📰 The Cannaverse | August 6, 2025

Brought to you by Canna Connect MN – Building a Stronger Cannabis Community Through Real Connection

🎟️ Your Ticket to Real Connection

Join us for Minnesota’s top cannabis networking experience of the month—premium access, exclusive space, and legit industry connections.
VIP Happy Hour tickets and sponsorships are going fast.

CannaCon Official After Party | August 9th, 2025

👉 Not doing VIP? No worries.

Everyone’s invited to the Official After Party on the back patio, open to all CannaCon attendees. No VIP pass or Vendor badge required.

🌊 Networking on the North Shore | Cannabis & Community

Harbor Harbor on September 17th

Let’s take the conversation up and to the right 📈 
Join us on the beautiful North Shore for an evening of intentional connection, collaboration, and community-building with cannabis pros from across the state.

September 17 | 📍 Castle Danger Brewery
🔗 Reserve your spot here →

🔦 Community Spotlight: Brytany Melville of Forte Operations

Brytany Melville speaking at Canna Connect on June 25th, 2025

Meet Brytany Melville, cannabis operations expert and a powerful advocate for small businesses. Through her leadership at Forte Operations, she’s helped over 150 independent cannabis retailers across North America thrive.

Her mission? To build smarter systems that elevate equity and empower local communities.

🏆 We’re GreenState Consumers’ Choice Award Winners!

Shoutout to GreenState for giving Canna Connect a chance

We’re incredibly proud to be recognized in four amazing categories—thanks to you:

🥈 Best B2B Event: Canna Connect
🥈 Best B2C Event: Canna Connect
🥉 Best Cannabis App/Platform: The Cannaverse
🥉 Best Cannabis Podcast: Northern Lights

These wins belong to our community, six years of showing up, building together, and pushing the movement forward.

Thank you to CEE for Supporting The Cannaverse!

Center for Energy and Environment at Canna Connect

Microbusiness cultivators in Minnesota can now save up to 60% on LED lighting upgrades, thanks to energy incentives from CEE and Xcel Energy.

This is your chance to lower your costs and raise your yields, no strings attached.

🎧 Get Sweaty with Leddy: Coco Flow & Pain Relief

Our founder Steve Eigenmann joined Josh Leddy on Get Sweaty with Leddy to unpack the story behind Coco Flow and the science of non-psychoactive cannabinoids for pain management.

📬 From the Editor

Thank you. Every week, I feel incredibly lucky to share stories and opportunities from across this growing community.

Being recognized in four media and event categories is humbling, but we’re just getting started.

If you’re at CannaCon this weekend, stop by booth #626 and say “high.”

See you there,
Stephen Eigenmann 
Founder, Canna Connect

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