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Never Stop Growing

Grow with us. Win cannabis licenses. Maintain regulatory compliance. Cultivate wealth. Find landrace-quality talent to grow your team. Equitably capture your share of the cannabis market, and grow your brand. 

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Regulatory Compliance

We specialize in the intensive research and interpretation of statutes, regulations, ordinances, and codes, and develop robust plans for regulatory compliance from the onset of the application period and throughout all operations. 

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Licensing

We win cannabis business license applications. Our cannabis license application materials are extensively researched, impactfully and convincingly written, and painstakingly developed to guarantee regulatory compliance. And because we are master storytellers, we will craft your story and vision to persuade even the hardest bureaucrat to act in your favor.  

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Science & Research

Our founder is a leading researcher of small molecules in cannabis, and collaborates with laboratories in the United States and Europe on research and investigatory projects. Put our Subject Matter Expertise regarding terpenes, flavonoids, and other phytochemicals in cannabis to work for your manufacturing, cultivation, or analysis facility.   

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Financial Services

Cannabis finance is often one of the most convoluted and troubling parts of operating a cannabis business, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Let our team of CPAs and consultants develop your company’s comprehensive financial model, conduct market research on your behalf, file cannabis business taxes, or plot a sensible budget. 

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Startups

We collaborate with startups to help identify their brand, incorporate and register with various entities, develop persuasive and comprehensive business plans, pitch decks, and white papers, and formulate winning marketing plans.

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Facility Design

From parking lot and road access plans to retail sales floor layouts, we can help you develop every stage of your cannabis facility. Whether you’re a cannabis cultivator, manufacturer, laboratory, dispensary, or any other cannabis business, we have the expertise and resources required to deliver on your dream.   

Leaders, Not Dealers
You’ve earned the right to be here, and our mission is to ensure the longevity of your success.

We are cannabis consultants, subject matter experts, scientists, accountants, researchers, and writers

Precisely Tailored
We operate fluidly in a collaborative partnership where we work with you to create the precise solution needed for your project.
Compliant
Compliance is foundational to everything we do. This is critical in the heavily-regulated cannabis industry, and this focus is how we help you mitigate or eliminate liabilities.
Extremely High Quality
Our cannabis consulting services are impeccably designed and delivered because we take full ownership of every project: your success is ours.
Complete
We develop and execute painstakingly crafted cannabis consulting services that you can trust are exhaustive.

Cannabis Consulting

Our Approach

Individualized solutions for industry-leading cannabis companies

Exhaustively Comprehensive
Our depth of research into your company’s needs and the legalities required to achieve success is unparalleled. We ask the hard questions, we provide the unbridled truth. 
International Resources
We’ve operated in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, Malta, South Africa, Morocco, Canada, Mexico, Italy, and many US States. 
Decades of Experience
We started in the black markets for cannabis in 1990 and grew our way into international brokering and consulting, eventually moving into the grey and white markets in the middle 2000’s. Today, our roots touch nearly every major player in the cannabis industry. 

Cannabis Consulting

Services

Draw on our experience to guide your success in cannabis

Consulting

Consult with Us:

-Regulatory Affairs
-Subject Matter Expertise
-Cannabis Science
-Social Clubs
-Product, ingredient sourcing

Precisely the counsel you need

Exactly when you need it

We Offer Intrinsic Understanding

We were born in the cannabis industry. We are veterans of the plant and its complicated legalities.

Never Stop Growing

We provide the information, materials, connections, and guidance required to ensure your success in the cannabis industry

Set High Expectations

We'll help you exceed them

Licensing

Cannabis Business Licensing

We take complete ownership of the cannabis licensing process, so that you can focus on growing your company. From researching regulations to communicating with state officials to delivering comprehensive license application materials, we give you the best chance at winning your license. 

Regulations & Compliance
We will intensively research, compile, dissect, and interpret every statute, regulation, ordinance, and code related to your cannabis license application.  
Team Building
We will help you develop a robust and talented team for license application and operational purposes. 
Application Materials Development
We will comprehensively craft your cannabis license application materials to speak to the letter of the law while vividly imparting your mission. We write and edit in the persuasive legal format, using exhaustive citations. 
Submission Assistance
We will provide assistance during the submission process – a service not typically offered by cannabis licensing consultants. 

Compliance

Cannabis Regulatory Compliance

Your cannabis business cannot survive if it’s not compliant. We help you understand what your obligations are, and implement a robust plan for permanent compliance.

Compliance for Dispensaries
We offer complete cannabis compliance solutions for medical and retail dispensaries in all US states with proper legislation on the books. 
Compliance for Cultivation Facilities
From seed to sale, we help cultivation facilities maintain regulatory compliance, based on a foundation of comprehensive SOPs. 
Compliance for Manufacturing Facilities
Cannabis manufacturing facilities are bound by heavy regulations. We help these companies understand what rules and laws apply to their operations, and how to maintain perpetual compliance.
Other Cannabis Compliance
We provide robust regulatory compliance solutions for all types of cannabis companies, including delivery services, transporters, distribution companies, wholesalers, laboratories, and brokers. 

Finance

Cannabis Financial Services

Cannabis finance isn’t as scary as some people make it seem. With the right planning, and the right team, even complex projects can be brought to flower.

Financial Modeling
Our financial models are complex and tailored specifically for your project, ranging from financial models for triple-stacked cultivation centers to models for dispensaries that feature seasonality factors, and everything in between.
Market Analysis
Let us analyze your market and competitors and design a plan of attack to claim your part of the market share, including in new cannabis markets.

Cannabis Tax Preparation

Know your rights, fulfill your obligations

Maintain Tax Compliance

Let us handle this extremely intricate task for you, and rest assured that we'll address and take action on every tax issue facing your company

Research

Cannabis Research Services

When you need well-informed answers, our comprehensive research services are penetrative and conclusive. We are passionate about fruiting where others have failed. 

Legal Research
We are fluent in the languages of Statues, Regulations, Ordinances, Codes, Technical Rules, and other codified legalese, and we are able to quickly interpret and communicate these languages to your team, or to regulators and authorities on your behalf. 
Cannabis Science
Our founder is the author of The Big Book of Terps – the world’s largest scientific textbook about terpenes and synergy in cannabis. With deep knowledge of the molecules of cannabis, we can provide interesting and valuable research for your cannabis science projects. 

Case Law

We can help you review case law to understand possible outcomes to pending or pondered litigation

Local Counsel Collaboration

We liaise and collaborate with local counsel to ensure intrinsic expertise and resources are executed throughout your project

Facility Design

Cannabis Facility Design

We can help you plan and buildout every aspect of your cannabis business, while simultaneously ensuring that your facilities and operations are safe and compliant.

Cultivation Facility Design
We have the resources, experience, and talent required to help you design a potentially award-winning cultivation facility. Whether you prefer soil grown, hydroponic, or hybrid systems, indoors or outside, we are your design experts. 
Manufacturing Facility Design
From small scale “mom & pop” facilities to large manufacturing centers spanning tens of thousands of square feet, we can help you design a safe and compliant facility to manufacture cannabis products, regardless of your production methods.  
Dispensary Facility Design
Capturing your vision and making it reality is one of the things we do best, and this is especially true of our dispensary design services. From transactional layout to architectural mockups to full-scale security overlays, we will compliantly design every inch of your dispensary.
Analysis Laboratory Design
Our scientific research and laboratory experience is precisely what you need to design a compliant, ISO-certified analysis laboratory. We can help from facility design to methodologies and SOPs, equipment sourcing and calibration, and more. 

Recruiting

Cannabis Recruiting Services

We have spent decades cultivating an intricate web of connections across the cannabis industry. If you need high-level talent and experience for your cannabis business, we can source exceptional candidates in short order. 

C-Suite and Owners
Allow us to engage executive level team members to help profitably and compliantly operate your cannabis business. We only recruit executives with direct cannabis experience. 
Operational Roles
We can help build your team with cannabis-experienced people to fill high-level operational roles such as General Manager, Director of Cultivation, Human Resources Manager, Director of Manufacturing, Director of Security, and other roles.

Cannabis Experience

We recruit only exceptionally talented individuals that already have experience in cannabis.

Temporary Roles

We can help you engage with potent cannabis professionals who are willing to sit on your cannabis license application.

Writing

Cannabis Writing Services

We produce compelling cannabis content that wins licenses, garners funding, convinces authorities, and breaks barriers: these are words that your highest ideals can live by, and words that humble even your strongest detractors

Business Plans
A strong foundation is generally rooted in a detailed business plan designed to exhaustively inform and compel. Our cannabis business plans are potent, accurate, and persuasive, giving you the best chance to win funding or approval.
Standard Operating Procedures
From a compliance and operational standpoint, a cannabis company’s methodology should be painstakingly documented in the form of SOPs. We are expert SOP writers, combining intensive subject matter expertise with precise technical writing. 
Cannabis License Applications
Depending on the region, cannabis licensing documentation burdens can be steep. Allow us to craft powerful, accurate license materials ranging from safety and security plans to odor mitigation plans to social equity and diversity plans and all other written licensing requirements.
Technical Writing
From technical manuals to contracts and more, we can draft detailed technical writing documents to meet even the most stringent requirements.  This includes employee manuals, equipment operation manuals, environmental controls manuals, equipment specifications, methodologies, and other technical writing projects. 

Our Group

Cannabis Consultants

Our founders, principals, and team 

Russ Hudson

Our founder is a veteran of the cannabis industry after more than 32 years working in virtually every aspect of the cannabis world; from black to white markets, and all the grey areas in-between. Russ worked for years in Europe, where he was a well-known cannabis consultant based in Barcelona, Spain. Russ is a licensing and regulatory compliance expert, the world’s leading cannabis social club expert, a professional writer and editor, and a scientific researcher specializing in cannabis phytochemicals. Russ has written the world’s largest scientific textbook about terpenes in cannabis, titled The Big Book of Terps, and collaborates with top cannabis researchers. Russ is also working on scientific publications about flavonoids, ketones, esters, and thiols in cannabis, among other compounds, and focuses studies on synergy.

 

Jackie Graddon, MBA, CPA

A highly skilled data scientist and cannabis finance specialist, Jackie’s experience has roots in the legal cannabis environment of Oregon, where she worked with cannabis product formulations, and was an original proponent of Proposition 502 in Washington state, which legalized recreational cannabis. As an industry-based CPA, Jackie is extremely well-versed in cannabis finance, and works with complex financial models and budgeting for all types of cannabis businesses. Jackie is also an astute legal researcher and master of data compilation and analysis, as well as possessing significant editing, proofreading, and compliance management skills. Jackie is a cannabis tax expert, filing on behalf of cannabis businesses and organizations, and advising top executives on cannabis tax compliance.

 

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