Mike Blumenthal, Executive Director of Cannabiz Credit Association

Listen to a discussion at the Necann Boston 2025 event about the challenges of credit and payment reliability within the cannabis industry. Guests introduce the Cannabiz Credit Association (CCA), a centralized system that aggregates payment histories and credit data of cannabis businesses nationwide. The CCA helps companies assess who pays their bills on time, improve accountability, and reduce bad debt through credit risk scoring and industry-wide transparency. The conversation also touches on how the CCA system benefits leasing companies, cultivators, and brands by providing trustworthy credit information and encouraging timely payments.

The video features Victoria Williams, founder of the cannabis brand Wake and Vape, discussing her entrepreneurial journey in the cannabis industry. It highlights her mission to create a welcoming and uplifting space for women consumers while showcasing her innovative pre-roll Wake and Puff and vape brands. Victoria shares her background, including her focus on education and application writing, the challenges she faced entering the industry, and her future expansion plans.

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Božidar Radišic has been a vocal cannabis activist for almost two decades, he is the president of FIST – human rights association, a member of IACM – International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines and founder of the Research Nature institute in Ljubljana (http://www.researchnature.com/).Thusfar, Božidar has organized seven international scientific conferences aimed at demystifying cannabis (http://demystifyingcannabis.org/gallery).The 6th conference held in Ljubljana in 2019 was also the first conference of the kind to be part of the licensed training program of the Medical Chamber of Slovenia and the Chamber of Nursing and Midwifery Services of Slovenia.He regulary lectures and participates at cannabis-related seminars and other events in Slovenia and abroad. He is known as a tireless activist and medical cannabis advocate in Slovenia, EU and the Western Balkans.The RN Institute monitors the quality of cannabis products and to that aim established its own laboratory providing HPLC and GC/MS analysis.As a result, it has gained a deep insight into cannabis use among patients and the quality of products on the market.