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Warren Bobrow
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Warren Bobrow is a mixing veteran who is author of six books on his own brand of mixology, one of them on infused cannabis drinks.
Warren is a Forbes collaborator on infused beverage and vices. He’s recently founded Klaus Apothicaire, an infused beverages store coming to market this year.
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Warren Bobrow=WB: Please tell me about your company?
Dr. Oludare Odumosu= D.OO: Zelira Therapeutics Ltd is a leading global therapeutic medicinal cannabis company with access to the world’s largest and fastest-growing cannabis markets. Zelira owns a portfolio of proprietary revenue-generating products and a pipeline of formulations undergoing clinical development that are positioned to enter global markets from 2020. The company is focused on developing branded cannabis products for the treatment of a variety of medical conditions.
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Warren Bobrow=WB: Tell me about your company?
Doug Chloupek=DC:Juva Life, though only officially formed in 2018, it is really the culmination of decades of work. I began my previous operations when California was still under Prop 215. Today, Juva Life is vertically integrated and consists of six divisions: Juva Cultivation, Juva Research, Juva Manufacturing, Juva Distribution, Juva Retail, and Juva Delivery. Each division plays a crucial role in our overall goal of helping people feel better.
Dosist CEO Gunner Winston
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Warren Bobrow=WB: What brought you to the cannabis business? Tell me about what you do? How do you see yourself in five years?
Gunner Winston=GW: My background is in finance and I first entered the cannabis space as an investor. I started my career doing investment banking at Morgan Stanley then ultimately ended up co-founding a hedge fund in New York where I spent over a decade building investment funds, growing teams and collaborating with and investing in many of the world’s most successful brands. I chose to retire in 2014 and had just moved to California, and given the pending adult use legalization cannabis became an obvious category for me to watch. Through this analysis dosist quickly caught my attention given its incredible mission to transcend the cannabis industry and empower people to naturally manage their health and happiness. With that, in 2017 I came in first as an investor and shortly after became CEO.
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I first discovered mood33, a most revolutionary and tasty beverage through mutual friends who know about this marketplace of both CBD (Hemp) and THC infused liquids.
Why cannabis? How did you discover the plant?
I got brought into the amazing world of cannabis from Reggae on the River music festival in Humboldt County. From that festival, I was invited to come work a season up in the hills and from there I was hooked. I was educated by some of the most amazing innovators in the cannabis industry, we’re talking multiple generations of experience. I also have some legendary stories that are better shared over a bonfire then this article. The hills of Humboldt County became my backyard for 5 years and my connection with cannabis became an integral part of my life and now my career. I have never seen a molecule or set of molecules whether manmade or natural to have such wide-ranging benefits and provide something to so many people as I see with cannabis. These experiences have led me to forge a path where I get to use cannabis to help people quit using tobacco. I couldn’t be any more excited to be able to help share this plant with people across the world, and in a way they can be more comfortable with than smoking or vaping. It’s an honor and privilege when I think about how I started with quietly growing and processing cannabis in the hills of Northern California to now working exclusively with Lexaria Bioscience (LXRP) on optimizing the smokeless oral absorption of cannabinoids. It is crazy to imagine where this plant will take me over the next 10 years as well as take us a society.
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I’ve played around with high-tech portable dab rigs that utilize cannabis concentrates lately and some have offered mixed results. That’s not to say that every tool meant for the inhalation of cannabis concentrates has disappointed me, far from. It’s just that the learning curve is tall for most of the eNails (Electronic-Nails) and other portable dab rigs that I’ve tried.
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Five Questions With Wendy Baker, Founder Of Space Gem Ice Water Hash/Natural Fruit And Herb Gelée
I absolutely love your stuff and give your product and your efforts my deepest appreciation. Space Gem was the first gelée I’ve truly enjoyed eating because they doesn’t come across my palate as gritty or too sticky against my fragile dental work. I cannot eat caramels or chew gum for this reason. Her flavors are so well amalgamated in their individual profiles and they really get me chilled. After each tiny nibble comes tangles of flavors. Each little gem is reminiscent of fine French confiture.
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Five Questions with Melissa Parker, founder and CEO of Reed’s Remedies, a new line of CBD sprays that include Focus, Sleep, Calm, Detox, Desire, Relief, and introducing Soothe — a new pain mitigating lotion. Offering an exact 7 mg dose every time, Reed’s Remedies sprays combine the power of steam-distilled CBD in its absolute purest form with a dynamic blend of plant-based compounds (called terpenes) that, when combined, produce effects far more powerful than what any element could achieve alone. But there’s more to this line of CBD products found throughout Southern California’s Erewhon Market locations, which is why it’s a NEXTY Award finalist for “Best New Hemp/CBD Product” at the 2020 Natural Products West Expo, the nation’s largest annual gathering of health and wellness brands and retailers.