Psyched Wellness with CEO, Jeff Stevens. Jeff is the chief executive officer of Psyched Wellness, a company researching and developing new ways of distilling and purifying mushrooms in order to harness their healing properties. Jeff is a seasoned Canadian capital markets executive with experience in building and managing public companies in emerging industries. Jeff Stevens, CEO of Psyched Wellness, Discusses the Psychedelics Scene and His Company’s Fresh Take on Psilocybin Treatment. Psyched Wellness is a Canadian health supplements company dedicated to protect, restore and regain a healthier body and mind through the production and distribution of artisanal, medicinal mushrooms. They are dedicated to researching and developing new ways of distilling and purifying mushrooms in order to harness their healing properties in order to nurture healthier happier lives.

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Psyched Wellness with Jeff Stevens

Mae (Mind At Ease) with Armen Gregorian. Armen is the co-owner and CEO of the former fashion label Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent and founder and past CEO of the women’s ready-to-wear brand A.L.C., whose new line of cannabis products launched earlier this month. Mae, which stands for “Mind at Ease,” features a range of smoking accessories dreamt up by design-world star Joe Doucet, plus a core collection of cannabis oil vaporizers and cartridges; Mae pre-rolls will roll out in California in December. For Gregorian, who is furthering his two decades of experience in fashion through his latest label Intentionally Blank, Mae is meant to fill the void he personally observed in the cannabis market two years ago when he purchased a popular vape pen from a dispensary down the street from his home in Los Angeles. Mae also retails namesake accessories including a solid battery, an engraved battery, a pen battery, and a JUUL case — all exuding an elevated approach to cannabis. Mae’s THC and CBD oil cartridges are odorless via a proprietary mix of terpenes designed to make usage as inconspicuous as possible.

Mae (Mind At Ease) with Armen Gregorian

Justice Joints with Sam Arellano, Chief Marketing Officer of Canndescent. Justice Joints is a first-of-its-kind, cannabis brand, where 100% of profits will be donated to social justice causes. Specifically, Justice Joints will donate all profits to fostering the participation and ownership of BIPOC communities within the cannabis industry and to prisoner release, expungement, and reentry programs for those convicted of nonviolent cannabis offenses. Sam is an accomplished executive and award-winning accelerator of lifestyle brands. He has created and produced internationally recognized campaigns for some of the world's leading brands including Nike, Red Bull, and Incase. As a career marketing specialist, Sam's 20-year work history spans men's contemporary apparel, sporting goods, and consumer electronics.

Justice Joints with Sam Arellano

Seun Adedeji joins us for another Plant Prophets Holiday Special here on Cannabis Radio. 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 teenage years. Now, Adedeji is the youngest Black man to own a cannabis dispensary in America. Seun immigrated from Nigerian to the south side of Chicago as a small child. He got caught up briefly in the street life but managed to recognize his ambition and let it lead him. This led to him securing a cannabis license in the state of Oregon and to opening his first dispensary there. He will open his second dispensary next month in Athol, Massachusetts, and then two more near Boston by January 2021. In an interview with Face2FaceAfrica, he said “I started reading more about emerging markets and the cannabis industry kept popping up. My goal has always been to create generational wealth for my family, so I saw the cannabis industry as a great way to do just that. Whites own 80% of the cannabis business, African Americans are 4x more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession, even though we consume cannabis at a lower average rate than whites.”

Seun Adedeji Of Elev8 Cannabis (Holiday Special)

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 have made Tami Wahl the voice for their cause in Washington, D.C. Ms. Wahl also works with industry stakeholders, trade groups, Congressional members, and federal agencies on both sides of the aisle to drive sound policy solutions and ultimately, create a balanced pathway to market for innovative products. Ms. Wahl started her legal career in private practice as a criminal defense counsel in Austin, Texas, and for the past 10 years, she has worked as legislative and regulatory counsel, General Counsel, and In-House Counsel for entrepreneurs, and small-to-medium size companies. Ms. Wahl has expertise in working with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). Ms. Wahl has spoken nationally on issues germane to her work and is committed to realizing the successful intersection of consumer safety with appropriate agency oversight and uninhibited innovation.

Tami Wahl: Market Access Today (Holiday Special)

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 Marketing. In 2005, he created and launched Leblon Cachaça, the leading superpremium Cachaça in the United States. Leblon is now found in over 40 countries and was acquired by Bacardi Ltd in 2015. Steve is now the Managing Director of Tortoise & Volt Marketing & Ventures, a boutique creative marketing and innovation agency based in New York City.Everything Tortoise & Volt do is underpinned by a smart, well-defined strategy, based on consumer insights, market analysis, and brand concept. They quickly convert strategy to fast action, developing everything from brand names and identities, to packaging and brand identities, web portals and digital campaigns, advertising and guerrilla influencer campaigns, marketing promotions and sales tools, and actionable business plans. Their core team develops the heart of the strategy, creative concepts, and activation programming, and they engage talent based on additional needs and expertise required. The approach is a cloud-based collaboration with the best talent available. No expensive offices and overhead - just what the specific problem or strategy needs to get the job done.

Steve Luttman from Tortoise & Volt Marketing and Ventures

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 recovery has in performance and the human body. With her network of influential athletes and passion for competing, she shapes a product line to meet the relevant demand in cannabis and sports. Rachael won an NCAA national championship with the University of Portland in 2005, played pro soccer in Europe in 2010, and eventually retired to pursue her passion in the health and fitness industry.

Rachael Rapinoe CEO Of Mendi (Holiday Special)

Ball Family Farms with Chris Ball. Ball Family Farms flower is hand-crafted from the finest raw and organic nutrients. Cultivated with meticulous attentionto 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-smoke pre-rolls are made with Ball Family Farms premium flower. Chris started in the illicit market, went to jail, paid his dues, and then got the golden ticket - a social equity cultivator's license. Now he's built a family business that will build generational wealth for himself and his family.

Ball Family Farms (Holiday Special)

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 people, whilst producing exceptional financial rewards for our partners and investors; hence becoming a premier beverage company committed to excellence. Raj is an innovator in the beverage industry with a track record of success and a history of introducing new alcohol and beverage products into new global markets. He has created, scaled, and sold a number of brands in the alcohol and beverage industry.

Elegance Brands with Raj Beri

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 cannabis industry. In addition, the Weedmaps platform provides consumers with information regarding cannabis products across web and mobile platforms, including listing local retailers and brands, facilitating product discovery, and allowing consumers to educate themselves on cannabis and its history, uses, and legal status. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Weedmaps employs more than 400 professionals around the world, including in Barcelona, Berlin, Boston, Denver, New York, Phoenix, and Toronto.

Weedmaps With Steven Jung

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 experience and started his first retail job at age 13. After his service in the Marine Corps, Steven managed a GNC. He turned his GNC store into the #1 GNC store in the nation. After years with GNC, he left and became a regional sales director for T-Mobile. In his first year, he was awarded the T-Mobile Winner Circle Award for being in the top 5% in sales. Steven left the wireless industry and started a retail training & consultant company Connecting Innovations Inc.

Nothing But Hemp With Steven Brown

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 quality and high performing cannabis brands and products internationally. Sky Pinnick is a founding partner and the CEO of Phantom Farms, one of the most reputable cannabis brands in Oregon. Pinnick began his career as a Producer and Senior Designer at Microsoft Studios. Since Microsoft, Sky has started and sold several successful tech ventures, including a video compression platform used by media giants like MTV, AOL, and NBC. Before starting Phantom Farms, Sky focused on building his film business, Rage Productions, producing numerous films including award-winning titles, Boom Varietal (2011), and Down Days (2008). Sky also produced a TV series for NBC Sports called Rally America and has worked as a commercial director for companies such as Facebook, Nike, GoPro, RedBull, Garmin, and PetSmart.

C21 Investment With Sky Pinnick

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 collaboratively with consumers, governments, and industry to meet consumer’s desire to reduce their plastic use and meet the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Their aim is to educate consumers on how to reduce plastic consumption and how to recycle all aspects of the circular economy; an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources. Hi-Cone partners with consumers, retailers, and industry experts to make tangible and impactful changes to advance the circular economy through our ongoing innovations in packaging design and material development. For more information on Hi-Cone, please visit hi-cone.com or follow news on LinkedIn.

Hi-Cone With Shawn Welch

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 more on the way. Gage grows its plants in small batches using 100% hydroponic cultivation methods for sustainable and responsible operations. From handpicking every plant to employing their proprietary drying, trimming, and curing method, each step of our process is deliberately designed to deliver the best flower possible. They hold themselves to the highest possible standards. Every day we are guided by values that bring our promise to life for their patients. Gage is setting the industry standard for quality in craft cannabis products and service, cultivating and innovating expressions that empower patients to make the most of the plant's benefits in their lives.

Gage Cannabis With Jason Desentz

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 unparalleled group of powerful females from both the cannabis and wine industries to help bring their mission to life and provide the foundation on which it could flourish. Tracey Mason is a 25–year veteran of the adult beverage industry with experience in nearly every facet. She has held executive-level marketing positions at some of the world's largest beverage companies, including Diageo, where she worked her way up from sales management to Director of Commercial Innovation and Fosters Wine Estates, where she held the position of Vice President of Marketing/Innovation until 2006 when she left to pursue her dream of running a small business.

House of Saka With Tracey Mason

Plant Prophets introduces you to some of the most forward-thinking executives and companies in the cannabis industry Host Bert Miller, speaks to those who are at the forefront of creating real companies and creating real career opportunities.

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