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Speaker 1: Coming up on taking stock. We're going to take stock
Speaker 1: of the legal marijuana industry, estimated to be worth about
Speaker 1: seven billion dollars, growing between twenty and twenty five percent
Speaker 1: a year. We're gonna be speaking with the co founder
Speaker 1: managing director of Cannabase. This is an online whostsale marijuana marketplace.
Speaker 1: We've got details right now. Let's get details about business
Speaker 1: news from Catherine Cowdery in the Bloomberg newsroom. Thank you, Pam.
Speaker 1: The stock market retreating from an all time highs as
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Now, let's get a quick check at the
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Speaker 1: I guess he brings his own music with him wherever
Speaker 1: he goes. Matt Miller, my co host, filling in for
Speaker 1: Kathleen Hayes. This is taking stock. I'm pim Fox. The
Speaker 1: legal marijuana industry is estimated to be worth about seven
Speaker 1: billion dollars, growing between twenty five percent a year. This
Speaker 1: despite the current action by the Drug Enforcement Administration rejecting
Speaker 1: petitions to remove marijuana from its most highly restricted classification
Speaker 1: of drugs. Here to tell us more about the marijuana
Speaker 1: industry is Jennifer Beck, the co founder and the managing
Speaker 1: director of Cannabase. Jennifer, thanks for being with us. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for having me. What is Cannabase? How
Speaker 1: do you describe it to people that are not familiar
Speaker 1: with the industry? Great, So, Cannabase is the largest and
Speaker 1: oldest online exchange platform for licensed cannabis businesses. So we're
Speaker 1: the oldest and largest wholesale platform. UM. The core is
Speaker 1: our wholesale market where we represent sevent of marijuana licenses
Speaker 1: in Colorado, and we're a one stop shop for retailers
Speaker 1: to stock their shelves and allow cultivators to flower or
Speaker 1: trim to either retailers or extractors. So I can understand.
Speaker 1: We all know where you can get cannabis legally now,
Speaker 1: but I wonder where you can grow it. Can you
Speaker 1: grow it in all the same states that it's legal
Speaker 1: to buy it? Absolutely so, because interstate commerce actually isn't allowed.
Speaker 1: You have to grow it in the state that you're
Speaker 1: going to sell it. Um, and then it's a matter
Speaker 1: of whether or not that state is vertically integrated. So
Speaker 1: Colorado's market, our medical market is still vertically integrated, which
Speaker 1: means that if you have a retail center, you actually
Speaker 1: have to grow sev of your own products. But hang on,
Speaker 1: you can't get Does that mean if I go to
Speaker 1: Colorado to buy marijuana, I can't get anything from Humble County. No?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. All of the product has to be grown
Speaker 1: within Colorado. So our wholesale exchange is a state by
Speaker 1: state exchange. Now the state by state exchange, tell us
Speaker 1: how it would actually work. Give us an example. So
Speaker 1: how it would work is you that either have a
Speaker 1: cultivation license, a retail license, or an infused product manufacturer
Speaker 1: license which would allow you make edibles. And then some
Speaker 1: people have both, um, you know, a combination of the
Speaker 1: two or the three. Um. Then you go on Cannabase
Speaker 1: as a cultivator retailer and you would list the product
Speaker 1: you have available flower trim, extract, oil, candy bars, whatever
Speaker 1: you're looking to sell. Or as a retailer, you can
Speaker 1: log on and you can shop products and you can
Speaker 1: buy it. Help me figure out the margins at these dispensaries. Um.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I mean, we always thought
Speaker 1: about an eighth as like a thirty dollar purchase. Uh,
Speaker 1: I guess fifty dollars if you're in New York City.
Speaker 1: What are we looking at as far as wholesale levels.
Speaker 1: Wholesale wise, UM, we're seeing that we have two types
Speaker 1: of markets, medical and recreational. The medical market has actually
Speaker 1: helped steady. The medical market is still vertically integrated, so
Speaker 1: you have to have both licenses UM, and you have
Speaker 1: to be a Red card holder to buy Red card
Speaker 1: holders buying metal product are going to see around those
Speaker 1: prices like you're saying thirty bucks, UM, taxes are going
Speaker 1: to be a bit lower. On the medical side. Recreational
Speaker 1: vertical integration expired, so now we have stand alone cultivations
Speaker 1: and stand alone retail centers, which means there's been a
Speaker 1: real supply gut. We've had a lot of products coming
Speaker 1: into the market from large standalone grows. So on the
Speaker 1: recreational side, product has actually become way cheaper. Where says
Speaker 1: we were seeing about two thousand dollars a pound since
Speaker 1: recreational came into the market, now it's selling about thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a pound, So those prices are beginning to impact
Speaker 1: the consumer. It's becoming cheaper for consumers to buy recreational product.
Speaker 1: Since taxes on recreational product is slightly higher than medical,
Speaker 1: that two are starting to even out on the consumer side, Jennifer,
Speaker 1: how does cannabase make money? So, because we are really
Speaker 1: not allowed to be too involved and we aren't allowed
Speaker 1: to buy the product and market up and sell it
Speaker 1: because it isn't a three cheered system here in Colorado.
Speaker 1: So Cannabase utilizes an online marketing model where we fell
Speaker 1: gus on bringing in the most clients, the most engagement,
Speaker 1: and then we make money off the data that we're
Speaker 1: aggregating from those users and from marketing tools. We have
Speaker 1: the most targeted platform for ancillary businesses to come in
Speaker 1: and actually reach cannabis business decision makers, and we have
Speaker 1: a full suite of online marketing tools available for them
Speaker 1: to do so. So, how is the banking end of
Speaker 1: this working out? I know that for a long time
Speaker 1: it was very difficult for cannas cannabis businesses um to
Speaker 1: do banking because banks, even in legal states weren't willing
Speaker 1: to form those relationships. Has that changed a little bit, Um,
Speaker 1: It's still very very difficult to get traditional banking. I'd
Speaker 1: say most dispensaries, UM and cultivators at this point are
Speaker 1: able to get a checking account, but mostly it's because
Speaker 1: they'll use an LLC name that isn't related to their
Speaker 1: cannabis name that they're doing business as UM, so that
Speaker 1: allow them to get a basic checking account and you
Speaker 1: have checks, but getting credit cards, loans, traditional financing is
Speaker 1: still completely out of the question. Now. Can of As
Speaker 1: was acquired by Helix TCS in July. What is Helix TCS.
Speaker 1: Helix TCS is a provider of integrated operating environment solutions
Speaker 1: for cannabis businesses, So the TCS stands for Technology, Compliance
Speaker 1: and Security. Helix came into the market as a security
Speaker 1: provider and has grown into the largest security provider in
Speaker 1: the state UM in the last year, so absolutely explosive growth.
Speaker 1: And Cannabase has come on board to not only use
Speaker 1: Helix logistical infrastructure to make our marketplace more powerful, but
Speaker 1: also to accelerate our own growth. So since we've been
Speaker 1: here with Helix, we've solidified major partnerships with see the deal,
Speaker 1: tracking companies and data companies. All right, Jennifer, thanks very much.
Speaker 1: Jennifer Beck There, co founder and managing director of Cannabase
Speaker 1: fought by Helix uh In earlier in the summer. You
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