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Customer Case Study: Canna Care

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Michelle Drolet

Canna Care Docs is a dynamic company specializing in cannabinoid therapies. Canna Care Docs hired Towerwall to assess their effectiveness in protecting sensitive information such as patient health information and employee personal information from security breaches.

Cannabis and privacy compliance: Is your health information protected?

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Michelle Drolet

The legal regime for cannabis is a highly fractured one in the U.S. As of today, we’re approaching the legalized use of either recreational or medicinal marijuana in 30 states with eight states and the District of Columbia nearing full recreational use. Five states in the country continue to ban any use of cannabis, including for medical purposes. This discrepancy between state cannabis legal regimes creates anxiety for both users and suppliers of cannabis. Medical marijuana can be particularlyfalse

Join Towerwall at the New England Bank Technology & Retail Banking Conference

cannabis security , cannabis compliance , Compliance & Privacy , financial security , medical marijuana

Michelle Drolet

Michelle Drolet and the Towerwall team will be attending the 36th Annual New England Bank Technology + Retail Banking Conference and Exhibit, on Friday, May 19th at the DoubleTree in Danvers, MA. Stop by Booth 27 where we will be discussing:

Hackers show no mercy—even for pot dispensaries

cannabis security , medical cannabis , cannabis compliance , point-of-sale breach , medical marijuana , pot dispensaries , MJ Freeway , cannabis

Michelle Drolet

Anatomy of a national point-of-sale breach and takedown of 1,000-plus marijuana dispensaries Back when Apple was the plucky young upstart that dared to be different, the Mac was the machine for creative types and there was a perception that it wasn’t a target for hackers because of its cultural cool factor. You would expect the same rules to apply to the legalized marijuana market, but a major hack attack on a pot dispensary last month set that notion up in smoke. MJ Freeway, providers offalse

10 Things I Know About ... Legal weed

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Michelle Drolet

10) Adult use A key legislative issue for both opponents and supporters. Only those 21 and over can legally consume, possess and grow marijuana. Some legislators are advocating for a higher age limit.

Michelle Drolet featured in WBJ: Building Walls and Breaking Barriers

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Michelle Drolet

Michelle Drolet, CEO of Towerwall in Framingham, is an innovative thinker. Never one to shy away from looking at new factors that come into a situation with an open perspective, she has a few things she's learned about good management and good leadership along the way. First, she delegates more. "When I first started, it was all about internal, and we had to do it all. As I've gotten older, I'm able to hand things over and say, 'We can't do that well, but I know they can do that well,'" Droletfalse

10 Things I Know About: Pot Compliance

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Michelle Drolet

10) Nothing hazy about the laws Marijuana (or cannabis) is one of the most highly regulated industries in the world, and Massachusetts has the strictest rules governing its production, retailing, grow, testing and security operations.

Marijuana Industry Brings Compliance to a High Bar

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Michelle Drolet

Ensuring overall compliance with strict regulations is the next growth opportunity. Whatever you think of it, marijuana is here to stay and coming to full legalization in a state nearest you. Controversy follows cannabis into every branch of society: political, cultural, science, health, education, legal and finance. A quick search on YouTube will show heartbreaking stories of families using marijuana to treat children with severe epilepsy. More than a hundred of these families uprooted theirfalse