Ashley Picillo is the chief executive officer and founder of Point Seven Group (Point7), a women-owned and -operated boutique cannabis consultancy based in Denver, Colorado, and Sonoma County, California. Founded in the fall of 2013, Point7 supports clients throughout the U.S., and soon internationally, in the pre-licensure processes, building high-performance teams, designing facilities and selecting equipment, as well as with post-operational activities such as developing standard operating procedures and branding and marketing.

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Step into a Colorado pot dispensary at random, and you’ll long for the luxuries of the D.M.V. But that experience is changing, thanks to a new breed of entrepreneur in Colorado — young, ambitious and often female — that is trying to reach a more sophisticated clientele in everything from language to packaging to social events.

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It’s an unprecedented industry that’s known nothing but unprecedented times — yet the coronavirus and its economic impact feels like nothing the cannabis sector has ever seen before.

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Cannabis companies, and the consultants and lawyers who aid them, not eligible for federal stimulus money.

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The Point Seven Group (Point7), led by Ashley Picillo, was voted by Greenway readers as the best general application consultant in the industry in 2019. Green-way spoke with industry veteran Picillo about their work – which was tied to 40 successful licenses in Missouri. Prior to becoming involved with the cannabis industry, Picillo earned her B.S. degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University in Boston, MA—her hometown. She knew from a very young age she wanted to own and operate a business someday.

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Picillo quickly recognized that Colorado was becoming the model for other states and founded Point Seven Group (named for the most common number of leaves on the cannabis plant) in 2016 to offer management consulting services to new operators facing the daunting learning curve she had experienced.

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We're shining the light on women who've made significant contributions in cannabis during the last century. Featuring Ashley Picillo.

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Shortly after High Country honored six local women in cannabis last year, where I referenced the book “Breaking the Grass Ceiling: Women, Weed and Business,” a colleague connected me to its co-author, Ashley Picillo, who just happened to have relocated from Denver to Snowmass Village for the summer (and stayed for the winter!).

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A panel of industry leaders provide an informative exchange on the expected future and growth of Cannabis on the East Coast. Discussions included an update on legal and regulatory developments as well as what legalization will mean to the Cannabis Industry and the East Coast market.

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