Apartment 113 Cannabis & Psychedelics Industry Podcast

Rob Sanchez
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Hang out at Apartment 113 with Rob and a different guest to talk shop about the industry and learn about all of the people that make it possible. Cultivation, manufacturing, extraction, accounting, consulting, media, events, education and more. Listen in for a conversational look at the origins of different businesses and projects in the space along with unique perspectives and occasional tangents.

  1. 3d ago

    Episode 241 - Adam Temple, Evolved Extraction Solutions

    Episode 241 is the 39th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Adam Temple, the CEO at Evolved Extraction Solutions. He grew up outside Vancouver and came back to cannabis after a back injury. He learned the equipment side during the open-source era, building extractors from brewery parts alongside a group of mostly pseudonymous tinkerers trading designs online, then went on to bring the first film evaporator to the country and co-founded Flyte, one of Canada's first national vape brands. He launched Evolved in 2016 once enough people started asking him to build them a machine, and the company now builds modular ethanol and hydrocarbon systems and runs the Genome Technology Centre, which he describes as the only federally licensed research facility of its kind for cannabis extracts. In this one, Adam walks us through the arc of the extraction business, from the CO2 and ethanol epochs into the hydrocarbon and solventless phases running now. He explains why he chased processing instead of cultivation and how the modular system lets an operator scale by adding pieces rather than replacing a line. We get into the Genome Crystallizer and the bet-the-company move behind it: a cold in-line process that pulls THCA isolate out of one valve and keeps a terpene fraction intact instead of running it through heat and turning it into what the industry calls hot dog water. He also talks about watching both of his main competitors close in 2025, why he stocks their replacement parts anyway and how his team helps Customers. Connect with Adam Temple on LinkedIn and learn more at evolvedextraction.com. Enjoy the show!

  2. Sep 7

    Episode 240 - Michou Olivera, Psychedelic Guidance & Integration

    Episode 240 is the 38th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Michou Olivera, a trauma-informed psychedelic guide and relational mycologist working out of western Massachusetts. Her history with psychedelics goes back to about 1985, when she was fifteen and following the Dead around Northern California, followed by roughly thirty years away from them. Mushrooms found their way back into her life in early 2018, what stayed with her was not the journey itself but the three weeks of unusual clarity that followed it. She taught herself mycology beginning in 2019, and she is now in her fifth year of cultivation and her seventh year of practice, having grown twenty-four varieties for patients. In this two-part conversation, Michou takes us through that arc, from working with a monthly macrodose during a stretch when very little was going right to what she describes as a clear instruction to grow the medicine herself for the people who would eventually find her. She explains how she treats mushroom varieties the way a cannabis connoisseur treats cultivars, matching a gentler one to someone fragile and a heavier one to someone with the resilience to go deep, and her stated aim throughout is to make herself unnecessary. We turn to integration, which she argues matters more than the medicine does and which she says looks less like a video group call and more like moving to music in the kitchen while you cook for family. We wrap up discussing moderation, where she reads heavy cannabis and vice use as a signal that someone is carrying too much rather than as the problem itself. Connect with Michou on LinkedIn or visit michouolivera.com. She also hosts a monthly in-personintegration group in Westfield, Massachusetts. Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

  3. Sep 1

    Episode 239 - August 2026 Special

    Episode 239 is the 37th episode of Season 4. We’re joined on this one by Dustin Hawksworth founder of Fat Nugs Magazine and Daniel Crawford COO, we’re running though the cannabis and psychedelic headlines once again. In this one we start with the DEA's closing brief in the rescheduling hearing and the strange position of watching that agency argue cannabis has accepted medical use, then set it against the FBI crime report showing more than 200,000 possession arrests last year. We go international for Germany, where imports have climbed sixfold in two years and a new government is already looking to tighten the medical route back down. From there we get into the New Mexico operators suing the state over a track and trace cutover that halts all legal product movement for six days, and a South African policy paper that put roughly 900,000 small cannabis farmers on the map while only about a thousand of them have made it into the legal program. We close on the research pile with a Colorado State study on cannabis and exercise, a look at how people run their own set and setting outside the clinic, and a paper on mind wandering that pulls cannabis, psychedelics and the default mode network into the same conversation. Connect with Dustin Hawksworth and Daniel Crawford on LinkedIn, Instagram or fatnugsmag.com Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

  4. Aug 31

    Episode 238 - Jonny, Bzz Box

    Episode 238 is the 36th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Jonny, the founder of BzzBox, a line of wooden cannabis stash boxes. The idea arrived about six years ago on a cottage weekend, when he and his friends emptied their shoeboxes and Tupperware containers onto a countertop he decided to make an alternative. He made the move right as Canada legalized, selling the first three hundred boxes quickly. The brand funds beehives kept by a professional beekeeper with proceeds from every purchase, based on the idea that one hive in a thousand spots does more good than a thousand hives in one. In this one, Jonny walks us through six years of iteration, from choosing bamboo because it absorbs odor to adding eight corner gussets. He gets into the magnets that lock the tray up into the lid and the click they make, the move away from combination locks and why he would rather the box sit out on a shelf than get hidden in a closet. We talk about the extra-large treasure chest available, the customers already asking for something twice that size and the jars with built-in hygrometers that let you watch your flower the way you would watch a humidor. He also gets honest about why ad spend became part of the job once the category filled in around him. Connect with Jonny and see the boxes at thebzzbox.com. Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

  5. Aug 24

    Episode 237 - Lance Asher, Green Elevator

    Episode 237 is the 35th episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Lance Asher, the founder of Green Elevator Cannabis, a hemp-derived beverage brand out of Minnesota. He found the plant as a teenager and spent time in the legacy market. What followed was a long run in the corporate world, along with a car detailing business he ran. When Minnesota built a regulatory framework around hemp-derived beverages and edibles in August of 2022, he saw a way back in that did not carry the old risk, and he launched Green Elevator in October of 2023 under a tagline his daughter came up with, that an elevator takes you where you want to go. In this one, Lance makes the case that cannabis and hemp have been letting themselves off the hook on flavor, and that an edible tasting bad because the effect is coming is a standard none of us would accept from a plate of food that arrived at the table. He takes us inside building the first can, from pairing lemon with wedding cake terpenes to talking a soda-focused co-packer down from forty-six grams of sugar to the low twenties, with a tasting panel that ran from his teenagers to his partner to the neighbors. He gives a clear read on the federal hemp fight and why a beverage-only carve-out would leave gummies, chocolates and topicals behind, along with the people who prefer them. Connect with Lance on LinkedIn and order a drink at GreenElevatorCannabis.com Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

  6. Aug 17

    Episode 236 - Jeremy Ortiz, Cannabis Insurance

    Episode 236 is the 34th episode of Season 4. We're joined today by Jeremy Ortiz, a cannabis insurance and risk management specialist and Ganjier Product Specialist based in Connecticut who works with license holders across 27 legal states. His focus is property and casualty, everything from the building itself to what's inside it, with a team behind him covering employee benefits and ancillary coverages. Jeremy came up through sales. He graduated from UConn in 2005 with degrees in economics and sociology, rode the mortgage boom and moved into financial services in 2009, then joined a Connecticut agency where he spent eleven years under a mentor who pushed him to think for himself instead of taking orders. When a larger brokerage acquired them in 2019 and asked him to pick a specialty, he looked down the list of verticals, saw cannabis and never looked back. The plant had been in his life long before the industry was. He grew his first crop at nineteen from seeds his friends brought back from Amsterdam in their socks, following an Ed Rosenthal book step by step and hauling five-gallon buckets out into the wetlands in waders. He is passionate to this day about glass and sun-grown flower. We discuss what risk management actually looks like for a cannabis operator, why he thinks the industry's hard-won knowledge stays trapped inside individual states and how a lunch in Vegas surrounded by attorneys and bankers with almost no license holders in the room turned into a run of events built the other way around. We also get into why he doesn't carry business cards and what he means when he says your network is your net worth. Find Jeremy on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/jeremyportiz Enjoy the show! IG: apt_113 apt113.com

  7. Aug 10

    Episode 235 - Melanie King

    Episode 235 is the 33rd episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Melanie King, a cannabis events producer and marketer whose career has run through some of the industry's most memorable events. She grew up in Massachusetts and followed an unlikely path into cannabis, working in mental health administration at UCSF and Berkeley's Wright Institute, spending time as one of the Internet Archive's earliest employees in late-90s San Francisco and later running her own successful events and wedding planning business in Sonoma. She entered the cannabis industry in 2016 with CannaCraft, helping grow its events program from the pre-regulation days into headline activations like the first on-site cannabis sales at Outside Lands, Emerald Cup and countless product launches. Today, she leads field marketing and events for a cannabis retail technology company. We discuss that journey from event planning to cannabis, what it took to build successful brand activations during the industry's early years and how cannabis events have evolved alongside legalization. Melanie also shares the story behind organizing a first-of-its-kind cannabis event at Fenway Park before opening up about a years-long health battle, the challenges of navigating a delayed diagnosis and the role cannabis and RSO played throughout her treatment and recovery. It's a conversation about resilience, creativity and building community through every stage of life. Read the article covering Melanie’s story in Fat Nugs Volume 29. Connect with Melanie on LinkedIn. Enjoy the show. IG: apt_113 apt113.com

  8. Aug 3

    Episode 234 - Jacob Tell, District 216

    Episode 234 is the 32nd episode of Season 4. Today we're joined by Jacob Tell, founder and self-described Chief Dreamer of District216, a psychedelic social club based in Santa Barbara, California. District216 was created to bring people together through education, community and integration, offering regular gatherings, special events and an online membership for those interested in exploring psychedelics in a thoughtful and supportive environment. Before launching the club, Jacob built a career in marketing, live events and branding through his agency Oniracom while producing festivals, cannabis symposiums and other community-focused experiences. We discuss how District216 grew from a single educational meetup into a thriving psychedelic community, the importance of integration and creating safe spaces for conversation, and Jacob's own experiences with ketamine-assisted therapy and ayahuasca. We also explore the changing public perception of psychedelics, the challenges of preparing enough qualified practitioners for a rapidly growing field and what's next for District216, including its return to the MAPS Psychedelic Science conference. Learn more about District216, join the community and sign up for the newsletter at district216.com. You can also learn more about Jacob and his work at jacobtell.com or connect with him on LinkedIn. Enjoy the show. IG: apt_113 apt113.com

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Hang out at Apartment 113 with Rob and a different guest to talk shop about the industry and learn about all of the people that make it possible. Cultivation, manufacturing, extraction, accounting, consulting, media, events, education and more. Listen in for a conversational look at the origins of different businesses and projects in the space along with unique perspectives and occasional tangents.

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