4 Continents, 1 Deal: The Global CBD Export Market Is Already Here
On Aug. 19, the Colombian company PharmaCielo, which claims to be the country’s premier producer of medical-grade cannabis oil, announced that it had officially exported the first batch of CBD from...
View ArticleThe Wild World of Getting a Pot Permit
On Wednesday, Aug. 21, Canada’s province of Ontario announced the winners of their cannabis store lottery, selecting 43 names out of almost 5,000 entrants. Predictably, drama ensued. One of those...
View ArticleWholesale Cannabis Prices Rise in Legalized States
The wholesale market for legal cannabis is marked by great regional variation, but the oversupply that has sent prices plummeting in Oregon and other Western states has not been able to dampen the...
View ArticleWhy ‘Hard Seltzer Summer’ Bodes Well for Cannabis Beverages
The Boston Beer Company, best known for its traditional flagship beer Samuel Adams Boston Lager, has had some tough years recently, as Americans continue to become more health-conscious. But they’re...
View ArticleInjunction on Nevada Dispensaries Offers Hope for Mom-and-Pop Shops
The big names have been moving into Nevada at lightning speed. Curaleaf, Green Growth Brands, Green Thumb Industries and Acreage Holdings have all landed mega-deals with dispensary chains in the...
View ArticleMarijuana Banking Bill Is Probably Doomed in 2019
The word on the street is that Congress is set to finally take action on legislation in the coming weeks that will allow banks to do business with the cannabis industry. It is known as the SAFE...
View ArticleIs Uncle Sam’s $3 Million CBD Exploration Just Another Scam?
The federal government is finally ready to roll up its sleeves and examine the cannabis plant to determine whether it has any therapeutic benefits. The only problem is that weed has become such a...
View ArticleThe Scientist Who Identified THC Is Now Working on Synthetic Cannabinoids
In the 55 years since he first isolated Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (better known today as THC) with colleagues Dr. Yehiel Gaoni and Dr. Haviv Edery at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr....
View ArticleEaze Cuts Staff as CEO Steps Down
California cannabis delivery giant Eaze sent out a company memo yesterday announcing layoffs and a new CEO. According to multiple sources, 36 staff members were let go early Wednesday, a number that...
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Green Collar Blues for Cannabis Unions
When Lucas Wong and his 50 co-workers at the Belltown, Seattle location of Have A Heart — one of the busiest recreational cannabis dispensary chains in Washington state — voted in the summer of 2018...
View ArticleThe Great Race to Become the World’s Weed Supplier
Companies vying to be the biggest cannabis producer in America or Canada are wasting their time and suffering from a crippling lack of vision. The real play is to make a bid to become the worldwide...
View ArticleMarijuana Legalization Hasn’t Hurt Worker Productivity In Canada
There is this idea that with the legalization of marijuana at the national level, the workforce will slowly implode, bringing about financial ruin to any country that dares charter this path. It is...
View ArticleProhibition Is Good for the Pot Entrepreneur & Bad for the Worker
Founders and funders steal the headlines like they do in Silicon Valley and everywhere else entrepreneurship is fetishized, but make no mistake: The American marijuana industry is built by the worker....
View Article‘Largest Pot Recall Ever’ Shows How Legal Cannabis Rules Can Add Safety
In what appears to be the nation’s biggest pot recall ever, Colorado company Bonsai Cultivation voluntarily moved to take its products off of shelves at 144 retail stores in Colorado. Denver’s...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Corruption in the Cannabis Industry
The cannabis industry is currently getting a little unwanted publicity, with the indictment of four figures linked to Rudolph Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s controversial lawyer — including on...
View ArticleCanada’s Pot Stocks Struggle a Year After Legalization
On Oct. 17, 2018, the world watched as Canada took the monumental step of launching its nationwide adult-use cannabis market. Capital was flowing and expectations were high that leading Canadian...
View ArticleReport: Legal Marijuana Could Bring 100,000 New Jobs to Florida
Anyone who has been following the cannabis legalization movement over the past several years knows by now that legal weed can be a salvation’s wing for local and state economies. Not only that, but it...
View ArticleA Quick Guide to Cannabis Patents: What You Need to Know
Amid the quick expansion of the legal cannabis market, many cannabis growers and business owners are pushing to secure intellectual property rights for the strains and products they’ve created....
View ArticleLos Angeles Cannabis Equity Program Under Scrutiny
As frequently happens with many selection processes that aren’t conducted blind, the integrity of Los Angeles’s Social Equity Program for cannabis companies has recently been called into question. The...
View ArticleCalifornia Pot Farms Dealing With Fires & Blackouts Get Tax Relief
For the past few years, “harvest season” has too quickly morphed into “fire season” in Northern California. This year has been no exception, as some of the world’s best cannabis growers have faced...
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