From the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2023, 1,350 licensed medical marijuana caregivers in Maine have left the industry, according to a new report about the “exodus” by the state’s Office of Cannabis Policy.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has officially registered publicly traded Bright Green Corp. as a federally licensed cannabis cultivator and product manufacturer.
To stay compliant and maintain good relations with regulators and law enforcement, cannabis businesses should focus security efforts on three goals.
As former general manager of three Arena Football League teams, Reggie Harris knows the importance of going on offense.
So, in 2021, when Harris and his team launched House of Kush, a Kansas City, Missouri-based company that sells cannabis-plant genetics via seedlings and licensing deals, he didn’t wait for clients to come find him.
Matthew Huron, the CEO of Colorado-based Good Chemistry Nurseries, bred his first original strains as head cultivator for Elmar Lins Compassionate Care Co-op, a San Francisco Bay Area cooperative he founded in 2000, after his father and his father’s partner were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.
One of the challenges facing multistate marijuana operators is standardizing cultivation procedures for facilities in various markets.
Although cannabis entrepreneurs should expect to pay a premium for real estate, those premiums amount to far less than they used to, observers said.
Experienced cannabis entrepreneurs know that ancillary companies such as construction and banking providers often charge marijuana businesses more than their non-plant-touching counterparts—the so-called “green tax.”
For the second time in two weeks, workers at a Sunnyside marijuana store in Illinois voted to join the Teamsters union.
Opportunities in the U.S. cannabis industry continue to expand, despite some notable setbacks in the November 2022 elections and continuing resistance at the federal level to marijuana reform.
Andrea Comer is stepping down as chair of the Social Equity Council for Connecticut’s recreational marijuana industry, less than two weeks before the state’s adult-use market is supposed to launch in January.
Florida regulators announced that 22 new medical marijuana business licenses will be awarded that “could double the size” of the state’s MMJ market.
