Mat Vaughan is a Principal Planner with Norfolk County specializing in rural land-use development with a focus on Cannabis land-use policy and on-farm diversified use land-use policy. Mat’s related work includes creating one of Ontario’s first municipal Cannabis Production and Processing Zoning By-Law land-use policy. Mat is also currently enrolled at the University of Waterloo pursuing his PhD in cannabis land use planning.
Dr. Keri Wang graduated with Ph.D. degree in molecular plant pathology from the University of Alberta. Dr. Wang has worked on molecular mechanism of plant disease resistance and plant-microbe interactions by functional genomic approaches like virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) and gene expression profiling, functional genomics and microbial ecology of plant growth promotion rhizobacteria, molecular epidemiology and biodiversity of phytoplasma diseases. He has expertise in plant pathology, microbiology, molecular biology, and biotechnology with 25 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 34 presentations in national and international conferences. He has developed and modified many methods for research and services. Currently, his work covers development and validation of methods for the rapid and sensitive detection, identification and enumeration of foodborne pathogens; plant disease diagnostics; development of attenuated viruses for management of virus and bacterial diseases; isolation and characterization of glyphosate degrading bacteria. Keri has recently reported two new viruses in cannabis, first reported cannabis phytoplasma disease in Canada. More cannabis viruses are being identified in his research.
Mr. Patterson was one of the principal founding members of A&L Canada and is currently President and CEO and acts as the chief agronomist. His primary role is corporate administration, and customer support and service. Mr. Patterson obtained an honors degree in agriculture from the University of Guelph, in 1978 and has been a professional agronomist for over thirty years. He works closely with all agricultural clients to support the service provided by his company. He was one of the first people in Canada to earn the designate as a Certified Crop Consultant. As part of ongoing customer support he personally conducts in depth agronomy and fertility training seminars for field, horticultural and specialty (Turf, Viticulture, and Silviculture) crops.
“OneEye Max” White
Max has been cultivating Cannabis legally for the last 20 years after a childhood stick injury to the eye left him with Glaucoma and a medical marijuana card at the age of 16. Over the last 2 decades he has grown Cannabis in every environment from outdoor to indoor to currently running a 12,000 sq ft commercial greenhouse in Oregon’s Recreational market as Aroma Cannabis.
He is a co-founder/owner of Aroma and currently acts as the Director of Cultivation, marketing and forecast strategist.
Specialties include garden IPM, networking and greenhouse efficiency. Max is an absolute people person and also acts as the facility tour manager to past groups including International Plant Propagation Society(first ever cannabis tour), Oregon Liquor Control Commission for staff training, and many inquisitive people from all over the world.
A global citizen, Mika has lived, worked and been educated in Israel, the United States and Canada helping to shape her perspective and knowledge of the cannabis industry. Before joining MediPharm Labs in August of 2018, she worked as a trainer/developer in the Tech sector and later at Sail Cannabis where she excelled as a community manager, providing education to medical patients navigating product options and use. Mika is the lead for MediPharm Labs White-label program, researching consumer and product trends, establishing supplier relationships across the country and most recently in commercializing vaporizer products, coordinating across various functions to bring this category to market.
Rodrigo has been implementing IT solutions in regulated industries for the past 19 years.
Experienced in Warehouse Management Systems, Manufacturing Execution, and Performance Monitoring Systems, he also carries a strong background in Computerized Systems Validation, and
believes in creating value to the industry through the use of smart and cost-effective IT solutions, aligned with Industry 4.0 and Lean Manufacturing concepts.
Besides that, having worked with life sciences companies of all sizes, Rodrigo believes that technology solutions need be applied in harmony with each industry needs and regulations, always with the objective of increasing the outcomes in terms of productivity, quality and compliance.
After graduating McMaster’s Bachelor of Health Science program, Buck attended Osgoode Hall Law School where he studied and worked under Prof. Alan Young. He prepared the evidentiary record for a proposed Charter challenge to the MMAR, and participated in Health Canada consultations in the development of the MMPR.
Arjan, owner and founder of the Green House Coffeeshops, Green House Seed Company, Strain Hunters, Green House Feeding, Green House Kitchen, GH Medical and several other cannabis businesses, has been acclaimed The King of Cannabis for his amazing record of cannabis prizes won throughout his career. He is the only breeder in the world credited with winning over 40 high times cannabis cups. He has always been committed to create the best genetics in the world, and to ensure that the growers choose the best genetics, based upon their location, logistics and personal knowledge.
Arjan’s vision for the future has always been to achieve cannabis normalisation around the world, and to promote positive cannabis culture to the mainstream media. To achieve this he realised he had to offer something unique. Most coffeeshops in those days were dark, stuffy, sold only imported Hash and Thai or Jamaican weed. In 1985 Arjan had started growing exotic strains gifted to him from friends and “strain hunted” from trips to places like Thailand, Nepal and other countries in South East Asia. The growers supplying the shops at that time were only interested in high yields and short flowering times, Arjan on the other hand started to experiment with his favourite haze strains. After many years of trying to convince other coffeeshops to sell his marijuana, Arjan later decided to start his own coffeeshop, The Green House, which he founded on the Tolstraat in 1992.
In 1993, one year after opening his first coffeeshop in Amsterdam, Arjan introduced the Green House in the 6th High Times Cannabis Cup and he immediately won first prize for the overall cannabis cup. The year after that, in 1994, Arjan won almost every single cup there was to win at the high times cannabis cup. Arjan’s achievements didn’t go un-noticed and in 1995, High Times put him on the front cover of their magazine. This led to a great migration of smokers from all over the world to come visit the Green House to sample the worlds best cannabis created by Arjan. The first celebrities started showing up at the Green House and asked if they could pose on photographs with him, the King of Cannabis. Arjan then started hanging their pictures on the wall, and before he knew it, there was a celebrity at the Green House on a very regular basis. Today he counts more than 100 A-List celebrities that have visited the Green House.
The vision to normalize cannabis use and spread cannabis culture around world, could be realized by using the celebrities to spread Arjan’s message for cannabis legalization around the world. Arjan would ask celebreties like Woody Harrelson and many others to speak out against criminalizing cannabis when they returned back home. This vision of normalization has now become a reality, cannabis is becoming more and more accepted all around the world for recreational and medicinal use. In the United States alone, more than 19 states have now legalized cannabis for medicinal use and 2 states have recently legalized cannabis for recreational use. Additionally Uruguay has completely legalized cannabis, and the majority of the European countries have decriminalized cannabis for personal use. In countries like Spain, hundreds of legal cannabis social clubs have opened up all over the country. Amsterdam was once at the center of the fight for legalization, and is now one of the many places in world where cannabis use is becoming acceptable in society.
Since opening the first Green House Coffeeshop, Arjan has established an empire of cannabis businesses, with 4 cannabis coffeeshops, 2 Clubs, the worlds most successful cannabis seed bank, an award winning cannabis film/documentary company, an award winning nutrients company, a foundation, a medical company, and several other cannabis businesses. He is considered one of the most important figures in the cannabis industry. Arjan continues to be at the forefront of the fight for cannabis legalisation around the world!
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