Brendan Kennedy will be speaking at the Redmond Rotary meeting on Thursday. - Courtesy Photo
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Brendan Kennedy will be speaking at the Redmond Rotary meeting on Thursday.

Brendan Kennedy to speak at next Redmond Rotary meeting on Thursday


February 4, 2013 · 1:04 PM

Brendan Kennedy, president and CEO of Privateer Holdings and president of Leafly, will be speaking at the Redmond Rotary's weekly meeting at 1 p.m. on Thursday at the Redmond Marriott Town Center, 7401 164th Ave. N.E.

Kennedy makes his living as an entrepreneur in the cannabis industry. Leafly provides information to help connect patients to the medical cannabis strains that meet their medical needs through an online environment.

Since 2010, Kennedy has been featured in print and TV stories about the cannabis industry by Bloomberg, CNN, NPR, NBC, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, Reuters, AP, The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Puget Sound Business Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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