Solventless Hash Q&A: Cody Coulson

In this episode of Solventless Hash Q&A Eric sits down with Canadian hash maker Cody Coulson (Instagram: @codycoulson_) of Coulson Cannabis, Persy, and Port North Extracts. Cody tells us about his journey to becoming a solventless hash maker, the Canadian market, how to identify quality material to process, and much more!

We cover quite a few topics and questions in this video so feel free to jump to a specific question in the linked time stamps below.

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1:50 What’s new and where are you located up in Canada?
2:11 Was it the plan all along to start up there? How did you decide on your spot in Canada?
3:01 What’s your history with the cannabis industry and what led you to here?
4:41 Were you growing along the same time?
5:19 So you were involved with cannabis from a personal level… When did things start getting more serious about launching your own businesses? Tell us where you’re at now.
8:17 I want to ask a little about the licensing and regulatory stuff up in Canada… Are you a micro LP? Tell me a little about the different licenses and which one you were able to get.
9:13 If you’re a micro LP you have a very low cap on the amount of concentrate you can produce in a year, is that right? With a standard LP is there no cap?
9:52 If you’ve got a micro license you have to sell it through the government essentially, otherwise you have to work with an LP to actually sell through. You don’t actually have a sales route if you’re a micro, correct?
10:35 Was getting a standard LP difficult? What went in to getting that license?
12:23 So are you selling your hash right now through other LPs? What do your actual market sales look like?
13:30 Do you have any advice about how to get a license for people watching?
15:12 When did you know that you wanted to build a brand around solventless? Is your brand strictly solventless?
16:41 What does the solventless market look like up in Canada? What are differences between the black market and legal market?
18:28 A lot of the old heads and educated consumers feel like the recreational market in Canada and some of the big LPs that have the funding don’t really respect the legacy market even though they are the ones who have pushed the industry to where it is. Was this your experience or do you have a different take on how things have unfolded in Canada?
19:12 Cody talks about the legacy market and why those makers don’t want to enter the recreational market.
20:35 So you think more of those legacy hash makers are going to start entering the legal market within coming years?
21:48 It sounds like there’s a large group of in-the-know consumers in Canada that doesn’t purchase recreational hash because it’s not available or the price is too high, correct?
22:41 Medical consumer pricing vs recreational pricing
23:13 A gram of your top hash rosin goes for well north of $100 retail, does that include taxes?
24:16 Do you think that prices will come down eventually or are they going to remain high until they adjust legislation?
25:38 Cody talks about why he doesn’t want solventless concentrate prices to drop too low.
28:08 Do you go out and work with farms and purchase product to process for them? Then, how do you determine if it’s high enough quality to work with?
32:25 Do you have plans to start growing eventually?
34:13 What was the PureCannalabs training like? How was working with Simpson Solventless?
36:36 Was there anything that surprised you when Eric Simpson was training you?
38:15 What are the differences in your end product when you wash fresh frozen vs. dried cured starting material?
41:23 Do you have any ways to identify which strains freeze or cure better one way or the other?
43:53 Do you get the material tested so that you have an analytical basis for terpenes etc?
44:41 What is a cannabis chemovar?
47:02 What can you teach newer hash makers and what advice can you pass on?
48:24 What medium does Carmel grow in? Are there growing mediums that work better for solventless strains?
50:28 How do you determine what temperature to press at?
53:05 Tell us about some hash makers that inspire you. Who have you learned from?
55:20 What are your plans for your brand?
56:28 What are your brands and can people find your products?
57:17 Do your products cross provinces?

Be sure to keep up with Cody’s brands at https://coulsoncannabis.ca/ and on Instagram: @coulsoncannabis @persyxx @portnorthx.

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