Mr. Baruchowitz has nine years of experience in the legal cannabis industry and is considered a national expert in the diverse licensing regimes governing each state. His cannabis career began in assisting Colorado-based legal cultivators to structure state compliant capital transactions and analyzing the legal cannabis market in order to develop an optimal business strategy for their operations. After several years of work with Colorado companies, he co-founded Theraplant, LLC where he architected the highest scoring application in Connecticut’s highly selective licensing process. In 2014, he co-founded LeafLine Labs, LLC, which was one of only two Minnesota companies to win a license to cultivate and dispense cannabis in extracted form. Mr. Baruchowitz has also founded Laurel Harvest Labs, a Pennsylvania state-approved clinical registrant holding both a medical marijuana grower/processor and dispensary permit in conjunction with its contracted research partner, along with its contracted academic clinical research partner, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.