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Is the future of cannabis gummies fast-acting?

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Despite representing a small slice of the overall cannabis market, fast-acting marijuana gummies are a powerful force, generating significantly higher sales per stock-keeping unit (SKU) compared to traditional edibles. Is the future of cannabis gummies fast-acting? is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs

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Laura Trujillo & Amanda Terpstra: From College Teammates to Cannabis Trailblazers

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In this episode of The Ganjapreneur Podcast, host TG Branfalt speaks with Laura Trujillo and Amanda Terpstra, co-founders of BestBuds, a woman- and Hispanic-owned dispensary based in Woodbury, New Jersey. Lifelong friends turned business partners, Laura and Amanda share their remarkable story of bootstrapping a licensed cannabis retail business from the ground up—navigating community pushback, lawsuits, zoning battles, and a grueling fundraising process along the way. Together, they break down how their complementary skills, entrepreneurial drive, and deep community engagement helped them overcome early resistance in a small-town setting. The conversation touches on fundraising challenges for women and minority founders, the changing product landscape in New Jersey, and why staffing and personality fit are critical to cannabis retail success. It’s an inspiring and highly practical look at what it really takes to open—and sustain—a dispensary in today’s regulated environment. Listen below or scroll down for the full transcript! Listen to the episode: Ganjapreneur · Laura Trujillo & Amanda Terpstra: From College Teammates to Cannabis Trailblazers Read the transcript: Editor’s note: this transcript was auto-generated and may contain errors. Commercial: The Ganjapreneur Podcast is made possible by over 500 cannabis industry service providers in Ganjapreneurs Cannabis Business Index. At some point, every plant touching brand experiences the stigma that many industries still have to toward cannabis going strong. Since 2015, our business index is the most comprehensive and frequently visited directory for cannabis friendly services on the internet, saving you the time and hassle of sifting through uninformed and unwelcoming providers with categories for everything from business financing to extraction equipment to interior designers and public relations. You’ll find every kind of specialist and business service you could ever need. Check out the business index today at ganjapreneur.com/businesses. TG Branfalt: Hey there, I’m your host, TG Brand Fault, and this is the ganjapreneur.com podcast where we try to bring you actionable information and normalized cannabis through the stories of ganjapreneurs, activists and industry stakeholders. Today I am joined by Laura Trujillo, COO, and Amanda Terpstra, CEO, their co-founders of BestBuds, a woman and Hispanic owned dispensary based in Woodbury, New Jersey. How are you doing this afternoon? Laura Trujillo: Great. Doing great. How are you doing? TG Branfalt: I’m doing doing just fine, just fine. Excited to hear about your story. It’s really, really interesting. You guys have a history together and then have brought that to the cannabis space. So why don’t you tell me about your background and how you ended up in the cannabis space? Laura Trujillo: I think I’ll start. I’m Laura Trujillo, the COO and co-founder of BestBuds. I think our story goes back to college. Me and Amanda met playing college soccer where our bond was initially formed, running suicides on the soccer field and just dying on that sideline. But through life, through college, we’ve remained best buds, so we really are in fact best buds. We just don’t have it for a name, and it was my grandiose idea to come to her after going over to the West coast for corporate work functions. I would try to go to as many dispensaries as possible on the west coast, knowing that eventually it was going to come over to the East coast. And being a cannabis consumer myself for many years, for PTSD, I always would just like to see how the cannabis industry was helping within the community and how it impacted. Of course, west Coast and Colorado was probably one of my first stops, and so they were also doing a lot of breweries as well. So wherever there was a brewery, there was a dispensary. So on family vacations, my husband would go to the brewery, I’d go to the dispensary. It is a win-win for everyone. Then I be in my best butt. Amanda, I knocked on her door and one day, and I know she was kind of trying to figure out her what’s the next challenge to be, and I was kind of tired of corporate America and traveling between Jersey and West Coast and I said to her, let’s open a dispensary, man. I came knocking on our door and she looked at me like I was crazy and told me to get out of here, but then I was like, Hey man, let’s go to this Canna Gather event in New Jersey. Probably one of the first events, it was right when they decriminalized can cannabis and Trenton, so it would be like a $50 fine. And from that moment on, I think we saw the vision and the potential and the networking and just being able to bring something different to the community in Woodbury that will also help Woodbury grow. As a small town in New Jersey, we are a small business and we really want to grow our community around us through the power of cannabis being women. And Hispanic owned is also another niche that we have in the market as well. There’s not very many of us out there that have actually opened, but we’ve been through the rigors, we’ve been through the lobbying, the ordinances in New Jersey, fundraised ourselves. You’ll find that me and Amanda are often called peanut butter and jelly. I am all things creative design. I designed the logo I came up with, the name was on top of getting that trademarked early on. So we are registered, which is really important and she’s all things, I call her my legal and my HR and my business, but I wanted to give Amanda a test to introduce herself in her words. Amanda Terpstra: Hey everyone, thanks for having us here today. I’m Amanda and CEO of BestBuds. Yes, I’m all things business. My background comes from a family of entrepreneurs, which is actually how we got located in Woodbury. My grandmother was actually an owner of her own business. She did have a male partner. A lot of people don’t realize that it wasn’t

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