Doug “Red Hail” Pineda, best selling Native American author, is a well-known frontline environmentalist and freedom fighter. In addition, he is a renowned business development expert in the world of the Fortune 500. Today, he is also the owner of Grow Hemp Farms and GrowHemp.com. Grow Hemp Farms contracts organic certified industrial hemp farms for top tier buyers that require high-quality hemp for their products. GrowHemp.com is an online educational platform and marketplace that is educating farmers new to the world of hemp how to bypass common failures and succeed quicker.
Suppressing Cannabis Spirituality
In this episode, Doug deep dives into cannabis spirituality and why it is overlooked in modern western society. In addition, he shares his history of growing up around his father who is a decorated military veteran. As a child, he saw first-hand how soldiers returning from war were consistently suffering from PTSD. His experiences as a youth fueled his passion to help these soldiers with the Patriot Hemp Company. This company is “serving those who serve this country and the greater values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of health and happiness.” To achieve this, they sell CBD and other products for military service personnel that need the benefits of CBD but cannot risk testing positive for THC.
3 DANK Points
Military service personnel using CBD to deal with pain management, PTSD, & depression.
Practicing conscious capitalism within colonial standards.
How devious minds have attempted to suppress the spirituality of cannabis.
Byron Bogaard is the Owner of Highway 33, the Bynate dispensary. He is also the CEO of WB Pharms Dispensary/Lounge and partner in Local Motive Farms. Having started out in the industry 20 years ago, he has had experience working in cultivation and consulting. Byron has been involved with Cannabis since his days in college and has always used it for medical purposes with his learning disabilities. He offers his unique perspective of what it’s like to run a dispensary and bring it from the medical days into the recreationally legal market in California.
Pushing for Laws that Help Cannabis Business Owners
Currently, Byron is also the vice-chair of the retail committee for the National Cannabis Industry Association. He joins me on this episode to talk about how we have to work together to fight for fairer laws, instead of falling into the competition trap that too often divides our power. In addition, Byron shares his personal story of persevering through ADHD with the use of cannabis to climb the ladder of success. Finally, Byron shares his motivation to not only normalize cannabis but most importantly create a better future for his children. If you are ever driving up Highway 5 in Central California, take 10 minutes to say high at hwy33.
Alex Corren is the Founder and CEO of UnCanny Wellness, a company that believes CBD hemp extract is only one piece of the health and wellness puzzle. UnCanny is one of the first Hemp companies to develop a hemp-derived, broad-spectrum, water-soluble CBD powder. Furthermore, their unique extract formulation has many benefits over traditional oil-based extracts. For that reason, UnCanny aims to tackle the coffee market in early 2020. Founded in Boulder, CO in early 2016, UnCanny Wellness is committed to pushing the hemp-derived CBD industry forward by creating premium, innovative products for everyone to enjoy. In this episode of DANK Discussions, Alex tells us how he scaled his CBD brand by himself without giving up his company to investors.
3 DANK Points
Entrepreneurial spirit – Building a successful CBD brand without funding.
Water-soluble CBD vs oil-based formulations – Is there a difference in efficacy?
How your CBD store can run 100% digitally in order to keep operations efficient and lean.
Damon Booth is the founder and CMO of Melabis. Melabis is a company based in Malta that is presenting the global cannabis industry to the forefront of emerging markets across the world. At Melabis, they are proud to be working alongside many governments worldwide. Their goal is to assist in providing high-quality cannabis that surpasses the highest regulations and standards. In the future, demand for cannabis will skyrocket when big brands enter the fray. Melabis is positioning itself to be able to meet that demand. On the tech side of the company, they are developing an app that will be used by doctors to track how their medical cannabis patients are doing and making sure they are on the correct customized dosage. Melabis and its team are working hard to increase the developments in global cannabis research by aiding cannabis cultivation and processing.
3 DANK Points
Establishing communication with multiple governments across continents and working within the bureaucratic structure these governments often impose
Crowdsourcing medicinal cannabis data using apps to not only progress research in general, but also gain valuable insight into the way we use cannabis to better serve patients
How to provide supply for the inevitable worldwide demand for quality CBD when big brands look to enter the market
Tanner Stewart is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stewart Farms, a company that is introducing organic sustainable regenerative farming to the cannabis industry. Stewart Farms’ mission is to grow the purest cannabis plant using aquaponics. First, this process converts fish by-products into completely natural plant fertilizer. Then, it uses the fertilizer when watering the plants. Finally, it recycles the clean water back into the fish tanks, thus creating a perfectly symbiotic environment. In this episode of DANK Discussions, Tanner tells us about his passion for optimizing aquaponics and microbes to use in the world of health and wellness and how it may have a big impact on the industry of agriculture and cannabis cultivation in the future.
3 DANK Points
It’s up to the cannabis industry, not the consumer, to internalize the need to become less wasteful
Sustainability and veganism aren’t synonymous
Integrating ground-breaking techniques to make your cannabis business sustainable without breaking the bank
Bonus: Why California has the best bud (and it’s a Canadian, not Maynard the Californian, saying it)
Shifra Klein is the Founder of Mitzva Wellness, the first-ever OU Kosher CBD company. After having her son diagnosed with severe autism at the age of two, Shifra took the time and patience to collect her own data and seek out research on Ultimately, cannabis, and specifically CBD, will be able to help her autistic son and her whole family find relief. Shifra joins me on this episode of DANK Discussions to tell us her powerful story.
3 DANK Points
Overcoming the frustration of having doctors tell you “no” when you know cannabis will help your child
The ultimate pleasure of hearing a previously non-verbal child speak for the first time
Securing the strictest kosher license (Hashgacha) to be able to provide CBD for EVERYONE, including the orthodox Jewish community.
