Company: Med Pharm | Location: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma | Sector: Retail Denise Mink admits she and her husband knew little about the cannabis industry when they opened Med Pharm dispensary in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, in December 2018. “What we didn’t know is...
In the four years since Kim Rivers founded Trulieve, the cannabis company has gone from 10 employees who filled vape cartridges to a 4,000-employee behemoth dominating the Florida market and operating in California, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Company: Elev8 | Location: Eugene, Oregon, with operations in MA | Sector: Retailer When Seun Adedeji had to close Elev8, his first marijuana store in Eugene, Oregon, after about a year in business, he didn’t quit. Instead, he took the lessons learned from that...
Company: Shango | Location: Portland, Oregon, with operations in AZ and NV |  Sector: MSO Shango has grown steadily since it was founded in Portland in 2014. The company has vertically integrated operations in Oregon and Nevada as well as a cultivation facility in...
Despite leading California’s marijuana market in the vape and beverage categories—and being among the top 10 sellers of topicals, according to Headset—CannaCraft is reluctant to paint too rosy of a picture.
Aleafia Health, a vertically integrated license holder in Ontario, Canada, harvested the first marijuana crop at its new Niagara Greenhouse Facility. The company secured a cultivation license from Health Canada in March and announced it would commence operations at...
The business outlook for cannabis companies could be significantly different this time next year, depending in large part on which party controls the Senate and which senators are elected.
With this fall’s general election the U.S. marijuana industry could see its biggest spike in business opportunities since the 2016 election. Back then, four states—California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada—legalized recreational marijuana cultivation and sales...
What might the marijuana industry landscape look like after the Nov. 3 general election? Much different? Same old, same old? It depends on what the voters say. Marijuana business executives can expect federal banking reform, elimination of Section 280E of the federal...
Voters in three states with medical marijuana markets might choose to pass adult-use laws. While the change might not happen for months—if at all—some regulators have already started thinking about how their states can best adapt to the shift. “We are absolutely...
The Republican and Democratic platforms lack specifics about marijuana reform. But coupled with the positions of the presidential candidates, they can offer a glimpse at how the U.S. legal marijuana marketplace might change depending on whether Donald Trump or Joe...
The Illegal cannabis market continues to be one of the biggest threats to legal marijuana industry, whether through diverting revenue from licensed businesses or stunting the growth of legal MJ companies across the United States.
