Florida currently prohibits smokable medical marijuana products - which poses a significant drag on the state's MMJ businesses' sales potentials. So, many of those firms are welcoming news that the state Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that would allow patients to...
Technological advances are revolutionizing every sector of the marijuana industry, transforming a market that largely is seen as an agricultural industry.
With that in mind, we decided to look at “10 Killer Technologies” that have recently entered the marijuana space.
When Karson Humiston founded the Denver-based cannabis recruitment agency Vangst in 2015, she’d call prospective candidates herself.
Today, Vangst has about 75 employees and offices in Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Boston. And the company is getting flooded with about 500 resumes a day, far too many for Humiston, the CEO, to handle.
Medical marijuana sales declined in Maine for the second straight year, a decrease that some dispensary owners blame on unfair competition both from the black market and patients growing their own product. According to the Portland Press Herald, tax data shows the...
A Massachusetts medical cannabis dispensary is closed until it corrects a dozen violations found by state regulators during surprise inspections Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. Mass Wellspring, in the town of Acton about 25 miles west of Boston, did not return calls from...
Marijuana is largely thought of as an agricultural industry serving medical and recreational consumers. But that image belies the technological advances that are revolutionizing every sector of cannabis. In this issue, we look at “10 Killer Technologies” in the...
In review performed by the Boston law firm Gersten Saltman, nearly four out of five of the so-called “host community agreements” between local governments and cannabis firms in Massachusetts are illegal, The Boston Globe reported. The...
Local police found hundreds of vials with extracted cannabis in a dumpster behind a Massachusetts marijuana testing lab that provides services for almost all the state’s medical cannabis retailers. MCR Labs, headquartered in Framingham about...
Hocking College in southern Ohio became the second cannabis testing laboratory in the state to begin taking medical marijuana product for analysis. A lack of operational labs has been a big concern to Ohio's marijuana businesses because state...
Tilt Holdings, a Massachusetts company specializing in cannabis technology, cultivation and support solutions, agreed to acquire Jupiter Research, a Phoenix-based vaporization technology business, for $210 million.
When the U.S. marijuana industry was getting off the ground two decades ago, the business landscape consisted of mom-and-pop stores and amateur extractors.
In short, it was difficult to imagine chains or integrated multistate operations – especially with federal prohibition and the threat of legal interference hanging over entrepreneurs’ heads.
About a week after opening, sales are going strong at the first two businesses in Massachusetts allowed to sell recreational marijuana. The two stores sold more than $2.2 million worth of cannabis products during the first five days they were open for business,...
