The Blunt Boardroom

Most cannabis podcasts talk about the plant, the products, and consumption activities. This one talks about the business and the business of the plant.

The Blunt Boardroom is a straight-talk podcast about what it actually takes to build, run, and scale a cannabis company. Operators, executives, and industry experts having the kind of conversations that usually only happen behind closed doors.

Host Matt Richman is the CEO & CFO of mello Cannabis in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He came from Deloitte, but when the opportunity came to diverge from a traditional career path, he chose the burgeoning cannabis industry. He has spent nine years building cannabis businesses from the ground up across Colorado and Massachusetts, and he has the financial scars and hard-won perspective to prove it.

Each episode, Matt sits down with the people who are actually doing the work. Founders navigating social equity. Delivery operators managing unit economics. Marketing firms applying AI to a federally restricted industry. Cannabis CEOs and investors evaluating the impact of the new MA rules, medical rescheduling and pending recreational rescheduling. Including a focus on the community and positive impacts these businesses make.. The conversations are direct, specific, and useful.

If you run a cannabis business, advise one, invest in one, or want to understand what this industry actually looks like from the inside, this is the show.

New episodes drop twice a month.