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BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we are joined by Jameson Berkow, the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly Chronicle, a publication of Business of Cannabis. Berkow wrote this week about the poor job the industry did in including women's businesses and voices in the sector in its early days - while also looking at what women say could change the sector's trajectory.Read: What Women in Week Really WantSubscribe to the Weekly Chronicle for a limited time for $99/year.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we connect with Marta Clark, Marketing Director at FIGR Inc. who shared insight into a consumer survey they conducted in advance of Canadian Thanksgiving. FIGR was seeking to understand how stigma figures into cannabis use in family settings like Thanksgiving.Learn more about the Prince Edward Island-based cannabis producer: FIGR

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we connect with Liz Stahura of BDSA to discuss how their market research data and their consumer insights shed light on the edibles’ market in Alberta and British Columbia – including the overall sales breakdown between gummies, chocolate, baked goods and beverages.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we are joined by Christina Michael of Marigolds Cannabis. This past week, Michael opened her Marigolds Cannabis retail store in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood. We connected with Michael about the opening, her journey to open and how she set up her store, including hiring the right people.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, Lucas McCann, PhD of CannDelta joined BofC Live to answer a rapid-fire series of questions about retail cannabis regulations in Ontario. The conversation was part of our Ask the Experts segment released every Monday in partnership with CannDelta, the Official Regulatory Advisory of Business of Cannabis.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we are joined by Jameson Berkow, the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly Chronicle, a publication of Business of Cannabis. Berkow wrote this week about China’s relationship to cannabis and if cannabis has the power to normalize the relationship between China and the West.Read: The Path to Peace with China is Paved with Pot.Subscribe to the Weekly Chronicle for a limited time for $99/year.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we connect with Jeff Goldenberg of Abacus and High 12 Brands. As a co-founder of both an agency and a cannabis brand company, Goldenberg's experience, insight and approach to the cannabis sector is unique. He shares the background about how he and his team built the kingsway cannabis brand of High 12 Brands.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we connect Ryan Lalonde of buddi and Liz Stahura of BDSA to discuss how the two companies work together to build world class cannabis consumer insights into the Canadian cannabis landscape.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we connect with Harrison Stoker of dutch love cannabis – a retail cannabis operator with 15 stores throughout Canada. dutch love is in the midst of rapid expansion and we connect with Stoker to talk about the challenges, opportunities and realities of this challenging retail environment.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, Lucas McCann of CannDelta joins the program for our weekly Ask the Experts segment. This week, the Ask the Experts segment dives deep into psychedelics and the regulatory path psychedelics may take in Canada. How similar to cannabis will that path be or is it completely different? CannDelta is the Official Regulatory Advisory of Business of Cannabis.For more information on the psychedelics’ industry, please visit Business of Cannabis’ sister publication, Report on Psychedelics.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we are joined by Jameson Berkow, the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly Chronicle, a publication of Business of Cannabis. Berkow wrote this week about those that refer to themselves as ‘cannabis sommelier’. In the process, he found that the term itself is not universally accepted or understood. He joined us to talk about the piece and what he learned.Read You are Not a Cannabis Sommelier and You Never Will Be.Subscribe to the Weekly Chronicle for a limited time for $99/year.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, Dr. Blake Pearson of Greenly Health joins the program to discuss how he thinks about older patients and medical cannabis. In addition to this own practice, Dr. Pearson spends much of his time training other doctors on treating patients with medical cannabis. Learn more about Greenly Health and Dr. Pearson.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Each week on BofC Live, we are joined by Liz Stahura, co-founder and President of BDSA, the Official Insights Partner of Business of Cannabis. In this week’s episode, Stahura provides a sneak peek into BDSA’s Retail Sales Tracking data – which is about to be released in its full form. Specifically, Stahura provides a detailed look at retail sales data from British Columbia and Alberta for 2020 through August – including overall volume of products consumers are buying in each province, the product array and which products are gaining share among consumers.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Andrew Wilder and Jonathan Mahoney are part of the Cannabis Law Group at Torkin Manes, the Official Law Firm of Business of Cannabis. In this BofC Live episode, Wilder and Mahoney dive deep into their recent Business of Cannabis post unpacking mergers and acquisitions in the cannabis retail space – especially in Ontario.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Dario Jeginovic of CannDelta – the Official Regulatory Advisory of Business of Cannabis – joins BofC Live to talk about security clearances in the Canadian cannabis sector, including who conducts the security clearance, what they are looking for, and why security clearances are needed for people such as Quality Assurance Persons.

On this episode of BofC Live, David Kerr, VP of Gallagher, joins the program to talk about a new partnership between Gallagher’s Canada team and Business of Cannabis. Today, Gallagher becomes the Official Insurance Provider of Business of Cannabis. Read the news release.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Each week on BofC Live, we are joined by Liz Stahura, co-founder and President of BDSA, the Official Insights Partner of Business of Cannabis. In this week’s episode, Stahura provides a deep dive into the California cannabis market – with a special emphasis on lessons the Canadian market can learn from consumer behaviour. Both the California and Canadian cannabis markets are estimated to be roughly the same size by 2025 – so understanding the similarities and differences is critical.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, join us for a special announcement about how Business of Cannabis aims to serve the cannabis industry most effectively moving forward. Specifically, we announce the launch of the Weekly Chronicle, a subscription newsletter serving professionals and leaders working in the cannabis sector. Jameson Berkow, this podcast's guest, is a co-founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly Chronicle.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Sherry Boodram of CannDelta – the Official Regulatory Advisory of Business of Cannabis – joins BofC Live to talk about pesticide testing in Canadian cannabis. This segment is part of our weekly Ask the Experts segment with our CannDelta partner.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Loïc Calvez, the co-founder and CEO of ALCiT, joined BofC Live to talk about a recent piece he penned for Business of Cannabis about the vulnerability passwords pose for internet security – especially within businesses as they grow. ALCiT is an Official Partner of Business of Cannabis.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Tabitha Fritz is the Cannabis Education Specialist at mīhī cannabis (pronounced me-he), a newly-opened cannabis retail store in Burlington, Ontario. Fritz joins BofC Live to talk about the central role education plays – both for staff and for consumers – in the shopping experience at mīhī cannabis.Learn more about mīhī cannabis.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Each week on BofC Live, we are joined by Liz Stahura, co-founder and President of BDSA, the Official Insights Partner of Business of Cannabis. In this week’s episode, Stahura provides an update on BDSA’s Canadian cannabis market update forecast revisions for the year, which include considerations of COVID’s effect on legal cannabis markets.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Vanessa Bairos of CannDelta – the Official Regulatory Advisory of Business of Cannabis – joins BofC Live to provide insight into why there are still important opportunities for those entering the cannabis sector.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we are joined by Helen Stevenson, the Founder and CEO of the Reformulary Group on the day they launched the Cannabis Standard Index. The Index uniformly categorizes medical cannabis products based on objective data, allowing Canadians and the medical community to find accurate, detailed information and to reliably search and compare products.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode of BofC Live, we connect with Tim Pellerin, the GM for PAX Labs, Canada and International. PAX Labs is the preeminent brand and product in the legal cannabis space in Canada and throughout North America. This week, PAX announced the launch of their newest product, the PAX Era Pro into the Canadian market.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Each week on BofC Live, we are joined by Liz Stahura, co-founder and President of BDSA, the Official Insights Partner of Business of Cannabis.In this week’s episode, Stahura provides an update on BDSA’s cannabis market update forecast revisions for the year, which include considerations of COVID’s effect on legal cannabis markets.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Krista Raymer of the Vetrina Group joins BofC Live to talk about the importance of merchandizing for cannabis retailers. In light of the similar product array for Canadian retailers, merchandizing can create a unique shopping environment for customers – and differentiate their experience, while also driving profit.Learn more about the Vetrina Group.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Denis Adigamov joins the program to talk about how Canadian cannabis producers and cannabis retailers may, or may not, work together, share ownership and development beneficial relationships.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. This episode features a conversation with Clint Sharples, CEO of Heritage Cannabis where he describes the companies entrance in to the US CBD market and how their joint venture with Cannahive will impact their business.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. In the weekly segment of BofC Live featuring a deep dive into the preferences and habits of Gen Z and Millennial cannabis consumers in Canada and the US. BDSA is the Official Insights Partner of Business of Cannabis.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. In this episode, Amy Weinstein of 48North joins the program to talk about 48North's success in bringing hash to Canadian cannabis consumers and how the product sets the company apart from others in the sector.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Chris Lavoie from CannDelta, the Official Regulatory Advisory of Business of Cannabis, joins the program to talk about what a speed up of licensing for Ontario cannabis retailers would mean for the sector.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. This episode features a conversation with Christine Halef of AtlantiCann Medical, a cannabis producer based in Nova Scotia. The conversation covers her company's start up story, path to licensing and efforts to bring cannabis to market as well as the majority ownership stake the Mi’kmaq First Nations of Nova Scotia have in her company.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. This episode features a conversation with Harrison Stoker of The Donnelly Group. The Donnelly Group owns and operates public houses and taverns, barber shops and cannabis stores in Canada. We connected with Harrison, their Vice President, to talk about their cannabis retail expansion in Ontario and their recent announcement about the retail stores' name change from HOBO to dutch love.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode, Liz Stahura of BDSA shares deep consumer insights about Gen Z and Millennial cannabis consumers.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this BofC Live, we are joined by Krista Raymer of Vetrina Group and Shahbaaz Kara-Virani of Dutchie to talk about the intersection of technology and cannabis retail.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector.In June, CannDelta became the Official Regulatory Advisory of Business of Cannabis. We also announced that on a weekly basis, CannDelta will participate in an “Ask the Experts” segment that seeks to answer pressing questions posed through the BofC platform.In this segment of Ask the Experts - Dario Jeginovic answer the question: As a new license applicant, is cannabis still profitable?

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. In the weekly segment of BofC Live featuring a deep dive into consumer insights with Liz Stahura of BDSA, Stahura separates fact from fiction about the cannabis 'slacker' consumers. BDSA is the Official Insights Partner of Business of Cannabis.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Today's guest is Michaela Freedman, a cannabis broker working in Canada. She shared her background, her view of the sector and the role cannabis brokers play in the overall supply chain landscape.Learn more about Michaela Freedman.

On Friday, August 7, 2020, Chris Lavoie from CannDelta joined Business of Cannabis for a Friday Lunch+Learn titled: So, you want to open a cannabis retail store.The Lunch+Learn comes at the midway point of CannDelta's article series of the same name. The ten-part series provides a deep dive into all things opening a cannabis retail store in Canada. Read the series.

Chris Lavoie of CannDelta joined Business of Cannabis for a Friday Lunch+Learn session on August 7, 2020 and answered a question about timelines for licensing a cannabis retail store in Toronto.Watch the entire session from our Lunch+Learn on August 7, 2020 and learn more about Chris Lavoie and CannDelta.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. On this episode: Hugo Alves, the CEO of Auxly Cannabis Group, joined BofC Live to discuss the success in bringing Robinsons premium cannabis flower to market as well as how other Auxly products have hit the shelves in 2020.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Mert Guler of Purves Redmond Limited joins BofC Live to share his deep experience and knowledge of securing insurance in the cannabis sector. Specifically, Guler provides insight in the unique challenges of D&O Insurance in cannabis.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. In the weekly segment of BofC Live featuring a deep dive into consumer insights with Liz Stahura of BDSA, Stahura separates fact from fiction about female cannabis consumers. BDSA is the Official Insights Partner of Business of Cannabis.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. Krista Raymer of Vetrina Group and Christina Michael of Marigolds Cannabis discuss the importance of attracting and retaining customers in the highly competitive cannabis retail environment.

Chris Lavoie of CannDelta joins BofC Live to answer the Ask the Expert question posed this week through Business of Cannabis: "Is this still a good time to pursue opening a cannabis retail store given the slow licensing rate and seemingly unfair challenges private retailers are having to deal with, such as losing the right to do home delivery?"Learn more about Chris Lavoie and CannDelta.

On this BofC Live, Matt Maurer of the law firm Torkin Manes joins Business of Cannabis to talk about about the recent Torkin Manes and Business of Cannabis partnership announcement, cannabis retail in Ontario and how quickly things shift in the cannabis sector.Earlier in the month, Torkin Manes became the Official Law Firm of Business of Cannabis. Read more about the partnership and what it means for the Business of Cannabis audience.

On this episode - BofC Live features our weekly conversation with Liz Stahura, the Co-Founder and President of BDSA - the Official Insights Partner of Business of Cannabis shares her weekly insights with the Business of Cannabis audience diving deep into Baby Boomers' cannabis consumption.Learn more about BDSA.

BofC Live is the daily news and interview program of Business of Cannabis. Business of Cannabis highlights the companies, brands, people and trends driving the sector. This episode features a conversation with Mimi Lam and Drummond Munro, co-founders of Superette. The conversation was recorded the day ahead of the launch of their first Toronto location in the Summerhill neighbourhood.

On this episode - BofC Live features a conversation with Brett Chang about the legalization effort in New Zealand in light of the September 2020 ballot iniitative.