ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Tracking the intersection of cannabis, CPG, and the regulatory shifts reshaping both. Delta Dispatch applies an investor's lens to the operators, deals, and policy moves that are defining how cannabinoids enter the mainstream.
Hosted by Ian Dominguez, founder of Delta Emerald Ventures. Solo commentary, executive interviews, and panels recorded live at CannaBev Summit and CannaDataCon.
The written Dispatch is invite-only. The podcast is public. Show notes link to the full publication.
Hosted by Ian Dominguez, founder of Delta Emerald Ventures. Solo commentary, executive interviews, and panels recorded live at CannaBev Summit and CannaDataCon.
The written Dispatch is invite-only. The podcast is public. Show notes link to the full publication.
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
53 minutes
English
United States
15 episodes
since March 17, 2026
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Three investors across the capital stack sit down with moderator AnnaRae Grabstein (Wolf Meyer) at CannaBev Summit 2026 to answer a foundational question: is this category investable right now? Ryan Lake from JP Morgan's beverage investment banking group, Ian Dominguez from Delta Emerald Ventures, …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Former Constellation Brands CFO David Klein sits down at CannaBev Summit 2026 with two decades of beverage industry lessons for the THC drinks category. Klein was CFO during Constellation's $4bn investment in Canopy Growth in 2017 and its exit in 2024 — his read is that the thesis was right and 10 …
Jason Dayton and David O'Neill built Trail Magic out of a college senior project. Their hard cider company became one of the first THC beverage brands in Minnesota, launched in nineteen days flat when the law changed in 2022. They survived COVID, added pickleball courts, expanded to sixty-plus whol…
Dave Infante and Kate Bernot are two of the sharpest reporters on the adult beverage beat. Between them, they've done more to dismantle the "sober Gen Z" narrative than anyone in trade media. In this episode, we sit down together to talk about what's actually happening to alcohol demand, and what i…
Bart Watson, President and CEO of the Brewers Association, joins Ian Dominguez to translate thirty-plus years of craft beer's regulatory experience into a working playbook for the cannabinoid beverage category. The conversation moves from the coalition mechanics that made the Craft Beverage Moderni…
What happens after legalization? In our prior episode, UC Santa Barbara historian Lisa Jacobson walked through alcohol prohibition's failure and how post-repeal enforcement proved more restrictive than prohibition itself. This follow-up brings Jacobson back alongside Paul Weaver, who leads cannabis…
What does alcohol's 200-year regulatory rollercoaster tell us about cannabis beverages today? UC Santa Barbara historian Lisa Jacobson, author of Intoxicating Pleasures, walks through prohibition's failure, the unintended consequences of legal loopholes, and a counterintuitive fact: post-repeal enf…
Our retailer insights panel unpacked how institutional retailers have adapted their business models and org structures for THC beverages. These operators understand that THC operates on fundamentally different velocity, compliance, and ordering mechanics than alcohol, even if it oftentimes travels …
In the first Delta Dispatch Salon, we brought a brand CEO, an independent retailer, and a category-native distributor to debate a question sparked by a listener: does mandatory wholesaler intermediation actually make THC drinks safer, or is the industry conflating the "safety stack" with a "distrib…
Brands without a distributor playbook and retail support strategy are buying expensive shelf time, not building durable channels. This panel, with ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, Spec's, Gulf Distributing, and Best Brands, reveals the real economics of three-tier THC distribution: where slotting fees …
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