PEDRO GARCIA
These are some really cool people in the cannabis space who I want to spend more time learning from. They get it.
‘Nuff Said… And thank you for spending time with me during Hall of Flowers.
PEDRO GARCIA
Category: Interviews
PEDRO GARCIA
PHOTO COURTESY: SHARON LETTS
From Mainstream Media to Marijuana
Writer & Producer Sharon Letts’ life is all about the plant
Sharon Letts’ life is all about the plant, but what does that mean? Well, to start with, Sharon Letts is a brilliant published author and journalist. She has worked in television and also is a determined poet. But what I find most intriguing about Sharon is her deep humility. She has faced many, many struggles and survived to live another day. May I please present, a cancer fighter and winner, Ms. Sharon Letts.
PHOTO COURTESY: SEAN KNUTSEN
Sean Knutsen is President and CEO of Boveda Inc., the leading producer of 2-way humidity control solutions for a variety of moisture-sensitive products.
I met Sean in Denver on my trip to discover people, places and things that had to do with the legal cannabis industry. What I found along the way was an intricate view into multiple levels of the plant. And even deeper than the plant herself, were the personalities who raise the bar with intriguing products that are needed, not just desired. Sean brings to market a practical solution to moisture problems in cannabis.
Warren Bobrow=WB: Tell me about yourself? Why cannabis? When did you decide to leave traditional business for a much different path in legal cannabis?
Warren Bobrow=WB: Where are you from?
Alicia Rose=AR: I grew up on a farm on the east coast. We raised foundation Morgan horses, and I three-day evented competitively until college.
PHOTO COURTESY; PATHOGENDX
PathogenDx, Inc., an innovator in DNA-based pathogen testing technology for cannabis, hemp, agriculture and food safety industries, announced Monday it has secured $7.5 million in Series B funding. The company was able to close this round of funding in just under three months.
I first became acquainted with Old Pal at the Hall of Flowers, the bi-yearly event known as the Hall of Flowers. Old Pal owns a very special vehicle, a 1940’s era school bus with a raised roof and part of a floor. It is better known as the Cosmic Collider. All that it needed was the Ken Kesey at the wheel of this Merry Prankster style vehicle screaming at the top of his lungs as his vehicle careened down mountains without brakes, “Further! Further!”
RIK MARTHALER
SERENE CBD – 5 Questions with Forbes Warren Bobrow
Warren Bobrow=WB: Where are you from? Why cannabis? Why CBD, over THC?
Erica Valker=EV: Where: I grew up in southern Wisconsin, my hubby and business partner Paul is from the Chicago area. We now live in Highland Park, IL a cool little arts community on Chicago’s “north shore.” I grew up water skiing on our lake and eventually went pro, skiing all over the world, including China and Australia. But we used to live in So-Cal and miss it terribly, these Chicago winters are for the birds!
PHOTO COURTESY: NEIL WIESNER
Warren Bobrow=WB: Where are you from? Why get into the legal aspects of cannabis? Did you go to business school or just law school? Who is your mentor?
Neil Wiesner=NW: Im from New York City and, when I was in college, it was only the rare weirdo who wasn’t smoking marijuana. At that time, pot was the least favorite of my recreational drug choices. That was nearly forty years ago, and I hear what’s out there now bears little resemblance to what I was familiar with back then. I think drug laws in general are horrible. There are certainly safety and health issues related to drugs, but I do not believe the correct response is their criminal prohibition. When I was in prison, I was in rooms daily with men who, collectively, lost thousands of years of life to confinement as a result of drug criminalization.
PHOTO COURTESY: ARTET MIXOLOGY
I’m what some have called a Master Mixologist. My professional qualifications are many. I started as a bar back for Chris James at the Ryland Inn. This is the very bottom of the ladder to become a bartender or mixologist in my opinion. It was not easy work at fifty years of age, far from, it was very physically demanding. Chris was not easy on me. You don’t write about spirits from behind a desk, you must be cleaning the speed racks at three in the morning to know what goes into being a bartender. I’ve taught Master Classes in un-manipulated rum at places like the Moscow Bar Show in Russia and Stonewall Kitchen in Maine. I was a rum judge for the Ministry of Rum and the Rum XP folks in Florida. I’ve led and sat on panels at SXSW on cannabis and the Berlin Bar Convent. My six books on mixology are sold globally. There even is a book on Cannabis, named Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails and Tonics.