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Click here, https://lynchmedia.dragonforms.com/loading.do?omedasite=cen_signup, to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Jake Goodyear, president, and Sarah McLaughlin, director of product R&D at Melt-to-Make, join the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss how they are making it faster and easier to make high-quality edibles. Jump around: – Early days at Heritage CBD. (4:40) – Early R&D in home kitchens. (11:48) – The birth of Melt-to-Make. (13:11) – The downsides of melting gummy bears to make edibles. (19:04) – Expansion plans. (25:56) – Problems with the supply chain. (34:02) Please make sure to like, subscribe and share the podcast. You could also help…
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https://www.cannabisequipmentnews.com/video/video/22891922/kyle-neathery-leading-from-an-ivory-tower-doesnt-create-impactful-change Click here to subscribe to our newsletter: https://lynchmedia.dragonforms.com/loading.do?omedasite=cen_signup This week, Kyle Neathery, CEO of Samson Extracts, joins the Cannabis Equipment News Podcast to discuss how he moved from a cannabis operation in Michigan to running a massive hemp processing system in Alabama and all the challenges he encountered along the way. Jump around: – Unexpected problems during indoor cultivation. (4:32) – Making micro-movements. (6:16) – Managing expectations amid exploding demand. (10:02) – Splitting work between CBD and medical cannabis. (13:07) – The scale of Samson’s hemp operation. (16:33) -Dealing with failures. (20:54) – The phases of scaling up extraction…
Click here, https://lynchmedia.dragonforms.com/loading.do?omedasite=cen_signup, to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Ngaio Bealum, comedian, musician, writer and cannabis advocate, joins the Cannabis Equipment News to talk about how the industry has changed since he became a part of it and how his role within it has evolved as well. Ngaio Bealum, like many people in the cannabis industry, started out as a stoner. As his love for cannabis grew, so did his knowledge of the legal and social hurdles facing it, and that drove him to become a cannabis activist. “I mean, I was always an activist, but that became my…
Click here, https://www.cannabisequipmentnews.com/video/video/22885752/casey-creaney-vape-product-development-is-the-intersection-of-technology-cannabis, to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Casey Creaney, vice president of product integration at Advanced Vapor Devices joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss how we are on the tip of the iceberg in terms of advancements in technology, compared to other industries. Casey Creaney is from Baltimore, Maryland and he went to school for architectural design. After graduation, he moved to the west coast and founded a build and design firm with his wife. The business was doing well. But after seeing his mom deal with breast cancer three separate times in her life…
Click here, https://lynchmedia.dragonforms.com/loading.do?omedasite=cen_signup, to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Noah Novello, founder and CEO of Friday Ventures, joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss his tireless work to give people better access to the medicine they need while making more consistent, safe and affordable products. Noah Novello has always been interested in cannabis, which led him to study neuropsychopharmacology at Ohio State University. He was working with kids who have severe autism when Novello suffered a setback. He was injured during the physical restraint of a patient, and for treatment, he was prescribed a lot of opioid medications.…
Scientists in Milan, Italy have discovered traces of cannabis in two skeletons from the 17th century. According to the CBC, the bones, from a 50-year-old woman and a teenage boy, showed traces of both THC and CBD. The researchers said the discovery suggests that at the time cannabis was used recreationally by Italian people of all ages and genders. Researchers said at the time cannabis was likely consumed by infusing it into baked goods and other items. The findings are significant since Pope Innocent VIII in the late 1400s banned the use of cannabis and deemed it an “unholy sacrament.”…
One state will potentially make it easier for eligible students to take medical cannabis products during the day. According to Fox 2 Detroit, Democratic representatives in Michigan’s state legislature this week introduced a new bill. The measure would allow K-12 students to take medical cannabis or CBD products with low amounts of THC. Eligible students would be allowed to take medical cannabis products on school grounds and on school buses. However, a designated member of the staff would need to be authorized to administer the medical cannabis. Medical cannabis has been legal in Michigan since 2008. The state legalized adult-use…
Click here, https://lynchmedia.dragonforms.com/loading.do?omedasite=cen_signup, to subscribe to our newsletter. This week, Nicolas Guarino, founder and CEO of Naturae joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss his challenges as a New York operator and how his company became the largest producer of CO2-extracted cannabis oils in the state. Guarino has a legacy staked in agriculture. With his family firmly invested in the Venezuelan water buffalo dairy game, the fourth-generation farmer graduated from Baruch College in New York City and decided to pursue a different agricultural path when he set up a CBD operation in Hoosick Falls, NY. An avid consumer with…
The Cannabis Equipment News team recently traveled to the Wisconsin Cannabis Expo held in Milwaukee on June 4. At the show, we had an opportunity to interview equipment manufacturers, cultivators and new product developers to learn more about what they bring to the cannabis industry. RA!, a CBD product company based in Wisconsin, was born out of love for a pet and the desire to care for them. Founders Richard Bowman and Alla Tsypin said when their beloved American bulldog, Polar Bear, was diagnosed with cancer, the conversation quickly turned from treatment to maintaining quality of life. Tsypin, a professional herbalist, and…