A clear look at how water activity affects cannabis quality and smokability.
GCNC Worldview keeps its focus on one practical question: what water activity means for smokability, weight, and quality. Chris Day hosts Dr. Niyabi Shields, Dr.

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Stories about the people, businesses, and countries changing the global cannabis footprint. Join us for each episode as we talk to executives and people influencing the decisions worldwide, making the cannabis industry possible.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
GCNC World View makes cannabis commerce legible through detailed conversations about capital, compliance, leadership, marketing, partnerships, and cross-border growth.
GCNC World View follows the cannabis business through the decisions that determine whether companies can grow, finance themselves, market effectively, and operate across borders.
Cannabis has a balance sheet and an access question; your curiosity gets a seat at both tables.
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A clear look at how water activity affects cannabis quality and smokability.
GCNC Worldview keeps its focus on one practical question: what water activity means for smokability, weight, and quality. Chris Day hosts Dr. Niyabi Shields, Dr.
Cannabis leadership is framed as a people and operations problem, not a borrowed playbook.
Jill Reddish and Stephanie Pau treat cannabis leadership as an operations and people problem, not a borrowed CPG, alcohol, or tobacco playbook.
Risk, financing, and compliance are treated as business fundamentals, with survival tied to disciplined operations and market-specific judgment.
Cannabis by the Numbers: Banking Risk and Compliance treats cannabis risk as a business problem, not a talking point. Beau Whitney and Rachel Wright carry that argument through MJBizCon takeaways, post-COVID market resets, and the need for tighter operations when consumer…
A clear look at France's cannabis rollout, with policy detail that sharpens the business picture.
France's medical cannabis market is the subject here, with the discussion tracking where the regulatory process stands, what has already been tested, and why the next step matters for the people involved.
A Greek market conversation about margins, positioning, and why cheap rarely wins.
GCNC World View returns to Greece to open a wider look at Europe’s cannabis business, with the host back after a health related absence and steering a conversation about margins, market structure, and the need for profit that can actually support a business.
African cannabis dealmaking meets policy pressure and incumbent power.
The conversation treats cannabis as a cross border business problem, with hemp supply chains in the Congo, a planned medical cannabis facility in Uganda, and hemp projects in South Africa folded into one dealmaking story.
A practical cannabis-business conversation about capital, hiring, and international market momentum.
GCNC Worldview stays on the business side of cannabis, with Chris Day steering the talk toward money, capital, and long-term planning. Rachel Wright and Stephanie Cuffee-Jeffries bring in a grounded view from Verdant Strategies and 420 CPA, which keeps the conversation tied to…
Craft and credibility under pressure.
People Powered follows Marianne Kersage's path through Oregon cannabis to examine what authentic leadership looks like when craft and business goals do not always align. The episode is strongest in that tension.

Australian radio industry news, close up.

Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.

Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.

Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.


Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Most cannabis operators don't realize they're sitting on a $28-35 billion market they haven't touched yet
GCNC World View launches its mini-series “Cannabis by the Numbers” with Rachel Wright of Verdant Strategies and Beau Whitney of Whitney Economics, both of whom have worked in cannabis for more than a decade.
GCNC World View’s “Cannabis By The Numbers” episode four of eight brings back Beau Whitney of Whitney Economics and Rachel Wright of Verdant Strategies to compare hemp and cannabis through business data.
Germany legalized cannabis but made the clubs non-profit—an impossible business model
Chris Day hosts Jane Sandelman, CEO and co-founder of Cannatrol, and Chris Mappson, the company's VP of Marketing, to explain how a Vermont drying-and-curing system moved from artisan cheese into cannabis.
GCNC World View: The Global Cannabis Business Podcast uses this Cannabis by the Numbers episode to compare U.S.
Alibi Cannabis is based in Oregon, where the market does not hand anyone an easy win.
Chris Day and Aaron Butler discuss Global Cannabis Exchange, which facilitates wholesale cannabis transactions globally.
Augur Associates co-founders Benjamin and Aurélien discuss France's evolving medical cannabis regulatory landscape and European market opportunities.
GCNC World View’s "Cannabis by the Numbers" episode centers on Beau Whitney and Rachel Wright comparing banking risk, license saturation, and market recovery across cannabis regions.
Jill Reddish and Stephanie Powell speak with Timo Bongartz, CEO of Canavigia, about European cannabis, seed-to-sale software, and leadership across shifting regulations.
Chris Day interviews Evan from Casco Bay Hemp about the intersection of cannabis, hemp, and traditional agriculture.
Chris Day opens GCNC World View: The Global Cannabis Business Podcast with Amna Shamim of CannabisEvents.Global and John Schutt of Puff Creative, and John says his agency has worked with hundreds of cannabis companies since 2017 and helped raise almost $12.5 million.
GCNC World View: The Science of Smokability centers on Dr.
GCNC World View opens a special mini-series on leadership strategy with a conversation about people-powered business.
Beau Whitney and Rachel Wright analyze the $3.8B delinquency crisis across the $28.8B cannabis industry, attributing it to federal illegality blocking normal banking, state oversaturation of licenses, and poor business practices.
Nancy Whiteman started a billion-dollar cannabis company because a friend's dad mentioned infused soda at a kids' playdate.
Thomas Cutler of Gentleman Smugglers discusses the brand's origin story rooted in Operation Jackpot, the real-life legacy of East Coast smugglers from the Carter-Reagan era.
Jill Reddish and Stephanie Pau interview Mitchell Osak, early cannabis strategy consultant who worked with Canada's first 31 licensed producers as they navigated federal legalization.
The host opens from Golden, Colorado, and uses the view behind him to set up the conversation.
Chris Day opens GCNC World View with Rachel Wright of Verdant Strategies and 420 CPA, plus Stephanie Cuffee-Jeffries from Verdant Strategies, to talk about capital, compliance, and international cannabis business.
GCNC World View returns with a Greece-focused conversation featuring Riekel Fulcarelli, marketing director at Greycan, who says the company spent about two years waiting for EU GMP and GACP processes before it could sell anything.
Jill Reddish and Stephanie Powell host Adam Coates, Decibel Cannabis Company's Chief Revenue Officer.
Jill Redish opens a GCNC webinar on the science of smokability and the phase one study on cannabis flower water activity.
Jill Reddish opens a GCNC Worldview special with Stephanie Powell co-hosting and Trenton Birch in the guest seat.
Frederica Easley, president of the Minority Cannabis Business Association and executive director of the Cannabis Impact Fund, defines equity as access and says cannabis work has to center marginalized communities affected by prohibition.