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CANNABIS CANNABIS:
SPOTLIGHT: Not Just a
Josh Crossney Delivery System
President and Founder for THC
jCanna, Inc

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DocMJ Offering Patients

World-Class Cannabis Care

at an Affordable Price

BY MICHAEL BERGER
Stacy Thompson
Changing Canna Closet

Landscape of the In-house

The Medical Professionals of DocMJ
Legal Cannabis Education Parties
BY DANIEL CASCIATO
Industry At DocMJ, its team of physicians and employees are big believers in the virtues it lives BY LOIS THOMSON

and works by - empathy, compassion, and kindness. Canna Closet. It's not your grandmoth-
Constellations Brands (STZ) recently “We’re here to support patients in getting the help they deserve as quickly as possible,” er's Tupperware party. No, if you go to a
made a $4 billion investment into says Derek Hundley, chief of operations for the Florida-based practice. “We strive to Canna Closet in-home party, you will not
Canopy Growth (WEED.TO) (CGC). accomplish that in the most effective way possible.” be viewing new offerings of plastic
This investment changed the landscape DocMJ was started in August 2016 as a small group of physicians that saw the need for kitchenware or trying on the latest fashion
of the legal cannabis industry and we affordable, direct patient access to medical cannabis recommendations under the jewelry. Instead, you will become educat-
remain bullish on this burgeoning oppor- Amendment 2 guidelines. ed about cannabis and have the opportuni-
tunity. ty to purchase products that can be used in
Last summer, in this publication, we Continued on page 36 its consumption.
highlighted Canopy Growth as the Stacy Thompson, CEO of Canna Closet,
largest and most diverse licensed started the company 2-1/2 years ago with
Canadian medical marijuana producer. Protect Your Cannabis Corporation the idea of having in-house parties like,
The company has cannabis operations in well, like Tupperware. She is setting up
11 countries and plans to use to capital Before a Cyber Attack consultants nationwide with the purpose
from Constellation to make investments of building teams and having parties. "Our
outside of Canada. Yes, the title of this article is correct. I clearly am consultants are sharing our parties, sharing
In this issue, we want to highlight two assuming it is going to happen because unfortunately the opportunity and getting others to join,
private cannabis companies that will be the chances are you will be breached in some manner. and we've been growing and selling across
going public in the coming months. The Think about your personal accounts. How many times the country. Right now we're still pre-
companies, Magical Butter and Plus have you had to replace your debit/credit card or had launch, we're getting ready for a launch in
Products, have been generating strong some sort of fraud performed in your unauthorized January, so we're just gathering founder
revenues and have been able to build name? And let’s face it, cannabis businesses are quite levels and getting people trained."
strong brands. We find this to be an lucrative and the hackers know this and know cyber Thompson's vision behind all of this is
important aspect as we expect to see a lot protection may have been the last thing on your mind to open up the conversation about
of consolidation over the next year. when you opened your doors. cannabis in the living room. "We want to
Besides the fact that your company’s information can educate people. I want us to be able to
Magical Butter: A Burgeoning be stolen and/or compromised, don’t overlook the fact work with different dispensaries so that
Private Opportunity that you are storing proprietary information about your consumers will be going in as educated
Magical Butter manufactures and sells customers on your servers as well. You have a bunch, BY JESSICA HOEHN consumers, and will be able to spend less
and cannabis extraction device that can from shipping addresses, birth dates and credit card time having to ask all the questions that
be used by the at home consumer. The information to personal medical records if you are a are asked by new consumers every day."
company is led by CEO Garyn Angel who Medical Marijuana clinic or dispensary. She continued by saying they want to edu-
has made it onto CNBC Next 25 list of We are living in a technology-dependent society. I mean, just watch me start look- cate people so that when they do go and
entrepreneurs. Angel is listed alongside ing for a charger when my cell phone is at 30% and there is a good chance of seeing make their purchases at dispensaries, they
people such as Elon Musk, Tim Cook, me curse if my desktop or laptop is running slowly because of the Wi-Fi connection. know what they're going in for, they know
Jeff Bezos, and more. MJ Freeman, a seed-to-sale tracking software company, were hacked in 2016 and what concentrates are and what oils are
During the next year, Magical Butter then again in 2017, which made some dispensaries have to record sales on paper and and how you use them, and they know
plans to expand into the Canadian mar- some to even close temporarily costing thousands of dollars. What will happen if what vaping is and smoking, and the dif-
ket and we are excited by this growth ini- your network goes down? Can you afford to be shut down or held hostage? ference. "If we do all of that education in
tiative. Since edibles are not legal in the home, when people do go to make
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