The Green Rush

Welcome to the Green Rush, a KCSA Strategic Communications Production, and a weekly conversation hosted by Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich. Each episode we talk with the most interesting, influential, people in cannabis and psychedelic industries and this week our hosts are chatting with Kylie Halperin, the CEO and Co-Founder of DD8, a hemp wellness company bringing Delta 8 THC and other minor cannabi...

This week, The Green Rush is republishing one of our favorite episodes from the last couple of months from when we spoke with Tim Ko, CEO of Entheon Biomedical, a company that is pioneering a leading-edge addiction recovery solution that harnesses and optimizes the therapeutic potential of the DMT molecule.  Entheon exists to invert the addiction-recovery ratio, turning the ‘untreatable case’ and...

This week on The Green Rush our hosts are chatting 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 sharing her own story, sh...

It’s time for a new episode of the Green Rush and this week we have our old friends Lewis Goldberg and Kris Krane joining us for a riveting discussion on the evolution of the cannabis industry and to break some very exciting news.  In this episode, hosts Anne and Nick invite long-time host and friend Lewis Goldberg back into the booth as he returns to the show he hosted for 100+ episodes. We chat...

Today, Anne and Nick are chatting with Greg Wagner, CEO of RYAH Group, a connected device and data company focused on using its technology to help doctors, clinics, dispensaries and more monitor and manage formulations effects of cannabis on patients. Wagner is a 20+ year financial markets global head and intrapreneur who recently took over the helm of RYAH and has helped the company develop key r...

Today, our host Anne Donohoe is talking with Andrea Brooks, Founder and CEO of Sava, an e-commerce company delivering cannabis to the larger Bay Area.  Andrea is a cannabis advocate, lobbyist for social change, and an entrepreneur with a passion for health and wellness. Following a disabling injury in which cannabis played a crucial role in her recovery, she was inspired to advocate for the plant...

Today, hosts Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich are talking with Andrew Ward - a freelance journalist covering the cannabis space for Benzinga among a number of outlets and the author of the brand new book - The Art of Marijuana Etiquette: A Sophisticated Guide to the High Life  Based out of Brooklyn, New York, we’re looking forward to chatting with Andrew all about his new venture as well as his first b...

For our loyal Green Rush listeners we are happy to share a special episode by our friends at MJ Today starring friends of the podcast Kris Krane and Ben Larson.  In this special episode, hosts Kris and Ben sit down to interview each other and dive into their histories in legal cannabis and how they got started down their respective career paths. It’s a great discussion providing a ton of insight i...

For our loyal Green Rush listeners we are happy to share a special episode recorded from early May by our friends at MJ Today memorializing the great cannabis activist Steve Fox.  While we never worked directly with Steve, his role in challenging the stigma of cannabis and the fight he took on for years is one of the reasons the industry exists today as it does and why we have legal marijuana in t...

David Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Enveric Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing cannabinoid medicines to treat cancer and who last joined the Green Rush in March, and Dr. Joseph Tucker, CEO of MagicMed, a psychedelics company focused on creating a library of novel psychedelic molecules to treat a variety of indications are this week’s special guests on The Green Rush.  At the end of May...

For our loyal Green Rush listeners we are happy to share another crossover episode with our friends over at Weed Wonks! Hosted by Jordan Wellington and Andrew Livingston, Weed Wonks offers a weekly deep dive into the nerdy and fascinating worlds of legal marijuana regulation, legislation, and lobbying. Each weekly episode features Jordan and Andrew parsing a different relevant industry topic along...

Blake Godlove is the Founder and CEO of Etera Foods, a sports nutrition company focused on creating delicious and functional snacks by leveraging nature and innovative technology, is this week’s guest on The Green Rush. Etera’s leading product, The After Bar, is the first non-hemp-derived CBD-powered muscle recovery protein bar with 0% THC while also supporting athletic performance Anne and Nick s...

For our loyal Green Rush listeners we are happy to share another crossover episode with our friends over at MJ Today that includes the one and only Anne Donohoe! 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 the latest marijuana news. Every week MJ Today aims to have the highest-level...

Jon Kostakopoulos, President of Apollo Pact, a medical research and education 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to help solve the mental illness epidemic by relying on science & research, is this week’s special guest on The Green Rush. Anne and Nick were very excited to have this conversation with Jon not only because his non-profit is helping advance clinical research of psychedel...

Shea Gunther, the creative mind behind MJ Today Media and the Marijuana Today podcast is this week’s guest on The Green Rush! In addition to his role as the unfailing Program Director for the Green Rush, Shea is himself a podcaster, writer, activist and entrepreneur who, from behind the scenes, has for decades helped drive the cannabis industry forward. As an activist, Shea had a hand founding the...

No new episode of the Green Rush this week, instead we’re replaying an old favorite, our conversation with Yaron Conforti, CEO and Director of Novamind Ventures, which delivers psychedelic therapies to patients suffering from treatment resistant psychological conditions at its Cedar Psychiatry clinics in Utah.  Novamind is evolving the model of regulated psychedelic medicine by treating patients w...

Chad Bronstein, CEO and Founder of Fyllo (pronounced Fee-Low), a technology company delivering data, media, and regulatory solutions to the cannabis industry. Under Chad’s leadership, Fyllo has revolutionized marketing technology for highly-regulated industries, allowing the most ambitious cannabis, CBD and consumer brands to overcome the complexities of compliance at-scale. Our hosts sat down wit...

Sturges Karban, CEO of ManifestSeven, California's first and leading omni-channel cannabis distribution company, supporting the legal movement of products across the state and beyond, is this week’s special guest on The Green Rush. Focused on streamlining the distribution of cannabis across the world’s most competitive marketplace, M7 has developed a unified platform supports compliant distributio...

Nishant Reddy, CEO and Co-Founder of Satya Capital, a privately held boutique investment firm that has its hands in just about every touchpoint in the cannabis industry including its distribution arm Vantage Point Distribution and its CPG brand A Golden State, is this week’s special guest on The Green Rush!  A long time advocate and consumer of cannabis, Our hosts Anne and Nick sat down with Nisha...

Doug Drysdale, CEO of Cybin Inc., a leading biotechnology company focused on progressing psychedelic therapeutics to treat psychiatric disorders utilizing proprietary drug discovery platforms, innovative delivery systems, and novel formulations and treatment regiments, is this week’s special guest on the Green Rush! Our hosts Anne and Nick sat down with Doug to talk about all things Cybin includin...

Welcome to the Green Rush, a podcast at the intersection of cannabis, the capital markets and culture. On a weekly basis, hosts, Anne Donohoe and Nick Opich speak with the leaders who are moving the industry forward. From politicians to investors, from celebrities to advocates, The Green Rush is the place for people who want to learn about the business, politics, policy and cultural impact of cann...

This week on The Green Rush, our hosts Nick and Anne are chatting with David Johnson, CEO of Enveric Biosciences, a patient-first biotechnology company developing rigorously tested, novel cannabinoid medicines to improve quality of life for cancer patients.  It’s been a while since the Green Rush team has talked about CBD so we used this opportunity to get an update on the state of the space inclu...

This week on The Green Rush, our hosts Nick and Anne are talking with Dean Friday, CEO of Lyphe Group, Europe’s largest online cannabis clinic, and direct-to-patient pharmacy ecosystem. Lyphe is one of the better-known names in the UK, with 60% of all active patients. Our hosts dive into the Lyphe business model with Dean and get an idea on how different the UK cannabis market is compared to its N...

This week on The Green Rush, our hosts Nick and Anne are talking with Jeff Stevens, CEO of Psyched Wellness (CSE: PSYC), a Canadian-based health supplements company focused on the production and distribution of artisanal functional and psychedelic mushrooms. At its core, Psyched Wellness is developing a line of Amanita muscaria-derived water-based extracts, teas and capsules designed to help with...

This week on The Green Rush, our hosts are chatting with Amanda Siebert, a freelance journalist covering the psychedelics and cannabis space and the author of “The Little Book of Cannabis: How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life”. She is a co-founder and editor-in-chief at Inside the Jar, a growing independent publication focused on drug culture in Canada and the United States and recently was announc...