AI has made software easier than ever to build. That does not mean every internal tool should become the backbone of your business.
In this episode, Bryan sits down with Chris Guthrie to break down the growing temptation...

Understand This Before You Use AI To Build Software ft. Chris Guthrie

Cannabis rescheduling is not as simple as “Trump rescheduled cannabis.”
States are interpreting rescheduling completely differently depending on their license structure. These tiny details are widening the gap between po...

Hirsh Jain: Rescheduling Is Already Picking Winners

The number in your head and the number you actually need are not the same number. That gap is where most cannabis businesses break.
Joe Lustberg has financed operators across the country for years and watched that gap sw...

Joe Lustberg: What Cannabis Lenders See That Operators Miss

The largest payment processor in the world handles cannabis in Canada. In the U.S., they will not touch it. That’s the gap.
Aubrey Amatelli left JP Morgan believing that if you followed the rules, aligned with card brand...

The Legal Market Was Never Built for Payments, Why Cannabis Still Breaks the Rules ft. Aubrey Amatelli

Politics is a dirty business. Sometimes being feared is the influence you need because access is not the problem.
Politicians say "we'll take care of this." Gretchen Gailey has a different approach: stab them in the back...

Gretchen Gailey: Cannabis Industry Has No Idea How DC Works, Why Rescheduling Is Delayed

Investing in cannabis requires a split personality.
Everyone thinks they're early. Dan McDermitt has been trading the sector for 15 years — through the Canadian boom, the Biden promise, and the slow bleed that followed. ...

15 Years of Cannabis Trading . Why I'll Sell Early (Unless This Happens) ft. Dan McDermitt

Everyone knows the Cheech & Chong name. Almost no one understands the infrastructure behind it.
This isn’t a celebrity brand story. It’s a leverage story inside a fragmented, state-locked cannabis market that could shift...

JB (Cheech & Chong CEO): Building a National Cannabis Brand Through Trial, Error & Partnership

Exceptional extraction has long been treated as an art.What separates the best teams is not creativity.It is the ability to repeat quality, consistently.And it is not SOP alone.It is judgment applied consistently under r...

How Top Teams Balance Art and Process in Extraction ft. Brian Adams

Schedule III isn’t the finish line.It’s the starting gun.The EO said a lot — but most operators aren’t ready for what it actually means.This week we sit down with Zach Edge and Dr. Matthew Moore to break down:Why Schedul...

Schedule III Changes Everything — This Is Just the Beginning

Tobacco and alcohol are already laying the groundwork for cannabis — building IP, infrastructure, and data.Nick Kenney breaks down what legacy industries already understand — how regulated markets are built, and why read...

Rescheduling & Federal Policy