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How to Master Cannabis Extraction

How to Master Cannabis Extraction

Jordan Terpex

TerpX Brand Concentrates (Processing)

TerpX is an award-winning cannabis brand specializing in high quality extraction. TerpX’s products include butane hash oil concentrates, distilled hash oil, pre-filled disposable vaporizer pens, and vaporizer pen cartridges. TerpX currently produces concentrates for over 100 medical/recreational dispensaries in Colorado, and more than a dozen medical dispensaries in Nevada. TerpX’s concentrates are consistently recognized throughout the industry as the most flavorful and effective concentrates on the market:

  • 1st Place Concentrate, 2013 High Times Amsterdam Cup
  • 1st Place Concentrate, 2014 High Times Los Angeles Cup
  • 1st Place Concentrate, 2013 Grassroots 710 Cup
  • 2nd Place Concentrate, 2014 High Times Los Angeles Cup
  • 2nd Place Concentrate, 2013 High Times Denver Cup
  • 3rd Place Concentrate, 2013 High Times San Francisco Cup

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip Rolls one up with Jordan Psigoda of TerpX Brand Concentrates. TerpX is an award-winning cannabis brand specializing in high quality extractions. TerpX currently produces concentrates for over 100 medical/recreational dispensaries in Colorado, and more than a dozen medical dispensaries in Nevada. Smoke one up with Chip and Jordan as they discuss the ins and outs of the concentrate industry, what is happening now and what is to come.

Cannabis Law, Compliance & Section 280E

Cannabis Law, Compliance & Section 280E

Christian Sederberg

Partner & Founding Member, Vicente Sederberg, LLC.

Christian Sederberg, Esq., is a partner and founding member of Vicente Sederberg LLC. After graduating from the University of Colorado School of Law, Christian focused his practice on representing businesses with a primary focus on real estate, private equity, commercial, and corporate transactions. Since the inception of Colorado’s state regulated medical marijuana program, Christian and the firm have provided a wide range of real estate, transactional and regulatory assistance to the marijuana community. Christian was also an integral part of Colorado’s Amendment 64 campaign, acting as core volunteer for the campaign, representing the campaign on Governor Hickenlooper’s Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, and leading the campaign’s legislative implementation team in the Colorado legislature by coordinating the implementation of the Colorado legislative and regulatory structure related to adult-use marijuana. Christian sat on the executive committee of the Committee for Responsible Regulation, which coordinated the campaign to establish statewide excise and sales taxes on the sale of adult-use marijuana in Colorado.

 On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip sits down with Christian Sederberg, partner and founding member of Vicente Sederberg LLC, named “The Country’s First powerhouse Marijuana Law Firm” by Rolling Stone. Christian and the firm have provided a wide range of real estate, transactional and regulatory assistance to the marijuana community. Christian was also an integral part of Colorado’s Amendment 64 campaign, acting as core volunteer for the campaign, representing the campaign on Governor Hickenlooper’s Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force. He also led the campaign’s legislative implementation team in the Colorado legislature by coordinating the implementation of the Colorado legislative and regulatory structure related to adult-use marijuana. Roll one up with the pros and listen in as Chip and Christian discuss the path to legal cannabis in the state of Colorado.

How to Become a Cannabis Consultant

How to Become a Cannabis Consultant

Matt Bickel

Bickel Consulting

Matt is the founder of Bickel Consulting and oversees cultivation facilities in Alaska, Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, New York, Maryland, and Colorado. He was the Chief Operating Officer and Master Cultivator at Maggie’s Farm in Colorado Springs with responsibility for 8,000 plants (outdoor grow on 10 acres) and 40 employees, cultivating organically from seed. He has worked with industry-leading companies like Silverpeak Apothecary in Aspen, Natural Remedies in Denver, Green Stop in Fort Morgan, Top Hat Cannabis in Juneau, Etain in New York, and others. Matt has deep expertise in cultivating indoors, outdoors, and in greenhouses, and he has experience as a project manager in all phases of construction, equipment purchasing, permits, licensing, and operations. Matt graduated from Baylor University with a degree in education.

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip sits down with Matt Bickel, an industry trail blazer with a hefty list of experience in the world of cannabis. Matt is a master cultivator, professional cultivation consultant, compliance officer at Vicente Sederberg, LLC, to name a few. Roll one up and listen in as Matt and Chip discuss the days before legalization, and the path to our current market in Colorado and beyond.

How to Become a Head Grower in Denver

How to Become a Head Grower in Denver

Jeff

Natural Remedies Dispensary Denver

In 2009, Natural Remedies became one of Denver’s first 20 medicinal cannabis dispensaries, proudly owned by a Denver native and operated with the help of his family. Not long after, in April of 2014, Natural Remedies entered the recreational marijuana market. Natty Rems, as it has since been coined, has been located in the LoDo neighborhood of downtown Denver for 5 exciting years. Natural Remedies cultivates 100% of all marijuana flower it provides by hand. The magic takes place in one of two warehouses that total over 30,000 square feet. In addition, Natural Remedies has boasted its own in-house concentrate line called Concentrate Remedies (CRx) since mid 2015.

Natural Remedies strives to provide the most sought-after and boutique grade cannabis products, utilizing only the highest quality genetics, ingredients and care. Natural Remedies has been fortunate enough to win several awards starting in 2012 when it entered it’s first High Times Medicinal Cannabis Cup.  There, Natty Rems took home a silver medal in the Sativa category for it’s medicinal patient favorite, Red Headed Stranger #14. Since then Natural Remedies has experienced tremendous success and has earned various awards to show for it.

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip rolls it up with Jeff, lead cultivator at Natural Remedies Dispensary in Denver, Colorado. Jeff is a seasoned grower, with years of experience under his belt. Listen in as Jeff and Chip talk growing weed in Colorado, their favorite strains to grow and smoke and the present and future of weed.

Why Cannabis Genetics & Breeding Matter

Why Cannabis Genetics & Breeding Matter

Mr. Soul

Brothers Grimm Seeds

While studying Nuclear Engineering at a college in Upstate NY, Mr. Soul learned to grow marijuana in a spare room of his apartment. “I read everything about growing marijuana I could get my hands on, but I was especially interested by Robert C. Clark’s ‘Marijuana Botany’”. Mr. Soul sent a letter to the owner of the Super Sativa Seed Club in Amsterdam and after weeks of discussing breeding and genetics, they offered him a job. He became their USA seed distributor to their American customers in 1987. He used his engineering skills to design hydroponic systems and climate control systems for his growing operations. He organized the garden work flow; scheduling and performing all phases of cannabis production; seedlings, mother plants, clones, flowering, harvest, manicuring, drying/curing and seed storage.

These projects became increasingly larger and cultivation was soon his full-time occupation. He became known as “Mr Soul” to the online cannabis community, where he shared growing and breeding information. He was reliably producing 1 pound per kW and delivering 2 pounds of high-grade MJ per month, when he founded The Brothers Grimm Seed Co. in 1996. His breeding projects produced strains of marijuana that are now world-famous, such as Cinderella 99 (C99) and Apollo 13. These marijuana strains were featured in High Times magazine articles among the top 10 most favored varieties of all time and have also been used by other breeders to create numerous award-winning hybrids.

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip Baker sits down with the legendary Mr. Soul, cultivator and founder of Brothers Grimm Seed Company. With a colorful background including nuclear engineering studies and years of cultivation which lead to the creation of Brothers Grimm, Mr. Soul is a house hold name in the breeders/genetics side of the cannabis industry.

Economics Behind Colorado’s Cannabis Legalization

Economics Behind Colorado’s Cannabis Legalization

Andrew Livingston

Director of Economics and Research, Vicente Sederberg, LLC

Andrew Livingston serves as Director of Economics and Research for Vicente Sederberg LLC, the nation’s foremost cannabis business law firm. He first worked alongside the Vicente Sederberg team in 2012 during Colorado’s Amendment 64 campaign, which legalized marijuana for adults. Before starting a career in cannabis industry economic and policy analysis, he focused his studies on the economics of illegal markets and the harms they create for societies around the world. Andrew is often asked to speak at business and legal seminars around the country and internationally on the intersection of market dynamics and cannabis policy. At Vicente Sederberg, Andrew provides analysis on legal and regulatory matters as well as economic market projections for adult-use and medical marijuana laws in Colorado and around the world.

On this episode of The Real Dirt, Chip hangs out with Andrew Livingston, a policy analyst for Vicente Sederburg, LLC in Denver, Colorado. Andrew worked on the historic Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol campaign, which legalized cannabis for adults in Colorado. Andrew provides analysis on legal and regulatory matters as well as economic market projections for adult-use and medical marijuana laws in Colorado and around the world. Fire it up and get nerdy with Andrew and Chip as they project, analyze, and discuss all things legal weed.