Halo Infusions is a Tucson edibles manufacturer that has been making cannabis brownies, candy, syrups and tinctures since January 2013, and calls itself Arizona's first edibles kitchen. After a $30 million sale of its retail and cultivation licenses, Halo went all-in on infused products. It now runs a 7,000-square-foot kitchen that makes seven house labels and white-label goods for other brands.
Engineers running a kitchen
CEO Murray Stein is a veteran of Silicon Valley's tech boom with a degree in physics and mathematics, and he has said Halo's founders were software, electronic and optical engineers by training. Linda Bell has been chief financial officer since 2013, and Le Cordon Bleu-trained kitchen manager Vanessa Chairez has run the line since June of that year.
The bench has filled out since. Chad Johnson directs research and development, Suzy Tracy runs sales and marketing, Jenny Hodge directs finance and Dominique Sarno handles procurement. The kitchen runs around the clock, and Halo offers tours of it by request.
From dispensary to a $30 million license sale
Halo started out as a medical edibles manufacturer and dispensary, and it was among the first companies in Arizona to secure a dispensary license. Stein told Marijuana Venture in its edibles issue that the company spent ten years learning everything it could to get where it is.
Roughly a year before its 2023 kitchen announcement, Halo closed a $30 million sale of its retail and cultivation licenses. Stein said selling the licenses let Halo focus on its first true love, infused products.
The $2.5 million Tucson build
In February 2023 Halo announced a $2.5 million kitchen: more than 7,000 square feet of manufacturing space with seven production lines, plus refrigerated storage and distribution space. The plan called for automated gummy and candy lines, several beverage systems, and large ovens and freezers, with lines that could be reconfigured as orders shifted. Halo is based in Tucson and has partner facilities in Phoenix.
Stein pitched the build as a counterweight to Arizona's multistate operators. He said the market was becoming increasingly corporate dominant and squeezing smaller companies, and that Halo wanted to be disruptive to that system. In December 2023 Halo picked Rootstock's manufacturing ERP to run supply chain, inventory and production planning across the lines.
An RSO-first recipe
Most of the catalog runs on a high-terpene, full-spectrum RSO extract. Halo works the cannabinoids into the ingredients before cooking, which it credits for consistent dosing across a batch. White-label clients can pick RSO or distillate.
Stein has also flagged topicals as an underrated category with room to grow, and the tincture-and-topical label is the biggest in the house by product count.
Aunt Ellie's, Kahuna and the seven house labels
The house brands split the menu by format:
- Aunt Ellie's: RSO baked goods, including brownies from 25mg to 500mg and 25mg cookies
- Canna Confections: 11 candies and confections, from 10mg Flower Pops and vanilla caramels to 100mg Rice Mellows and 100mg and 500mg chocolates
- Cannabliss: RSO-infused syrups, plus 10mg and 100mg gummies, 1:1 gummies and a 100mg hot sauce
- Chronic Health: 15 tinctures and topicals
- Pure & Simple: 100mg full-spectrum juices in prickly lemonade, orange, hibiscus citrus and apple
- Kahuna Ice Pops: Cherry Lime, Cabana Margarita, Rum Runner, Bliss on the Beach and Cabana Sangria
- Canine CBD Therapy: CBD products for dogs
Dispensaries order wholesale through LeafLink, and Arizona chains including Jars, The Mint, Nirvana, Key Cannabis and Ponderosa carry Halo products.
Where Halo sits in Arizona edibles
Headset ranked Halo Infusions 43rd in Arizona edibles in August 2026, up seven spots from a year earlier, with product in 22 licensed dispensaries. Edibles made up about 82% of its sales, and the Sativa Classic Brownie, a 100mg dark chocolate bar and the Indica Classic Brownie led the list.
The category is crowded at the top. Wyld ranked first in Arizona edibles that month, with Smokiez Edibles in sixth, and Halo competes against them as a homegrown Tucson kitchen at an average price of about $10 an item.
White label, White Label Plus and private label
The contract side comes in three tiers. White label puts Halo's proven formulas under a client's name, with Halo handling production, testing and fulfillment. White Label Plus lets the client supply its own concentrate for infusion and takes 30% off orders over $10,000. Private label builds fully custom products priced at cost of goods plus 20%.
Formats span baked goods, candy, syrups, ice pops, tinctures and topicals. Bell pitched the program in 2023 as a way to help smaller operators establish their own brands, and the 2023 plans also covered manufacturing for independent and out-of-state companies looking for an Arizona kitchen.
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