High Functioning Podcast

Jason Reposa
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High Functioning Podcast is hosted by Jason Reposa, founder and CEO of Good Feels, a Massachusetts-based cannabis-infused beverage company. Join Jason as he dives into candid conversations with industry experts, innovators, and thought leaders from the cannabis world. Each episode explores the stories behind the people shaping the future of cannabis, from business practices to wellness trends. Whether you’re curious about the cannabis industry, looking to learn from the best, or simply want to stay informed, this podcast offers high-level insights with a dose of positivity.

  1. قبل ٦ أيام

    They Drilled a Hole in a Plug. Now It's in 50 Stores | Nancy Domenichelli & Diana Langle, TarTubes

    Nancy Domenichelli and Diana Langle met at a letter-writing campaign for a local candidate. They were the only two who showed up. Between letters they found out they lived six blocks apart in Springfield, and at 4:20 they found out something else. One morning Diana reached for a cigarette with a filter on it, Nancy reached for a pre-roll, and the pre-roll would not fit. That mismatch became TarTubes. The first working version was a plastic plug from Diana's husband's workshop with a hole drilled through it. Fourteen months later the product is on close to 50 shelves across five states, and 80% of those dispensaries have reordered twice. Nancy and Diana are the co-founders of TarTubes LLC, a filter adapter that lets a standard disposable filter attach to a pre-roll. In this conversation with Jason Reposa they walk through the whole build: the tissue paper and cardboard failures, the university engineering lab that drew the first 3D print and cannot be publicly credited because federal grant money is on the line, the second designer who made it look like a product, and the Flower Expo soft launch where they gave away thousands of samples. They get specific about distribution. Why bud tender education is the actual sales mechanism, what a display case costs a store, how DTC stacks up against wholesale, and what a brand rep's word of mouth did to their shelf count. They close on Massachusetts Question 8 and why the repeal is a no vote. 21+ only where legal. Nothing here is medical advice, and claims about tar and filtration are the guests' own statements, not verified by the show. Listen at highfunctioning.show.

  2. ٨ سبتمبر

    Someone Brought Him A Duffel Bag Of Cash | Marc Kazinec, Best in Grass

    Somebody showed up with a duffel bag full of cash to buy a win in a cannabis competition. Mark Kazinec says it would not have changed his life, but it would have changed his year. He turned it down, and then he had to call people he considered friends to tell them their votes were being deleted for trying to rig the same competition. That is the whole business in one story: an awards program that only exists because people believe the results. Mark is the co-founder and COO of Best in Grass. He came up through Manhattan marketing, a Hollywood mailroom, and comedy touring at CAA before High Times poached him in 2018. Inside High Times he built the Cannabis Cup People's Choice model that opened judging to the public, watched the company overpromise and underdeliver to clients and staff, and left months before board members started calling him about lawsuits and SEC fraud claims against the ownership. He started Best in Grass in January 2024 and the clients followed him out. In this conversation he walks Jason through the entire economics: free entry for brands, roughly 3,000 judge kits assembled per state, 20% of kit revenue to retailers, 10% to the intake facility, $75K to $100K in cost to run a single state, and unique per-kit QR codes that shut down vote stacking. He and Jason also get into what a Massachusetts repeal would actually cost operators, and why the illicit market conversation is not about the guy growing twelve plants at home. 21+ where legal. Nothing here is legal, medical, or financial advice. Listen to High Functioning wherever you get your podcasts, or watch at highfunctioning.show.

  3. ١ سبتمبر

    Big Beer Moved Too Early. Boston Beer Waited. | Paul Weaver, Teapot

    Years ago, Molson Coors and Anheuser-Busch put millions into cannabis beverages in Canada. They built their own breweries. The market wasn't ready, and the bet didn't return. Boston Beer Company watched all of it happen, then entered the category in 2022 without owning a single facility. They licensed their brands out, partnered with a manufacturer in Windsor, Ontario, and put their own people and their own lab inside that partner's building. Their cannabis iced tea, Teapot, is now the number one cannabis iced tea in Canada and holds roughly a 20 percent share of the drink category in Quebec. Paul Weaver is Head of Cannabis and Director of Cannabis Operations at Boston Beer Company, the maker of Samuel Adams, Twisted Tea, Angry Orchard, and Truly. He spent seven years at Molson Coors and led beverage innovation at Canopy Growth before building Boston Beer's cannabis business from scratch. In this conversation he walks through the co-packing playbook that keeps quality consistent, why documented SOPs and on-site staff matter more than ownership, and how Canada's provincial system works when ten government boards are your only customers. He explains why Quebec bans cannabis gummies outright, why Boston Beer is not in Alberta, and what the split between five and ten milligram drinkers says about who actually buys these products. Jason also pins him down on the question every operator wants answered: what has to change before Boston Beer brings a THC drink to the United States. 21+ where legal. This episode is for informational purposes only and is not medical, legal, or investment advice. Listen to the full conversation on High Functioning.

  4. ٢٥ أغسطس

    Why Extraction Labs Actually Explode | Noel Barry, Dab Science

    Noel Barry has been extracting cannabis for about 15 years and has watched two lab incidents happen in front of him. One took a person's eyebrows off. Neither, he says, happened because butane is inherently unstable. They happened because somebody ran a heat gun next to a collection pot, or combined equipment rated for the room with equipment that was not. His view is blunt: the accidents are an operator problem, not a solvent problem, and most facilities create the conditions by staffing nineteen extractors on rotating shifts where nobody was ever properly trained by a master. Noel is the founder and CEO of Dab Science. He started in biotech manufacturing at Genzyme, spent about a decade moving up, and moonlighted on extraction after overnight shifts until he left entirely. He took no outside investors, pulled his 401k, and has spent four to five years putting concentrates on shelves in Massachusetts and now New Jersey. In this conversation with Jason Reposa he walks through the real cost math on distillate, which went from roughly $3 a gram to $7 in two years, why toll processing is the bread and butter if you run it properly,how he won 75 product competitions with essentially no marketing budget, why he pays operators on deviation from a standard yield, and why he believes flower survives on ritual rather than performance. 21+ where legal. This is a business conversation, not medical, legal, or safety advice. Figures are as stated by the guest. Watch the full episode at highfunctioning.show. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 00:57 From biotech manufacturing to extraction 13:20 Hemp, conversions, and the boogeyman problem 20:15 The real cost of a gram of distillate 25:39 Fewer people, paid better 35:27 75 awards with no marketing budget 47:11 Why extraction labs actually explode 57:00 Why he thinks flower's days are numbered

  5. ١٨ أغسطس

    Tim Swain: They Told People To Sign It To Fight Fentanyl

    Signature collectors stood outside Massachusetts shopping centers telling people to sign a petition to end fentanyl. Cannabis workers signed it. What they had actually signed was the petition to repeal the adult use program that pays their bills. Tim Swain started getting the phone calls. He led the court challenge to keep that question off the November ballot, and his team lost. In this episode he walks Jason through what the challenge argued, why two other ballot questions were struck on the same reasoning while this one survived, and what is actually buried inside a single yes-or-no vote. Tim Swain is a trial attorney and chair of the litigation department at Vicente LLP. He came to cannabis after seven years at a top New York firm ended with a stress-triggered illness, surgery, and a fight to get off painkillers that shaped how he thinks about the plant. He explains the social equity program and trust fund that disappear if the question passes, why he believes Massachusetts was chosen as a national test case, and what a cold bench in an appellate courtroom tells a litigator about their odds. In the second half he breaks down the federal DEA rescheduling process from the inside, including why the agency argues as the moving party and why only seven opposing parties made it into the room this round. Statements about the campaign, signature collection, and pending proceedings reflect the guest's account and opinion, and nothing here is legal advice. 21+ where legal. Listen to the full conversation on High Functioning. CHAPTERS 00:00 The signature collectors 2:06 What litigation actually means 3:59 What the ballot question hides 10:09 Inside the SJC argument 30:06 The ground game 35:32 Why Massachusetts first 47:50 How DEA rescheduling works 1:02:26 Talk to your lawyer early

  6. ١١ أغسطس

    Jon Napoli: 30 Years in Cannabis, From Newbury Street to the Repeal Fight

    He opened a store selling hemp goods and glass on Newbury Street in the era when saying the word bong could get you thrown out. When the police told him to pull the pipes, he took every one out that night and walked them back in the next morning. Thirty years later, Jon Napoli runs five stores, helped write the 2016 legalization language that won at the ballot with 53 percent, and is now spending his own money to fight the November repeal. Jon is Founder/CEO of Quincy Cannabis Company and the Quincy Golf Lounge, and the founder of The Hempist and Vanguard Cannabis, a tier-eight grow in Leicester. He and Jason get into the billboard bet most operators call a waste and why nearly all his marketing spend goes there anyway, how Quincy Cannabis stayed number one after competitors opened, the Amsterdam-style consumption lounge he is building next door, and why he thinks operator apathy is a bigger threat to legal cannabis in Massachusetts than the repeal campaign itself. 21+ where legal. This is a conversation about the cannabis industry and is not medical, legal, or investment advice. Listen to the full episode and subscribe to High Functioning at highfunctioning.show.

  7. ٣ أغسطس

    The 60 Day Rule That Wipes Out A Third Of Dispensaries

    In January 2028 a new Massachusetts rule takes effect. Fall 60 days behind on a payment and you can be cut off from every supplier in the state, unable to buy product, sell your business, or transfer your license. Todd Sullivan thinks about a third of the roughly 400 stores in the state will not survive it. He is not worried about that. He is shopping. Todd runs a debt free, profitable operation that has not raised outside money in years, and he is using that position to buy distressed assets while most operators are panicking. Todd is the President of Cannapreneur Partners, the holding company behind Joint Operations Dispensaries and Pioneer Valley Extracts. He came up as an entrepreneur and hedge fund manager before going all in on cannabis. In this conversation he breaks down how he acquired stores for almost nothing, why most operators fail on capitalization and the price war, why he bets on the bud tender over discounts, and how rescheduling could bring institutional money rushing back into the industry. This is the money side of cannabis, told straight. 21+ where legal. Nothing here is legal, financial, medical, or investment advice. Listen to the full conversation and follow High Functioning.

  8. ٢٨ يوليو

    Massachusetts Wants To Repeal Legal Cannabis. Here's What Question 8 Actually Does.

    There is a ballot question in Massachusetts this November that could close every adult-use cannabis store in the state within a year. It is funded largely by out-of-state money, and the panel argues most voters have no idea what it really does. Question 8 would repeal adult use while keeping medical, and because of how the market was built, that would wipe out most operators, tens of thousands of jobs, and billions in tax revenue that currently flows to schools, substance-abuse programs, and city budgets. Jason Reposa sits down with three people fighting it: Ryan Dominguez of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition, Tito Jackson of Apex Noir Cannabis and former Boston City Councilor, and Caroline Pineau, owner of Stem in Haverhill. They break down how the initiative was written, how signature gatherers collected names, and why "keeping medical" is a trap for an industry built on vertical integration. They also get into who loses access first, what the fight looks like on the ground, and where the polling stands heading into November. 21+ where legal. This episode is for information only and is not legal, medical, or voting advice. If you build, work, or shop in Massachusetts cannabis, this is the conversation to hear before you vote. Listen now and share it with someone who does not know Question 8 is on the ballot.

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High Functioning Podcast is hosted by Jason Reposa, founder and CEO of Good Feels, a Massachusetts-based cannabis-infused beverage company. Join Jason as he dives into candid conversations with industry experts, innovators, and thought leaders from the cannabis world. Each episode explores the stories behind the people shaping the future of cannabis, from business practices to wellness trends. Whether you’re curious about the cannabis industry, looking to learn from the best, or simply want to stay informed, this podcast offers high-level insights with a dose of positivity.

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