Meet the NY Hashish Insider Panelists: Charles Johnson, Geoffrey Brown, Lee Buttolph and Paula Collins

NY Hashish Insider Reside! introduced by Foley Hoag is Friday, Could 20, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. The complete-day, in-person convention will probably be held on the Crowne Plaza Lodge in Albany. Purchase tickets here.

NY Hashish Insider business-to-business conferences characteristic one of the best and brightest business thought leaders, sharing their data and experience on matters essential for these seeking to begin their hashish ventures. NY Hashish Insider helps attendees seize this unprecedented alternative with the identical high-quality hashish business dialog as earlier digital conferences.

NY Hashish Insider has curated high hashish specialists to talk on these matters, offering attendees with the insider data that solely NY Hashish Insider can ship. Our roster of panelists consists of:

Charles Johnson Co-Founder and CEO, Leafspotz Inc. Panel: A Deep Dive Into the Laws for Conditional Grownup Use Hashish Licenses

Charles Johnson Esq, is the co-founder and CEO of Leafspotz Inc., the primary African American B2B hashish transportation and logistics software program firm in New York. Leafspotz’s transportation software program platform will assist simplify the distribution wants between New York hashish companies with an end-to-end provide chain resolution for transporting their hashish merchandise inside the state. Charles believes that addressing the provision chain side in New York is just not solely a basic a part of the adult-use market, however can also be the constructing blocks of guaranteeing our rising market thrives for years to come back.

Charles is a licensed lawyer for nearly 10 years with an employment regulation and statutory background, primarily involving collective bargaining negotiations, administrative trials, arbitrations, and labor relations. Charles served as particular counsel for BrownGreer PLC whereas engaged on the $20 billion settlement fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill catastrophe. Previous to passing the bar, Charles was a former regulation clerk for Equal Employment Alternative Fee headquarters in DC beneath the Obama administration.

Geoffrey Brown

Medical Marijuana Pharmacist at MedMen and Writer of CannaBuff

Panel: Affect of Leisure Grownup-Use Laws on Medical Marijuana Suppliers

Dr. Geoffrey Brown is a licensed pharmacist in New York State and is the editor-in-chief of CannaBuff journal and CannabisQuestions.Health. Throughout pharmacy faculty, Geoff accomplished coaching on the Mayo Clinic the place he developed an early curiosity in how pharmacists will help sufferers enhance their utilization of pure medicines. In his preliminary work at UB, he carried out new analysis evaluating patient-reported ache and high quality of life outcomes related to using medical hashish merchandise accessible by means of NY’s Medical Program. This work was featured by NORML and has been broadly cited as one of many first medical research within the U.S. suggesting medical hashish might scale back opioid dose necessities. This finally led Geoff to his present apply at a dispensary in Buffalo the place he sees sufferers with a variety of situations from A number of Sclerosis and epilepsy to continual ache and PTSD.

CannaBuff journal is a quarterly print publication that promotes new hashish and adjoining companies in Western New York. Instructional {and professional} in its scope, CannaBuff journal discusses a broad vary of authorized, medical, and enterprise points dealing with New Yorkers and is obtainable without spending a dime at over 300 areas, or by mail or e-mail.

Geoff can also be the founding father of CannabisQuestions.Health, a hashish query and reply web site, that provides customers a pharmacist who will personally reply all their questions on hashish intimately, full with references.

Lee Buttolph COO/CFO, Faucet Root Fields Lee began his profession within the telecommunications business working for Dash and start-up Rhythms NetConnections. After the dot-com meltdown in the summertime of 2001 and subsequent terrorist assault of September eleventh, Lee left the company world and joined the Marine Corps as a Communications Officer. He deployed to Iraq twice and served within the roles of Platoon Commander and Operations Officer. After rising a household enterprise, incomes a grasp’s diploma in entrepreneurship and new media administration at Syracuse College, and dealing with Central New York tech startups, Lee co-founded Faucet Root Fields.

Faucet Root Fields began as a naked patch of land in Skaneateles, NY however has since been remodeled into an operation that is able to tackle a hashish cultivation license utilizing a mix of out of doors and greenhouse rising. The farm is at the moment natural licensed, however the group has loftier ambitions to construct in regenerative agriculture practices. Along with his farm duties, Lee travels the world for the Boots 2 Enterprise program. This program, run by the Small Enterprise Administration and Syracuse College, teaches US navy personnel learn how to begin a enterprise as they exit the navy.

Paula Collins

Founder and Lawyer at Legislation Workplace of Paula Collins, LLC

Panel: Get Began Now: Crafting a Profitable Hashish Enterprise Plan

Paula Collins is an enrolled agent and an lawyer, devoted to representing hashish entrepreneurs and buyers by means of all phases of the enterprise life cycle. A hashish skilled since 2015, Collins makes a speciality of discovering options for social fairness license holders, fundraising, and taxation within the hashish house. She makes a speciality of serving to start-up and legacy operators transition into authorized hashish companies by first inspecting their private journeys, household historical past, and monetary snapshot. Collins is licensed as an lawyer in a number of states and is certified to apply within the US Tax Court docket.

As a tax skilled with the very best credentials provided by the IRS, she has shoppers in virtually each state within the US. Collins is a founding member of the New York Consortium of Hashish Accountants (NYCCA), a VIP Member of DopeCFO, on the board with the Boston-based advocacy and schooling group referred to as Elevate Northeast, and serves on the Social Fairness and Range Committee of the Worldwide Hashish Bar Affiliation. Collins is a classical pianist and is Chair of the Chamber Music Committee of the New York Metropolis Bar Affiliation.

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NY Hashish Insider Occasion Sponsors

Sponsors and companions for NY Hashish Insider occasions are the companies shaping the business domestically and regionally. Search for them on the convention flooring and through networking instances all through the day.

• Foley Hoag, the convention’s presenting sponsor, offers authorized companies to hashish and cannabis-related operators and buyers. With nationwide expertise within the medical and adult-use hashish business, Foley Hoag attorneys can help with securing licensing, company formation, regulation compliance and extra.
• Harris Beach, the convention’s supporting sponsor, offers authorized help, recommendation and experience for the hashish business powered by regional data, statewide protection, native connections, and fluency in regulatory compliance.
• Cannabis360, the convention’s supporting sponsor, is a full-service hashish advertising company. Cannabis360 makes a speciality of understanding the advertising panorama from the hashish perspective, putting media on cannabis-friendly platforms, growing compelling, inventive and informative advertising plans with proprietary knowledge insights.
• Cannaspire, a vendor truthful participant, offering quite a lot of hashish consulting companies from cellphone consultations, enterprise plans, safety plans, constructing a group, and extra
• Cova Software program, a vendor truthful participant, offers easy-to-use, compliant hashish software program that streamlines dispensary administration.