Advanced Nutrients Founder, From Outlaw to Marijuana Mogul

“Big Mike” Straumietis, founder and CEO of Advanced Nutrients, has a life story that sounds like it’s been pulled from the pages of a crime thriller – a paperback copy with bits of shake stuck inside from rolling joints. Standing at 6’7”, Straumietis towers over most people much like his personal legend towers over the company he runs.

His 37 years as a cultivator saw him flying planes to scout grow locations, using police scanners and night vision goggles to harvest his crops, living under seven different assumed identities in the states and Canada and squaring off with a biker gang bent on cutting into his profits, to name just a few highlights.

As the founder of Advanced Nutrients, the first cannabis-specific line of organic and hydroponic agricultural nutrients, he made it his mission to help other growers maximize their yields and quality. By pulling on knowledge gathered through his...

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