Something I love telling employees is thank you for being you, because it’s that diversity, it’s that self-confidence, it’s that encouragement that we give to each other that creates a fun culture and a place that’s fun to work but also a place where you enjoy working really hard. I’m Native American and I was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I think that is really well said and sets us up for a good place to stop today. Why Washington over Colorado? I really think if people just accept others who use it, it makes the world a better place. Morrison took over the role of Atreyu in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter. It’s a good question because after California we could’ve headed east to Colorado. Passion, I still boil it down to one word. It’s really a shame this is your last one because I was going to save all that for your next podcast. A FIELD GUIDE TO WILDFLOWERS . Shango Los: I think that’s a good point too because as California moves more towards full legalization, I mean, like right now testing is not mandatory and so it’s good that you do testing as part of your product development and manufacturing. The web address is ganjapreneur.com/promoitems. Then 2009, this is so kind of archaic, but in 2009 there was a lot of people, and we were one of them, who’ve basically denoted the potency of the product based on an x. Just because you can make it, doesn’t make you should. Jorge Garcia, Kenny Morrison, Michael Pena, Jill Ritchie, John Patrick Amedori, Jonathan Dankner, Erica Leerhsen and Rachel Minor. Cool. Kenny Morrison is the founder and CEO of VCC Brands (formerly known as the Venice Cookie Company), a California-based cannabis edibles producer. Blunt Branding does better than that. All the various labs still consider that proprietary. I’ve had people tell me the black hole on any PNL for a beverage company is freight. Directors: Duane Graves, Justin Meeks | Stars: Justin Meeks, Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Gregory Kelly, Deon Lucas. It’s a really great piece. If you cannot risk business failure, you should be working with a marketing team who understands that their goal is not just to make you pretty, but to directly increase your sales success, too. Wikipedia, Palestinian-American playwright, actor and dancer based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Sure. You can find out more at venicecookiecompany.com and forevergreenherbal.com. As your host, I do my best to bring you original cannabis industry ideas that will ignite your own entrepreneurial spark and give you actionable information to improve your business strategy and improve your health and the health of cannabis patients everywhere. We’ll be right back. Before the break, we were talking about the product development cycle and the wide array of products that VCC Brands has. You can find more episodes of the Ganjapreneur Podcast in the podcast section at Ganjapreneur.com and in the Apple iTunes Store. Kenny Morrison: Marco and I remember saying, “Hey, you know, this is not for you.” We respected his concerns and understood that in the early days it took a little bit of faith. Wikipedia, American actor, director, writer, and producer living in Los Angeles, California. Wikipedia, American actor, host, comedian and LGBT rights activist from Los Angeles, California. Your brand is much more than a logo. The brand in California was originally Venice Cookie Company and then became VCC Brands, but in Washington, you are Evergreen Herbal. Wikipedia, American attorney, media pundit, former candidate for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, and former actor. But your willingness to move employees and encourage their increase in education and try to preserve that corporate memory says a lot about your value of your employees. Wikipedia, British actor who began his career early as a child growing up in Cardiff, Wales. Today, Kenny and Jaber are among the few remaining American troops who fought at Mortain. Yeah, there’s going to be winners and losers. We do not offer investment advice, and we encourage all visitors and readers to do their own due dilligence before investing in any of the companies or markets that we write about. Copyright 2021 © Ganjapreneur.com // All rights reserved. That’s something, I’ve said this to other people, but I think a big part of where we got our work ethic came from the production industry, because you relocate your own location, you work 14, 16, 18 hour days, you get it done. The website is ganjapreneur.com/promoitems. More from the Flames press release: Morrison, a native of Lloydminster, Alberta, played three seasons with … He appeared on the shows The New Lassie (1989) and Santa Barbara (1990) and also had long running roles in the comedy-drama Parenthood (1990) and the sitcom Growing Pains (1991). Yeah, I love working with the employees. Those are ideas that are, sometimes when you go to the public and you ask them for an idea, they don’t necessarily think of something that is going to be desired by tons of people. However, pic is set 99.9% outdoors, where we get an absolute ream of glorious Arizona locales to cloak the characters. But I think pretty soon here we’ll probably be able to retire that and just go with milligrams of THC because it’s a question we always like to ask people. Wow, I’ve never said it like that, but I like that. Yeah, so that was one experience we had way back at the beginning. Shango Los: Kenny Morrison is founder of Venice Cookie Company and co-founder of Evergreen Herbal. By James Payne Smith, Jr. Everyone who’s ever been in the cannabis industry has always had someone gunning for them in some respect. One of the things that you guys have got that I really like is your beverage, your quencher beverages. Yeah, we would try the products and based on the psychoactive effects, the potency in that sense, we went, “Wow, this is too strong.” The very first products we dialed back the potency without even having testing available to us. I love the process of building something and doing it with good people and creating a family. The recipient of a 1996 GLAAD Harvey Fierstein Award for Best Original Writing for his semi-autobiographical play Salam Shalom: A Tale Of Passion. She was born Feb. 27, 1936 in … His first role was as Tom McKaskel in the TV movie The Quick and the Dead, based on the novel by Louis L'Amour. Ganjapreneur.com and all associated entities and individuals are not responsible for third party content and/or links published on this website. I know that can sound corny, but we all know that we buy from the companies that we feel most engaged with, and Blunt Branding will get them climbing over your competitors to get to you. They say writing is rewriting, and I think brand product development is developing is redeveloping and refining and questioning everything, questioning absolutely everything. Fair enough. That is that you ask your sales team what they think that they can sell, what are they seeing on the street as something that is being looked for, or overlooked in the market, where the opportunity is, because so many product developers, they come up with a novel idea on their own and they don’t really do any market research. Morris W. Morris (1845–1906) - stage actor & Civil War soldier of the Louisiana Native Guards. The standardization, I can see how that would be a real benefit to patients and others alike. Hewitt Family of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and Allied Families: Cochran, Davis, Durham, Edwards, Fisher, Gulick, Hall, Hull, Jacks, Kennedy, Kenny, Kyle, Morrison, Piersol, Schmidt, Terhune, Williamson and Wood - Marilyn Schmidt. Beaumont, TX 11/11/1966 African American Baptist. The bartender is initially reluctant to serve him due to his being an Indian, but he gets the attention of a group of bandits led by Doc Shabbitt (Matt Clark). It’s been said that in the final year of alcohol prohibition there were more raids in that last year than there were in the previous 12 combined. I can imagine that getting your product tested so that you can check for homogenization and make sure there wasn’t any drift in the potency of your product, you probably had to really kind of bend over backwards to get that testing done. Wikipedia, American silent film actor. ... Kenny Morrison and Matt Clark. We definitely went into it with a concept. Shango Los: Right on. Also called a former child actor. Kenny Morrison - American actor. Then when we took our recipes to Washington and released them in the medical market, they were a big success, everyone really appreciated them. I’m not trying to make any predictions here, but raids are still happening in California, and if you plan on being in the space, you might want to have some sort of raid preparedness plan in place. Malloy wrote, produced and acted in The Alphabet Killer Wikipedia, American actor and television director from Los Angeles, California. Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and raised in the Boston area. That’s definitely true. Wikipedia, American adult-mainstream director who began his career as a pornographic actor. Kenny Morrison: Honestly I think every product poses its own problems. Be advised that possessing, using, distributing and selling cannabis are all federal crimes in the United States of America and the articles, pages, links, and other types of information on this site are not intended to assist you in violating federal law. The exciting adventures of an 11-year-old tomboy growing up in the Wisconsin … If you’re passionate about it, it makes it easy to deal with it. We knew what that x stood for as far as the potency that it imposed on us psychoactively, but we still didn’t attribute milligrams of THC to that x. Then they go to the market and they teach their sales people how to sell it, and they’re kind of hoping it’s going to sell. To be quite honest, I think all extraction methods have their place. From the beginning, yeah, that was a big goal. Listen to the podcast below, or keep scrolling down to read a full transcript of this week’s episode. It’s a sparkling beverage. Shango Los: Right on. The plot of the film bears a strong resemblance to Shane. Sometimes it can work that way where you can just in a vacuum come up with something that the masses will really appreciate. Email grow@ganjapreneur.com to find out how. Right? Yeah. The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter is a 1990 German-American fantasy film and a sequel to The NeverEnding Story. By Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret Mc Kenny . I also love hiring employees that don’t need to be developed. But yeah, there’s been a lot of challenges along the way. Today’s show was produced by Michael Roe. I mean, you pay them, and you have meetings, but there doesn’t always seem to be real value created. With Melissa Clayton, Comet, Victor DiMattia, Aron Eisenberg. Jill Ritchie, Jorge Garcia, Kenny Morrison, John Patrick Amedori, Tom Zuber, director, Michael Pena, Rachel Miner, Erica Leerhsen and Jonathan Dankner. Artez McNeal. BORN IN THE SPRING . I’m not asking for trade secrets, but tell us a little bit about how you came to your formula for your beverages, other than a lot of swearing, probably. Shango Los: Glad you could be here. Could I have an opinion on it? A lot of cannabis startups trip over themselves just trying to bring a product to the market. This book documents the journey of seven generations of the Hewitt family from the 1600s in colonial Maryland to the early twentieth century in Ohio. But then that’s just starting to change, which is really helpful. I’m not kidding. I think sometimes that is true. In the autumn of 1900, outlaw Claude Barbee puts his 'retirement plan' in action, attempting to lead his train-robbing gang across Texas to recover a cash stash hidden after a botched railroad heist. Or the color changes. Most recently in the DEL2 with Tölzer Löwen. Kenny Morrison: What does a product cycle look like? For example, they don’t just write copy for your website. Shango Los: Sure, and there sure is a lot of transiency between people between Washington and California. At the age of 11, playing in Sudz on ITV. Wikipedia, American actor from North Dakota and currently living in Los Angeles, California. No. ... invented by Native Americans, who called it the little brother of war and played it violently, town against town, with hundreds on the field at a time. Wikipedia, American actor who began his career performing as a child on television. When I was last down in southern California I got to see them in dispensaries. Wikipedia, American child actor best known for his role of the adopted son of Mr. Edwards (Victor French) on television's Little House on the Prairie. We did a show about that a couple of months ago, talking about how challenging it is because so many of the people who would be making both the standards for HPLC machines but also the standards of the protocols, they live in different states and none of them want to ship cannabis product back and forth to each other so that they can replicate each other’s tests. In fact, if there’s a certain kind of customer that you don’t want, say argumentative folks, Blunt will write you copy that attracts everyone else, but will tend to repel the kind of customer that gives you grief. Sir Kenneth Duncan Morrison CBE (20 October 1931 – 1 February 2017) was an English businessman, who was the Life President and former chairman of Morrisons (Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC), the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom. If you’re starting a business, at some point you’re going to want some swag with your name on it, to give away, or maybe even to sell. Adrienne Morrison - American actress, daughter of actor Lewis Morrison, who was of English, Spanish, Jewish, and African ancestry. Everybody loves doing lighters and t-shirts, and those are still huge winners, of course, but some folks are even now doing logoed silicone dab jars, and rig rags, too. Wikipedia, American actor. Subscribe to the Ganjapreneur podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud or Google Play. Born in Los Angeles. In his essay, “Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment” Kevin Kenny argues that conflict between Europeans and Native Americans was indeed inevitable. Boy oh boy, maybe I’m sounding political and diplomatic right now, but I think part of being a success in the cannabis industry, because this is a show for entrepreneurs and what not, is you have to be able to roll with the punches. We definitely had more access to more talent quicker in Washington based on the clarity in the regulations, based on the kind of the political climate surrounding enforcement and all that. Marco is a cinematographer and me as a filmmaker, we love collaboration. Kenny Morrison: Interesting story here is the beverage started in California as a non-carbonated drink. Thanks for being on the show Kenny. I can’t do this.”. Of course, like any family you’re going to have your dysfunctional moments and things you have to work through, but it’s really about creating a culture where people know they can speak up and they can be heard and they’re valued and they’re encouraged to be themselves. Then obviously as the regulations have gotten more pronounced and everyone understands the law up in Washington, it’s been a lot easier to find really solid people with really good backgrounds to help us with product development. Kenny Morrison: I think if we look at what we’ve seen happen in California lately, in the last few months there’s been some really great companies that have had issues with being raided. American Indian/Alaska Native Native American. Shango Los: I can also imagine, thinking back to 2008, even though we are still very early in the young days of the industry, in 2008 most of the analytics labs weren’t even around yet. As folks go back and forth for vacations or they’re moving or something, they’re taking their brand affiliation with them. You have to have a certain mindset. Wikipedia, American actor best known for his role as Cmdr. Kenny, we were talking about the products that you’re bringing to market and the amount of care and retrial that you put into them. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheNeverendingStory William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, attempted a sort of “holy experiment”; a utopian land of equality and peace. Wikipedia, American actor, martial artist, stuntman, and producer. Stern grew up in Pleasantville, New York and attended Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York, and then went to film school at Tisch School of the Arts New York University (NYU) from 1983–87, where he met Alex Winter. Davidson has appeared in the following films, The Day Trippers, A Match Made in Heaven, Návrat ztraceného ráje (a.k.a. You turned that on its head. I know there’s American Herbal Products Association and some other people are suggesting and publishing some cannabis standards, but whether or not people use them I think is still largely voluntary. Then we finally found some people who were willing to point us in the right direction, people who were fans of what we did, believed in our mission, and took it from there. I mean, I guess it really starts with the sales team and what they feel they need to effectively serve the market and serve the patient or the consumer, depending on where it is. They’re like, “Oh, I got this cool idea. I’m your host, Shango Los, and our guest this week is Kenny Morrison, founder of Venice Cookie Company and co-founder of Evergreen Herbal. Today is our 54th episode and will be my last as podcast host for Ganjapreneur. Let’s talk about a dysfunctional moment because this discussion would not be complete without me asking you about the raid of your California facility a couple months ago. The Ganjapreneur.com podcast will be moving forward with a new host shortly. That’s what Blunt Branding does. You are listening to the ganjapreneur.com podcast. In California one of the things we do, obviously we do all the testing we can now, and we base all of the milligramage on testing, but we still use in California the notion of translating the milligrams of THC into a comparable amount of dry cannabis, just so that the uninitiated consumer can get a sense of if someone has no idea what 180 milligrams of THC will do to them, it helps us to say, “Well, that’s actually the equivalent of about 4.2 milligrams of trimmed cannabis.” Just so they have something to compare it do. We could fill podcast after podcast. We will be right back. For the American actor, see Kenny Morrison. That is one of the challenges that people across the country are having, is bringing a decent beverage to the market. Promotional items are a way to stay in your customer’s life long after you come into contact with them. Shango Los: Right on. Kenny Morrison (born December 31, 1974) is an American actor, born in Los Angeles, California, who began his career as a child actor. They definitely need to know that you’re going to have their back, and they definitely need to know that they should ask for an attorney be present if anyone wants to ask them questions, because anything you say, can and will be used against you. Kenny Morrison during Livestyle's AFI Premiere Lounge 2005 Screening of "LIttle Athens" - After Party Hosted by Bacardi, Svedka Vodka, Stella Artois... Woodwardt 125367 Softball:Loudoun Valley at Park View, Sterling, VA.