Hate deficiencies? This one’s for you. 

ProCanna USA’s Founder, Dede Perkins, talks with Mike Trowbridge, founder and CEO of Compliance Playbook, former compliance director for Mohave Cannabis, and current compliance consultant for JARS Cannabis, as they share best practice ways to 1) avoid deficiency notices, 2) respond when you receive them, and 3) ensure they don’t reoccur. 

You’ll learn how to: 

• Develop a proactive, comprehensive compliance plan that prioritizes highest-risk operations
• Prepare for all types of inspections and NOT scramble when an inspector comes knocking
• Use public data to shape and update your compliance plan and response
• Use a 3-step process to respond to deficiencies: 
  • Temporary plan to fix issue
  • Permanent plan to fix issue
  • Monitoring system to prevent issue from reoccurring

Money is tight most everywhere right now, but especially in the legal cannabis industry. So how does a legal operator maintain compliance in the face of compressed pricing, high tax rates, and low profit margins?

Join ProCanna USA’s Founder, Dede Perkins, talking with Amber D. Lengacher, CEO and founder of Purple Circle Consulting Services, former attorney at Vicente Sederberg and Licensing Manager—and later Corporate Counsel—for Trulieve Cannabis Corp., one of the top five multi-state cannabis operators in the industry, as they talk about cannabis compliance on a budget. 

Learn how to:
- Set up a cost-effective cannabis compliance program
- Determine the minimum number of SOPs you must develop, implement, and maintain to satisfy compliance requirements
- At a minimum, control the top five regulatory risks no matter which state or states you operate in
- Keep up to date and adapt to changing rules and regulations
- Develop, implement, and maintain an inspection readiness program in your cannabis facility – and make sure everyone is on board

Cannabis is an evolving industry. State legislators and cannabis regulators revise existing rules and add new ones. States with medical programs add adult-use cannabis programs and update regulations accordingly. Regulators leave and others take their place, sometimes changing the ways regulations are interpreted and enforced.

How do you manage compliance when the rules are a moving target?

ProCanna USA’s Founder, Dede Perkins, talks with Gabe Jertberg, regional director of compliance for one of Missouri’s largest vertical cannabis operators, as they share tips to help you navigate cannabis compliance in an unclear and/or shifting regulatory environment.

Learn best-practice ways to:
- Communicate with your regulators, both proactively and in response to deficiency notices or fines
- Find standards and frameworks that satisfy regulators and guide your compliance program and facility operations
- Mine disciplinary actions and secondary information sources for operational guidance
- Stay update to-date with changing regulations and state guidance documents
- Figure out which “hot button” items regulators pay particular attention to so you can evaluate and prioritize compliance risk in each area of your operation