Is Las Vegas-based MJ Bizcon Worth The Money?
TRUTH: WE ARE ALL EARLY TO THIS INDUSTRY
With 100,000 Americans dying each year (and far more around the world) due to opioid-related deaths and overdoses, we must do something.
People in our communities are reaching for help, but they don’t know where to find it.
Many have been misguided.
The addict in the street, destroying property (and themselves,) is someone whom we as a society failed somewhere along the way. Healing can happen, but it will take time.
Blame will get us nowhere.
Close The Ignorance Gap With Us
We have already identified several safe and effective, relatively non-addictive natural compounds that help people find both: The pain (and psychological) relief they are looking for.
- No endless prescriptions and doctor visits.
- No chronic addictions.
- No need for endless bureaucracy and societal change.
Relief Is Within Reach
What our communities lack is safe, informed, consistent access free of misguided stigma.
Of course, this includes professional medical oversight and guidance when life-threatening factors are involved. We must all work together because we all carry part of the solution.
Budget For Inner Circle Membership
Inner Circle members meet weekly to discuss the ins and outs of growing and funding businesses and teams in this space.
We only work with businesses that are legal and licensed in their territory of registration.
We are funding more deals and opportunities than ever before.
We move slowly on purpose, though. That’s why applying sooner is better.
We don’t do sales pressure or recommend credit card debt.
Good results always start with good decisions.
Advocacy matters now more than ever.
Plant Medicines Point To The Importance (and sometimes impotence) of State & Community Rights
If it were up to “old-head, reactive policy setters” at the federal/national level, I’m unsure what our country would look like if we (as states and communities) just “cow-tailed” to their FDA misinformed policies going back to Nixon.
Anyone who wants to know the pervsion of science that went on in those days, just research Anslinger/Nixon policy setting agenda made famous by Time Magazine in 2015.
If it weren’t for those (like many of you) willing to legally (and with due process) stand up against the “old-head-feds” with your local support, there would probably be 200,000 (or more opioid deaths) per year.
The FDA is awash with well-meaning people trying to sort mountains of health data and apply that to policy that makes a difference and won’t land them in jail.
All due respect to the FDA policymakers and consultants. We need your skillsets and acumen as well.
WE ARE CONVINCED: Only a blend of agricultural science and cutting-edge plant medicine research will see humanity to a more sustainable future of sufficient nutrition and vitality.
We believe in societies focused on improving physical and mental health outcomes. The rest will flow from there. Aside from our defense budget, what choice do we have?
Look at the obesity and preventable disease epidemic keeping a full half of our citizens from contributing meaningfully to society.
Other than our defense budget, what else is there? All GDP comes from how healthy we are as a nation. Nutrition data and strategy is highly personal, but it’s also very conclusive. We need a new wave of plant-medicine-informed front-line healthcare workers, but we will save that for another article.
OUR CHOICE: Continued Mob Violence,
Or A Society Governed By An Informed & Healthy Populous?
Study ancient Rome or Napoleonic France to see what a neglected “mob” or cross-section of a society can do to a city or even an entire nation in a matter of months.
Will we “let them eat cake” while they soon burn down our houses?
Or will we ensure ALL people have access to clean water and nutrition, lest their disenfranchised children (and parents who are too sick to teach them) soon burn down people’s houses?
Walls are important. But so is what we do with all people within our walls. And just as important, the ones outside our walls.
Nutrition and safe housing are precursors to a stable democracy and a stable home and family.
How long will our union stand?
How long do you want to gamble with that question before you decide it’s time to get more directly involved?
More Money Is Moving Than Ever Before
Federal trillions will be spent in the next decades to reward/support the proven problem solvers in these categories. We already have the science and solutions. Now it’s time to build.
Will you help us close the gap of ignorance in our communities?
If yes. We are here to help you win.
*It’s hard to blame someone who has been chronically lied to by administrations they have to trust and follow orders of. Blaming gets us nowhere.
Apologies to everyone at the FDA who was force-fed biased pharma science and religion-induced drug phobia (and consequent unscientific banning.) We can and must do better.
The data is on our side, and the evidence is mounting: State-managed pot grows help govts. fund education initiatives and decriminalize swaths of people who feel called to provide this medicine for their communities. Ketamine and others are also “forces of community-driven action” to be reckoned with.
We must heal our communities today from the damage of decades of misguided policy of yesterday if we want a better tomorrow.
GOOD NEWS : More progress has been made in the science of addiction in the last twenty years than in the last two hundred years, and Inner Circle member businesses (and their leaders) are leading the way. We are doing it together.
We are not doing it under heavy NDA.
We are sharing our IP with all members who apply and join.
You should invite a leader or team you care about. Their leaders need to know about plant medicine-informed therapies and trauma-informed leadership.
The opioid epidemic is global and affects all nations.
Opioids and their derivatives have a valid place in medicine. Still, we need better communication and cooperation with proven, certified plant medicine providers as reliable modalities of people’s healing and wellness journey.
All due respect to those working on the ground in our communities at the federal and local drug enforcement levels. You have your hands full due to several decades of misinformed policy setting.
Govt. workers and elected officials: You owe your policymakers real data so they can make informed decisions. Data and information we can help you collect and repair from the businesses actually doing the work.
We will help you speak truth to power and advocate for sensible bi-partisan policy development.
United, we stand. Divided, we fall.
So, what MJ Biz Con 2024 worth it?
Yes, because I didn’t sign up for a bunch of wiz-bang booty-shaking nonsense, and I planned my connections before I got there. I showed up to my meetings fresh and well-rested each morning, and I made important connections.
***Your first time there can be sensory overload, to put it mildly.
WARNING : Las Vegas is basically the world’s biggest “sales funnel” designed to take up as much of your time and money as you will allow.
If you want help getting passes, let me know.
Networking Like The Pros (How We Do)
Q1 : Who can you meet that will help you move the needle in your business and career?
Q2 : What represents an obvious distraction?
This applies to both what you do at work and home or when you are not working.
One precedes and sets you up for the other.
NO DOUBT : There is a lot of posturing and “pretending to run a successful business” at these events. Lots of fakers and yes even outright criminals posing as productive people.
LEADERS: Can you see through the veneer of hype and gambling?
Are you surrounded by long-term players who know the importance of playing the long game?
This ALL relates to your career, category and the key connections you need to run a thriving business in any category or industry.
CONCLUSION : I met up with several Inner Circle members and business leaders we have an eye on. So yes, it was worth it for us.
Will Inner Circle be for you?
We price according to your needs, and we have guest passes for curious executives, policymakers, and growth-focused team leaders. Learn about application here.
They say your network determines your net worth…
What side of history do you want to be on?
Inner Circle members meet regularly to discuss the “good, bad, and ugly” aspects of growing a business in restricted and fast-growing industries. If you want to participate in more deal-making conversations with leaders who strive for transparency, ethics, and integrity, consider applying.
Is Inner Circle Right For You?
Matt Ritchey
Matt Ritchey is the Co-Founder of Inner Circle and CEO of Mr. Cannabis. He is committed to bettering the plant medicine industry through high-integrity leadership and better business building. He has worked with over 500 plant medicine leaders since 2012 and has a track record of helping teams grow from idea to scaled solution.
