Two medical marijuana companies in Farmington, Maine, were raided by agents from the FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the local U.S. attorney's office. Narrow Gauge Distributors and The Homegrown Connection were targeted in the Tuesday raids, during...
The newly installed Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board took swift action at its first meeting by penalizing vertically integrated operator CWNevada for a range of regulatory violations. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the board and...
Months of anger over prized marijuana social equity licenses in Los Angeles boiled over recently, when the California Minority Alliance (CMA) accused a Black cannabis executive and his company of exploiting other minorities through "predatory" business deals. The CMA...
Many California marijuana growers are up in arms over a recent proposal before the state Energy Commission that would require all indoor cultivation operators to use only LED lights by 2023.
Just one out of 50 business applicants who qualified for Long Beach's marijuana social equity program has actually entered the California city's cannabis industry. The astonishingly low 2% participation rate can be chalked up to a lack of seed...
The world's largest importer of cannabis flower is ... Israel surpassed Germany in 2020 as the top global importer of cannabis flower. As of mid-2020, German flower imports totaled a little more than 3 metric tons, while Israel imported almost double that amount....
Innovative Industrial Properties, a San Diego-based, marijuana-centric real estate investment trust (REIT), has solidified yet another sale-leaseback deal, this time partnering on a New Jersey property with multistate operator Curaleaf Holdings.
An illicit gathering of marijuana buyers and sellers in Fresno, California, was broken up by the state's Bureau of Cannabis Control and the city's police department. The action this week might have been the first of many raids on so-called "smoke sessions" that...
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has long planned to legalize adult-use marijuana in his state, but now he's adopted a new line of reasoning: Doing so could help the economy. During a radio talk-show appearance, Murphy said legalizing recreational cannabis would be "an...
To get around the enormous barriers to entry for California's legal marijuana industry, a growing number of small farmers are increasingly turning to a practice mainstream agriculture has used for generations: so-called "contract farming." It's a different business...
Colorado, Illinois and Oregon have all maintained record-breaking sales numbers in recent months despite the coronavirus and the recession. In Colorado, medical and adult-use marijuana shops sold more than $192 million in May, according to...
Marijuana Business Daily asked several Black cannabis business owners and executives for their thoughts on how companies and other executives could help move the industry toward building a truly inclusive supply chain throughout the MJ industry.
