Los Angeles has revised its cannabis ordinance and tweaked some other related rules in an effort to speed up business license application processing and approval timelines.
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Analysis: Why is marijuana M&A holding up better than capital raises?
Typically, marijuana M&A and funding move in the same direction – but not this year.
Here is a closer look at this apparent disconnect.
Massachusetts cannabis delivery firms with equity permits face hurdles
Since launching last July, Christopher Fevry, co-founder and CEO of Boston-based cannabis delivery service Your Green Package, has been busy.
With a Massachusetts courier delivery license – which are reserved for minority entrepreneurs under the state’s social equity program – the company already has 16 delivery vehicles on the road and more than 70 employees.
California cannabis companies sell assets, narrow focus to save money
Vertical integration was the name of the game when California launched its recreational marijuana market in 2018, as companies handled everything from cultivation to retail sales and home delivery.
Four years later, operators across the state, small and large, are divesting assets, shuttering business lines and letting coveted licenses expire in order to cut costs and narrow their focus in the world’s largest marijuana market.
California drought plan could exclude cannabis as growers prepare for dry summer
Heading into another brutally dry summer, struggling cannabis growers in California could be excluded from the state’s latest assistance plan to save water.
Rash of marijuana store robberies highlights need for safeguards
A spike in sometimes violent robberies at marijuana retail outlets across the United States is putting the industry on edge and causing business owners to revamp security to safeguard their stores and employees.
Schumer’s marijuana reform bill poised to fail without more GOP support
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has a seemingly unsolvable puzzle on his desk when it comes to federal marijuana reform.
He doesn’t have enough support in his own party to decriminalize marijuana, even as Republican senators reject his demand that criminal justice reform be included.
California marijuana farmers clamber to avoid major ‘extinction event’
Marijuana farmers across California are scrambling to revamp their operations to stay in the licensed market at a time when hundreds, if not thousands, of cultivators are in danger of going out of business.
High gasoline prices undermining cannabis delivery firms, driving some to go electric
Skyrocketing gasoline prices are putting pressure on North American cannabis delivery companies, many of which are already struggling to be profitable while paying out high regulatory fees and operational costs.
UT bars smokable hemp, CBD in food, gives hemp oversight to US
Utah banned smokable hemp and CBD in food under a new law that also shifts oversight of the plant’s production to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Texas hemp companies ask state’s high court to toss smokable-hemp ban
Four Texas hemp companies on Tuesday asked the state’s high court to throw out a statewide ban on smokable hemp and preserve their ability to peddle a product with booming demand.
What’s on tap for marijuana tech platform Weedmaps’ parent: Q&A with CEO Chris Beals
WM Technology CEO Chris Beals discusses the company’s strong financial performance last year, what’s on tap in 2022 and how Weedmaps navigates the highly regulated marijuana sector.
