Marijuana Business Magazine - March 2018

DEPARTMENTS 90 Retail Business Strategies: Treating Employees Like Stars An Arizona medical marijuana company creates a corporate culture that values and retains top talent. 96 Hire Learning: Store Manager A store manager needs to take on many duties beyond supervising the budtenders and other retail employees. 32 Hemp Notebook: Silver Lining Jeff Sessions’ hatred of marijuana may spur deep-pocketed investors to take a closer look at the plant’s legal cousin. Marijuana Business Factbook 2017 Marijuana Business Daily ® Marijuana Business Factbook 2017 Exclusive Financial Data For Cannabusinesses & Major lnvestors $249 00 All-new research from the editors of Marijuana Business Daily Order now at MJBizFactbook.com or call 401.354.7555 x1 PRlNT + PDF DOWNLOAD From the CEO's Desk............................................... 8 Money Matters........................................................ 12 My Favorite Things................................................ 14 Five Questions with Henry Wykowski .......... 16 lndustry Developments........................................ 18 Trends and Hot Topics..........................................34 Company News.................................................... 106 Movers & Shakers.................................................. 112 Market at a Glance: New York........................ 117 Advertiser lndex...................................................118 lnsightful lndustry Observations................... 120 36 The Executive Page: Cameron Forni The co-founder of Cura Cannabis Solutions – an Oregon maker of cannabis oils and vaporizers – shares his biggest “aha” moment and talks about what he would have done differently. 10 Cannabusiness by the Numbers: Marijuana Legislation on Capitol Hill Many cannabis professionals believe the time has come to rewrite federal MJ laws, and lawmakers have introduced numerous bills to do just that.