Jay Wright has lofty goals for Little Beach Harvest as a business venture, but he also believes the tribally owned cannabis company can be a cultural inspiration and a force for further destigmatizing cannabis.

Temperature management is one of the most powerful tools in a grower’s arsenal when it comes to maximizing both yield and potency in cannabis.

Jake Granger can take some credit for bringing delivery to Oregon’s legal cannabis industry. After operating a successful cannabis delivery company in San Diego, Granger headed to Portland, Oregon, to recreate the business as Potland, using a loophole in the regulations specifying that dispensaries that are open to the public had to be at least 1,000 feet apart.

Custom Cones USA was an unexpected, runaway success for co-founders Harrison Bard and Fredrik Rading. The wildly successful Washington-based rolling paper company ships throughout the United States and 47 other countries, serving about 18,000 clients that range from head shops to the Jordanian military.

Gary Perry was climbing the cannabis industry ladder when he realized the culture had much more to offer than just cannabis.

“There had to be something more than just industry,” he says.

Cristy Aranguiz is somewhat peerless in the cannabis industry. As CEO of Cannabis & Glass, she has helped build the company from a single store into a thriving multi-state operation with three retail locations in Washington, one in Oregon, another three in Iowa (under the brand Iowa Cannabis). 

Eric Latta took his first job in recreational cannabis at Buddy’s in Renton, Washington, in 2014. Eleven years later, he returned to the store to help rebrand it into Kush21, the state’s largest cannabis retail chain, which Latta helped build from one to 15 stores during the past eight years. 

The pandemic hit right in the middle of Eric Sellew’s senior year of college. He was living off campus with a few friends and smoking “more joints than we should have at the time,” when a simple observation changed the course of his life.

Elizabeth Aguirre was working as a general manager for a Bay Area coffee shop when her district manager proposed a move into cannabis retail. Aguirre joined Velvet as a general manager in February 2020, now she is the multi-award-winning chain’s director of operations.

So I think it’s a really unique perspective and I’m super proud of it, and I hope it helps guide some future research as well.”…