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In this episode of the Canna Convos Series, Joey Gilkerson joins us to discuss the growth of our location.

Mr. Gilkerson is a Principal with Gillis Gilkerson Construction and Development Company and NAI Coastal; he has been involved in the Real Estate industry for a decade. Additionally, Mr. Gilkerson has previously been involved in growing/processing operations. Joey played a key role in helping us with finding our original location as well as our future location.

In one of our more technical episodes, we bring you, Tim Gunther. A compliance guru within an industry with a regulatory system that is brand new, ever-changing and difficult to navigate, Tim has helped the Peninsula team go from GOOD from GREAT over the last several years.

.Jacquie is a successful entrepreneur and creator of strategic and tactical brand resources for innovative business growth and founder of two cannabis industry companies: CannabizMD (CBMD) and Tea Pad. She’s a member of the nation’s first graduate program in medical cannabis at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
She is also a pioneer in East Coast emerging markets and is an international speaker on medical cannabis.
Summarizing the Marijuana Business Magazine’s "Women to Watch in 2019" list on which she was named: “...women who have crafted companies from the ground up, forged new woman-focused alliances and upended traditional business models as they’ve paved the way in this rapidly evolving cannabis industry.”  
She is dedicated to social and distributive justice in the medical cannabis industry.   

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LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/jacquiecohenroth/  
Twitter: @CannabizMD + Tea Pad Baltimore  
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Alec Bassen was born and raised in New York and eventually moved to Colorado to pursue the cannabis industry in 2013. He found a job in an extraction lab in Boulder Colorado and worked his way up to lead extractor.

By 2015, he was doing small consulting jobs while managing and designing a lab for a bakery, Loves Oven. Soon after Loves Oven, he got a job offer to build a lab on the East Coast in 2018 for Green Leaf Medical, which he took to move closer to New York to be closer to old friends and family.

In this unique pop-up podcast, we met with Theresa Svoboda from Vireo Health and various pro-cannabis veteran advocates from all over PA and MD on Veterans Day. From the tour of Vireo's grow facility to the shooting of this unique and extremely important podcast, Theresa was integral in putting this all together.
George Armstrong is a patient, advocate, activist, and veteran (Army 1985-1993) from Pennsylvania. After finding cannabis as medicine and becoming active in the community he began to relate to other veterans.
Bryan Fant. Bryan is a combat vet that served 17 years in the US Army as a UH60 Helicopter crew chief. Bryan has turned to cannabis and yoga to end his dependence on benzos, antidepressants, and various prescription meds.
Eryck Stamper is from VI22. Eryck’s mission is to drive awareness of the challenges Veterans face when they return home. He is also a cannabis advocate and has involvement in Maryland’s Hemp Exchange, leading the charge in the state for the new hemp markets. He is a retired Navy Veteran.
Ron Millward is the Founder of Balanced Veterans. Balanced Veterans is a national organization that believes through community and cannabis one can find an alternate healing path forward.

We are back again this time with Head of Vegetation and Genetics at Shore Natural Rx, a cultivation facility based out of Bishopville MD right here on the Eastern Shore.

From hand watering every individual plant to designing their own soil Shore Natural Rx is doing exactly what the Eastern Shore does best: raising things with compassion and care.  See what Cam and the Shore Natural Rx team have been up to since we last saw them in this newest episode of Canna Convos!