Business View Magazine | December 2019

251 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 when marijuana was not yet legal in many places. Indeed, the acronym RYOT stands for Roll Your Own Tobacco, a nod to the fact that a lot of products, back then, were promoted as tobacco products in an effort to divert attention from their actual intended uses. RYOT is based in Miami, Florida, with warehouses in Seattle, Vancouver, and Toronto. The company doesn’t manufacture products, but designs and works exclusively with manufactures near and far, and then distributes them in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Chile, Columbia, Germany, Israel, Jamaica, Spain, and the United Kingdom, among other locales. “We’ve been able to span the globe,” says Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Dan Talbot. “We’re sold in over 30 countries at every level from distributors, to brick and mortar stores, to online resellers. We have vendors that we work with, but we design everything in-house. Nothing is purchased off the shelf. All of our products are our own, RYOT