NCIA Committee Insights: The Endocannabinoid System and Cannabis for Industry Employees
2020-07-01 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | #IndustryEssentials Webinar Series
NCIA’s #IndustryEssentials webinars are our new weekly educational series featuring a variety of programs allowing us to provide you timely, engaging and essential education when you need it most.
The NCIA Committee Insights series showcases content produced in partnership with one of our 15 member-led committees.
In this webinar, members from the Scientific Advisory Committee will provide an overview of the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) in a manner that is easy for a general audience to understand. After attending this webinar, you will have a greater understanding of the ECS, how cannabinoids interact with the ECS, and how cannabinoids in various products on the market are metabolized.
A better understanding of these topics will equip budtenders and other industry staff with the knowledge to have more productive conversations about cannabis with customers and patients. We will also have a serious conversation about what budtenders should and should not say to customers and patients.
Panelists:
Alena Rodriguez
Managing Director
Rm3 Labs
Ann Allworth
Founder & CEO
Cannabis Education Solutions
Tiffany Coleman
Director of Quality
Copperstate Farms Management
Cynthia Shelby-Lane
MD
Shelbylane MD PC
Paul Muchowski
Founder, CEO, CSO
Defined Research
Thomas Caristo
TEQ Analytical Labs

NCIA Committee Insights: Best Practices in Advertising Cannabis Businesses
2020-07-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax)
NCIA’s #IndustryEssentials webinars are our new weekly educational series featuring a variety of programs allowing us to provide you timely, engaging and essential education when you need it most.
The NCIA Committee Insights series showcases content produced in partnership with one of our 15 member-led committees.
We get it. Compliance in advertising is all over the place in cannabis. We’ll cover and show examples of great advertising and marketing, best use of the different methods from billboards and direct mail to digital options and how to stay safe and compliant…especially in the age of social distancing (your concert promotions? Not happening for the near future).
In this Committee Insights webinar, you’ll hear from members of NCIA’s Marketing & Advertising Committee including:
Laura Wilkinson Sinton
Founder & Owner
AFC Products
Jeanine Moss
Co-Founder
Outfront Solutions
Dave Grigsby
Integrated Marketing Director
Dixie Brands Inc.
Amy Larson
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Simplifya

NCIA Committee Insights: What’s Going On With Social Equity In Illinois (And What Does It Mean For The Rest Of The Country?)
2020-07-15 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax)
NCIA’s #IndustryEssentials webinars are our new weekly educational series featuring a variety of programs allowing us to provide you timely, engaging and essential education when you need it most.
The NCIA Committee Insights series showcases content produced in partnership with one of our 15 member-led committees.
What has taken Illinois so long to announce its first round of Social Equity license winners? When Illinois legalized Adult Use on January 1st of this year, it announced itself as a national leader in the fight for Social Equity. Is it making the impact it set out to in communities Disproportionately Impacted by the War on Drugs? Find out directly from stakeholders in Illinois how the program has or hasn’t been working. How will the failings and successes in Illinois thus far impact other Social Equity programs around the nation?
Members of NCIA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and Special Guests from the Chicago Community will be speaking, including:
Tahir Johnson,
Business Development Manager
NCIA
(Moderator)
Christine de la Rosa
Co-Founder
The People’s Dispensary
Mike Lomuto
Co-Founder
Boost
Mark Slaugh
Founder
iComply
Rev. Anibal Vega
Executive Director
BE!@Community Initiatives
Social Equity Applicant
The People’s Dispensary – Chicago
Ron Holmes
Co-Founder
Majority-Minority Group
Kay Villamin
Co-founder & Creative Marketing Director
Hush – Chicago

NCIA Committee Insights: What Are Standards-Development Organizations And How Can They Shape Cannabis Quality And Public Health?
2020-07-22 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax)
NCIA’s #IndustryEssentials webinars are our new weekly educational series featuring a variety of programs allowing us to provide you timely, engaging and essential education when & where you need it most.
The NCIA Committee Insights series showcases content produced in partnership with one of our 15 member-led committees.
Up until 1942, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) published a monograph (a standard specification) for cannabis which was used by physicians across America. The USP is a nonprofit organization that develops compendial quality standards for medicines, food ingredients, and dietary supplements and is recognized in federal law as an official source for standards of drugs. The USP formed a Cannabis Expert Panel in 2016 and they recently published recommendations for quality attributes for cannabis flower. ASTM International and AOAC International have also formed volunteer committees to develop consensus quality standards for cannabis for several years. Certain USP standards are recognized under the Federal Food Drug & Cosmetic Act. Additionally, in accordance with OMB Circular A-119, under certain circumstances the federal government must use voluntary consensus standards, such as those developed by AOAC and ASTM, in lieu of government-unique standards. Therefore, depending on the legal landscape for cannabis, regulators may rely on these standards-development organizations for quality standards for the cannabis industry. In this panel, leaders from relevant standards-development organizations will give updates on the work being done in their cannabis working groups. They will also explain how their work compliments and how you can get involved.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what standards-development organizations are, and who are the key players in creating quality standards for cannabis.
2. Learn about the cannabis standards that have been published or are in production.
3. Learn how to contribute to a standard organization, and what is involved.
4. Understand the work being done by NCIA, USP, ASTM, AOAC, and other similar groups.
Speakers include:
• (Moderator) Alena Rodriguez, Managing Director,RM3 Labs
• Robert Morgan, Director of Technical Committee Operations, ASTM International
• Scott Coates, Senior Director of AOAC Research Institute and Project Lead for AOAC’s CASP Program
• Dr. Nandu (Nandakumara) Sarma, Director of Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medicines, USP
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#ReRun - Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team: SAFE Banking - What Will It Take?
2020-07-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Halifax)
Our government relations team is hard at work in DC advocating to ensure cannabis businesses are included in the next round of relief funding and sadly are unavailable to conduct a webinar this month. Don’t worry! We’ll be rebroadcasting our most recent members-only webinar again for anyone who might have missed the enlightening conversation.
Join us this Wednesday, July 29 for a #rerun of the “Fireside Chats with NCIA’s Government Relations Team: SAFE Banking – What Will It Take?” episode featuring Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) and more special guests!
The Fireside Chat series of NCIA’s #IndustryEssentials webinars are an exclusive opportunity for NCIA members to hear from our government relations team and guests about the latest developments in federal policy.
Join Mike and Michelle as they talk with Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), Tanner Daniel (American Bankers Association), and Jack Jacobson (Thompson & Coburn LLP) for a discussion around the SAFE Banking Act.
The SAFE Banking Act passed the House of Representatives in September in an overwhelmingly bi-partisan vote of 321-103. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the cannabis industry’s need for financial certainty has become even more pronounced, as cash transactions should be minimized to limit possible exposure to the virus. Although the House of Representatives included SAFE Banking language in its recently passed coronavirus relief package (the HEROES Act), the bill’s fate in the Senate is still uncertain. That leaves many of us asking: what’s the hold up? What will it take to get SAFE over the finish line? Join us as we discuss various options moving forward and what it will take to get this legislation signed into law.
Panelists:
Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CO)
U.S. House of Representatives
Tanner Daniel
Vice President
American Bankers Association
Jack Jacobson
Advisor
Thompson & Coburn LLP
