetoing of legal cannabis by the governor of Delaware, t...

We have another special treat for our Green Rush listeners, courtesy of our friends at MJ Today. Featuring Betty Aldworth, Jeremy Berke and Heather Sullivan  to talk about the latest news in the cannabis industry.  In this episode, Betty, Jeremy and Heather discuss the state of unionization within the legal cannabis industry as well as the intersection of medical marijuana and cancer treatments. T...

This week on the Green Rush, Anne is joined by guest host Sirita Wright with a new episode featuring Andrés Fajardo, newly appointed CEO of Clever Leaves, a leading multinational operator and licensed producer of pharmaceutical-grade cannabinoids. Fajardo brings over 20 years of management experience, and as co-founder of the Company, he has led the development of Clever Leaves’ first 18 Hectares...

This week on The Green Rush, we have a special treat for our listeners featuring the man behind the scenes who makes this show possible, Shea Gunther, Founder and Producer at MJ Today Media and the producer of this podcast. In this episode, our host Lewis Goldberg sits down with Shea to talk about their origins in the cannabis industry, their thoughts on the development of legal psychedelics, and...

We have another special treat for our Green Rush listeners, courtesy of our friends at MJ Today. Featuring Ben Larson hosting this week’s episode talking with some of the most knowledgeable folks in the space about the latest news in the cannabis industry.  In this episode, first-time-guests Sysamone Phaphon, John Farrell, and Niklas Kouparanis sit down with Ben to offer an international perspecti...

This week the Green Rush team is sitting down with KCSA’s Director of Cannabis Development Kris Krane to talk about last week’s Benzinga Capital Conference in Miami.  Taking place during Bicycle Day and 4/20 – the Benzinga show featured a number of companies large and small in the psychedelics and cannabis spaces and both Anne and Kris made the trek down to support KCSA’s clients and check out the...

We have another special treat for our Green Rush listeners, courtesy of our friends at MJ Today. Featuring Betty Aldworth and host Heather Sullivan to talk about the latest news in the cannabis industry.  In this episode, Betty and Heather talk about how they got into drug reform activism, what drives their work these days, and the unique challenges of being a woman in legal marijuana.  The  Marij...

We have another special treat for our Green Rush listeners, courtesy of our friends at KCSA and MJ Today. Featuring Andrea Brooks, Max Simon, and KCSA’s own Sirita Wright and Kris Krane, the MJ Today and Green Rush teams got together to talk about the latest news in the cannabis industry.  In this episode, Andrea, Max, Sirita and Kris discuss the massive merger recently announced between MSO giant...

This week Anne and Nick are back with a new episode with guest Steve Gutterman, Chief Executive Officer at Falcon Brands, a California-based house of brands that combines street cred and proprietary technology to develop some of the most beloved brands in the state.  Having built Falcon into one of the top-10 brands in California, Steve has a two decade track record of building businesses and lead...