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Raised within the cannabis community on the hippie communal plant life path. Desiree’s mother was an advocate and educator of plant medicines. Her father was a skilled craftsman in addition to cultivating both hemp and cannabis. Desiree was your typical hippie GenX stoner youth - traveler, followed "The Dead", trim-igrated around the Northwestern region until she finally pursued a business degree to engage in the average 9-5 grind in such industries as Commercial Development and Renewable Energy. And then Desiree was diagnosed (and beat) cervical cancer. For years, she lived a double life working a corporate, non-cannabis job and her off-hours paving my path into the 215 medical cannabis landscape. As a relentless cannabis advocate for others, she found herself advocating for her own life. Desiree’s experience within the Renewable sector birthed the fondness she now has for legislative bodywork and the commencement of laws for Cannabis within the State of California. As a Cannabis Compliance and Operational Analyst Specialist, she bridges compliance, systems, and processes through her intuitive approach to culture, technology, and cannabis governess. From evaluating and condensing operational overhead to regulatory body compliance framework and policy-making, Desiree drives home compliant operational success in an often complicated cannabis business landscape. 
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
12:00 Medical to Adult Use Transition
15:40 Challenges in Starting A Cannabis Consulting Business
18:30 SOP vs Playbooks: What’s The Difference?
26:20 Steps to Begin Your Cannabis Consulting Business
45:00 Unpacking California Cannabis Challenges

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Gregg Weiss is the VP of Technology and Strategic Growth at Happy Valley, a vertically integrated cannabis company in Massachusetts. Gregg has been involved in the cannabis industry since 2016 and has lived in Florida and Colorado. He previously started and sold a mobile app development company and has been involved in several start-ups.
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
8:00 Challenges in Cannabis Technology Evaluations
19:25 Happy Valley's In-House Custom App
23:50 Unique Features in Happy Valley's Custom App
27:25 Lack of Consumer Education 
32:40 Passion For Solventless Hash 
40:28 Words Are Important 
44:00 Gregg's Hopes For The Future

As counsel in Foley Hoag’s national Cannabis Practice, Mike has provided trusted counsel to start-ups and multi-state operators alike on issues associated with legislative/regulatory development and compliance. Michael has assisted clients in drafting and securing competitive state cannabis permits, having worked on winning applications in multiple states. Michael counsels clients on complex issues of regulatory compliance, including advising companies on regulatory considerations associated with anticipated mergers and acquisitions. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rmcc_cannaconsulting/
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Timestamps 
0:00 Intro
5:10 Attorney Advice TransitioningTo Cannabis
13:30 New Jersey Cannabis Regime
18:50 Product Diversity & Retail Square Footage 
25:40 Breaking Down The NJ Licensing Process
35:00 Licensing Process As A Beauty Contest
53:00 NJ Licensing Recap

KJ Saffold is a decorated US Army Combat Veteran, a graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and a Georgia Tech EMBA candidate. KJ brings high-level executive leadership, strategic planning, distribution logistics, IT management, and proven operational excellence to the cannabis industry. In addition, he is a fierce advocate for social justice, social equity, and veteran medicinal cannabis use. In August 2021, Illinois awarded his company an adult-use dispensary conditional license.  
 
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0:00 Intro
14:00 The Start of the Cannabis Journey
17:50 Leadership is a Philosophy
33:04 Obtaining a License in Illinois & Michigan
48:31 Improving Social Equity Programs
56:15 KJ's Wishes For The Future of Cannabis 

Dede Perkins, Co-Founder and CEO of ProCanna, joined the cannabis industry in 2013 as a member of the application team that won one of the first competitive vertically integrated applications in Massachusetts. After that, she helped win cannabis licenses in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Arkansas, North Dakota, and Nevada. A regulatory specialist, Dede is passionate about combining compliance with operational excellence; safe, standardized products; empowered employees; strong company culture and brands.
 
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
6:03 Solutions ProCanna Solves 
13:20 How RMCC & ProCanna Work Together
15:05 QR Codes & Record Retention
21:35 Best Practices For Staying Update On Regulations
32:02 Inconsistency between Medical & Adult Use Programs
38:37 Dede’s Wishes For The Industry
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Rose Elliott is the co-founder and CEO of Komplyd, an API-first cannabis compliance-as-a-service platform. With over two decades in engineering and product, she is bringing her experience of delivering large scale platforms and complex compliance initiatives at companies such as PayPal, Netflix, UpWork, and Tenable to the cannabis industry. Her passion for health and wellness led her to the cannabis plant and ultimately to the industry where she is committed to making cannabis compliance work.
 
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:20 Cannabis The Disruptor 
6:10 Komplyd Solving Complex Problems 
10:25 What is an API? 
18:32 Compliance Teams in Mature Markets
22:58 Increase Complexity With Federal Legalization 
28:00 POS Payment Systems Risks
37:00 HIPAA Requirements Dispensaries Must Know
40:20 Komplyd Solving Complex Problems 
44:42 Rose’s Hopes For The Industry 
 
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BriAnne Ramsay invites guests each week to bring you the latest news in cannabis while diving deep into operations, policy reform, compliance, and technology.