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Accelerate Cannabis: Expanding New Jersey's Markets

New Jersey’s Expanding Markets

Accelerate Cannabis welcomed new faces to the New Jersey cannabis industry to discuss what the next year had in store—it was a groundbreaking event to meet and discuss how best to position and make moves for yourself, your brand, or your business.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) hosted a dynamic evening of effective dining, beverages, and networking for the whole region to come together for one agenda on one night.

Our priority has been to educate the community about the state of affairs in the industry at the local, regional, and global levels – only with enough context were we able to lead New Jersey to become a model for other states and the federal level.

This event helped entrepreneurs to learn about the journey from international public financing, to global commodities viewpoints, to adult-use delivery and multi-state brand-building – from risk and tax management, to media relations and application development all while prioritizing lessons of social equity to give back and rebuild local communities as partners.

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Sponsors

Presenting Sponsor

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Longview Strategic
Longview Strategic

Longview Strategic provides advisory services and industry insights to companies throughout the country looking at emerging highly-regulated markets. Our services specialize in the legal cannabis industry and clients looking at expanded licensing opportunities - we empower, develop, and position thought leaders to win competitive applications in any legal market.

Core Services:

  • Project Management

  • Resource Acquisition

  • License Application Writing

  • Operational and Compliance Consulting

  • Receivership Administration

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Beverage Sponsors

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Stark & Stark
Stark & Stark

Since 1933, Stark & Stark has developed innovative legal solutions to meet our clients’ needs. More than 100 attorneys, over 30 practice areas, and a philosophy of putting the law to work for our clients is the basis from which we build and maintain our practice.

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Viridis Security Group
Viridis Security Group

Viridis Security Group (VSG) is dedicated and committed to the safety and security of the legal cannabis industry.  Our goal is to provide peace of mind by offering customized integrated security solutions and professional services to our clients that exceed state cannabis regulations.

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Dining Sponsor

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MNP LLP
MNP LLP

MNP is a leading national accounting, tax and business consulting firm in North America. We proudly serve and respond to the needs of our clients in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Through partner-led engagements, we provide a collaborative, cost-effective approach to doing business and personalized strategies to help organizations succeed across the country and around the world.

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Policy Reform Sponsors

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Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C.
Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C.

At Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., a dynamic approach to problem solving and client service creates the energy and passion that form the foundation of the firm. Porzio meets clients' rapidly changing needs by realigning our considerable resources to address demanding matters. Porzio is a business-oriented multidisciplinary law practice where attorneys collaborate with each other and with clients to find solutions to challenges and problems.  

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Organa Brands
Organa Brands

Organa Brands began in 2010 with a founding promise to deliver cannabis extractions that were nothing less than extraordinary. Today, we are guided by the same principle. Bringing together the best minds in the regulated cannabis market, Organa Brands operates the longest-running CO₂ extraction facility in the country– Organa Labs. With Organa Labs oil at the core of our products, we’ve had unprecedented success, becoming the first cannabis house of brands to attain a national footprint.

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Professional Services Sponsor

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Archer & Greiner, P.C.
Archer & Greiner, P.C.

Archer is a different kind of law firm, and our clients know that from the start.

The  legalized recreational cannabis market in New Jersey brings plenty of opportunity for success. Complying with the complex laws and regulations governing the cannabis industry is imperative for any business looking to operate in this space. The ability for a business to produce, manufacture, distribute, or sell cannabis related products must be done in strict adherence to state and local regulations. Our clients are both veterans and new leaders of the cannabis industry, including retailers, processors, growers, and ancillary businesses. Attorneys in Archer’s Cannabis Law Group possess extensive knowledge of New Jersey’s cannabis laws and regulations and are uniquely qualified to advise clients on how to prudently build, grow and operate their business.

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Sustainability Sponsors

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Curaleaf
Curaleaf

Curaleaf is a leading vertically integrated medical and wellness cannabis operator in the United States, with its New Jersey dispensary located at 640 Creek Rd. in Bellmawr, NJ. Curaleaf offers multiple products under three brands: Curaleaf, Curaleaf Hemp and UKU Craft Cannabis.

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Contempo Specialty Packaging
Contempo Specialty Packaging

Contempo Specialty Packaging is creating a new standard of excellence for packaging in the cannabis industry. Our history before cannabis was 40 years in the fashion industry, working with the top brands and retailers in the world. Contempo’s vision is for your cannabis brand to be packaged just like the greatest brands in other industries. We work with dispensaries, manufacturers, and cultivators to create beautiful, eco-friendly, and child-resistant packaging that helps to remove the stigma around cannabis.

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Foundational Sponsors

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EisnerAmper LLP
EisnerAmper LLP

EisnerAmper LLP is one of the largest accounting firms in the U.S., with nearly 1,500 employees and 180 partners across the country. We combine responsiveness with a long-range perspective; to help clients meet the pressing issues they face today, and position them for success tomorrow.

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Green Team Total Security Solutions
Green Team Total Security Solutions

The Green Team was created to service the unique security needs of the legal cannabis industry. It is a division of Security Resources, Inc., a national leader in the security industry since 1995.

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Supporters from Afar

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ePac Flexible Packaging
ePac Flexible Packaging

Our Mission: To serve our customers and communities, by providing high-quality flexible packaging with exceptional customer service and industry-best time to market.

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Wilson Safe Company
Wilson Safe Company

For over 110 years, Wilson Safe Company has successfully serviced our customers and provided a variety of products. Our extensive inventory of superior safes, bank equipment, and cash handling machines simply cannot be beat. We provide service for all our items. Wilson Safe also provides service for items that we do not sell.

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Event Partners

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American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ)
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ)

The ACLU of New Jersey works to defend liberty throughout our state. We are involved in litigation and advocacy on behalf of individuals, and we lobby on scores of bills in the state legislature and local councils. In addition, the ACLU is active in many public education and community organizing projects.

The ACLU of New Jersey is located in Newark. We implement legal, legislative, public education programs in conjunction with large numbers of volunteers to advance the ACLU's goals of liberty and justice for all.

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AxisWire
AxisWire

AxisWire is the foremost advanced news distribution platform targeted specifically to the cannabis industry media. AxisWire will distribute press releases to thousands of journalists at hundreds of major media outlets such as Forbes, The Washington Post, CNN, TIME, Business Insider, and VICE, as well as industry specific publications such as . Every single press release distributed through AxisWire will be available onsite, as well as one top search engines like Google, for journalist and the public to freely access.

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Green Market Report
Green Market Report

The Green Market Report focuses on the financial news of the rapidly growing cannabis industry. Our target approach filters out the daily noise and does a deep dive into the financial, business and economic side of the cannabis industry. Our team is cultivating the industry’s critical news into one source and providing open source insights and data analysis.

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Gilda's Club South Jersey
Gilda's Club South Jersey

Gilda’s Club South Jersey’s mission is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.

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New Jersey Cannabuisiness Association (NJCBA)
New Jersey Cannabuisiness Association (NJCBA)

The New Jersey CannaBusiness Association's mission is simple: Promote jobs and growth in a sustainable and responsible cannabis industry. Starting with the pioneers in the medical cannabis market to the emerging players in the adult-use space, our focus is to make certain that decision makers and regulators understand and respect the needs of the CannaBusiness community and that our community remain responsible corporate citizens.

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Jersey City Tech Meetup
Jersey City Tech Meetup

The #JCTechMeetup hosts monthly meetings throughout town featuring amazing speakers on various topics in tech to engage a community like no other. All members of the technology, innovation and entrepreneurial community and ecosystem here and around Jersey City are welcome to join and participate!

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MJM Strategy
MJM Strategy

Founded in 2016, MJM Strategy is the cannabis industry's first minority-led, digital focused strategy and management consulting firm. Leveraging 40+ years of corporate excellence under the leadership of Founder & President, Dasheeda Dawson, MJM Strategy provides strategic brand marketing, digital strategy, and business management support to help elevate hemp and marijuana companies at every stage of development.

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New Jersey Cannabis Industry Associtation (NJCIA)
New Jersey Cannabis Industry Associtation (NJCIA)

The New Jersey Cannabis Industry Association is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to advancing the legalization of cannabis.

The mission is to promote sensible policy, responsible development, and growth of a legalized cannabis-based economy. The NJCIA strives to be the industry leader for all sectors including: industrial hemp, biotechnology, cultivation, manufacturing, finance, retail, security, and consulting services.

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Soulful Cannabis
Soulful Cannabis

Soulful Cannabis is a collective working to make the cannabis industry the best version of itself.  

We forge relationships, develop mind-shifting content and host events in service of social equity in the cannabis industry, where social equity is a big picture view of community impact, opportunity, diversity, patient advocacy and social justice.  

We intend to act as stewards; serving as light-holders for the leaders joining our collective, amplifying and cross-connecting their efforts with other groups.

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High NY
High NY

High NY is a community organization dedicated to improving the way society uses Cannabis. We host education and networking events designed to inspire a new class of leaders and entrepreneurs, build cannabis awareness, and engage citizens in the political processes necessary to end prohibition.

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Heady NJ
Heady NJ

Welcome to Heady NJ: New Jersey's Local Source For Cannabis News, Info & Culture. During this critical time for the New Jersey Cannabis Industry, people need trustworthy information from a reliable source. You can count on Heady NJ to provide you with current and breaking news, business directories, cannabis-friendly events, information and learning sessions, along with lifestyle, parenting, education, and health and wellness information.

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Wharton Cannabis Business Club
Wharton Cannabis Business Club

What do you get when you combine one of the finest business schools in the country with an emerging industry hailed by many as the modern equivalent to what Silicon Valley was two decades ago?

You get the Wharton Cannabis Business Club.

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American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp (ATACH)
American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp (ATACH)

The American Trade Association for Cannabis & Hemp (ATACH) is a 501(c)(6) trade organization registered in Washington, DC, founded to promote the expansion, protection, and preservation of businesses engaged in the legal trade of industrial, medical, and recreational cannabis and hemp based products.

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