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Cannabis reform supporters to participate in Ohio Lobby Day on 4/20

Blunt Talk Blog / Alan / April 19, 2022 / 4 minutes of reading

Pricilla Harris talks about the importance of advocating for marijuana legislative reform. She is the executive director of Sensible Movement Coalition and the lobbying director of NORML Appalachia Ohio. Both organizations are hosting “2022 Lobby Day” at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio on 4-20, a day known as the international cannabis smoking day. The goal […]

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Australia-based Litt App sees opportunities in the cannabis industry in North America

Blunt Talk Blog / Alan / April 12, 2022 / 5 minutes of reading

LITT is a Fintech social and e-commerce platform that specializes in augmented reality advertising. Unlike other platforms that continually show ads, a LITT app member sees ads on their feed and opts in to view them. The Australian-based company was launched by co-founders Peter Salom and Brent Thompson in March 2020, and already the company

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Harvest of Ohio is poised for growth

Blunt Talk Blog / Alan / April 1, 2022 / 7 minutes of reading

Ariane Kirkpatrick is the CEO of Harvest Grows, Harvest of Ohio, and Harvest Processing. She’s the only Black woman in Ohio that is vertically integrated in the industry, with licenses to grow, dispense and sell medical cannabis. Licenses for cannabis cultivation, dispensary and processing are for operations in Ironton, Beavercreek, Columbus, and Athens, Ohio. Harvest

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Hemp is not the boost Ohio farmers expected – at least not so far

Blunt Talk Blog, CBD, Hemp, Medical Professionals / Alan / April 20, 2021 / 6 minutes of reading

Julie Doran, founder of the Ohio Hemp Farmers Cooperative and the Hemp Farm Summit in Columbus, talks about harvesting her first 5-acre crop in the fall. Some regulation is necessary to ensure that farmers are growing legal hemp rather than illegal marijuana, but she says the present restrictions make it tough for farmers to survive.

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Canlock disrupts cannabis packaging industry: Innovative smell proof glass jars

Blunt Talk Blog / Alan / March 8, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading

From cure to consumption, Canlock supplies growers and dispensaries with B2B packaging and also provides smoke shops and retailers with its airtight vacuum seal glass jars. The Canlock storage container has a patented built-in vacuum pump. Jars are available in various sizes for both enthusiasts and growers. We talked to Brandon Rea, partner and co-founder of

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Beneleaves sets the bar in cannabis processing in Ohio

Blunt Talk Blog, CBD, Dispensaries, Edibles, Media / Alan / January 27, 2021 / 5 minutes of reading

Beneleaves makes gummies, chews, cookies, cannabinoid-rich vape pens, lotions, capsules and tinctures. Partners at Beneleaves like to say that they went from Collards to Cannabis. Co-founders Peg and Jeff Hollenback, former chefs in Columbus, started the processing company in 2017. Soon afterwards they partnered with Bill Williams Jr., CEO, adding his national sales and brand

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Ohio Cannabis Insiders look ahead to 2021

Blunt Talk Blog, CBD, Cultivators, Dispensaries, Edibles, Hemp, Law, Media / Alan / January 1, 2021 / 7 minutes of reading

As crazy as 2020 was – with COVID-19 upending lives all over the world in the worst ways – it was actually a banner year for the cannabis industry. As of now 36 states have approved medical marijuana and 15 allow adult-use consumption and/or retail sale of cannabis. No doubt, New Year’s feels a lot

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Why Chef Berry began teaching others to cook with cannabis

Blunt Talk Blog, CBD, Edibles, Hemp, Media / Alan / October 14, 2020 / 6 minutes of reading

Chef Linda Berry has spent a lot of time mentoring the next generation headed to the culinary field, while also becoming sous chef for a national traveling cannabis event:The High End Affair. As a culinary powerhouse, She’s established her influence through her work as a chef and educator by sharing her skills and expertise with

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Where Ohio State Rep. Juanita Brent stands on Marijuana reform

Blunt Talk Blog, Cultivators, Dispensaries, Hemp, Law, Medical Professionals / Alan / October 7, 2020 / 5 minutes of reading

State Rep. Juanita Brent is not just a life-long community advocate from Cleveland, Ohio, she’s a strong advocate for cannabis legalization and changes in law. In 2018, she was elected to her first term as State Representative to the 12th Ohio House District, and next month she’s up for re-election. In May she introduced a

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CBD is everywhere: Why these millennial brothers decided to invest in Whole Plant

Blunt Talk Blog, CBD, Cultivators, Dispensaries, Edibles, Hemp / Alan / September 9, 2020 / 5 minutes of reading

At 26, Alex Huska and his stepbrother, Josh Reminick, co-own Whole Plant™, a Cleveland-based hemp company that they launched less than two years ago. His belief in whole plant products is based on his own personal affliction with Crohn’s disease. Standard medicine failed. But he says alternative solutions gave him relief. Cannabidiol, also known as

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