Ep. 23 - BioScience Company Leads Research of RARE Cannabinoids w/ Jessica Tonani, Verda Bio & Simple Jane CBD Skincare

Jessica Tonani is a biotechnology professional with over two decades of experience in life sciences. 

CEO of Verda Bio; a cannabis research company which she co-founded. Verda Bio is performing genomic, analytical and agricultural research on cannabis.

Jessica has been active in changing cannabis research legislation. She has worked on multiple pieces of legislation enabling the research of cannabinoids in Washington State. Verda Bio has one of the only State issued cannabis research licenses in the country and has sequenced the genomes of Cannabis Sativa plants, collaborated with leading research institutes, and tracked feedback from users to create a high-quality line of plant-based products; commercialized under the tradename Basic Jane.

Jessica has been named one of the most interesting people in cannabis by Seattle Times and a cannabis leading lady by Cannabis Now. Additionally, Jessica has been widely quoted as an expert in publications such as Nature, Science, Popular Science, Bloomberg, High Times, Genome Technologies and Entrepreneur. Jessica was a Howard Hughes fellow with an MS in immunology and a BS in microbiology.

Josh discusses VerdaBio’s latest research with Jessica - their proprietary cannabis plant library and how “developing stabilized plant varieties utilizing proprietary genomic, plant breeding and metabolic technologies is creating products sourced from her research that improves quality of life and enable the next generation of consumer cannabinoid-based products.”

This episode went over 2 hours and we decided to keep all of it for you!  We couldn’t decide where to edit, since every minute of it was such great conversation! We’re pretty sure you will be glued right to the end!