GREENWAY SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 GREENWAYTHE MISSOURI CANNABIS INDUSTRY MAGAZINE INSIDE MISSOURI’S FIRST FACILITIES P. 39 THE INFUSER MACHINE SHOWDOWN P. 20 1 on the cover MEET MORE MISSOURI BRANDSMOGREENWAY.COM P. 27 MH&W Dispensary’s green cross, located inside CUTTING CULTIVATION COSTS P. 90 GREENWAY CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD GREENWAY John Curtis | Beleaf (St. Louis) TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION AND AND SECURITY COMMITTEE TRAINING COMMITTEE CULTIVATION Chair: Larry Ellison Co-Chair: Dr. Mimi Vo, MD CULTIVATION COMMITTEE Ozarx | CST Solutions (Springfield) (St. Louis) Bradford Goette Co-Chair: Cindy Northcutt, RN, BSN, JD Chair: John Mueller Nirvana | Bold Lane Transport (St. Louis) Kintsugi | Soulful Cannabis (SPR) Greenlight (Kansas City) GOVERNMENT MANUFACTURING Michael Allen Chip Sheppard AFFAIRS AND TESTING Chris McHugh 5th Meridian (Cape Girardeau) CECB Law (Springfield) JosephJoseph HollanderHollander Craft CraftCraft LLC PCLLC (Kansas(Kansas (Kansas City) City) City) Dacia Betts Hannah Bush David Alport MOCANNTrade G5 Express (St. Louis) Nirvana Investments (St. Louis) BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bridge City Collective | SLCC (KC/STL) Joe Delia Natalie Brown Mike Birkel Green Farms (St. Louis/Cuba) MoCann Testing - EKG Labs (Perryville) Birkel Electric (St. Louis) Kevin Ellison Zach Greene Brian Fox CST Solutions (Springfield) Quarter Coast Consulting (St. Louis) Greene Fox (St. Louis) HEALTHCARE, TRANSPORTATION, Allen Fortner Dr. Patricia Hurford, MD, MS EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY AND Susan Griffith TRAINING SECURITY Executive Security Specialists (Springfield) SOAR Medical (St Louis) CAMP (St. Louis) Tiffany Maggard Dr. Eboni January Mark Hendren Heffernan Insurance (Springfield) Greenlight Dispensary (STL/KC) Flora Farms (Joplin/Humansville) Joe Patterson Dena Ladd Ashley Picillo DISPENSARY Ceres Mgmt Group (St. Louis) Missouri Cures (St. Louis) Point 7 Group (Denver) Jim Regna Jennifer McGuire, LP John Wilbers Triad Bank (St. Louis) CAMP Cannabis (Kansas City) Blue Arrow (St. Louis) Kevin Schnell Dr. Kyle Ostrom, MD MISSOURI IS MAKING HISTORY WITH KC Cann Transport (Kansas City) Mercy Health (Washington) THE VOICE OF MISSOURI Zach VoidrieVoudrie Dr. Lisa Roark Blue Arrow (St. Louis) The Dispensary (Cassville) MANUFACTURING AND Skyler Thomas MEDICALTHE FIRST CANNABIS LEGAL CANNABIS STRENGTHENS. SALES. TESTING COMMITTEE Show Me Alternatives (Macon) Darcy Trescone Chair: Dr. David Sciortino, DC Kintsugi | Optima Health (Springfield) Noah’s Arc (St. Louis) DISPENSARY COMMITTEE THANK YOU TO OUR NEW INDUSTRY-FACING COMMITTEES, BOARD, OUR ENTIRE BOARD AND COMMITTEES Josh Mitchem Chair: John Pennington AND ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE. CLOVR (Kansas City) Proper Cannabis (St. Louis) THANK ALL THAT MADE THIS POSSIBLE. Paul Bocci John Payne Common Citizen (Lake Ozarks) Amendment 2 Consultants (St. Louis) GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS Sean Carriger Dan Ambrosino COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES Show Me Alternatives (Macon) Terrabis (STL/KC) Manufacturing and Testing, Dr. Stephanie Cernicek Kim Andrews Sinse | Swade (St. Louis) GA Chair: Josh Mitchem Ozarx (Springfield) CLOVR (Kansas City) Matt DeWeese Tom Bommarito Cultivation CAMP (St. Charles) Greenlight (St. Louis County) Chris McHugh Dr. Allen Kesserling Chris Chesley Joseph Hollander Craft LLCPC (Kansas(Kansas City)City) MoCann Testing-EKG Labs (St. Louis) Occidental Group (St. Louis City) Transportation, Technology and Security Kevin Reardon Brook Foster Advertising Savants (St. Louis) Bradford Goette Show Me Alternatives (Macon) Nirvana | Bold Lane Transport (St. Louis) Todd Scattini Derek Mays Green Orchard Labs (Platte City) Dispensary Real Cannabis Co. (St. Louis) John Payne Jay Patel Amendment 2 Consultants (St. Louis) Green Releaf (Moberly) Healthcare, Education and Training Kevin Stallings Chip Sheppard KC Cannabis Co. (Independence) CECB Law (Springfield) Leonard Volner North Medical Group (Cape Girardeau) GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS ADVISOR Chris White | CS White Law (Kansas City) Photo by Jennifer Silverberg Photography. The voice of trade for Missouri’s Medical Cannabis Industry. 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The cyber summit is on MO, were merged into License Louis, MO November 10-12 and will feature MAN000058 virtual exhibits, education, and “a • ROI Labs of Atherton, LLC, The four new licensees are: few cyber surprises.” 4610 N Main St, Independence, • Mo Manufactured Products, MO The summit keynote will be IN THE NEWS LLC, 7023 E 12th TER, Kansas announced soon. • Missouri Made Marijuana, LLC, City, MO 64126 301 S. Outer Belt Road E., NCIA is a national cannabis Over $2 million from state’s program reach another milestone a facility’s ability to implement Beta Fusion Extracts LLC at Grain Valley, MO industry group representing nearly in its development. “Missourians what it proposed in its application, • medical marijuana program Parcel #12-04-401-023, 2,000 member-businesses and voted on this amendment because and issuing this new license will • Kings Garden Midwest, LLC, being transferred to veterans Springfield, MO 65803 tens-of-thousands of cannabis fund it allowed for a safe and well- ensure the minimum number of 3300 Pleasant Pl, Trenton, MO professionals. The group works to regulated medical marijuana licenses required by Article XIV • Como Health LLC at 1716 protect the legal cannabis industry, The Missouri Department of program for patients, but it also are actually in use. Lindberg Dr, Columbia, MO defend state laws, and advance Health and Senior Services (DHSS) was written to simultaneously 65201 federal policy reforms. is pleased to announce it has “Through our licensee verification benefit our very deserving veterans process, we are working to ensure • Holistic Missouri LLC at 19 begun the process of making through services MVC will now be that every license we issue is being Highway 5, Sunrise Beach, MO the first transfer of funds from able to provide,” he said. 65079 Missouri’s medical marijuana fully utilized in order to best serve program to the Missouri Veterans A formal presentation of this Missouri patients,” said Lyndall Commission (MVC). The total significant transfer