paula Walter wanted to help people, prop 215 was allowing her to give medicine directly to patients. Her background comes from her parents watching people dying from AIDS and distributing cannabis in the underground market. She decided to get involved while working as a trimmer and started making cookies for people, In 2008 she started Kind Creations making caps and giving them to anyone in need at no cost.

She then realized even though she was helping people she needed financial help, So she started taking donations to continue helping patients in need. Her company was at the forefront being one of the first CBD capsules to be available to the market.

The process the company takes to produce product uses low heat infusion, no chemicals no CO2 just the natural traditional herbalist way, whole plant style. She makes sure the whole plant goes into her product, terpenes, cannabinoids and everything that comes with developing product from the whole plant. They test 3 times before it ever goes to market.

Paula has done all of this on her own dime, she made it through pre 215, then post 64. Most brands could not make those transitions, between packaging, testing and distribution it created many hurdles for these companies to overcome. Paula has persevered.

She credits her ability to succeed in the ever daunting of gauntlet that cannabis brands have to run into… KARMA. She has focused on helping people and that has stayed consistent to this day, now she is ready to embark down the path of raising funds to take her brands product offering to the next level and I could not think of a better time for an amazing person who has an even more amazing company.

Follow Kind Creations on Twitter.com/why_kind on their website and Instagram @whykindcreations

It all started out with a LinkedIn search “Cannabis Industry Insider” and boom there he was Matthew Wagner. I read into his bio a bit and talk about someone with a story. “I have applied at 200+ cannabis jobs on LinkedIn, and even more on other platforms; not a single interview, and not a single call back. I found my way. and I was meant to be here.”

Our conversation lasted over 2 hours and we put about an hour on tape, there will be a part 2. Matthew is sitting in front of a store smoking a joint and starts to share his path to where he is now.

It all started in Missouri hard to think someone could be an aggressive advocate for cannabis. Well, leave it up to Matthew to buy an armored truck for his bar, paint it with a HUGE NORML logo on the side of it while subsequently driving it around town.

After numerous raids on his business in Missouri, he was over it, Matthew is a renegade. He feels that the marijuana leaf is a “fuck the man” symbol. He loves weed so much he just wanted to be in the cannabis industry. The next step wasn’t weed though.

He found himself in Beijing China working on crypto mining hardware (sketchy as hell in Asia), depressed and feeling the need to get back to America and more importantly get back to cannabis. After spinning through Thailand and managing numerous bars in the paradise of Phuket, Thailand legalized medical marijuana… it was time to go home.

He landed in Houston and decided to load his car and drove straight to Northern California and sequester himself in the Emerald Triangle. He went though a couple harvests, the farm got robbed and he was not willing to get shot but loved the plant so much.

“I’m going to LA babayyyy!” After he got to LA he realized he was in his element, he began to work on marketing for brands, throwing events and focusing on his amorous relationship with cannabis.

I am going to go on record that this is episode 1 with Mr. Wagner we managed to get you a cliff notes version of his path to cannabis. Next episode we will dive into pieces of his story to expound on his adventures in weed.

Matt’s closing message is to help those in need and in general. Be a good human.

Follow him on Instagram @industrydisruptor

I really loved this interview with Barbie Sommars, her passion and concern comes through. Starting as a patient and an activist she naturally moved to becoming an educator. She has dealt with health issues that have fueled her desire to utilize cannabis as medicine.

She is the President of Faerie Jane, a cannabis consultancy specializing in helping clients successfully navigate this vast emerging industry. With over twenty years in asset management and six years building and facilitating networks in the cannabis industry, she is passionate about connecting investors to deals, creators to markets and people to information.

Barbie is dedicated to infused consumption and that leads us to discuss her endeavor “High Dining”. Her desire to utilize cannabis in the dining experience she layers it with education and knowledge. These dinners are a wonderland of education, science and magic. She has also crossed over to psychedelics as medicine as well not necessarily infusing psychedelics but the continued education.

What a pleasure to have this conversation with Barbie Sommars, enlightening and educational all wrapped into one.

Make sure to follow Barbie Sommars on Instagram @highdining.club @faeriejane @maryjuniversity her websites Faerie Jane High Dining Mary Jane University Photo used shot by Ixcel Lara