SMOKE SIGNALS: 09.06.22
I am guest posting/ghosting while other robots recover from the burn. 🔥
I hope you all had a great trip, and to the rest Happy Labor Day. We decided to get in the spirit and teamed with our friends at Top Shelf to make some swag… an ode to all of your hard work and the absolute 🤡 sh*t show California has created. 😠
BRANDS
Wyld DROPS in Oklahoma. 🤠
Curaleaf (Select) LAYS OFF close to 50 workers and closes Sac plant. 😔
Kyle Kazan’s Glasshouse Group RAISES $14.7 Million and continues their vertical build across cultivation, retail and house of brands.✊🏼
On that note, Glasshouse Groups’s Allswell adds GUMMIES to the line up, and appears to be betting hard on the value, generic, made for everyone, all category play… very similar to their distro mates Select. 🤔
InvestBev makes a SIZABLE investment in Cann. Fun to watch Luke Anderson and team, continue to raise the bar. 🤙🏼
Adam Wilks is proving to be a great leader adding MISSOURI to the Tyson 2.0 multi-state line-up including Colorado, California, Nevada, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Delaware, Washington D.C., Ohio, Maryland, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Washington, and select provinces in Canada. 🥊
RETAIL
Daniel Firtel and the TRP team bring Cookies Retail to LA’s uber rich Brentwood. 🍪
Respect My Region REPORTS that Cookies Miami sells more flower in their first week than all other Florida dispensaries combined. 🐊
Jungle Boys second dispensary OPENS in the sunshine state. ☀️
MANUFACTURING
Josh Schmidt of Natura appears to be setting a strong FOUNDATION in the Far East. 🇹🇭
DISTRIBUTION
Vince and Jun continue their crusade to level the cannabis playing field, PARTNERING with Equity Trade Network. cc: NABIS 🛡️
TECH
Green Flower PARTNERS with Community College of Denver. Max Simon is always nice, positive and super consistent… stoked to see good people in cannabis continue to win. 🙌🏼
EVENTS
Shout out Green Street. Donut’s & Pizza was dope. Good to see old faces and meet some new. We saw Erin and Derek in the booth with Rama, Kendra Stocking and few others… per the usual, aging robots need to stay in informed… all eyes on High Rise. 🚀
The Benzinga CANNABIS CAPITAL CONFERENCE will be in Chi Town on 9/13 + 9/14. 🏛️
HOF makes its CANADIAN debut, also on 9/13 + 9/14. 🇨🇦
Greenwolf’s, Zalympix ANNOUNCES its East Coast Invitational (March 2023), open to North and Southeast regions and with NYC’s Buddy’s Bodega and the Astor Club. 🗽
READ, LISTEN & WATCH
Apparently we’ve been sleeping on Oregon. Elephants and outliers, Gladwell to Phil Knight (not to mention Weiden + Kennedy, one of the most innovative/epic ad agencies in history), Colin Landforce brings UNQIUE PERSPECTIVE on how Oregon draws talent, drives trends, and let’s not forget… straight grit. 🛶
Interesting CONVERSATION between Highly Objective and Jetty’s Ron Gernshoni discussing trend hunting in unregulated markets, market expansion, and Canopy Growth. 🔈
Lauren Yoshikio x Thrillist hip us to all things happening in the AZ. 🌵
Otherwise, tips, tricks, events and guest lists 👉🏼 high@cannabis4robots.com