Management teams for capital-intensive businesses such as cultivation need to be “stellar” to get the attention of Jen Piro, an angel investor who has placed more than 25 investments in plant-touching and ancillary companies—primarily through the Cannabis Syndicate, a...
Greenrose Acquisition Corp.’s investment strategy hinges on cultivation.
As a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, Greenrose completed an initial public offering of 15 million shares in February 2020 with plans to use the $150 million in gross proceeds to acquire cannabis companies.
The future of cannabis retail is technologically exciting – think ubiquitous online ordering and sophisticated consumer analysis – and fraught with potential challenges, including federal regulation and competition from corporate behemoths such as Amazon.
Retailers in Colorado, Massachusetts and Arizona share lessons they learned during the transition from medical to adult-use cannabis sales.
Whether shopping online or in a marijuana store, less-experienced cannabis customers might not know what to ask a budtender. Likewise, experienced consumers can waste a lot of time researching strain descriptions and still not end up with what they want.
In early 2018, about six months into the multimillion-dollar renovation and build-out of his planned cultivation, manufacturing and retail space in Somerset, Massachusetts, Ed Dow, CEO of Solar Therapeutics, hit a major problem. The utility circuit that Dow planned to...
A growing number of cannabis operators are willing to pay extra for equipment and measures to reduce their carbon footprints, such as installing LED lights and using recycled and/or recyclable packaging. But do consumers want sustainable products? And—perhaps more...
Marijuana businesses looking to reduce their carbon footprints can get help from a growing number of diverse energy companies that range from consultancies to publicly traded utilities. Consider Terrapin Care Station, one of Colorado’s largest vertically integrated...
There’s no better way to cut carbon emissions in the cannabis industry than cultivating outdoors and relying on Mother Nature for essentials such as sunlight and water. But even outdoor growers can do more to cut carbon emissions.
Conserving water has become increasingly important for cannabis farmers, particularly those in regions facing drought, water shortages and/or municipal restrictions.
Rhode Island regulators have again delayed a lottery for medical cannabis business licenses.
Missouri's medical marijuana regulatory agency recently warned MMJ dispensaries that they could be violating state rules by advertising sales events or discounts on products. According to a July 9 email obtained by the St. Louis...
