Payroll is the biggest expense for most companies. But how does your organization?s salary schedule compare to others in your state and the cannabis industry as a whole?
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Salary Survey: On the Money
Cannabis pays. From trimmers, stock clerks and budtenders to master growers, chief extractors and C-suite executives, all are more likely to make at least as much or more money than comparable positions in mainstream industries such as consumer goods, alcohol and agriculture.
Marijuana salary survey: State differences for cultivators, trimmers, budtenders
Our 2019 salary data reveal regional trends that were echoed by industry observers. Perhaps the most significant: East Coast companies in search of candidates with marijuana industry experience are pulling employees away from West Coast rivals by offering better pay and perks.
Chief appointed for new Michigan cannabis agency
Michigan tapped its top medical marijuana regulator to lead the newly created Marijuana Regulatory Agency, which is responsible for the state’s medical and recreational marijuana programs. Andrew Brisbo, director of Michigan’s Bureau of...
MA regulators investigate licensing limits of cannabis firms Acreage, Sea Hunter
Massachusetts regulators are scrutinizing whether cannabis companies Acreage Holdings and Sea Hunter Therapeutics violated state limits on how many marijuana business licenses a single entity can own, according to The Boston Globe. News of...
Maine appoints head of adult-use marijuana program
Maine hired Scott Lever, the state's deputy commissioner of Health Services, to oversee its recreational cannabis program. In his previous position, Lever was in charge of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which once oversaw...
Marijuana growers find alternative to cloning – tissue culture
Marijuana growers historically have turned to cloning to propagate plant inventory and perpetuate plant genetics.
But the art of cloning, where a cultivator takes a rooted cutting of a mother plant to grow a genetically identical plant, might slowly be going to the wayside in the cannabis sector.
New Jersey medical cannabis patient count surges 150% since January 2018
New Jersey’s medical marijuana program has seen a 150% increase in the number of patients participating since Gov. Phil Murphy took office early last year, a development that has no doubt bolstered sales at the state's MMJ businesses. The program has added 25,500...
Suspended Massachusetts medical marijuana store allowed to open again
A medical cannabis dispensary in Acton, Massachusetts, that was ordered by the state to temporarily close, has been given permission to reopen its doors. Massachusetts marijuana regulators had ordered Mass Wellspring to close on Feb. 7 because...
The power of cannabis product branding and development: Q&A with Papa & Barkley CEO Adam Grossman
Adam Grossman developed a marijuana-based pain balm that succeeded where other medicines and the local hospital failed, quelling a debilitating back pain that left his father bedridden.
It was “an empowering experience” that Grossman turned into an infused cannabis business with a strong sense of brand – Papa & Barkley. Papa refers to Grossman’s father, and Barkley is the family dog.
Seattle firms merge, plan combined cannabis tracking tech company
Dauntless, a 6-year-old company that develops point-of-sale and tracking software for the cannabis industry, acquired Soro, a cannabis sales and customer relationship management company. The two businesses, both based in Seattle, plan to...
Did the first medical cannabis drive-thru in New England just open?
What is thought to be the first medical marijuana dispensary drive-thru window in New England started doing business this month in Brattleboro, Vermont. About 10 medical marijuana customers per day have used the drive-thru window since Southern Vermont Wellness opened...
